Hege Larsson Aas
@hegemoniet.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Inland Norway 📚💻 corpus linguistics, spoken corpora, fluency, learner language, learner English ☕️✨Linguist and (teacher) educator 🦚 she/her
http://hegela.com/
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Why is it that not a single university knows the correct plural of "alumnus"
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Linguists being linguists in the media 💜 (it IS funny 😄 - but seems to take a certain breed to think so)
Don’t worry. I spoke to BBC Newsround and said everything was fine 😁
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Linguists being linguists in the media 💜 (it IS funny 😄 - but seems to take a certain breed to think so)
Another lovely week in York, spent on the walls and at The Norwegian Study Centre with students and squirrels 🐿️ @yorknsc.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Another lovely week in York, spent on the walls and at The Norwegian Study Centre with students and squirrels 🐿️ @yorknsc.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social
klar for å lære, klappe, stemme #takeitaway #forskningsdagene #forskergrandprix @susannacey.bsky.social @sirifs.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
klar for å lære, klappe, stemme #takeitaway #forskningsdagene #forskergrandprix @susannacey.bsky.social @sirifs.bsky.social
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Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
June 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
![Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uj2g526vwfe3qnpuskjexeyp/bafkreiappchidtcrrumnegykz4uq6chvznuu6fg4pbutw5y7yjaab2iczu@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
lovely Friday afternoon read for me in a phase where the little guy at home spends his days pointing, and personal and professional interests merge 👌 @superlinguo.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
lovely Friday afternoon read for me in a phase where the little guy at home spends his days pointing, and personal and professional interests merge 👌 @superlinguo.bsky.social
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It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
March 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
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Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.
February 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.
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What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
www.cambridge.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
back from maternity leave, sleepy but optimistic, found a new Japanese coffee shop, (very) slowly getting back into teaching and writing ✍️
November 20, 2024 at 8:52 AM
back from maternity leave, sleepy but optimistic, found a new Japanese coffee shop, (very) slowly getting back into teaching and writing ✍️
Feeling grateful to be able to “attend” my colleague’s defence when I can’t be there physically 🙏 www.inn.no/english/even...
#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social
#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social
December 4, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Feeling grateful to be able to “attend” my colleague’s defence when I can’t be there physically 🙏 www.inn.no/english/even...
#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social
#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social
brilliant 🤩
Millennials are the prof generation now and they're beginning to freak out that students don't get their pop culture references anymore
My suggestion:
Give students a bonus assignment to come up with cultural references that relate to linguistics, put them in the materials for next year, repeat
My suggestion:
Give students a bonus assignment to come up with cultural references that relate to linguistics, put them in the materials for next year, repeat
September 28, 2023 at 6:35 AM
brilliant 🤩