Matthew C. Kelley
@mckphon.bsky.social
Computational phonetician. Assistant professor at George Mason University. Lead developer of the Phonetics.jl package and the Mason-Alberta Phonetic Segmenter. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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The existence of educated, qualified black people in positions of power is one of the biggest the threats to white supremacy. It’s why the first attacks were on “DEI”. Trump has never gotten over the fact that Obama was president, and so his quest is to make sure no one black ever is again.
At a complete loss as to why Trump would attack these specific mayors.
August 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The existence of educated, qualified black people in positions of power is one of the biggest the threats to white supremacy. It’s why the first attacks were on “DEI”. Trump has never gotten over the fact that Obama was president, and so his quest is to make sure no one black ever is again.
Clear example that Spotify's speech synthesis can't do any modicum of code switching when it read Spanish "Palabra de mujer" as [pəˈlæbɹə dɨ mjud͡ʒɚ]...
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Clear example that Spotify's speech synthesis can't do any modicum of code switching when it read Spanish "Palabra de mujer" as [pəˈlæbɹə dɨ mjud͡ʒɚ]...
Tell me you're thin-skinned without telling me... It's clowns all the way down at Trump's DoJ. 🤡
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Tell me you're thin-skinned without telling me... It's clowns all the way down at Trump's DoJ. 🤡
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These threadbare federal investigations have one purpose: to provide a pretext for the Trump admin, Gov. Youngkin, and their minions on the BOV to take over and turn GMU into a factory for MAGA ideology
July 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
These threadbare federal investigations have one purpose: to provide a pretext for the Trump admin, Gov. Youngkin, and their minions on the BOV to take over and turn GMU into a factory for MAGA ideology
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New OA paper, new data set: SingleMALD! We had 40 native speakers of Canadian English do lexical decision for over 26,000 English words and 9,000 pseudowords. Evidence for participants getting faster throughout extensive testing periods. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New OA paper, new data set: SingleMALD! We had 40 native speakers of Canadian English do lexical decision for over 26,000 English words and 9,000 pseudowords. Evidence for participants getting faster throughout extensive testing periods. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Just got an email from the zombie journal soliciting my submissions so I thought I'd remind everyone that in 2015 the entire editorial board of "Lingua" resigned and created a new independent OA journal (Glossa). Don't submit to the new Lingua.
slate.com/human-intere...
slate.com/human-intere...
Why the Editors of a Top Linguistic Journal Resigned En Masse
This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed.
slate.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Just got an email from the zombie journal soliciting my submissions so I thought I'd remind everyone that in 2015 the entire editorial board of "Lingua" resigned and created a new independent OA journal (Glossa). Don't submit to the new Lingua.
slate.com/human-intere...
slate.com/human-intere...
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My edited volume w/Víctor Fernández-Mallat (Dialect Contact:
From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives) is out! Available via Georgetown University Press & the usual sites (academic friends, please ask your library to order a copy!) #linguistics press.georgetown.edu/Book/Dialect...
From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives) is out! Available via Georgetown University Press & the usual sites (academic friends, please ask your library to order a copy!) #linguistics press.georgetown.edu/Book/Dialect...
November 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
My edited volume w/Víctor Fernández-Mallat (Dialect Contact:
From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives) is out! Available via Georgetown University Press & the usual sites (academic friends, please ask your library to order a copy!) #linguistics press.georgetown.edu/Book/Dialect...
From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives) is out! Available via Georgetown University Press & the usual sites (academic friends, please ask your library to order a copy!) #linguistics press.georgetown.edu/Book/Dialect...
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I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM
I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The second article from my dissertation is now out as my first, first-authored paper! This was a joint work with @mckphon.bsky.social and my supervisor Benjamin V. Tucker. We did a corpus analysis of The Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish, and this is what we found (thread)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
January 17, 2024 at 5:51 PM
The second article from my dissertation is now out as my first, first-authored paper! This was a joint work with @mckphon.bsky.social and my supervisor Benjamin V. Tucker. We did a corpus analysis of The Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish, and this is what we found (thread)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
