Ailis Cournane

Professor of Child Language Development @nyuling. Semantics ~ Syntax ~Language Change. I❤️science! Say my name like "ehLEESH coorNAN"

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

@brianbuccola Ha!! Cartoons are an amazing source of this fodder, that would be a great class…do it…

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

Babies’ and children’s brains are way more interesting than LLMs. I wish humans marveled more at them over dinner tables #LLMs #scicomm

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

New paper in Language Acquisition! We got wee'uns to produce sentence-medial functional words. Their modals are not adult-like by a long shot.

Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers https://t.co/6t3VVzoCy4

[Maxime Tulling @MaximeTulling]

Now out in @LangDevRes (all the open science and no fees one can wish for!): my corpus paper with @ACournane delving into children's early counterfactual productions to show the role linguistic complexity plays in the acquisition of counterfactuality https://t.co/ihxOeJvzIb (1/4)

[Language Acquisition Journal @LangAcqJournal]

Congratulations to Ailis Cournane, this year's prizewinner for the best original research article by an untenured scientist: “Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts"! Free to view for a year: https://t.co/Gp4iLpuefS
@ACournane @nyuling

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My lab (ChildLanguageLanb@NYU) is recruiting with MommyPoppins (yay!). @mommypoppins https://t.co/yTOi2gJiD1

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

@JoyceCarolOates "A bird is not an ornithologist". This lady *uses* languages, but knows nothing about it. Get your language facts from linguists, not writers!

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https://t.co/OoQhQKpWKE (if the above doesn't work)

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

I'm so excited one of my papers that grew from my dissertation is now published :) TL;DR 3-year-olds talk like children (shock!) but that doesn't mean they don't think all fancy human-like.
Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts https://t.co/TY9WOT4I3c

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

@GutStrings She is a terrible person to celebrate says this Irish girl. No thanks!

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

My paper with Ana Pérez-Leroux won the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award this year 🎉 It's experimental L1A work testing language change theory, here incrementation.
https://t.co/gRwzQqaHCp

[Liina Pylkkanen @liinapy]

How do our brains respond to facts vs. uncertainty?
NeLLab Spotlight second episode, w me and @MaximeTulling chatting about our recent @SfNJournals #eNeuro paper on this topic. @nyuling @NYUADResearch Coauthors: @rmc_law @ACournane
https://t.co/NdFZzFRYQ0

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

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[Palle! @Palle_Hoffstein]

A whole lot of folks on here believe society doesn't owe anyone a job or health care but somehow believe women owe them a date.

[Ailis Cournane @ACournane]

@JoFrhwld This absence-is-maybe-a-thing comes up all the time when I think about omissions in child language

[Mira Sorvino @MiraSorvino]

I don't usually ask for retweets but if you RT the quoted tweet it could put serious pressure on @Amazon to pull its ads from Breitbart 🙏&TY https://t.co/1cNMNKwiiZ

[Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente]

Nazis killed a woman and the President backed them up.

What will they do now?