Adele Goldberg
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social
linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks
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September 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Reposted by Adele Goldberg
New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production
How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…
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September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
a peek inside a famous software company in the news today:
a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article
Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'
a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article
Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
a peek inside a famous software company in the news today:
a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article
Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'
a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article
Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'
♥️Robert Munsch books are the best: spunky, sassy unique kids, well-meaning hapless adults, tons of imagination, and irresistible prose (+ Love You Forever 😭)
this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others
Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.
Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.
When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
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September 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
♥️Robert Munsch books are the best: spunky, sassy unique kids, well-meaning hapless adults, tons of imagination, and irresistible prose (+ Love You Forever 😭)
Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷♀️" (right) @SRakshit
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August 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷♀️" (right) @SRakshit
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A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82
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August 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇
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August 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇
whadya know, looks like we're marching back to the days when George W got into Yale www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge
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August 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
whadya know, looks like we're marching back to the days when George W got into Yale www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027
We’re interviewing instructors and attendees at the LSA Summer Institute! 🥹
Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1.
(more in the thread!)
#LSA2025 #Linguistics
Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1.
(more in the thread!)
#LSA2025 #Linguistics
July 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027
Reposted by Adele Goldberg
Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social
finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! @lsa2025uo.bsky.social
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! @lsa2025uo.bsky.social
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
July 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! @lsa2025uo.bsky.social
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! @lsa2025uo.bsky.social
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
@nyt, if Mamdani had been trying to game the system, he would not have also checked Asian
July 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@nyt, if Mamdani had been trying to game the system, he would not have also checked Asian
Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇
We're pleased as punch to publish this episode with the incredible @adelegoldberg.bsky.social. What can we learn about human language from LLMs?
Part language tech, and part Constructionist deep dive.
We learned so much. Check it out in all the places.
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Part language tech, and part Constructionist deep dive.
We learned so much. Check it out in all the places.
www.patreon.com/posts/132671...
121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg) | Because Language
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June 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇
On the productivity + fixity of language. from A bit of Fry and Laurie. No one can put it better:
June 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
On the productivity + fixity of language. from A bit of Fry and Laurie. No one can put it better:
Reposted by Adele Goldberg
Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.
June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.
Reposted by Adele Goldberg
If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org
Jews for Food Aid for Gaza
Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza
www.foodaidforgaza.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org
Reposted by Adele Goldberg
Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn.
I felt I had to interrupt to respond...
I felt I had to interrupt to respond...
May 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn.
I felt I had to interrupt to respond...
I felt I had to interrupt to respond...
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard
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May 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
looking forward to spending time in Barcelona and Cambridge next year on sabbatical
May 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
looking forward to spending time in Barcelona and Cambridge next year on sabbatical
A legend. The very best parts of modern linguistics would not exist without Haj Ross. And his examples, warmth, and sense of humor were magic. He was and will remain larger than life.
RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....
John R. Ross - Wikipedia
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May 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A legend. The very best parts of modern linguistics would not exist without Haj Ross. And his examples, warmth, and sense of humor were magic. He was and will remain larger than life.