Corey Wright @coreywrite

@UBuffalo linguistics alum interested in syn/sem/nlp/sent proc/syntactic metatheory/etc. Rochester, NY Joined May 2017

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

2 years ago

CxGians HATE when their nonzero scientific interest in LLMs is revealed to be nothing more than a delusional side effect of their moderate-to-severe case of Chomsky Derangement Syndrome!

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

2 years ago

most harebrained thread of all time just dropped

Yishan @yishan

2 years ago

most harebrained thread of all time just dropped

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

TikTok has something to say about the classic null instantiation / overt object obligatoriness contrast between semantically similar eat (I ate ＿.) and devour (*I devoured ＿.)

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

how does a claim like 'speakers have perfect command of their language' square with e.g. syntactic satiation?

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it should be possible to be concerned about ling departments potentially being supplanted by AI bros while not repeatedly downplaying the fact that the most influential figure in our field loudly regarded corpus linguistics as unscientific collation of epiphenomena for decades

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

inner voice just read Discrete Infinity as Defeat Inscrinity

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LingBuzz @LingBuzz

3 years ago

Lu et al: A Meta-analysis of Syntactic Satiation in Extraction from Islands ift.tt/KVMbRFu #satiation #island

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

it's allegedly a scientific problem to explain why children don't hypothesize that the successor function only applies up to 'nine', after which ordinal terms might follow [mod 1000]. shouldn't it first be shown that a child could even hypothesize such a rule in principle?

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

Hanks (2013)

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

didn't POS arguments have to do with the richness of the input, not merely the quantity? like purportedly no amount of positive evidence could ever teach you to not violate island constraints

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

chatGPT's inability to reason soundly about grammaticality might be its most human-like property

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

if ChatGPT were performing hard-coded symbol-manipulation procedures broadly in accordance with the dictums of Minimalist Theory, would we stan, folks?

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

"when people are given time, they realize an island violation is an island violation" idk i stared at english 'subject island violations' for 3 straight months my senior year and they sound perfect to me now

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Corey Wright @coreywrite

3 years ago

btw what does UG actually mean these days? 'whatever the genetic stuff is that allows homo sapiens but not canis familaris to acquire language' or is it supposed to contain linguistically proprietary stuff?