Website: flann.cs.yale.edu/index.html

Exciting - congratulations!!

Amazing!!! The NACLO network runs deep

Examples like that drew me into the field, and I haven't looked back

6/6

She then used that example to introduce rule ordering. Two processes are in play: (i) vowel length changes based on what consonant comes next, and (ii) "t" and "d" both become flaps between vowels. To explain the pronunciations of "writer" & "rider", (i) must happen before (ii)!

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Lori has a knack for explaining things in a way that draws you in. An early example that stuck with me: She asked what's different about the pronunciation of "writer" vs "rider". I was stunned to learn it's the "i", not the "t"/"d"!

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A few years later, she, along with Chris Dyer, supervised my first research project (a summer internship building finite-state morphological analyzers).

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In case you’re wondering how she introduced me to the field: In 9th grade, I went to a presentation she gave at a neighboring high school about NACLO (a linguistics contest). I was hooked - spent the next few days puzzling over questions from previous years' contests.

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I am partial to Laffy Taffy mainly because of this one (via www.reddit.com/r/wholesomem...)

I need to know what joke prompted this!!

Ooh jackpot!! Thanks Adina!!

Nice, thank you!

Question motivated by a talk by Squid Tamar-Mattis!

I mean, that's basically what doing a postdoc is!

More info about my research: rtmccoy.com/research/