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Dr. JD
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · 6d
i’ve been experiencing this thing with iOS where I try to select a word in a text field, but the software instead tries to identify what it thinks is something akin to a larger constituent. aside from being annoying, it seems particularly bad at identifying a string that forms an actual constituent
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · 25d
i feel like i get asked about this every time i teach intro
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Sep 8
it was me
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Sep 6
yeah…!
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Sep 4
paraguay win
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Sep 4
Linguists will really say "the forbidden experiment" like people aren't performing it on the majority of deaf children in this country every day 💀
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 28
i can the V2 language speak
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 19
this past weekend, i went with my mom to the town she grew up in (Hot Springs, AR). when we were driving around in her old neighborhood, she pointed to an empty lot and said:

“This house looks like they tore it down”
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 15
update: i tried the pie and the pie in american cuisine was indeed a very iconic pie (i also had the pie in Arkansas)
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 15
personally i think they could’ve made a few more explicit references to the fact that it’s a pie in this sentence
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 15
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 8
New manuscript available on Lingbuzz! Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses - lingbuzz/009223
This paper offers a novel framework for understanding agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses involving the verb haber. In these existential sentences, though the prescripti...
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Aug 7
do you mean, like, the unicode decomposition?? or just vibes?
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 17
Happy World Emoji Day🌎🥳📆!!! Let's all celebrate by reading my two published papers on the morphosyntactic combinatorics of emojis that function as "words"!

Glossa paper: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

JLCL paper: doi.org/10.21248/jlc...

And more to come!! #worldemojiday
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 9
scholarly books are so expensive these days :/
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
absolutely! a lot of people seem to carry a tacit assumption that syllable = morpheme, which is mostly true for a lot of languages! but also it’s very untrue for many languages at the same time, one of which happens to be English
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
and salad refers to an advertisement about someone named Sal, i presume!
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
i think “water” is an obvious truncation of “waiter”, since waiters bring you water. and [wait+er] is definitely polymorphemic.
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
sure, “salad” etymologically polymorphemic, but that isn’t cognitively accessible to like any english speaker
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
this just in: water, carrot, and salad are polymorphemic (brought to you by google AI)
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
Happy to announce that a paper of mine has recently appeared in the Journal for Language Technology & Computational Linguistics! jlcl.org/article/view...
Pictorial constituents & the metalinguistic performance of LLMs | Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 8
nice grammatical emoji !
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Dr. JD @jdstorment.bsky.social · Jul 7
💜 wiktionary 💜
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Jul 4
At least one reason why I mostly don't write accents in my comics is basically this. Who gets written with an accent and who doesn't is always a tell.
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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · Jul 4
This. It's like how Southerners used to transcribe Oasis as saying "fookin'". No. They said "fuckin'". Southerners say "fahrkin".
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · Jul 4
Wet blanket here. These stupid things never fucking work because *obviously* people in Manchester already read Aldi as Aldeh. They'll read Aldeh as a different word. You London-centric pricks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · Jun 25
Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25
Bro, what.
The AI teaching assistants, he said, will be able to monitor the classroom along with the actual teacher. They'll be able to help children when needed and "report back to the teacher." For example, he added, AI could determine a student's personal interests and suggest relevant adjustments to the lesson plan to increase the odds that the student would engage with the material. "'Hey, I noticed Catty is not as engaged as she was yesterday,'" Khan said. "Or, 'Look, Sal is really engaged today, why don't you go praise him on this thing that he did last night you might have not noticed?' or 'Did you know that he's really into baseball? Let's make the next example about that, just for Sal.'" "And then they're able to distill all of that and communicate to the parents, so it's not even once a term, it's almost real-time," he added. The AI agents could then debrief with the teacher at the end of class to make a game plan for tomorrow, including identifying students who may be in need of some additional one-on-one time.
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