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Scott Nelson

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Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | computational phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, representations, logic/model theory, philosophy of science. Fan of sound in general (synthesizers, field recordings, natural reverb,…)

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m happy to share that my paper with Jeff Heinz on “the blueprint model of production” is finally published online in Phonology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The blueprint model of production | Phonology | Cambridge Core

The blueprint model of production - Volume 42

www.cambridge.org

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 1d

Morris Halle if he were a flintstones fan:

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 2d

If someone from Tulsa or Buffalo told me they were from the Midwest I would likely utter the loudest and most confused “what” of all time.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 4d

The compile timeouts are getting more and more frequent for less and less complex documents.

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 4d

Overleaf is cooked.

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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 7d

📢 My department is hiring! University of Chicago is hiring an Assistant Professor in Phonology! (EOE/Vet/Disability) See the link for more information. 📢

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894671...

Assistant Professor in Phonology - Chicago, Illinois (US) job with The University of Chicago | 37894671

The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July...

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 8d

Fodor in 'Concepts': "When Pinker's analyses are clear enough to evaluate, they are often just wrong."

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latina belt sprachbund🇲🇽🇵🇸🎃 @languagespeaker.bsky.social · 11d

the concept of putting vowel inventories on ✨aesthetic🪐 backgrounds... phonologists take notes

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 11d

Pomona College Ling and CogSci Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor with a specialization in phonetics! (Deadline Nov 1)

linguistlist job ad is here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/27....

Any questions can be directed to Michael Diercks, chair of the search committee ([email protected]).

LINGUIST List 36.2713 Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 12d

In Tomas Riad's Phonology of Swedish, he gives the example of mustaschtävling `moustache contest' as an example where /ʂ/ triggers retroflexion on the following consonent (it mostly doesn't do so). Sometimes you really wonder how facts like this came to be discovered.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 12d

I really do love doing phonology

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 13d

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 13d

Best quote of AMP came from Stuart Davis in a Q&A session: “I don’t know anything about K-pop.”

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 15d

I had my research group try salty swedish black licorice today and let me tell you it was not a hit.

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 20d

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 25d

I'm sympathetic to the overall message so I'm a bit biased, but I think it's worth discussing as some of the results are quite striking. There's a lot of philosophy (quite literally) sprinkled throughtout the paper, but I find the computational side of things very intuitive even for non-comp people.

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 25d

Yep! I talked about this paper with our phonetics phonology group last week: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

Figure 3 summarizes the Scholes data and we talked specifically about /mr/ so it was fresh in my mind!

A closer look at what/how we can learn from computational modelling of phonotactics - lingbuzz/009051

Computational modelling has been extensively used in recent decades in attempts to understand and probe claims about the nature of phonotactic grammars. In this paper, I argue that much more care is n...

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 25d

27/35 seventh graders in Schole’s 1966 survey say otherwise!

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · 29d

I saw Mary Lattimore perform last night at a small bar in Urbana and it kind of changed my life. One of the most beautiful and peaceful hours of my life listening to her play.

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Formalizing the Venetian ‘Evanescent’ /l/: A Three-Perspective Analysis” by Anna Stephanov and Scott Nelson at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) at UC Berkeley, Sep. 25–26, ’25 drive.google.com/file/d/1oj8O...

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is my first weekend not away in a month so I am sitting in the sun listening to Grandaddy and it feels GOOD.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spent almost all day standing at my new standing desk and just submitted a journal article. I might have 4 straight hours of student meetings tomorrow, but today I'm feeling good.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · Aug 31

My cousin’s child (1;10) was introduced to my niece whose name is Leighton. My cousin said this is Lei[ʔn̩] and seconds later her child repeated it back as Lei[tɨn] with a full [t]. A gigantic win for abstractionists.

Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social · Aug 30

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ɯ @tamyak.bsky.social · Aug 29

when you decide that yes, you're going to assign your own paper in the grad seminar

The meme of Obama solemnly awarding himself an award, against a regal curtained background somewhere in the White House. (Before there was cheap gold-colored plastic crap glued to all the walls.)

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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