Kate Davidson

Professor of Linguistics, research at the intersection of meaning, modalities, and the mind (she/her) ☀️

[Najoung Kim 🫠 @najoungkim]

Here's work where we try to take analogies quite seriously, plus our takes about LLM experiments serving to raise the bar for what we are willing to take as behavioral evidence for things like composition 💇‍♀️

[Najoung Kim 🫠 @najoungkim]

so proud of @HayleyRossLing for getting a best paper award at @GenBench this year!! 🎉🪅🎉 I'm sure @TeaAnd_OrCoffee would be too :) check out our paper and share if you think homemade cats are cats!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

It's been a true honor to advise Dr. @YuhanZhang_ , such a well deserved celebration and exciting work at the psycholinguistics/experimental ling intersection!

[Yuhan Zhang @YuhanZhang_]

🙌🏻 I defended my PhD thesis “The Rational Processing of Language Illusions” yesterday!🎓 I am extremely grateful for my amazing advisors @LanguageMIT and @TeaAnd_OrCoffee and dear committee members @roger_p_levy and Kevin Ryan!

[Najoung Kim 🫠 @najoungkim]

It was really fun to work with Hayley and Kate testing human generalization patterns on adjective-noun compositions! Hayley will be presenting this at @ELM_Conference. Also, follow her for updates on future work including cool comp ling stuff!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@bylinina Somebody pointed me to this 👍 thread; I'm pretty convinced that pictures (that are interpreted as depictions, i.e. not symbols) are particulars, not propositional (drafty draft here, thoughts welcome: https://t.co/OJSrVGq026)

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@naomicaselli @ahn_dorothy Was thinking the same!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

Middle of the night #TISLR14 poster presentations "in Japan" is surprisingly fun (although not sure I can do it two nights in a row, and I expect to pay for it later today)!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

I think this is one of the coolest projects in recent linguistics, combining historical change and sign languages and semantics and just all kinds of insight (invokes pronouns, reflexives, copulas…). And they’re doing a webinar on it, tomorrow!

[Tory Sampson 🧏🏼🧡 @TorytheLinguist]

Dr. Rachel Mayberry and I will be presenting our work about the grammaticalization of SELF across 150 years of ASL in a webinar by @LingSocAm on July 21 at 9 am PST/12 pm EST! Registration link is here! Everyone welcome! https://t.co/Fp2kPnSsPZ

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

Finishing with just, hoping we can eventually find a better balance that keeps bringing us together​ somehow/sometimes, is maximally inclusive for folks who can't be there, and considers planetary harm in these hot times. Tough, obviously, esp. for interdisciplinary folks!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

Had been looking forward this whole year to give a keynote at @E_SPPMilan2022, to represent Linguistics and learn from cognitive science-oriented Philosophers and Psychologists. Instead, like so many I ended up with COVID this week 😢 (first time, whole family...). That said,

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

I'm also taking the moment to reflect on conferences. Even though I'll miss this one, I really do value bringing humans together to see each other as people and ask the stupid questions to other fields, especially folks who don't​ social media (it shouldn't be a requirement...)

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@SarahHLee6 @ELM_Conference Haha catching my incredulous gesture, that rain came out of nowhere 🌧🤷‍♀️ (And didn’t want to miss a talk, so many great discussions! 😍)

[Josh Martin @JoshMartinLing]

The name change is official: I successfully defended my dissertation - “Compositional routes to (non)intersectivity” - yesterday!

Reviewers (aka Gennaro) call it “deeply unsettling” and “1/3 right”, which is all the praise I could ever ask for.

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@JoshMartinLing Ha! Did a spit take then, and then again at this reminder/+picture! It was excellent, definitely certified fresh🍅 by critics 📚🍾🥳🎓 (and if you work on this topic, lucky you: it's also fun to read!)

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@jmhenner 🎉🎉🎉 awesome news, congratulations!!!

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@najoungkim It's honestly taken me a long time to love it here (so many who do went to school here...), but autumn takes your breath away, summer at the beaches is fun, you don't need a car, and I hugely respect our schools (@cambridge_cpsd). March is *not* the area at its best though 😂

[Kate Davidson @TeaAnd_OrCoffee]

@dankleinman Dan 😂