Lacey Wade
@laceywade.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Linguistics @ the University of Kansas.
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My paper with Eunjong Kong on Korean "short tongue" pronunciation is finally out 🎉 Recently there has been more discussion of "short tongue" in the context of aegyo, a Korean cute speech register, and "short tongue" is one of its linguistic hallmarks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My paper with Eunjong Kong on Korean "short tongue" pronunciation is finally out 🎉 Recently there has been more discussion of "short tongue" in the context of aegyo, a Korean cute speech register, and "short tongue" is one of its linguistic hallmarks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
Introducing tidynorm – Væl Space
Here’s a brief introduction to the new tidynorm package.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
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HEY SO I TO GET TO SHARE THIS NOW. REALLY EXCITED
March 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
HEY SO I TO GET TO SHARE THIS NOW. REALLY EXCITED
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Today I told some UK collaborators that we couldn’t have “dialect diversity” or “algorithmic bias” in the title of a grant that would be reviewed by the NEH. I have never felt less free to speak or do my job than I do right now.
"I brought back free speech in America, it's back" - Trump during his joint address to Congress.
That's a lie.
Trump is not the free speech president - he's the president of censorship.
That's a lie.
Trump is not the free speech president - he's the president of censorship.
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Today I told some UK collaborators that we couldn’t have “dialect diversity” or “algorithmic bias” in the title of a grant that would be reviewed by the NEH. I have never felt less free to speak or do my job than I do right now.
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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
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February 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
February 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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Hey, this was my first qualifying paper! Believe me, conservatives think gender-neutral language is *literally* evil, and masculine marked role nouns are their weapon of choice
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
February 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hey, this was my first qualifying paper! Believe me, conservatives think gender-neutral language is *literally* evil, and masculine marked role nouns are their weapon of choice
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Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.
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This goes so fucking hard dude
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This goes so fucking hard dude
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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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This week, the Linguistics Department invites you to our undergraduate Research Symposium, where some of our students are presenting original research. Lila Church is giving a talk featuring her honors thesis on storytelling in indigenous language education. /1
December 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
This week, the Linguistics Department invites you to our undergraduate Research Symposium, where some of our students are presenting original research. Lila Church is giving a talk featuring her honors thesis on storytelling in indigenous language education. /1
Me: Why did the chicken cross the road?
3-year-old: Chicken who?
Me: No you’re supposed to say “I don’t know, why?”
3: I don’t know, why?
Me: To get to the other side!
3: *laughs wildly*
3:
3: The other side who?
#AllJokesAreKnockKnockJokesWhenYoure3
3-year-old: Chicken who?
Me: No you’re supposed to say “I don’t know, why?”
3: I don’t know, why?
Me: To get to the other side!
3: *laughs wildly*
3:
3: The other side who?
#AllJokesAreKnockKnockJokesWhenYoure3
December 7, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Me: Why did the chicken cross the road?
3-year-old: Chicken who?
Me: No you’re supposed to say “I don’t know, why?”
3: I don’t know, why?
Me: To get to the other side!
3: *laughs wildly*
3:
3: The other side who?
#AllJokesAreKnockKnockJokesWhenYoure3
3-year-old: Chicken who?
Me: No you’re supposed to say “I don’t know, why?”
3: I don’t know, why?
Me: To get to the other side!
3: *laughs wildly*
3:
3: The other side who?
#AllJokesAreKnockKnockJokesWhenYoure3
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Dear students. Your professors have meals with, hang out with, share social media with, and drink with, the people you are citing. If the LLM you used says something off the wall, I will hunt it down because I'm going to go, "That person doesn't think that; we talked about it over manhattans!"
December 1, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Dear students. Your professors have meals with, hang out with, share social media with, and drink with, the people you are citing. If the LLM you used says something off the wall, I will hunt it down because I'm going to go, "That person doesn't think that; we talked about it over manhattans!"
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The way I felt seeing this is also how I feel when my students turn in AI responses and then are flabbergasted that I can tell.
January 11, 2024 at 10:45 PM
The way I felt seeing this is also how I feel when my students turn in AI responses and then are flabbergasted that I can tell.
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KU Linguistics was represented at NWAV 52 in Miami this weekend by Prof. Lacey Wade (center) and 4th year student Tyler Hausthor (right), who gave a talk entitled, "What makes a speaker sound Kansan?" 🌻 They also caught up with KU Linguistics BA alum Griffin Lowry (left)!
November 10, 2024 at 4:40 AM
KU Linguistics was represented at NWAV 52 in Miami this weekend by Prof. Lacey Wade (center) and 4th year student Tyler Hausthor (right), who gave a talk entitled, "What makes a speaker sound Kansan?" 🌻 They also caught up with KU Linguistics BA alum Griffin Lowry (left)!
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Abstracts for the 48th Penn Linguistics Conference are due Nov 17!
PLC is run by Penn Ling grad students and we welcome a wide variety of submissions from faculty, students (graduate and undergraduate), and independent researchers.
More details here: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/p...
PLC is run by Penn Ling grad students and we welcome a wide variety of submissions from faculty, students (graduate and undergraduate), and independent researchers.
More details here: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/p...
November 9, 2023 at 8:48 PM
Abstracts for the 48th Penn Linguistics Conference are due Nov 17!
PLC is run by Penn Ling grad students and we welcome a wide variety of submissions from faculty, students (graduate and undergraduate), and independent researchers.
More details here: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/p...
PLC is run by Penn Ling grad students and we welcome a wide variety of submissions from faculty, students (graduate and undergraduate), and independent researchers.
More details here: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/p...
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New paper out in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
New paper out in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
November 6, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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New paper out in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
New paper out in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
My favorite mug is my “JJJ” mug because every time I use it I think about the person printing the mug designs taking the initiative to turn the design upside down because “JJJ” with upside down birds obvs makes more sense than the alternative.
November 6, 2023 at 7:18 PM
My favorite mug is my “JJJ” mug because every time I use it I think about the person printing the mug designs taking the initiative to turn the design upside down because “JJJ” with upside down birds obvs makes more sense than the alternative.