Emily Atkinson

Asst Prof @utmlangstudies & @UofTLinguistics, runs @utm_lap_lab: psycholinguistics, acquisition, syntax, cogsci. All views mine (she/her)

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

Work from my post-doc w/ Julie Boland @UMich Weinberg Institute was just published in PLOS ONE!

The title kind of says it all: "What do we learn when we adapt to reading regional constructions?"
(specifically 'needs Ved' & double modals)

https://t.co/56CcOR93RO

[UTM LAP Lab @utm_lap_lab]

Looking for participants for a quick online study for children between the ages of 4.5 and 6.5!

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@lingdustin I’m so late to this, but you know I’m always happy to talk about my work! And this is a great idea for lab meetings - taking notes 📝

[Ai T 🎃 @LinguistAiT]

UofT L'IMAGE Project Comic Series: Kelly's Story 🎉 My Do you relate to Kelly's story? Let us know!

The L'IMAGE comics (accompanied by full long description alt-texts) are also viewable on the project website. Link in bio.

@uoftmississauga @uoft @utmiec @utmlanguagestudies

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@jkdempc I agree that this doesn't have to become a labelled thing, but I also would never advise an undergrad to go straight to grad school. Most of the people that I know that found out grad school wasn't for them after 3-4 years were those that didn't take time off in between.

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@redsteeze @NikkiMcR @elonmusk I think you fail to see the irony of this post…

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@Sff809 I've been a Zotero user from the beginning and have been pretty happy with that choice. Good luck to you, I guess? Hopefully after the hassle of switching platforms it will be smooth sailing!

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

Yay for pretty much all of the flights to Boston out of Toronto yesterday being cancelled due to atmospheric & seasonally appropriate fog! (/sarcasm)

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

I was *supposed* to be giving a poster examining if children's verb biases in interpreting globally ambiguous sentences can be overcome by priming in today's poster session at #BUCLD47, but I'll be giving it in tomorrow's (Saturday) session on morphosyntax instead!

[Ai T 🎃 @LinguistAiT]

Hey @UofT students! I'm a linguist at @UTM! Do you know more than one language? I want to hear about your lived experience! Submit your story for a chance to get it turned into a comic strip!🤩 More info here➡️ https://t.co/Fi0Kb97P64 #limage @global_uoft @UTMIEC @utmlangstudies

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@DrLearnasaurus @jkdempc Ditto!

[Jonathan Brennan @jonrbrennan]

Transformers as models for cue-based retrieval? Tzu-Yun Tung has the good news, and the bad, today at #AMLaP2022 (Spruik F1, virtual, starting 17:15 UTC+1)

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

For anyone in York for #AMLaP2022, I'm presenting a poster in this evening's session (18:30-20:00BST) on whether or not 5-year-olds can use priming to overcome their reliance on verb biases in interpreting PP-attachment in globally ambiguous sentences.

Come visit me at Poster 9!

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@jessgrieser Ooooo - this is an excellent idea!

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@jkdempc *papers not papiers lol. This tweet has revealed that I installed the French dictionary on my phone after I moved to Canada 🤦‍♀️

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@jkdempc I think I define pre-prints in a different way than you do. To me, they’re papiers that have gone through the review process and have been accepted, but that won’t be “printed” (whether physically or digitally) by the journal for some months due to backlog.

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@jkdempc But the kind of work you’re talking about is definitely one way to get work to see the light of day that you may never have the time / energy to complete properly 😂

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@clukyanenko I never really had trouble calibrating 4;6s though and haven't tested younger kids, so I'm not an expert 😆

[Emily Atkinson @eatkinson1387]

@clukyanenko Just to follow-up on the EB discussion, I think SR Research actually has an option that is a flashing dot (that maybe changes colors?) option. I think this was suggested for infants, but could work for your younger kids too.

[swm @sheathescholar]

today someone said August is basically just a month-long Sunday for teachers and the way I exhaled so incredibly deeply...