Reposted by Anzi WangMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tell Congress to save NSF's SBE! Take action here: cossa.org/action-cente...cossa.orgAction Center | COSSAA consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is lik... 0116
Reposted by Anzi WangMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), open area, ‼️NU Linguistics‼️ "an integrated approach to the scientific study of language, utilizing experimental, computational, and/or data-intensive approaches to inform linguistic theory and its applications" linguistics.northwestern.edu/about/open-p... 02214
Reposted by Anzi WangJiayi Lu @jiayilu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ever wondered why "Where did you say that I was" sounds better than "??Where did you reiterate that I was"? In this paper I co-authored with Julie Legate and Charles Yang, we present a learning-based account of this lexically-conditioned "island" effect (and the lack thereof in Mandarin)!cambridge.orgThe learnability of bridge effects | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge CoreThe learnability of bridge effects 051
Reposted by Anzi Wangglossa-linguistics.bsky.social @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Lu, Jiayi & Kim, Nayoun. 2026. Adjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in Korean. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccessdoi.orgAdjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in KoreanIn this squib, we present experimental evidence that Korean wh-scrambling, unlike non-wh-scrambling or wh-in-situ, is constrained by the -ttay temporal adjunct island effect. We further show that this... 055
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Thank you!! Would love to know what you think about the final product 🐒 020
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This paper was accepted as a talk at SCiL this year—please stop by if you might be interested! Meanwhile you can read our preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 181
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026um-RSA* can account for differences in uncertainty expression usage that the standard RSA framework cannot account for! *The "um" is not just an acronym for "uncertain meaning", but also captures the sound speakers might make when they are uncertain! Brilliantly named by Grusha 🐼 150
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026As a case study, we explore two sources of meaning uncertainty: Counting-Uncertainty (from numerical cognition) and Discounting-Uncertainty (from behavioral economics). We generate predictions from these two hypotheses and test these predictions with two human experiments 160
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Standard RSA often assumes that speakers are certain about the meaning they intend to communicate, but this assumption need not always be true! In paper with @grushaprasad.bsky.social and @carolynanderson.bsky.social, we propose a method (um-RSA) to incorporate meaning uncertainty within RSA 1163
Reposted by Anzi WangMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Come join us! Northwestern Linguistics is hiring a lab manager -- perfect for a recent graduate who's interested in contributing to a vibrant interdisciplinary research community. Position is open immediately! careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu_er/... 0139
Reposted by Anzi Wanggrushaprasad.bsky.social @grushaprasad.bsky.social · 04/05/2026In 2016, I started working on my undergrad thesis where I was looking at ERP signatures for singular 'they'. In 2026, the work is finally published! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Kudos to Joanna Morris for working on this the past few years and pushing it past the finish line!frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Distinct ERP signatures for singular “they” and gender violationsIntroductionThe English pronoun system is undergoing rapid change, with singular “they” increasingly used to refer to specific individuals. A key question is... 1156
Reposted by Anzi WangAniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Friday time! Poster 5 (# 365) @grushaprasad.bsky.social , @shotamomma.bsky.social and I leverage an ACT-R based parsing model (from Grusha’s previous work!) to evaluate potential explanations of gradient effects in cross-structural priming. Explicit parsers FTW!!hsp2026.org 182
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026TunePad (tunepad.com)! Developed by amazing researchers at Northwestern, extremely friendly and intuitive UI. I'm teaching fifth-graders at local schools TunePad and most of them are loving ittunepad.comTunePadTunePad is a free online platform for creating music with the Python programming language. Our step-by-step tutorials are perfect for beginners, and our advanced production tools power music making fo... 120
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 18/01/2026one year ago i thought p-side was about predicates and s-side was about subjects :3 050
Reposted by Anzi WangShota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Reposting because the link has expired: PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1t2EF... (if this doesn't work, lmk) Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comSpeakers encode silent structures: Evidence from complementizer priming in EnglishDo speakers encode abstract structural representations devoid of perceptual-motor content, that is, phonology? In six recall-based production experime… 0112
Reposted by Anzi WangWilliam Timkey @wtimkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025New Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n) 2135
Reposted by Anzi WangJennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025New work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇 29220
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I took Grusha and Forrest's version of NLP at Colgate (arxiv.org/abs/2408.05664) and as a current linguistics phd student still doing NLP research, I can say that this is THE undergrad course that has benefited me the mostarxiv.orgTraining an NLP Scholar at a Small Liberal Arts College: A Backwards Designed Course ProposalThe rapid growth in natural language processing (NLP) over the last couple years has generated student interest and excitement in learning more about the field. In this paper, we present two types of ... 120
Reposted by Anzi WangElliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025arxiv.org/abs/2510.05141arxiv.orgTo model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhumanWhen people listen to or read a sentence, they actively make predictions about upcoming words: words that are less predictable are generally read more slowly than predictable ones. The success of larg... 0134
Reposted by Anzi WangAaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 27/09/2025I've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.github.comGitHub - aaronstevenwhite/glazing: Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies.Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies. - aaronstevenwhite/glazing 3267
Reposted by Anzi WangJulian @juliangrove.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Brand new version of this paper (now a short book!) available at lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...!lingbuzz.netProbabilistic dynamic semantics - lingbuzz/008478We introduce the framework of Probabilistic Dynamic Semantics (PDS), which we use to seamlessly integrate dynamic semantic analyses of lexical and discourse phenomena in the Montagovian tradition with... 172
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025favorite garden path sentence of the year: "It's better to be hurt by someone you know accidentally, than by a stranger on purpose" by Dwight Schrute 010
Reposted by Anzi WangRobert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025arxiv.org/abs/2508.19546arxiv.orgLanguage Models Identify Ambiguities and Exploit LoopholesStudying the responses of large language models (LLMs) to loopholes presents a two-fold opportunity. First, it affords us a lens through which to examine ambiguity and pragmatics in LLMs, since exploi... 0156
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 02/09/2025probably? maybe you can have different policies each semester and test it out lol 010
Reposted by Anzi WangShota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 03/08/2025A paper with Vic Ferreira and Norvin Richards is now out (1) Speakers syntactically encode zero complementizers as cognitively active mental object. (2) No evidence LLMs capture cross constructional generalizations about null complementizers. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com 1157
Reposted by Anzi WangMikel Maria Delgado, PhD @mikeldelgado.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Work with kittens? Check out the National Kitten Coalition's new Kitten Resource Library! They're an org I like a lot!! library.kittencoalition.orglibrary.kittencoalition.orgNKC Resource Library - The National Kitten Coalition’s Guide to Help You Save More Kittens™National Kitten Coalition 221272
Reposted by Anzi WangRobert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025"We introduce Collaborative Rational Speech Act (CRSA), an information-theoretic (IT) extension of RSA that models multi-turn dialog by optimizing a gain function adapted from rate-distortion theory." arxiv.org/abs/2507.14063arxiv.orgCollaborative Rational Speech Act: Pragmatic Reasoning for Multi-Turn DialogAs AI systems take on collaborative roles, they must reason about shared goals and beliefs-not just generate fluent language. The Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework offers a principled approach to pr... 0135
Reposted by Anzi WangMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were: 1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them. (1/n) 15611
Anzi Wang @anziw.bsky.social · 24/01/2025is computational psycholinguistics a poly-sci? #puns #linguistics 150
