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about me gabriel doyle skip to content san diego state university gabriel doyle associate professor thinking about thinking about language about me teaching research our lab blog back about me i m a linguist interested in understanding how language is shaped by social and cognitive pressures i model their influence using math and computers if you ll accept a fancy term for this i m a computational psycholinguist my core stance on humans is that we are boundedly rational beings meaning that we aim to behave rationality in a world that is incredibly complex thus we can use rational usually bayesian mathematical models of human behavior as our basic infrastructure for human thought and then examine how we deviate from that and why my research uses these mathematical models to formalize human linguistic behaviors to try to quantify the effects of different cognitive social and communicative pressures on our language for instance i developed a bayesian model of linguistic alignment the tendency to re use our conversation partners words in talk to them my teaching connects core linguistic ideas to the social cognitive and computational pressures that shape language plus a little phonology and statistics for good measure i also occasionally write on these topics including long ago when i ran a mildly popular descriptivist grammar blog i got interviewed by the cbc once about this kind of stuff here s me search search categories ai blog class overview computational linguistics courses langcomp lms phonology research uncategorized recent posts ai and lies replacing expertise with expectations ling 354 language computers ling 354 week 6 ling 354 week 5 ling 354 week 4 gabriel doyle secret link