juliesedivy.bsky.social
Writer and language scientist, author of LINGUAPHILE: A LIFE OF LANGUAGE LOVE and MEMORY SPEAKS: ON LOSING AND RECLAIMING LANGUAGE AND SELF.
👤 Joined on 25 November 2024
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@juliesedivy.bsky.socialAnxious Kid Makes Pretty Good: A Neurodivergent Writer on Life and Writing, my new book, comes out on Oct. 15. A memoir, in essays. You can pre-order it online or from your favourite bookstore now. My author copies have just arrived! #memoir #writing #canlit #ADHD #depression #anxiety
Show PostPro tip! The less you post about "Lake America," the less written evidence of its use there is, and the less likely any reputable dictionary company will enter it into their dictionaries. ONLY *YOU* CAN PREVENT BAD LEXICOGRAPHY
Show PostI’m halfway through @juliesedivy.bsky.social’s newest book, “Linguaphile” and just had to stop to urge anyone who loves language to go pick up a copy. Truly poetic essays on how language lives in us and shapes us.
Show PostHow do young children predict what comes next in speech? Our study of bilingual Mandarin-English and monolingual English-learning children in Singapore highlights how language experience shapes real-time processing—and why diverse samples matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Show PostThis isn't an imaginary world. My job as a philosopher of premodern South Asia has been to ask questions of books. Part of the intellectual joy in asking questions of books comes from eliciting the answer onself by (re)reading and by conversation with other readers. #ai #philosophy
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