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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 14d

Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks

www.nytimes.com

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 15d

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production

How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16d

This was a long time ago! Summaries today are shockingly good!
But I was rattled by the *snake oil* multiple high-positioned people were promoting and the lack of even a cursory glance at it by people inside the company

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16d

It was shockingly idiotic:
It simply copied the last paragraph of any article, verbatim, and called that a 'summary'

it ignored paragraphs labeled 'abstract'

if an article ended with/ 'the author lives in Santa Barbara with his dog Barnacle' that was the 'summary'

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16d

a peek inside a famous software company in the news today:

a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article

Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 22d

♥️Robert Munsch books are the best: spunky, sassy unique kids, well-meaning hapless adults, tons of imagination, and irresistible prose (+ Love You Forever 😭)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23d

this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others

Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.

When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer

www.nytimes.com

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

sure! let me know if you're looking for info that's not on here (yet)
500 word abstracts will be due Dec 1st

adele.scholar.princeton.edu/iccg14-%E2%8...

ICCG14 – 14th International Conference on Construction Grammar

June 4-7, 2026 @ PrincetonTheme: Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Abstract deadline: Dec 1, 2025. (500 words, w/ extra page for figures and references)INVITED SPEAKERS:Corrine OcchinoDagmar ...

https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/iccg14-–-14th-international-conference-construction-grammar

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

www2.ufjf.br/ppglinguisti...
@tiagotorrent.com Rio for in-person and on-line lectures, in OCT

LiS 2025 - Graduate Program in Linguistics

The Graduate Programs in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and in Linguistic Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais invite everyone to the second edition of the Linguist...

www2.ufjf.br

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

I understand! We decided we'd rather not give in to the anti-university sentiments in the govn't by cancelling

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷‍♀️" (right) @SRakshit
adele.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 17

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

www.nytimes.com

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

whadya know, looks like we're marching back to the days when George W got into Yale www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge

www.nytimes.com

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · Jul 22

We’re interviewing instructors and attendees at the LSA Summer Institute! 🥹
Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1.

(more in the thread!)

#LSA2025 #Linguistics

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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jul 6

finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jul 6

@nyt, if Mamdani had been trying to game the system, he would not have also checked Asian

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · Jun 29

We're pleased as punch to publish this episode with the incredible @adelegoldberg.bsky.social‬. What can we learn about human language from LLMs?

Part language tech, and part Constructionist deep dive.
We learned so much. Check it out in all the places.

www.patreon.com/posts/132671...

121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg) | Because Language

www.patreon.com

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jun 25

On the productivity + fixity of language. from A bit of Fry and Laurie. No one can put it better:

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Jun 17

Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Jun 17

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