Joshua on Oct 21st, 2008The Merit in What I Do
One of the reasons that I like the “Computational” part better than the “Linguist” part of my job description is that the “computational” part doesn’t give you any bullshit. A program either runs or it doesn’t, it either gets the result it’s supposed to get, or it doesn’t. And while for very complicated [...]
Joshua on Oct 18th, 2008Another Reason Why Girls Might Say ‘Holded’
Joshua K. Harshorne and Michael T. Ullman, “Why girls say ‘holded’ more than boys,” Developmental Science 9:1 (2006): 21-32. [PDF]
One of the reasons I feel confident that the pendulum has started its swing back toward symbolic approaches in language research is that the recutionist crowd now regularly engages in all the reckless conclusion by assumption [...]