Ailis Cournane

@brianbuccola Ha!! Cartoons are an amazing source of this fodder, that would be a great class…do it…

had a dream that I was teaching a course called "explaining the joke: the semantics and pragmatics of humor" where we just watched futurama the whole time. one of those rare dreams that actually gives you a good idea

Babies’ and children’s brains are way more interesting than LLMs. I wish humans marveled more at them over dinner tables #LLMs #scicomm

New paper in Language Acquisition! We got wee'uns to produce sentence-medial functional words. Their modals are not adult-like by a long shot. Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Now out in @LangDevRes (all the open science and no fees one can wish for!): my corpus paper with @ACournane delving into children's early counterfactual productions to show the role linguistic complexity plays in the acquisition of counterfactuality tinyurl.com/2022LDR (1/4)

Congratulations to Ailis Cournane, this year's prizewinner for the best original research article by an untenured scientist: “Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts"! Free to view for a year: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @ACournane @nyuling

My lab (ChildLanguageLanb@NYU) is recruiting with MommyPoppins (yay!). @mommypoppins instagram.com/p/CUx1Ju8NCgu/…

@JoyceCarolOates "A bird is not an ornithologist". This lady *uses* languages, but knows nothing about it. Get your language facts from linguists, not writers!

"they" will not become a part of general usage, not for political reasons but because there would be no pronoun to distinguish between a singular subject ("they") & a plural subject ("they"). language seeks to communicate w/ clarity, not to obfuscate; that is its purpose.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (if the above doesn't work)

I'm so excited one of my papers that grew from my dissertation is now published :) TL;DR 3-year-olds talk like children (shock!) but that doesn't mean they don't think all fancy human-like. Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts …tandfonline-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10.10…

@GutStrings She is a terrible person to celebrate says this Irish girl. No thanks!

My paper with Ana Pérez-Leroux won the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award this year 🎉 It's experimental L1A work testing language change theory, here incrementation. doi.org/10.1080/154754…

How do our brains respond to facts vs. uncertainty? NeLLab Spotlight second episode, w me and @MaximeTulling chatting about our recent @SfNJournals #eNeuro paper on this topic. @nyuling @NYUADResearch Coauthors: @rmc_law @ACournane tinyurl.com/ytdnjva2

A whole lot of folks on here believe society doesn't owe anyone a job or health care but somehow believe women owe them a date.

@JoFrhwld This absence-is-maybe-a-thing comes up all the time when I think about omissions in child language

I don't usually ask for retweets but if you RT the quoted tweet it could put serious pressure on @Amazon to pull its ads from Breitbart 🙏&TY twitter.com/mirasorvino/st…

Nazis killed a woman and the President backed them up. What will they do now?