If ours was a world where AI (the ideology, politic, and tech) were, uh, asking these graduates to shape AI this might resonate. But it’s not. Look, you cannot go out and market your new corporate monopoly widget as the death kneel to American workers and then ask new workers to be excited.
Dramatic, tsunami-esque storm cloud above the Newark St Community Garden in McLean Gardens! @capitalweather.bsky.social
I feel that one way of expressing the combined effect of growing up, becoming socialized, getting an education, and having a personality is: not needing “all-day help… spoken into your ear privately” by Google
Child language development expert here.
No. The answer is absolutely not.
So-called baby talk is culturally specific.
Developing language is not.
#linguistics
Submitted my book manuscript to the publisher last night!! "Second Dialect Acquisition: Theory, Findings, and Methods", coming soon (well, "soon" in academic terms; maybe in a year 🙃) #linguistics
Three of my doctoral students have new papers in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA)! 🧵 #linguistics 1) "Sounding Black, looking White: Perceptions of racial identity in pop music" by Abby Killam
2) "Mine and ours: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of trans solidarity practices" by @esandall.bsky.social
The LSA First Gen Access & Equity (FGAE) Committee is awarding $500 for travel assistance to a first-generation student in #linguistics to attend the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Learn more and apply at this link by July 31st!
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"What a time to be alive! We are finally freeing you from the rat race and placing you on the rat unemployment line. Is your dream to be an artist? Well, it is the dream of your employers to push a button that extrudes art. And guess who has more funding for their dream?"
3) "Social perception of TH-stopping and postvocalic rhoticity in Malaysian English" by @pinghei.bsky.social
