Dustin A. Chacón
@lingdustin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Halloween from Count Noun! 🧛
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Why does this sound like Elsevier is breaking up with me
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
some pronouns for you
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
'Their grandma chooses to sleep there because it's better for their back tho it hurts them to see her lay there.'
'My grandpa was hungry, I was hungry, it was a saturday night & we wanted to treat ourself.'
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Last week we hosted the 4th Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI)! This is a small gathering of early career researchers in the Bay and Northern California who work in cognitive neuroscience of language and psycholinguistics to share their work!
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
UCSC Linguistics and Psychology are very proud to host the Fourth Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI), which gathers together young researchers focusing on language from a diverse range of perspectives from the Bay and Northern California. Come join us Fri, Oct 10!
Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Fotos lindas of UCSC PhD student Subhs Shrestha presenting her project on structure building and agreement processing in Spanish! #snl2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Did you know that cats sometimes need root canals that cost $1900?
July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Did you know that cats sometimes need root canals that cost $1900?
Found in the wild: Thematic role reversal error AND non-subject-oriented adjunct control #linguistics
June 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Found in the wild: Thematic role reversal error AND non-subject-oriented adjunct control #linguistics
End of the year lab outing! My labmates wanted to go to a board game store with me 🥺
June 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
End of the year lab outing! My labmates wanted to go to a board game store with me 🥺
Congrats to my MA advisee Tyson Jordan for completing his MSAI thesis with me at University of Georgia! The committee was Frederick Maier (left), Jin Sun (right) and me (looming on the projected screen over Zoom like The Wizard of Oz)
June 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Congrats to my MA advisee Tyson Jordan for completing his MSAI thesis with me at University of Georgia! The committee was Frederick Maier (left), Jin Sun (right) and me (looming on the projected screen over Zoom like The Wizard of Oz)
Really happy to have co-organized the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) at UCSC today! We got lots of good action photos that we’ll collect and post later, but this is the (only?) photo I got with 2 of my 3 undergrads who presented their work today! Congrats Niki and Rishika!!
May 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Really happy to have co-organized the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) at UCSC today! We got lots of good action photos that we’ll collect and post later, but this is the (only?) photo I got with 2 of my 3 undergrads who presented their work today! Congrats Niki and Rishika!!
It’s not every day you get a package in the mail from Greenland!
May 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It’s not every day you get a package in the mail from Greenland!
Congratulations to Dr. Donnie Dunagan on a successful defense of his dissertation, 'Linguistic Dependency: Investigations into its Assignment and Processing'!
May 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Donnie Dunagan on a successful defense of his dissertation, 'Linguistic Dependency: Investigations into its Assignment and Processing'!
One of the strangest emails from a spam journal I've ever received. Calm down
April 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of the strangest emails from a spam journal I've ever received. Calm down
Thanks to UCSC Psychology for the invitation to talk about our work on word vs. sentence processing, and to my student Subhs for snapping this photo of me, mid-classic linguist gesture ! It's always useful to (1) hype up my students' work and (2) try to remind myself of what my overall agenda is
April 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thanks to UCSC Psychology for the invitation to talk about our work on word vs. sentence processing, and to my student Subhs for snapping this photo of me, mid-classic linguist gesture ! It's always useful to (1) hype up my students' work and (2) try to remind myself of what my overall agenda is
Thinking about ordering some dinner you guys want anything?
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Thinking about ordering some dinner you guys want anything?
I decided to make this query because I'm making slides for my Language & Cognition class on the UG hypothesis / poverty of the stimulus / LLMs. And... wow, touché, Chat-GPT, well played.
April 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I decided to make this query because I'm making slides for my Language & Cognition class on the UG hypothesis / poverty of the stimulus / LLMs. And... wow, touché, Chat-GPT, well played.
Uh oh. ChatGPT didn't know who I was the last time I checked. But now...
April 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Uh oh. ChatGPT didn't know who I was the last time I checked. But now...
Here's a sneak peek. We leverage gender inflection in Spanish noun-adjective NPs to see how much syntactic information people can grasp in 200ms of presentation. In a behavioral task, we find that ungrammatical NPs elicit slower responses compared to grammatical NPs. But, here's the twist:
March 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Here's a sneak peek. We leverage gender inflection in Spanish noun-adjective NPs to see how much syntactic information people can grasp in 200ms of presentation. In a behavioral task, we find that ungrammatical NPs elicit slower responses compared to grammatical NPs. But, here's the twist:
My mom's thoughts on the newest episode of White Lotus
[Marked 'suggestive' for spoilers]
[Marked 'suggestive' for spoilers]
March 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My mom's thoughts on the newest episode of White Lotus
[Marked 'suggestive' for spoilers]
[Marked 'suggestive' for spoilers]
I have two editions of this book, which is fortuitous because Sniffle does daily 8-12 hour shifts of keeping watch from atop this copy
March 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I have two editions of this book, which is fortuitous because Sniffle does daily 8-12 hour shifts of keeping watch from atop this copy
Brushing off my West Greenlandic notes for [REDACTED], and reminded of why I love the capriciousness of morphology.
V-fik = place of doing V
V-poq = 3.SG.IND inflection
V-toq = agent nominalizer
aalisarfik = fishing hole
aalisarpoq = she fishes
aalisartoq = fisherman
So, 'aalisar' must mean...
V-fik = place of doing V
V-poq = 3.SG.IND inflection
V-toq = agent nominalizer
aalisarfik = fishing hole
aalisarpoq = she fishes
aalisartoq = fisherman
So, 'aalisar' must mean...
March 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Brushing off my West Greenlandic notes for [REDACTED], and reminded of why I love the capriciousness of morphology.
V-fik = place of doing V
V-poq = 3.SG.IND inflection
V-toq = agent nominalizer
aalisarfik = fishing hole
aalisarpoq = she fishes
aalisartoq = fisherman
So, 'aalisar' must mean...
V-fik = place of doing V
V-poq = 3.SG.IND inflection
V-toq = agent nominalizer
aalisarfik = fishing hole
aalisarpoq = she fishes
aalisartoq = fisherman
So, 'aalisar' must mean...