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Dr Lena M Blott
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Psycholinguist at Uni Mannheim. Academic Mama. Hunter of vintage treasures.
Another vote for minutes!
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Just as a comment: you're right that F1 and F2 ANOVA used to be standard in psycholinguistics, but these have been replaced by GLMMs and LMMs in the past decade. Haven't seen an ANOVA in a psycholinguistics paper in a good few years!
January 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
So wholesome, thank you for sharing!
January 25, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Honestly, these are so good. Thank you!!!!
January 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Thank you so much for all the work you've put into producing these, and for generously sharing them. I'll be assigning them in my class this term. Not just as an explainer of how LLMs work but to hopefully get students to reflect on their usage of them.
January 22, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Reposted by Dr Lena M Blott
It’s the same with academic writing. The difficulty doesn’t lie in formulating grammatical sentences, but in deciding what it is you actually want to say. Writing is part of the process by which you figure that out, and isn’t something that can be outsourced to a machine.
December 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You may be surprised to learn that authors of scientific articles don't get paid for said articles ( which typically already contain an abstract)
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'm trying to understand why such garden paths don't trigger that "ungrammaticality" intuition but sentences like "I want going to the cinema" do (even though there too, you could ignore the difficulty in the grammar and find a possible interpretation)?
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In that literature, it has often been found that ppl are surprisingly resistant to fully resolving a difficult parse (e.g. they retain the interpretation that 'Anna bathed the baby' when having read 'While Anna bathed the baby started crying').
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Super interesting! I've not had time to read the paper, so forgive me if this is something you're covering, but I'm wondering whether you have thought about how to bring the interpretation of garden path sentences into the picture?
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Merry Christmas @jennirodd.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Commiserations, my hair is going through the same right now 😭 I'm hoping i can avoid the full on 80s mullet i was sporting after my first pregnancy this time around though
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Very cool!
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New favourite ambiguity example just dropped @jennirodd.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You are right: journals don't pay authors, and sometimes authors even have to pay to publish (it's a silly system!). Any study author would most likely be flattered if you emailed them saying you're interested in their work and probably also more than happy to send you a copy. Definitely ask 🙂
October 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Isn't that essentially what French does in the regular "qu'est-ce que c'est?" ?
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM