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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 07:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Avoiding the Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2009/06/10/avoiding-the-kool-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past day I&#8217;ve been having a frustrating email discussion with a colleague who has drunk from too much of the Computational Linguistics kool-aid.  And by &#8220;the kool-aid&#8221; I mean the notion that nothing is science unless you can measure it, and that anything that&#8217;s not science is somehow voodoo.
The particular topic has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gradience vs. Phonology: Fight!</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2009/02/14/gradience-vs-phonology-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2009/02/14/gradience-vs-phonology-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Speech Research Laboratory presentation was by MIT&#8217;s Adam Albright, under the title Natural classes are not enough: Biased generalization in novel onset clusters.  The link goes to a PDF of the paper on which the talk was based.
I&#8217;m not a speech researcher; I&#8217;m not really even interested in Phonology, let alone things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPIs in Russian (are another excuse to compare HPSG and GB)</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/11/npis-in-russian-are-another-excuse-to-compare-hpsg-and-gb/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/11/npis-in-russian-are-another-excuse-to-compare-hpsg-and-gb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Syntax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s reading for Syntax Reading Group was Asya Pereltsvaig&#8217;s Negative Polarity Items in Russian and the &#8216;Bagel Problem&#8217;, and it was interesting for a lot of the same reason&#8217;s that I enjoyed last week&#8217;s paper.
Basically, the so-called &#8216;bagel problem&#8217; is this.  There are two (types of) negative polarity items in Russian that are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repent, and ye shall be forgiven</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/09/repent-and-ye-shall-be-forgiven/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/09/repent-and-ye-shall-be-forgiven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lexicon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a kind of followup to yesterday&#8217;s post - I notice that today on PrawfsBlog there is a post about whether to use &#8220;data&#8221; and &#8220;media&#8221; with plural agreement.  Prawfs comes down firmly on the side of singular agreement - which I personally applaud.

&#8216;Media&#8217; and &#8216;data&#8217; are mass nouns expressing uncountable quantities. When used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Non-Loaded Version of &#8220;Crotchety?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/08/whats-the-non-loaded-version-of-crotchety/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/08/whats-the-non-loaded-version-of-crotchety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lexicon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every profession has its bugbears - those bits of &#8220;common sense&#8221; that fall into its domain that the public earnestly believes in but which are totally incoherent when examined.   For Economists, it&#8217;s the make-work fallacy, for Astronomers, it&#8217;s the idea that proximity to the sun causes the seasons, for Statisticians it&#8217;s likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Notational Variants (Exactly)</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/03/not-notational-variants-exactly/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/11/03/not-notational-variants-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Syntax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Syntax Reading Group we&#8217;ve been reading Negation in Slavic, a collection of papers on the titular subject.  Today&#8217;s was The Morphosyntax of Polish Verbal Negation: Towards an HPSG Account by Anna Kupść.  It&#8217;s an interesting paper because it really hammers home the differences between HPSG and the so-called &#8220;Standard Theory.&#8221;
There&#8217;s an attribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Merit in What I Do</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/10/21/the-merit-in-what-i-do/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/10/21/the-merit-in-what-i-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Field]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that I like the &#8220;Computational&#8221; part better than the &#8220;Linguist&#8221; part of my job description is that the &#8220;computational&#8221; part doesn&#8217;t give you any bullshit.  A program either runs or it doesn&#8217;t, it either gets the result it&#8217;s supposed to get, or it doesn&#8217;t.  And while for very complicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason Why Girls Might Say &#8216;Holded&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/10/18/another-reason-why-girls-might-say-holded/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/10/18/another-reason-why-girls-might-say-holded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Psycholinguistics]]></category>

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Joshua K. Harshorne and Michael T. Ullman, &#8220;Why girls say &#8216;holded&#8217; more than boys,&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout my G-g-g-generator</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/06/27/talkin-bout-my-g-g-g-generator/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/06/27/talkin-bout-my-g-g-g-generator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Linguistics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Syntax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A useful thing for some (other) linguist to do would, I think, be to set up a website for cataloging bad arguments in favor of UG.  I&#8217;ve just run across a beauty.
I&#8217;m writing qualifying papers this summer, some of which are about Syntax, and I thought it might be a good idea to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unintentional Self-Parody</title>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/06/07/unintentional-self-parody/</link>
		<comments>http://jwherring.com/languagemodule/2008/06/07/unintentional-self-parody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An actual quote from a blog about language:
The fact that &#8220;one of the only&#8221; is a common phrase, found everywhere, does not make it acceptable English.
So what, one wonders, would make anything &#8220;acceptable English&#8221; for these people?  Is there any mechanism for making something &#8220;acceptable English&#8221; OTHER than the fact that it &#8220;is a [...]]]></description>
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