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William Timkey

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Computational psycholinguistics PhD student @NYU lingusitics | first gen!

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Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks to the National Science Foundation for featuring our new @pnas.org paper, and for the continued support for basic science projects like this one!

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William Timkey @wtimkey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why do we breeze through some sentences, but others make us slow down and reread? A popular answer is predictability: unexpected words are harder to process. In our new @pnas.org article, we used LMs as models of human prediction to ask how far this explanation can actually go🧵

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William Timkey @wtimkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

New 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)

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