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Skip to main content. College of Human Ecology. This page contains links to online resources and other projects related to the study of language and language acq uisition. Center for Applied Linguistics. Child Language Data Exchange System. Cornell Language Acquisition Lab. Cross Linguistic Lexical Norm. Digital Network File Endangered Languages and Music. DoBeS (Documentation of Endangered Languages). Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data. General Ontology for Linguistic Description.
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The Lousy Linguist: The Language Myth - Preliminary Thoughts
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Sunday, May 17, 2015. The Language Myth - Preliminary Thoughts. I started reading The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct. By Vyvyan Evans. This book argues that Noam Chomsky is wrong about the basic nature of language. The book has sparked controversy and there have probably been published more words in blogs and tweets in response than are contained in the actual book. Within functionalist linguistics, not factual evidence]. The Presence of Chomsky. First,...
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The Lousy Linguist: Why Linguists Should Study Math
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Monday, January 18, 2010. Why Linguists Should Study Math. Bob Carpenter recently made the following comment. On one of my posts:. I'm very excited to hear that linguists are beginning to take statistics seriously (again). I'd heard the same thing from Chris Manning a year or so ago, but then other linguists I queried were more skeptical about the role of statistics. This brought to mind a post by Harvard economist Greg Mankiw called Why Aspiring Economists Need Math.
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The Lousy Linguist: for linguists, by linguists
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Friday, August 1, 2014. For linguists, by linguists. The Speculative Grammarian is at it again, offering a happy hour discount on an already ridiculously inexpensive book of linguistic fun: The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics. Speculative Grammarian is the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the oft neglected field of satirical linguistics—and it is now available in book form! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). James D. McCawley.
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The Lousy Linguist: Jobs for linguists - May 2014
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Jobs for linguists - May 2014. California is awash in jobs for linguists this Spring. Consultant, Verbal Identity. BA degree, backgrounds of interest include any verbal-focused or writing intensive field (e.g. Linguistics). Medallia, Inc. - Palo Alto,California. Bachelor's degree. Demonstrated interest in technology. Strong preference for a French or German native speaker. Not visible on company website, found on LinkedIn, sign in required).
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The Lousy Linguist: can you still do linguistics without math?
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Monday, September 15, 2014. Can you still do linguistics without math? A reader emailed me an interesting question that's worth giving a wider audience to:. The reader makes a good point I hadn't thought about. I remember my phonetics teacher telling us that she often recruited students into linguistics by telling them that it's one of the few fields that teach non-mathematical data analytics. That was something that appealed to me. It's free and online right now).
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The Lousy Linguist: toy data and question answering
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Toy data and question answering. Some first impressions of a really interesting paper on AI and Question Answering: Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks. FWIW, I spent most of the time mis-reading the first author name as Watson, instead of Weston, assuming a false sense of irony :-). They define 20 specialized tests. All of them are truly interesting as AI tests. Their two simplest tests:. The authors admi...
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The Lousy Linguist: Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 3: Ch 5-7
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Thursday, February 7, 2013. Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 3: Ch 5-7. I've finished the next chunk of Ben Bergen's embodied cognitive linguistics book Louder Than Words. Putting me just about 2/3rds of the way through. I'll be putting together a single, overview review that is more linear that these interim posts. But I want to share a few thoughts before then. He presents data suggesting that they do (though he's quick to point out that this is all very prelimin...
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The Lousy Linguist: neural nets and question answering
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Notes on linguistics and cognition. Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Neural nets and question answering. I just read A Neural Network for Factoid Question Answering. By Iyyer et al (presented at EMNLP 2014). When I saw this paper Tweeted by Mat Kelcey. I was excited by the title, but after reading it, I suspect the constraints of their task make it not quite applicable to commercial QA applications. They trained a neural net to] identify the person, place, or thing discussed. Therefore, they had large *questi...