I use the movie “the prestige” to illustrate the idea of movement: you create a copy of yourself at the destination and kill the one at the original place
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😭😭😭😭😭we are hungry, confined at home, humiliated, living in constant fear. For more than a week, I go to bed hungry and wake up hungry, thinking about food almost all the time.
After I finished up with overdated bread two days ago (bought in March), I only eat one egg for breakfast. I haven’t had any milk since April 5. I don’t know when I will have bread and milk again. So far most of my orders of bread have been canceled or delayed again and again.
I was also fortunate to have had a short interaction with Lauri Karttunen during SALT 2014. At that time, I didn’t realize how much I would be inspired later by his pioneering work on many things.
Sad news: Lauri Karttunen passed away peacefully this morning. Lauri was a towering figure in linguistics and NLP, and a vibrant presence at Stanford in Linguistics, @stanfordnlp & @StanfordCSLI. So many observations and concepts that we all take for granted trace to his work!
I also once sent an email to Chomsky, long before I made up my mind to work towards becoming a linguist. And I remember that I also received a reply from him 🥰
Taught a humanities core curriculum course, started reading comics, bought an apartment with the help of my parents 🙂
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Our new paper on comparatives is just published online by Journal of Semantics: doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffab003. We present a new generalized approach to characterize the meaning of comparatives and its interesting consequences.
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If you’d like an intro to Brain & Language that assumes no background on either the brain or language, check out the YouTube channel of my newly flipped undergraduate Neural Bases of Language class. Now uploaded up until midterm, many more topics to come! tinyurl.com/y3ejvzsn
Students of my Fall 2020 course are taking it from 7 different time zones. Time for me to learn teleportation! 😓
So excited to attend SALT via zoom, though I can only follow the mornings sessions. We need something like Droom that can enable people to attend talks in their dreams 😴
So excited to receive an invitation to give a colloquium talk at MIT Linguistics next year!! Thank you for boosting my morale! ❤️
My paper on "Mary is taller than exactly two boys are" is finally available online. Lots of thanks to Peter Hallman (who encouraged me to write it), Dylan Bumford (whose work inspired me), and Roger Schwarzschild (my reviewer)! brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9…
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Can computers understand word meanings like the human brain does? Comparable semantic representation in neural and computer systems biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Composing lexical versus functional adjectives: Evidence for uniformity in the left temporal lobe. New cool work by Zhang & Pylkkanen in PB&R. link.springer.com/article/10… @Psychonomic_Soc
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Can function words serve as input to combinatory mechanisms in the left ATL? Yes, as long as the have the ability to transmit conceptual features from the context. Check out this super cool new study by @LinminZhang: rdcu.be/MADp