Manuel Pulido
@manuel-pulido.bsky.social
Applied Psycholinguist · Second Language Acquisition & Processing. ERP · Eye-tracking · Assistant Prof of Spanish & Linguistics at Penn State. Opinions are my own
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While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent
A critical aspect of spoken language development is learning to categorize the sounds of the child's language(s). This process was thought to develop early during infancy to set the stage for the la...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
While the first year of life is crucial for language development, our team found that sound categorization continues to develop throughout the early school years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Since central auditory processing disorder tests rely heavily on language, authors here aimed to evaluate the impact of test language on CAPD assessment performance in Spanish–English bilingual speakers.
https://on.asha.org/48ScGDo
https://on.asha.org/48ScGDo
Language-Appropriate Assessment Improves Central Auditory Processing Evaluation of Spanish–English Bilinguals
Purpose: Although central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) evaluations assess specific auditory skills necessary for efficient processing and ...
on.asha.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Since central auditory processing disorder tests rely heavily on language, authors here aimed to evaluate the impact of test language on CAPD assessment performance in Spanish–English bilingual speakers.
https://on.asha.org/48ScGDo
https://on.asha.org/48ScGDo
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August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans.
It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.
This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.
This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt | Robert Reich
Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h
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May 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans.
It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.
This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.
This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
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🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours.
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
April 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours.
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
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Spanish news calling it the largest outage in recent history. Power outages across most across Spain and Portugal continues. Causes tbd.
#power #electricity #spain #españa
https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masivo-en-espana.html
#power #electricity #spain #españa
https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masivo-en-espana.html
Apagón eléctrico masivo en España y Portugal
El Gobierno investiga el motivo y el alcance de la falta de suministro, aunque todavía sin una conclusión
elpais.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Spanish news calling it the largest outage in recent history. Power outages across most across Spain and Portugal continues. Causes tbd.
#power #electricity #spain #españa
https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masivo-en-espana.html
#power #electricity #spain #españa
https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masivo-en-espana.html
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Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
April 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings.
That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025.
We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
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I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
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New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
April 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
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In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening
doi.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.
March 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.
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Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Two noteworthy things about the White House press release ahead of today's announcement regarding ED:
(1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed.
(2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
(1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed.
(2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
March 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Two noteworthy things about the White House press release ahead of today's announcement regarding ED:
(1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed.
(2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
(1) It's all about K-12, while most federal money goes to higher ed.
(2) Most of the links are to NCES reports...and NCES is now down to about three employees.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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Great to see this report of a new #OpenAccess journal in #linguistics, founded by Mike Putnam (@syntaxpunk.bsky.social) and David Natvig. The journal, #Continua, published by #PennState Libraries, focuses on #words and the mental #lexicon www.psu.edu/news/univers...
University Libraries launches Continua, a new open-access linguistics journal | Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing has launched Continua, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring interdisciplinary linguistics research. The journal will focus on research that ...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Great to see this report of a new #OpenAccess journal in #linguistics, founded by Mike Putnam (@syntaxpunk.bsky.social) and David Natvig. The journal, #Continua, published by #PennState Libraries, focuses on #words and the mental #lexicon www.psu.edu/news/univers...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...?
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...?
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Free Mahmoud Khalil!!!
March 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Mahmoud Khalil!!!
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Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US.
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
March 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US.
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...
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Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea):
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!
LSA
Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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March 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Here's what linguistics experts think about the recent executive order declaring English as the official language of the US (spoiler: they don't think it's a great idea):
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
I'm so proud to be a member of the executive committee of @lingsocam.bsky.social!