Adele Goldberg

Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks

Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This was a long time ago! Summaries today are shockingly good!
But I was rattled by the *snake oil* multiple high-positioned people were promoting and the lack of even a cursory glance at it by people inside the company

It was shockingly idiotic:
It simply copied the last paragraph of any article, verbatim, and called that a 'summary'

it ignored paragraphs labeled 'abstract'

if an article ended with/ 'the author lives in Santa Barbara with his dog Barnacle' that was the 'summary'

a peek inside a famous software company in the news today:

a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article

Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'

♥️Robert Munsch books are the best: spunky, sassy unique kids, well-meaning hapless adults, tons of imagination, and irresistible prose (+ Love You Forever 😭)

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

sure! let me know if you're looking for info that's not on here (yet)
500 word abstracts will be due Dec 1st

adele.scholar.princeton.edu/iccg14-%E2%8...

LiS 2025 - Graduate Program in Linguistics The Graduate Programs in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and in Linguistic Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais invite everyone to the second edition of the Linguist...

www2.ufjf.br/ppglinguisti...
@tiagotorrent.com Rio for in-person and on-line lectures, in OCT

I understand! We decided we'd rather not give in to the anti-university sentiments in the govn't by cancelling

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷‍♀️" (right) @SRakshit
adele.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge

whadya know, looks like we're marching back to the days when George W got into Yale www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

@nyt, if Mamdani had been trying to game the system, he would not have also checked Asian

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

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On the productivity + fixity of language. from A bit of Fry and Laurie. No one can put it better:

Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.

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Jews for Food Aid for Gaza Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn.

I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

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Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

absolutely!