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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!

Weekend lived up to the hype.

Even /vr/ is a valid English onset at the vegan diner

The term "corn sweat" seems to be on the rise as I had never really heard it being used before this year. Went to Google Ngram Viewer to look at the trend. It does appear to be on the upswing, but also is less frequent than "sweat corn" which I assume is just a misspelling of "sweet corn".

Goodbye Eugene. It was nice to walk five miles a day and remain relatively comfortable, but I must now return to the corn sweat of the Midwest. Had a great time at both SCiL and DYMOS as well. Life is good

Karthik Durvasula pointed me to Imre Lakatos’ “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs”. It really helped me pull together my thoughts on the philosophical underpinning of my dissertation. Found a hard copy at a used bookstore in Eugene, OR today. The world is kind.

I like this quote from Vinny Czarnecki's paper from SCiL this year because it makes explicit what I think I only made implicit in my dissertation. openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/article...

This paper from CogSci last year has my favorite figure for explaining transparent rule ordering in phonology: escholarship.org/uc/item/1kg1...

I have returned to exclusively working while listening to Stars of the Lid and I can't express how perfect 'The Tired Sounds of...' remains. A timeless album.

Teaching in the basement of my building this semester and there’s a spray painted “No Smoking” message on the board.

This but with markedness constraints. I have the capacity for *NT >> IDENT(voice) and yet I’m stuck saying camp instead of camb.

Lol to using a Charles Reiss quote out of context here. And then following it up with a citation for the GAN models that Beguš has proposed as if the majority of phonologists have adopted them? No shade to Beguš, I just haven't really seen them widely used.

An extremely cherry-picked paragraph.

Look, if you're going to write a provocative article about how LLM's are better at theoretical linguistics than theoretical linguists can you at least try to understand the distinction between individuals and the aggregate?

Also, time is a flat circle read McCloskey (2002): shorturl.at/KrCgW

Still trying to track down this citation by my namesake.

What did I learn at SCiL? Well, I found out that UC Irvine has a Taco Bell Endowed Professor. Truly living más.

Hello! I am teaching an Intro to Mathematical Linguistics seminar with Vinny Czarnecki from Rutgers at the upcoming virtual New York Institute. There are many other interesting seminars in linguistics (and cultural studies)! Apply to NYI (by June 17!) here: forms.gle/axv3GCvnnnty...