Professor of Child Language Development @nyuling. Semantics ~ Syntax ~Language Change. I❤️science! Say my name like "ehLEESH coorNAN"
Manhattan, NY
Joined May 2013
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New paper in Language Acquisition! We got wee'uns to produce sentence-medial functional words. Their modals are not adult-like by a long shot.
Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Now out in @LangDevRes (all the open science and no fees one can wish for!): my corpus paper with @ACournane delving into children's early counterfactual productions to show the role linguistic complexity plays in the acquisition of counterfactuality tinyurl.com/2022LDR (1/4)
ALT Two kids (abstract), a young one and an older one. The older one is holding a balloon, the younger one points to the balloon and says "I wish I have a balloon.". The older one says "If only I had a kite instead..."
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Congratulations to Ailis Cournane, this year's prizewinner for the best original research article by an untenured scientist: “Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts"! Free to view for a year: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
@ACournane @nyuling
My lab (ChildLanguageLanb@NYU) is recruiting with MommyPoppins (yay!). @mommypoppins instagram.com/p/CUx1Ju8NCgu/…
I'm so excited one of my papers that grew from my dissertation is now published :) TL;DR 3-year-olds talk like children (shock!) but that doesn't mean they don't think all fancy human-like.
Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts www-tandfonline-com.proxy.li…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… (if the above doesn't work)
My paper with Ana Pérez-Leroux won the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award this year 🎉 It's experimental L1A work testing language change theory, here incrementation.
doi.org/10.1080/15475441.202…
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How do our brains respond to facts vs. uncertainty?
NeLLab Spotlight second episode, w me and @MaximeTulling chatting about our recent @SfNJournals #eNeuro paper on this topic. @nyuling @NYUADResearch Coauthors: @rmc_law @ACournane
tinyurl.com/ytdnjva2
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I don't usually ask for retweets but if you RT the quoted tweet it could put serious pressure on @Amazon to pull its ads from Breitbart 🙏&TY xitter.cf/mirasorvino/status/899…
What are you waiting for @amazon ? Do you want to be the last one selling in the name of #hate? #dumpbreitbart xitter.cf/ifindkarma/status/8721…
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Nazis killed a woman and the President backed them up.
What will they do now?
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Hibakusha: Octogenarian determined to tell own story about A-bomb at memorial ceremony
mainichi.jp/english/articles…
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I hoped there was an acoustic salience basis for dinging women for creak, but nope. Double standard for women's voices still a thing ☹️ 6/6
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Ivy League schools admit more legacy students than black students. #AffirmativeAction dailyprincetonian.com/articl…
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The only thing as reliable as language change is complaints about language change (often not about things that are actually changing) xitter.cf/KoryStamper/status/892…