We are hiring! University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Linguistics is looking for a sociolinguist (Assistant Professor rank) specializing in variation and language contact. More info here: go.hawaii.edu/D7R

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🧠 Takeaway: we understand speech by reasoning in real time over a generative model—noise included—updated by implicit stats & explicit causal beliefs. 🤖 HuBERT's representational geometry offers a window into that noise model & a test of AI speech models vs. human gaze. 💬 Feedback very welcome!

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🧵 New preprint! Speech is noisy, yet we usually understand it. I used eye-tracking + a self-supervised speech model (HuBERT) to show that speech comprehension unfolds as real-time Bayesian "noisy-channel" inference & that listeners tune their noise model to their environment 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Paper 3: Language processing across presentation modes 📖 Language can be highly serial (speech) or fully parallel (text). We provide the first comparison of serial vs. parallel visual language input, revealing shared and distinct neural mechanisms. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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1/ New preprint! 🧠👶 "Eccentricity, not category, organizes infant ventral temporal cortex." With Emily M Chen, Cleo Tay, Kylie Syzmanski, and @camerontellis.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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