Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 23/08/2026But the important question is: do submarines swim? 120
Reposted by Shota MommaLiina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...wp.nyu.eduPostdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab 04333
Reposted by Shota MommaJohn Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.cen.acs.orgThe AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their workGood scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research 310941
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026That’s a strong reductio ad absurdum argument against non transformational account ;) 030
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026According to syntactic theory, you leave a trace where you moved from, so “welcome” is still licensed at LF (sorry I drank whisky and really can’t help) 140
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026😂 according to Reddit I could've made a living as a gangsta rapper: old.reddit.com/r/ProlificAc...old.reddit.com"Researcher NaN" ??Posted in r/ProlificAc by u/Homtoh • 11 points and 13 comments 020
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Thanks Cory - hit me up when you come back to Cambridge! 010
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I’m joining linguistics at MIT this fall. Sad to leave UMass, but also excited about learning from people at MIT linguistics! 秋学期からマサチューセッツ工科大学の言語学科で働きます。UMassを去るのは寂しいですが、新しい環境が楽しみでもあります。 whamit.mit.edu/2026/05/11/whamit.mit.edu 2026 at Whamit!The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics 1182
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A joint work with my inimitable colleagues - Doreen Georgi (Potsdam) and Michel Wilson (Nevada)! 030
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A new preprint! We argue that English secretly has complementizer agreement that marks the path of filler–gap dependencies, much like in Búlí, Irish, and Wolof. Its distribution resembles FG dependency path-marking in unrel. languages, with Kiitharaka n- as the closest match. tinyurl.com/4x5f54rwlingbuzz.netHow English is like Kiitharaka and Búlí: successive cyclicity and optional wh-complementizer agreement in English - lingbuzz/010063We report eight pairs of production and judgment experiments showing that English speakers are less likely to produce "that" when the relevant complementizer lies on the hierarchical path of an A-bar ... 1103
Reposted by Shota MommaGabor Brody @gaborbrody.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Hiring! Athulya Aravind and I are looking for a full-time Postgraduate Associate at Yale (Linguistics/Psychology). The position is designed as preparation for PhD applications in linguistics, cog sci, or psychology, including structured mentoring and research training. tinyurl.com/mrxjya5ttinyurl.comPostgraduate Researcher in Language and Conceptual Development — Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, Yale University (joint appointment); affiliated with the Program in Cognitive S... 12117
Reposted by Shota MommaFernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If you know of a graduating senior who might want to spend a gap year in @jmhenderson.bsky.social's productive, supportive, and fun lab, pass along this ad for a full-time, NIH-funded RA position! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07601?fbc...recruit.ucdavis.eduJunior Specialist- Henderson LabUniversity of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now! 079
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 20/04/2026My 6 y.o.: Why can’t babies speak? Me: (omg this kid already overcame empiricism) 190
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This is where I learned our poster is on Saturday lol 110
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 25/03/2026You can’t do away with abstract (silent) elements in syntax to model production behaviors! 050
Reposted by Shota MommaAniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Saturday! Poster 6 (#198) Relatedly, Shota, Grusha and I extend previous super cool work by Shota, and use a priming experiment to test whether English speakers represent null complementizers in full RCs but not in reduced RCs. Wanna find out? Come see our poster! hsp2026.org/abstracts/su...hsp2026.org 271
Reposted by Shota MommaAniello 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
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 18/03/2026My 6 y.o: Tendon Switch (referring to Nintendo Switch) 020
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 27/02/2026As far as I can see, what “theory neutral” actually means is that the hidden theoretical commitments are so weakly constraining that they don’t make predictions that diverge from existing theories 010
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I use prolific mostly for sentence production experiments, so I think ai responses would be obvious. I don’t see any noticeable changes in the % of accounts returning the study or in the % of submissions that need to be rejected. I suppose it depends on filtering settings. 010
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 24/01/2026We need name for this kind of non-argument: Argument from Unspecified Alternative (AUA) 000
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Dear reviewers, please specify what “simpler analysis” is. You can penalize whatever you don’t like if you are allowed to use that unspecified alternative account as a basis for low scores. 160
Reposted by Shota Mommautku turk @utkuturk.com · 02/01/2026New preprint: psyarxiv.com/dwh8v! We know surface/phonological overlap can matter for reading & memory. But does it bleed into dependency resolution? In English, “pseudo-plurals” like /s/ in *cruise* don’t induce agreement errors—but Russian ones (SG.GEN ~ NOM.PL) have been argued to. (1/3) 1122
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Evidence for the existence of the null temporal operator: the age [Op_i that everybody dies t_i] 120
Reposted by Shota MommaMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/ 044
Shota 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
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Ah, yes, thanks for letting me know! Here's the PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1t2EF... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...drive.google.comMomma_2025.pdf 020
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Caveats: (1) “-mo” can also be interpreted as NP coordination. (2) AdjP coordination may be “-kute” rather than “-te”, though my intuition “kute” feels like a morphological complex. (3) Both “-te” and “-kute” have non-coordination meaning so not clear if they should be labeled as coordinator. 030
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Japanese has “to” (と) for coordinating NPs and “te” (て) for adjP and VPs/Vs. Neither can be used for adverb phrases. 240
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 13/11/2025At this rate he will ask me why movement has to be successive cyclic by the age of 12. 040
Reposted by Shota MommaDavid Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook 5677
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Why should you study linguistics? My six year old just asked me how “we make voice out of air.” 1161
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Tamar is a great mentor/scholar and she is one of the major reasons I am still in academia. Great opportunity 061
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The relationship between tense and complementizer is really puzzling… 010
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It’s okay to admit that you are jealous of case markers and scrambling. 110
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 11/09/2025You get thicker white matter track between left temporal lobe and frontal lobe if you speak Japanese though 110
Reposted by Shota MommaJeffrey Bowers @jeffreybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The following article is now in press at Psychological Review. Interested to hear what people think! "The successes and failures of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) highlight the importance of innate linguistic priors for human language acquisition". osf.io/preprints/ps... viaosf.ioOSF 0133
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"With admirable consistency he goes on to conclude... English is appropriate for the sciences, whereas Japanese "sont plus avantageuses pour les lettres" 110
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"...French is unique... in the degree to which the order of words corresponds to the natural order of thoughts (Diderot, 1751)" (Chomsky 1965) Matchin concludes that English is superior in the degree to which the order of words corresponds to how we scan a visual scene (Matchin, 2025, p.c.). 110
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/20257 positions on language? Sounds like your school accounts for 90% of the jobs in language 010
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025If I were to design a language, I wouldn't use very subtle noise (-s) to have a large consequence for interpretation. 000
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025For parsing, yes. But language is not designed for communication. 110
Shota Momma @shotamomma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I’d be surprised if head directionality has anything to do with it once cultural confounds are taken care of. Hiromu Sakai used to do a lot of eye-tracking while speaking studies in Japanese, so you might find something relevant (though their work is mostly conference presentations/thesis) 000
