Scott Nelson
@esseeohteetee.bsky.social
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
The blueprint model of production | Phonology | Cambridge Core
The blueprint model of production - Volume 42
www.cambridge.org
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...
I’m in Florida visiting my parents and we decided to go to Disney’s Hollywood Studios today. I just witnessed a kid run up to a Salacious B. Crumb toy, turn back to his parents, and yell, “It’s a Star Wars monkey!” I’m never gonna stop thinking about this.
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’m in Florida visiting my parents and we decided to go to Disney’s Hollywood Studios today. I just witnessed a kid run up to a Salacious B. Crumb toy, turn back to his parents, and yell, “It’s a Star Wars monkey!” I’m never gonna stop thinking about this.
I'm finishing up a chapter that partially reviews all the subregular/model-theoretic phonology work that has been done over the past decade. I'm combing through google scholar right now to make sure I didn't miss anything and I found this funny reference. Would like to meet this A Subregular person!
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm finishing up a chapter that partially reviews all the subregular/model-theoretic phonology work that has been done over the past decade. I'm combing through google scholar right now to make sure I didn't miss anything and I found this funny reference. Would like to meet this A Subregular person!
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
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“Optionality and the phonetics-phonology interface” by Scott Nelson (Nov. ’25) www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42...
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“Optionality and the phonetics-phonology interface” by Scott Nelson (Nov. ’25) www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42...
The guy calling the Purdue - Texas Tech basketball game on CBS right now is 27 years old but has a voice and style that sounds like he should be calling an NHL game for a local Canadian radio station in the pre-millennium.
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The guy calling the Purdue - Texas Tech basketball game on CBS right now is 27 years old but has a voice and style that sounds like he should be calling an NHL game for a local Canadian radio station in the pre-millennium.
Getting crispy at this point.
Overleaf is cooked.
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Getting crispy at this point.
En route to Rutgers for a weekend full of subregular linguistics. 3 days!!! 19 student presentations!!! What a time to be working at the intersection of FLT + theoretical phonology!!!
rucll.github.io/workshop2025/
rucll.github.io/workshop2025/
The 2025 Rutgers Subregular Morphophonology Workshop
rucll.github.io
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
En route to Rutgers for a weekend full of subregular linguistics. 3 days!!! 19 student presentations!!! What a time to be working at the intersection of FLT + theoretical phonology!!!
rucll.github.io/workshop2025/
rucll.github.io/workshop2025/
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"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
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New OT markedness constraint just dropped 🐦🐦
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New OT markedness constraint just dropped 🐦🐦
Sometimes you just gotta start the week by queuing up “Wish Man”by Roswell Kid eight times in a row. rozwellkid.bandcamp.com/track/wish-man
Wish Man, by Rozwell Kid
from the album Precious Art
rozwellkid.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Sometimes you just gotta start the week by queuing up “Wish Man”by Roswell Kid eight times in a row. rozwellkid.bandcamp.com/track/wish-man
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I present, the lenition hypercube
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I present, the lenition hypercube
During my last year at Stony Brook, our graduate bargaining unit did not come to an agreement with the state on a new contract and it was decided that we would work under no contract and be temporarily paid per the conditions of the previous one. Any raises won during negotiation would be back paid.
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
During my last year at Stony Brook, our graduate bargaining unit did not come to an agreement with the state on a new contract and it was decided that we would work under no contract and be temporarily paid per the conditions of the previous one. Any raises won during negotiation would be back paid.
See you @ LSA?
Talk (Sat): Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction
Poster w/ my student Mikhael Hayes (Sat): Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint
Talk w/ Eric Baković (Sun): A BMRS Analysis of Trojan Vowels in Hungarian Vowel Harmony
Talk (Sat): Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction
Poster w/ my student Mikhael Hayes (Sat): Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint
Talk w/ Eric Baković (Sun): A BMRS Analysis of Trojan Vowels in Hungarian Vowel Harmony
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
See you @ LSA?
Talk (Sat): Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction
Poster w/ my student Mikhael Hayes (Sat): Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint
Talk w/ Eric Baković (Sun): A BMRS Analysis of Trojan Vowels in Hungarian Vowel Harmony
Talk (Sat): Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction
Poster w/ my student Mikhael Hayes (Sat): Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint
Talk w/ Eric Baković (Sun): A BMRS Analysis of Trojan Vowels in Hungarian Vowel Harmony
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#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions!
linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...
linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...
LINGUIST List 36.3129 Jobs: Phonetics, Phonology: Assistant Professor in Phonetics and Phonology, University of Georgia
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions!
linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...
linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...
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The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.
Morris Halle if he were a flintstones fan:
Yabba and Doo seem plausible to me in a way that Dabba does not.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Morris Halle if he were a flintstones fan:
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.
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.
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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.
Overleaf is cooked.
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Overleaf is cooked.
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📢 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...
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...
jobs.chronicle.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
📢 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...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894671...
Fodor in 'Concepts': "When Pinker's analyses are clear enough to evaluate, they are often just wrong."
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Fodor in 'Concepts': "When Pinker's analyses are clear enough to evaluate, they are often just wrong."
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the concept of putting vowel inventories on ✨aesthetic🪐 backgrounds... phonologists take notes
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the concept of putting vowel inventories on ✨aesthetic🪐 backgrounds... phonologists take notes
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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]).
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.
linguistlist.org
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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]).
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]).
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.
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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.
I really do love doing phonology
September 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I really do love doing phonology
Best quote of AMP came from Stuart Davis in a Q&A session: “I don’t know anything about K-pop.”
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Best quote of AMP came from Stuart Davis in a Q&A session: “I don’t know anything about K-pop.”