Loresco de Leon: when listeners are presented with voices attributed to speakers with “foreign names”, they are transcribed less accurately, and rated as less intelligible and more accented. Listener expectations (informed by social bias) influence actual perception #nwav52 #linguistics
November 9, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Loresco de Leon: when listeners are presented with voices attributed to speakers with “foreign names”, they are transcribed less accurately, and rated as less intelligible and more accented. Listener expectations (informed by social bias) influence actual perception #nwav52 #linguistics
Yeah, the more you know about how LLMs (don’t) work, the less likely you should be to trust them to do anything, especially things that are socially sensitive (photo from #NWAV52 talk by Freitag) #linguistics
November 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Yeah, the more you know about how LLMs (don’t) work, the less likely you should be to trust them to do anything, especially things that are socially sensitive (photo from #NWAV52 talk by Freitag) #linguistics
Thinking about Almeida Jacqueline Toribio's #NWAV52 plenary last night and the idea that translanguaging bilingual children's reading materials makes kids more engaged. My kids are in #Gaelic Medium Education #GME and I've only ever seen one book series that did this, and it's out of print! #Goals
November 8, 2024 at 1:33 PM
I've been fairly mysterious on what I've been working on as part of my PhD research, but I'm proud to share my project launch poster I presented at the 52nd New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV52) at Miami Beach. You can check out my poster on ResearchGate!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Interaction of Space, Place, and Linguistic Variation in Social Media
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www.researchgate.net
November 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I've been fairly mysterious on what I've been working on as part of my PhD research, but I'm proud to share my project launch poster I presented at the 52nd New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV52) at Miami Beach. You can check out my poster on ResearchGate!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Rhosean Asmah's #NWAV52 methods to study coronal stop deletion (CSD) in Meghan Thee Stallion's rap and casual speech used an AI tool to strip the backing music off tracks, isolating the vocals. Sounds super impressive!
And, as usual for CSD, the results are very complex by internal constraint.
And, as usual for CSD, the results are very complex by internal constraint.
November 9, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Rhosean Asmah's #NWAV52 methods to study coronal stop deletion (CSD) in Meghan Thee Stallion's rap and casual speech used an AI tool to strip the backing music off tracks, isolating the vocals. Sounds super impressive!
And, as usual for CSD, the results are very complex by internal constraint.
And, as usual for CSD, the results are very complex by internal constraint.
Freitag: Microsoft Gemini responded to prompts asking it to write a bio in Brazilian Portuguese in English, and did not display sensitivity to dialectal differences within Brazil #NWAV52 #linguistics
November 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Freitag: Microsoft Gemini responded to prompts asking it to write a bio in Brazilian Portuguese in English, and did not display sensitivity to dialectal differences within Brazil #NWAV52 #linguistics
Related: if you're there - go check out our paper this morning (1st authored by PhD student Jess Shepherd):
"Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in
Michigan: a non-white male-led change"
12:30pm in room 230!
#NWAV52 #linguistics
"Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in
Michigan: a non-white male-led change"
12:30pm in room 230!
#NWAV52 #linguistics
SOCIOLINGUISTS: I'm not at NWAV this year because I'm keeping a tiny baby alive .... but I still want to lowkey read all your skeets about it!
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
November 7, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Related: if you're there - go check out our paper this morning (1st authored by PhD student Jess Shepherd):
"Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in
Michigan: a non-white male-led change"
12:30pm in room 230!
#NWAV52 #linguistics
"Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in
Michigan: a non-white male-led change"
12:30pm in room 230!
#NWAV52 #linguistics
Fix and Blake: figures like Rachel Dolezal and Rachel Krug use #linguistic, paralinguístic, and embodied resources to perform blackness, but these choices and constructions are more complicated than surface-level ideas of appropriation #NWAV52
November 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Fix and Blake: figures like Rachel Dolezal and Rachel Krug use #linguistic, paralinguístic, and embodied resources to perform blackness, but these choices and constructions are more complicated than surface-level ideas of appropriation #NWAV52
Important work by @drkatcarm.bsky.social on the importance if studying “obsolesing” language communities, and challenging ideas about what kind of speaker is considered a legitimate user of community variation #nwav52 #linguistics
November 9, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Important work by @drkatcarm.bsky.social on the importance if studying “obsolesing” language communities, and challenging ideas about what kind of speaker is considered a legitimate user of community variation #nwav52 #linguistics
At #NWAV52? Come see my talk, “I Don’t Like My Conversations Being Judged By an AI”: Issues of Bias and Quality in Social Feedback Speech Technology” at 5:35 in Room 230! #linguistics
November 8, 2024 at 9:22 PM
At #NWAV52? Come see my talk, “I Don’t Like My Conversations Being Judged By an AI”: Issues of Bias and Quality in Social Feedback Speech Technology” at 5:35 in Room 230! #linguistics
Ping Hei Yeung's #NWAV52 talk compares the vowels of speakers of Hong Kong English (HKE), depending on what variety they think they speaker: identifying with HKE totally, partially (along w/ US or UK English), or not at all. The 'totally' group differ, but in spontaneous speech not in wordlists.
November 9, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Ping Hei Yeung's #NWAV52 talk compares the vowels of speakers of Hong Kong English (HKE), depending on what variety they think they speaker: identifying with HKE totally, partially (along w/ US or UK English), or not at all. The 'totally' group differ, but in spontaneous speech not in wordlists.
Don’t forget your abstracts for #NWAV53! Due Sunday, June 15.
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
July 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don’t forget your abstracts for #NWAV53! Due Sunday, June 15.
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
Join us in Ann Arbor, Nov 5-7 for NWAV 53: Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. Abstracts June 15. See the call for papers at .
#linguistics #conferences #nwav53 #nwav52
Current and former Michigan State University faculty and students at #NWAV52. Unfortunately not pictured are Becky Roeder, Monica Nesbitt, and Terumi Imani-Brandle but it was great to see them.
November 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Current and former Michigan State University faculty and students at #NWAV52. Unfortunately not pictured are Becky Roeder, Monica Nesbitt, and Terumi Imani-Brandle but it was great to see them.
I'm not at #nwav52 either but I hope to be able to follow it somewhat from here, hashtags are clickable now so I don't know if we need a formal feed?
November 7, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I'm not at #nwav52 either but I hope to be able to follow it somewhat from here, hashtags are clickable now so I don't know if we need a formal feed?
Looking back at #NWAV52 --the great papers, the lively conversations, and that moment, 2 slides in, when I realized I'd uploaded the wrong version of my presentation. Thanks for hanging in there with me, folks! Looking forward to the next one!
November 15, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Looking back at #NWAV52 --the great papers, the lively conversations, and that moment, 2 slides in, when I realized I'd uploaded the wrong version of my presentation. Thanks for hanging in there with me, folks! Looking forward to the next one!
I can't believe it's been two weeks since NWAV52 at Miami Beach! What a cool bunch of linguists and language enthusiasts.
November 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I can't believe it's been two weeks since NWAV52 at Miami Beach! What a cool bunch of linguists and language enthusiasts.
Sherman and Benheim examine the performance of Boston and Rhode Island characterological types, and which linguistic features are sufficiently enregistered to do parodic performance. #nwav52 #linguistics
November 9, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Sherman and Benheim examine the performance of Boston and Rhode Island characterological types, and which linguistic features are sufficiently enregistered to do parodic performance. #nwav52 #linguistics
The #NWAV #NWAV52 Steering Committee would like to remind everyone to vote for the new Steering Committee members:
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/DL8F5HG
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/DL8F5HG
NWAV Standing Member Vote
Voting for two new standing members of the NWAV Steering Committee
www.surveymonkey.ca
November 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM
The #NWAV #NWAV52 Steering Committee would like to remind everyone to vote for the new Steering Committee members:
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/DL8F5HG
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/DL8F5HG
SOCIOLINGUISTS: I'm not at NWAV this year because I'm keeping a tiny baby alive .... but I still want to lowkey read all your skeets about it!
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
November 7, 2024 at 4:03 PM
SOCIOLINGUISTS: I'm not at NWAV this year because I'm keeping a tiny baby alive .... but I still want to lowkey read all your skeets about it!
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
Has anyone made an #NWAV52 feed yet?
#linguistics 🐦
