Dario Paape

New open-access paper with @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: "Context ameliorates but does not eliminate garden-pathing: Novel insights from latent-process modeling" doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

But I believe "can not" is correct here ;) The point is that it's possible to make them short, right?

New preprint with @tallinzen.bsky.social and @shravanvasishth.bsky.social: We jointly model reading data from four tasks (SPR, BSPR, eye tracking, Maze) with a latent-process mixture, and find that it outperforms LLM surprisal in terms of predictive fit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04489

Yes, it's quite interesting! So, do we have two "different Englishes" installed in our minds?

It's not so much an issue of clarity - I was able to understand the intended meaning. It's more a question of whether it's possible to formulate the sentence like this - if I say "John go school", it's also clear what I mean, but it's still not correct. To me, the sentence immediately "felt wrong".

What do people think of this construction? I'm not a native speaker of English, but for me "it" can't refer back to "WB-57". #linguistics

Shoutout to the person who added this passive-aggressive-ish comment to the CogSci LaTeX template

PSA: We're moving the deadline for submissions to the JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension (www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...), co-guest-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and me, back to end of February! We're looking forward to many interesting contributions!

I piped the whole chorus through Stanford CoreNLP and it seems to think that both instances of "it" refer to the narrator's heart

Let's say this analysis is correct, is the "it" given to "someone special" this year sex, X's heart, or ambiguous?

I'm beginning to think that the song lacks a coherent world model. It's also not clear how X recovers their heart from Z in order to give it to "someone special".

Is it just me or does the chorus of Last Christmas not make sense? X gives their heart to Y, and on the very next day, Y gives "it" away, "it" presumably being X's heart. So... is X now in love with some unspecified person Z or does "it" have a different antecedent here somehow? #linguistics

Heute in "Rassismus oder Klammerparadox"?

I think "(in)tolerance towards coordination of unlike things" is probably a good indicator of general linguistic pedantry in a person. Here we have "snow and slipperiness removal", which I personally don't feel good about. #linguistics

YouTube video by Ok so... Where Did Clip Art Come From?

Also found this cool YT video about the history of clip art: m.youtube.com/watch?v=666S...

Today's random insight during a lab meeting on visual world experiments was that there's probably a deeper reason why clip art is perfect for psychology experiments. Even found a paper arguing that clip art is "the visual representation of common sense categories": doi.org/10.1177/1470...

Geht es nur mir so oder ist das seltsam, weil es sich anhört, als wäre er schon Manager? (Quelle: FAZ)

Gut, dass es Dünger extra für Qualitätsblumen gibt

Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)

Gibt es eigentlich Forschung dazu, warum Leute so was machen... ? 😬 Es ist ja nicht mal so, dass man hier ein sehr komplexes Subjekt hätte oder so.

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

It's always super interesting how different people react to cases like this! I do see your point, but I'm still somewhat more inclined to assume a repeated error rather than intentional reversal.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I would have assumed an error, but the fact that it appears twice makes it look systematic. It's an interesting case IMO because both instances could, in principle, also be unintended argument swaps.

Making Apfelstrudel and the recipe says to adjust the amount of breadcrumbs according to "how much the butter can soak up". Am I having a stroke or should it be the other way around? This even appears twice in the recipe. #linguistics

Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.

In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.

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If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

I guess my intuition about an average is based on the idea that "poor" and "rich" should share a common scale, and a natural way of thinking about the statement would be to take the scale's midpoint as a point of reference, even if we're not doing arithmetic.

Maybe, though I'm not sure. Turns out that this part is actually not very important to the overall plot, which revolves around the fact that the bear is a cursed prince. But the daughter does marry the bear and the father ends up living in a castle.

So if someone is "X poor" and you promise to make them "X rich", is X the difference between their $$$ and some average, and you're promising to basically flip the sign of that difference? I want to understand precisely what the bear is offering here. #linguistics

Can we accurately model reading time patterns by assuming that readers predict upcoming words, but that their memory of the sentence context that the prediction is based on is imperfect? New preprint led by Johan Hennert: osf.io/preprints/ps...