Brandon Waldon

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistic Anthropology, University of South Carolina: Description: The faculty of the Department of Anthropology, in conjunction with the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina,… https://t.co/zYQgOpwdT8

[Neil Rathi @neil_rathi]

new paper!

robust and general "soft" preferences are a hallmark of human language production. we show that these emerge from *any* policy minimizing an autoregressive memory-based cost function

w/ @rljfutrell & @jurafsky

[James (Jamie) Macleod (@jammacleod1.bsky.social) @jammacleod1]

Rolling applications beginning this Friday, July 11:

Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (start date Fall 2025). Details below!

[Lawrence Solum @lsolum]

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) https://t.co/FOKGV5WHda

[Eva Portelance @EvaPortelance]

New preprint by @linguistMasoud and I 🎉 Connecting seminal ideas from generative linguistics (theory adequacy, procedures, learnability and UG) to LMs and grammar induction models - discussing how AI and theoretical linguistics may serve each other: https://t.co/lxqPCl16Rc

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

Hot off the presses: our (@kevin_tobia @complingy) op-ed on Garland v. VanDerStok in @TheHillOpinion — a summary of data and claims presented in our amicus brief, plus initial reactions to last week’s oral argument!

[TheHillOpinion @TheHillOpinion]

The Supreme Court's blockbuster gun case is a shot at redemption https://t.co/YkJXdWgVkf

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Supreme Court appears likely to allow Biden administration’s regulation of nearly untraceable firearms. The rule requires background checks, serial numbers and sales records for ghost guns. https://t.co/AsjqEv215f

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

Countdown to oral argument for Garland v. VanDerStok! In an amicus brief and forthcoming @HarvardJOL article, we argue that linguistic theory and methods help to resolve the interpretive disputes at the heart of the case.

[Yiwei Luo @yiwei__luo]

Work with my Stanford colleagues Aaron Chuey & Ellen Markman is now public! https://t.co/ZcvfwKBQ5H

We found that epistemic language in headlines ("Scientists *believe* co2 emissions hit record in 2021") influences whether people view claims as objective facts or mere opinions.

[Eric Martínez @ericgrimani]

Have laws gotten simpler over time?

Analyzing all laws by congress 1951-2022, we (w/ Frank Mollica, @LanguageMIT) find laws remain laden with complex structures vs baseline, suggesting efforts to simplify have largely failed

Out now @APA JEP-General! https://t.co/QTWXPweaYl
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[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

@linguistMasoud Um, source?

[NYU Arts & Science @ArtsandScience]

NYU A&S linguist @champoll was called for semantics expertise in a Supreme Court deportation case. He led a team from @Stanford and @ucdavis reviewing an immigration statute where the words “not” and “or” combine for “a textbook case of ambiguity.” https://t.co/PohYWE6a3P

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

Does anyone here have an "invitation" "sequence" for "the increasingly popular alternative" to "this website"

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

@denizrudin Ah yes, that *is* a traditional scrawling implement. Took me a sec.

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

@wataruu I would love to read this if/when you have a manuscript to share!

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

Chomsky's in the arena trying stuff. Hope this clears things up!

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

@Hgungorphil Thank you so much!! I'll DM you my email address!

[Brandon Waldon @BRwaldon]

Does anyone have a copy of Karttunen (1972), "Possible and must" that they can share with me? Having trouble accessing it online...

[Neel Guha @NeelGuha]

We’re beyond excited to share the first release of LegalBench–a collaboratively constructed open-source benchmark for evaluating legal reasoning in English large language models.

🔗https://t.co/7nnkjb2QJ0
📜https://t.co/FMX5ndirJ4