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Anthony Yacovone
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Assistant Professor @ BU Linguistics

Interests: child language acquisition, neuro/psycholinguistics

Website: anthonyyacovone.com
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So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years.

Photos and other exciting materials are on the way!

##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Looking for an opportunity to mentor or be mentored at #BUCLD50? PUMP is what you need — you still have one week to register!

All BUCLD 50 attendees are welcome to join! You can register as a mentor or mentee at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#BUCLD #PUMP #LanguageDevelopment #AcademicGrowth
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld

#BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment
October 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Last Reminder: Hotel cutoffs are approaching, and some offers end today! You can get discounted BUCLD rates at this link — don’t miss out!
www.bu.edu/bucld/attend...
#BUCLD50
Travel & Hotel | Conference on Language Development
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#BUCLD50 Call for submissions is now open. We look forward to receiving your 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters. We also encourage submissions to the BUCLD 50 Special Symposium. Submission guidelines here: www.bu.edu/bucld/calls/...
Picture of Boston University with text overlay that reads: CALL FOR ABSTRACT & SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN Deadline: June 1, 2025 The 50th Annual BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (BUCLD) November 6-9, 2025 In-person with Online Participation Options More details at www.bu.edu/bucld
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI Neuro and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled "Classical computation in connectionist models" and you can read more about it and watch a recording here! brown-ancor.github.io
ANCOR: AI, Neuro, CogSci Research Talks
ANCOR: AI, Neuro, CogSci Research Talks. Organized at the Department of Computer Science, Carney Center for Computational Brain Science (CCBS), and Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences a...
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March 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/...

#gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate
Infographic that explains that the MA in Linguistics at Boston University is due MARCH 15, 2025
February 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Hi semantics friends, this is the SALT 35 organizers at Harvard taking over from our SALT 34 at Rochester colleagues! We begin with the hopefully welcome news that this year's abstract submission deadline is now this Friday (Dec. 20), extended from this Wed Dec. 18: saltconf.github.io/salt35/
SALT35
The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory
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December 16, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Slides from my BUCLD keynote “Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right” are now posted on slla.lab.uconn.edu/family-asl/ (scroll to Related Presentations, open 2024)
Family ASL | Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab
Family ASL is our new research project! We are investigating families with deaf children and hearing parents who have chosen to include American Sign Langua ...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Language - Cluster Hire - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison. The search is for a job candidate whose exper...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Join us for the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development!

#BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment #BostonUniversity #AcademicConference #Research
October 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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The 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development is honored to host an incredible lineup of speakers, including:
- Dr. Diane Lillo-Martin from the University of Connecticut;
- Dr. Cindy Blanco from Duolingo;
- Dr. Silvina Montrul from the University of Illinois;

#BUCLD49
October 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Have you booked your accomdations for #BUCLD49? You can get discounted rates at this link, but the offers end soon: bu.edu/bucld/travel...
September 25, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that starting in September 2025, we will be joined by Dr. Anthony Yacovone as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Dr. Yacovone specializes in language acquisition and psycholinguistics.
Welcome to BU, Anthony!
April 11, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Now out in Cognitive Science! We use GPT-2 to show that Bayesian surprise, which tracks changes in the content and confidence of predictions, accounts for human event boundaries in a narrative better than surprisal, which only tracks the predicted probability of individual words tinyurl.com/kd9dpub8
October 23, 2023 at 1:34 PM
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Prospective graduate students: 🎺
heatherurry.bsky.social Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · Oct 18
Join us for Diversifying Psychology: An Open House @ Tufts starting November 1, 2023! Learn about our department and Psychology Ph.D. program, get to know our faculty, and soak up tips for applying at Tufts and elsewhere.

Register: tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Light green flyer with dark green and orange accents with the following text: Tufts Psychology presents Diversifying Psychology: An Open House @ Tufts Learn about our department and Psychology Ph.D. program, get to know our faculty, and soak up tips for applying at Tufts and elsewhere. Featuring live conversations with members of our department and asynchronous resources you can review at your leisure! The open house starts November 1, 2023. Registration link: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5A2ybgC4r6pd2po Our open house is open to all. We designed it especially for prospective students who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color and considering applying to Psychology Ph.D. programs this year. Open house attendees who apply to the Tufts Psychology Ph.D. program for Fall 2024 will receive an application fee waiver! QUESTIONS? Email: tuftspsyopenhouse@gmail.com
October 19, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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👋Hi #bsky! Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. I'm new here my network is small, so RTs would be great! 🧵👇
October 19, 2023 at 7:02 PM
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This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority.
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
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October 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM