Scott Nelson

@esseeohteetee.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | computational phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, representations, logic/model theory, philosophy of science. Fan of sound in general (synthesizers, field recordings, natural reverb,…)

A screen shot of a paper by Jordan Kodner, Sarah Payne, and Jeff Heinz that reads, "we are reminded of Leonardo Da Vinci’s comment (Da Vinci, 1519/1906, 64) on perpetual motion machine enthusiasts: “O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.”
View of the Empire State Building through a set of windows arranged in a grid.
Picture of a fancy room at Cambridge with a chandelier and ornate bookshelves and furniture. Picture shows linguists standing around drinking coffee and tea before a workshop.
Picture of me on stage playing a surf green Fender jaguar guitar while wearing a brown, khaki, and black winter jacket.
Spotify top genres list: 1. Drone; 2. Midwest Emo; 3. Indie Rock; 4. Neoclassical; 5. Post-Rock
Screenshot of an academic article written by an author named "Adam Jardine" titled "The pedagogic value of science fiction: teaching about personhood and nonhuman rights with planet of the apes". <note: a different Adam Jardine is a prominent research in the subregular/model-theoretic phonology subfield referenced in the original post>
A screenshot from google scholar linking to a pdf titled "A Subregular Analysis of Phonological Transformations" on Jane Chandlee's haverford.edu website. The first author is listed as 'A Subregular' which appears to be an error when scraping the information as the linked pdf shows that Jane Chandlee is the only other.
A picture of attendees of the Rutgers subregular morphophonolgy workshop. Around 30 people on a set of stairs in an academic building with high ceilings.
Photo with two words “entrees” and “vrunchwrap”
Screen shot of a facebook post from The Onion. The article being linked is titled "Interdisciplinary Linguist Brings Up Marr (1982) On First Date". Also includes a pull quote "So Marr defines the distinction between three levels of analysis of any cognitive information-processing system. At the computational level...". Corresponding picture shows a man and a woman having drinks together.
Screen shot of Google Ngram Viewer showing the frequency of "corn sweat" and "sweat corn". They are both on the rise, but "sweat corn" has somewhat consistently been more frequent.
A picture of a slide from an academic presentation with a picture of three turtles stacked on top of one another and a tile that says insert [infinite regress cliche] here
A picture of the book “Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge”.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the linked paper which reads: "How can we use knowledge of these modules independently to understand their interaction? Namely, if model-theoretic representations allow us to understand the formal properties of semantics, syntax, phonology, morphology, phonetics in isolation, and we know that it is extremely well-suited for understanding the relationships between different structures, then it should also serve as an invaluable tool for understanding the formal properties of their interfaces."
An image explaining feeding and bleeding via potato preperation. On the left are whole potatoes. An arrow goes up and to the left labeled as chopping to a smaller image of chopped potatoes. From the chopped potatoes and arrow goes down and to the right labeled as frying to a smaller image of fried potatoes. A green arrow underneath is labeled as feeding. From the same whole potatoes an arrow goes down and to the right labeled as pureeing and shows pureed potatoes. From the pureed potatoes a crossed out arrow goes up and to the right to the fried potatoes. A red arrow above is labeled as bleeding.
Picture of a man pointing at the sky as part of the meme "If nobody got me I know X got me". In this case X has been replaced with The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and a picture of the album floats in the sky
Vintage advertisement for Roland Juno 60 synthesizer.
A picture of a blackboard with the message “no smoking” spray painted in the top corner
Screenshot from article: "In phonology, for example, the once- mainstream idea of a universal set of phonological features (analogous to the categories assumed in the domain of verb argument structure) is “very much a minority position today, even among phonologists trained in the generative tradition” (Reiss 2023: 9). What has taken the place of phonological features? State of the art computational models that operate on audio input and generate “internal representation that corresponds to phonetic and phonological features” (Beguˇs 2023: 138)."
Screenshot of text that says: "Indeed,theremaysooncomeapointatwhichthe“acceptabilityjudgments”ofLLMsaretakenas the gold standard, with human ratings subject to “error”, or at least uncontrolled individual dif- ferences. In fact, quite possibly, we are at that point already: It is not clear why the grammatical intuitions of 48 University of Liverpool students (Ambridge et al. 2020) should take precedence over the distilled wisdom of millions of English speakers worldwide (davinci002)."
screenshot of text "Taco Bell Endowed Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science; and Director, Center of Digital Transformation (CDT)"
List of theoretical linguistics seminars offered at V-NYI #9