Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina. Bridging the gaps between linguistic theory, neuroscience, and aphasia. Chief Editor of @jocnforum.bsky.social
William Matchin
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Swanky write-up of interview with me. Note: I decry the trainee arms race. But to my own trainees: don't worry, I'm going to outfight the other professors and their trainees.
Writing as Labor #1: The Linguistics Professor by Trench Coat Tasks medium.com/p/writing-as...
Another is:
2️⃣ "numerical point prediction is not something
we can nor should expect" from our models at all!
Something that I think is completely lost on so many people sadly, especially in modern artificial intelligence hype rhetoric.
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Yosef Grodzinsky's new book, mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200... Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press), provides helpful comparisons between LLMs and human language representation and processing, and outlines important points for both research directions (linguistics, AI).
A 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/4x5f54rw
William Matchin
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
mitpress.mit.edu
We 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 ...
We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...
youtu.be/SZYibAv-Ba4?...
Assal Rad is a fine scholar and thorough thinker. This work is sure to be insightful regarding media framing and its role in producing ideological conformity, following up on work by Chomsky, herman in manufacturing consent.
Fantastic piece on psychiatric categories. Loved the part on how personality interacts with mental illness. We shouldn’t be focusing on the categories themselves as insightful to identity but rather the practical utility that they can provide. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Conference proceedings from @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026 in Vancouver are now published online at @jocnforum.bsky.social, @jocn.bsky.social. Congrats to the authors and the conference attendees for a great meeting!
jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026-2
Collabra: Psychology is published by UC Press, a non-profit publisher. It's #openaccess and is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Worth supporting!
(read: resign from the profiteering corporate publisher you're editing for and apply to join Collabra!)
