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Joined June 2012
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13 Oct 2022
I use the movie “the prestige” to illustrate the idea of movement: you create a copy of yourself at the destination and kill the one at the original place
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23 Sep 2022
one of the greatest semantics homework assignments
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10 Apr 2022
😭😭😭😭😭we are hungry, confined at home, humiliated, living in constant fear. For more than a week, I go to bed hungry and wake up hungry, thinking about food almost all the time.
8 Apr 2022
Of the 25 to 26 million people in Shanghai, several million are running extremely low on food and necessities at this time. Many are surviving on one meal a day only, let alone getting a balanced diet. Urgent action to restore delivery operations is needed.
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10 Apr 2022
Actually my current situation is probably better than many/most people in Shanghai. Some people in my neighborhood have access to producers and order food directly from them for us, with a quota though. I can afford price 200-300% higher than usual. Even I don’t have enough food.
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10 Apr 2022
After I finished up with overdated bread two days ago (bought in March), I only eat one egg for breakfast. I haven’t had any milk since April 5. I don’t know when I will have bread and milk again. So far most of my orders of bread have been canceled or delayed again and again.
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22 Mar 2022
I was also fortunate to have had a short interaction with Lauri Karttunen during SALT 2014. At that time, I didn’t realize how much I would be inspired later by his pioneering work on many things.
20 Mar 2022
Sad news: Lauri Karttunen passed away peacefully this morning. Lauri was a towering figure in linguistics and NLP, and a vibrant presence at Stanford in Linguistics, @stanfordnlp & @StanfordCSLI. So many observations and concepts that we all take for granted trace to his work!
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13 Mar 2022
I also once sent an email to Chomsky, long before I made up my mind to work towards becoming a linguist. And I remember that I also received a reply from him 🥰
12 Mar 2022
I will always stand in awe of Noam Chomsky. I just sent him my recent essay; 12 minutes later he replied with smart comments, including a point I should have thought to include. He’s 93.
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26 Dec 2021
Taught a humanities core curriculum course, started reading comics, bought an apartment with the help of my parents 🙂
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19 May 2021
Our new paper on comparatives is just published online by Journal of Semantics: doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffab003. We present a new generalized approach to characterize the meaning of comparatives and its interesting consequences.
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21 Sep 2020
If you’d like an intro to Brain & Language that assumes no background on either the brain or language, check out the YouTube channel of my newly flipped undergraduate Neural Bases of Language class. Now uploaded up until midterm, many more topics to come! tinyurl.com/y3ejvzsn
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13 Sep 2020
Students of my Fall 2020 course are taking it from 7 different time zones. Time for me to learn teleportation! 😓
18 Aug 2020
So excited to attend SALT via zoom, though I can only follow the mornings sessions. We need something like Droom that can enable people to attend talks in their dreams 😴
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23 Jul 2020
So excited to receive an invitation to give a colloquium talk at MIT Linguistics next year!! Thank you for boosting my morale! ❤️
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3 Jul 2020
My paper on "Mary is taller than exactly two boys are" is finally available online. Lots of thanks to Peter Hallman (who encouraged me to write it), Dylan Bumford (whose work inspired me), and Roger Schwarzschild (my reviewer)! brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9…
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25 Nov 2019
Can computers understand word meanings like the human brain does? Comparable semantic representation in neural and computer systems biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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4 May 2018
Composing lexical versus functional adjectives: Evidence for uniformity in the left temporal lobe. New cool work by Zhang & Pylkkanen in PB&R. link.springer.com/article/10… @Psychonomic_Soc
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25 Apr 2018
Can function words serve as input to combinatory mechanisms in the left ATL? Yes, as long as the have the ability to transmit conceptual features from the context. Check out this super cool new study by @LinminZhang: rdcu.be/MADp
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15 Sep 2018
Specifically, as a downward entailing operator, negation flips the effect of conceptual specificity during subject-verb composition: for subjects w positive determiners, more specific nouns elicit more LATL activity on the verb but w negative ones, specificity lessens LATL signal
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