Alexandra Witze

alexwitze.bsky.social

27 September 2025 12:16

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn. Enter Tay Tay. @mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Riccardo Fusaroli

fusaroli.eurosky.social

22 May 2025 04:20

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Stan Carey

stancarey.bsky.social

22 May 2025 04:17

Very interesting podcast about universals as an idea in American #linguistics in the mid-20th century (27 mins.) @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/01/p...

Myra Cheng

myra.bsky.social

22 May 2025 04:11

Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole? While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t. We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.

Maartje De Meulder

mdemeulder.bsky.social

23 March 2025 14:08

The best sign language models are those that align with deaf languaging practices. When AI models are built on sign language as used by hearing interpreters or novice hearing sign language learners, this can lead to linguistic subordination to technology. gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...