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Assc Prof of Linguistics @USC. Computational linguist, phonologist, cognitive scientist, language-related data analytics. ShLAC Lab. Because science!
Joined October 2015
cognitive scientist: so the lesson of Clever Hans is we need.. engineer: more horses cognitive scientist: engineer: stacked horses. parallel horses. pooled horses. horse dropout. RL with horses in the loop. cognitive scientist: engineer: Hans is All You Need
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Glad to put all those hours of watching the #ErasTour videos to good use in this week’s phonology homework on syllables (and parts of syllables)
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(And yes, I acknowledge that the current structure of the academic and academic publishing systems tends to support individualism rather than cooperation. This is also a problem.) (4/4)
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Science should be a cooperative, team sport of incremental improvement, NOT a combative, individualistic hero myth. (3/4)
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building off the science that has come before, even if we’re offering a recombination of some of the elements, remixing elements with ones from other subfields or fields, or demonstrating that some new evidence requires a reconceptualization of our current understandings. (2/4)
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The note I write THE MOST on nearly every single student paper I have to comment on is that we should not egotistically think of our proposals as completely contrarian and shiny *new* to everything that’s come before. Instead, our proposals are best framed as… (1/4)
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"pokemon evolution for assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor"
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My general critique of AI language models is the same critique one should have of models in general, which is that giving an approximately correct solution in 98% of cases isn't particularly valuable if the 98% are trivial and the 2% are what you really care about.
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this is *the opening paragraph* of Jim McCloskey's 1988 handbook article on syntactic theory
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P.S. thanks to a suggestion, I've verified that every currently available hard science job ad at the uni for a TT or tenured faculty position asks for candidates to address diversity/inclusion. 💁♀️
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Whelp, it’s 2022 and I’m here to remind everyone that we still apparently have people on the faculty vehemently arguing that diversity and inclusion are irrelevant to science. 🤷♀️😮💨 I’m so tired.
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Sharing some thoughts that are more important than my tenure news that I've jotted down over the last year. Applicable really to any field, just sub "phonology" for "field of choice." #AcademicTwitter
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Have always said if this day came, I would blast this song out of my office door. Was working from home today so didn’t get that satisfaction, so I’m blasting it here out my twitter door. https://t.co/nlfJBJTIh6
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Best. Conference. Live. Tweet. Ever.
Currently gearing up for #BAAP2022 sessions on Variation & Variability and Articulatory Phonetics with a little bit of kitty time.
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Oh, interesting new paper on intonation and with tableaux (h/t @denizrudin) https://t.co/1RI51JNC25
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Abstract. This paper presents an analysis of inquisitive rising declaratives (Gunlogson 2001, Jeong 2018) within the Table model (Farkas & Bruce 2010).
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They gave me a fancy plaque recently for some reason… I’m convinced it was just so they could take my picture because I refuse to update my outdated department one. 💁♀️
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SYNTAX ALERT: this weekend @shihworks uttered the DP "this show I’m watching that’s really shitty but I’m really committed to watching it because there’s only two seasons of"
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📷 🌸 When she isn't researching linguistics at USC Dornsife, Professor Stephanie Shih creates lush still life photos that explore Asian American experiences. @USC @BuzzFeed
https://t.co/I3Vp5YO3oh
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“When you start digging into the history of these photos, you see so much from other cultures that goes unacknowledged."
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