May Helena Plumb
@mayhplumb.bsky.social
needlecrafter, dancer, baker, Mainer, she/her
PhD in Linguistics, now doing non-ac qual research
PhD in Linguistics, now doing non-ac qual research
Wow, a really unfortunate number of replies here from people who got 2/3 of the way through the name and decided OP was Hakeem Jefferies...
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wow, a really unfortunate number of replies here from people who got 2/3 of the way through the name and decided OP was Hakeem Jefferies...
What if leech but also hammer head but also moray eel??
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What if leech but also hammer head but also moray eel??
(Caveat that research articles on this are often positioned from deficit model / medical model of disability. Also this was me doing a quick literature scan, I'm not an expert on this side of linguistics!)
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
(Caveat that research articles on this are often positioned from deficit model / medical model of disability. Also this was me doing a quick literature scan, I'm not an expert on this side of linguistics!)
E.g., one of the articles mentions that individuals with ASD can have greater discrimination of pitch outside of a language context, while lower discrimination of tonal categories
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
E.g., one of the articles mentions that individuals with ASD can have greater discrimination of pitch outside of a language context, while lower discrimination of tonal categories
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
For child language acquisition, it looks like researchers have found atypical patterns in both perception and production of tone. But (this is a bit of my own intuition) it's possible this is a manifestation of something broader about acquisition of phonology, not specific to tone...
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For child language acquisition, it looks like researchers have found atypical patterns in both perception and production of tone. But (this is a bit of my own intuition) it's possible this is a manifestation of something broader about acquisition of phonology, not specific to tone...
I pre-ordered this so fast, didn't even check my book budget haha 😅 I'm so excited for this!!
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I pre-ordered this so fast, didn't even check my book budget haha 😅 I'm so excited for this!!
It's a non-partisan health policy organization: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_...
Here's the original source of the chart, with more context on their analysis: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
Here's the original source of the chart, with more context on their analysis: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF
KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...
www.kff.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It's a non-partisan health policy organization: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_...
Here's the original source of the chart, with more context on their analysis: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
Here's the original source of the chart, with more context on their analysis: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
Omg your nails match the little heart crest on their head
September 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Omg your nails match the little heart crest on their head
Yes! Here's a GDrive link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KZVM...
Labov1975WhatIsALinguisticFact.pdf
drive.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yes! Here's a GDrive link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KZVM...
This is gorgeous! I especially love the design of the asteroid belt
September 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is gorgeous! I especially love the design of the asteroid belt
I think "likely" is modifying "race" there - acknowledging that the race data in their modeling is asleep estimated I guess? The wording is very awkward 😅
August 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think "likely" is modifying "race" there - acknowledging that the race data in their modeling is asleep estimated I guess? The wording is very awkward 😅
Yeah I have to assume that "Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling." is doing a LOT of work in their methods (independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx). Primary turnout is low and usually twice as many Rs as Ds
August 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yeah I have to assume that "Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling." is doing a LOT of work in their methods (independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx). Primary turnout is low and usually twice as many Rs as Ds
I was floored just by the silhouette, but then THE DIVE!!
August 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I was floored just by the silhouette, but then THE DIVE!!
I am 30yo and my family used speed dial on our landline up through the end of my high school years. I'd be curious about the under 20s (based on my experience of when my friends' families stopped having landlines)
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I am 30yo and my family used speed dial on our landline up through the end of my high school years. I'd be curious about the under 20s (based on my experience of when my friends' families stopped having landlines)
That looks so wrong to me when I see it, but also I've found a counter-example in my regular life. My transit app uses a clock like that. I got nothing!
June 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That looks so wrong to me when I see it, but also I've found a counter-example in my regular life. My transit app uses a clock like that. I got nothing!