Melanie Lancien

What’s new in “Language and Criminal Justice” research? Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team closely collaborates with the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN). To raise awareness of LLIRN and feature the rese…

I co-convene the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers' Network (LLIRN). In 2024, we started a series profiling network members' work across different themes.
The first was on Language and Criminal Justice ft. @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social @katesteel.bsky.social & @cornerbus.bsky.social

L'accélération de l'IA pose déjà des questions de pénuries d'eau et d'énergie - Next Le Royaume-Uni comme les États-Unis viennent de présenter de nouveaux plans pour soutenir la mise en place d’infrastructures pour l’IA dans leurs territoires. Mais actuellement, aux États-Unis, de nou...

L’accélération de l’IA pose déjà des questions de pénuries d’eau et d’énergie

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💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

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#Linguistics

Super thread ! Mon cheval de bataille sera toujours le calcul des tracés (surtout l'opacité sur les choix methodo et les raisons derrière les tracés) qui délimitent les zones. Pourquoi passer par telle ou telle ville, quels degrés de précision, pourquoi choisir des lignes et pas des polygones
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Le nombre de réactions suscitées par cette carte montre bien que la délimitation des langues est une entreprise hasardeuse (du reste pas dépourvue de considérations politiques).

Voici quelques observations à propos des langues régionales de France identifiées sur la carte…

14. (Socio)linguistics—What Is It Good For? A Case for Liberatory Linguistics

Anne H. Charity Hudley, Dan Villarreal, Aris Moreno Clemons; 14. (Socio)linguistics—What Is It Good For? A Case for Liberatory Linguistics. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2023; 108 (1): 268–288. doi: doi.org/10.1215/0003...

Your brain on language - Many Minds podcast Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

5. 'Your brain on language' w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social

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Writing does not reflect the sounds of speech, so yes, the glottal stop counts as a /t/ in the word “mountain”! Language changes and yes, American English speakers are using more glottal /t/, but no n... TikTok video by Nicole Holliday

Great video from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social. I noticed the rise of the glottal stop in the past couple of years, though I didn’t know how to describe what I was hearing, figuring some people just don’t enunciate the same. Turns out it’s both regional and generational. Fascinating.

#1 by a large margin (with huge thanks to a
@nytimes.com shout-out) Gorsh! We All Have Accents, with Drs Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, and
@kbmcgowan.bsky.social:

www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Do you know a language activist doing amazing work to protect and promote their language? Nominate them for the 2025 Linguapax Award:

Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement

Un-fucking-believable. Might be time to leave Facebook completely. www.ft.com/content/9118...

Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.

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A nice review of iconicity in langage by Barker & Colleagues

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Qui parmi les linguistes atterrées est sur Bluesky ?
La réponse ici :

Les linguistes atterrées sont sur Bluesky 👇🏼
On a besoin - ici aussi - d’un recul scientifique et critique sur la langue.

Dans la série le français de France cette langue sans logique face au québécois :
Mon prof dit « vous pouvez mettre un vernis mA dessus »
Moi : ? Ah maT !
- tu dis le maT d’un bateau toi ?
- non mais il y a un accent circonflexe spour ça !
-ah et tu dis un raT aussi ?
- 🤓

A handyman and a woman stand looking at strange creatures coming through a hole in the wall: “You’ve got a tear in the very fabric of reality, that’s how they keep getting in.”

I think this might be my favorite New Yorker comic of all time, 🤣.

Artist Edward Steed

LingMethodsHub - Linguistics Methods Hub

This might be self-serving or whatever, but I'm considering starting publish more tutorials on my website again (or lingmethodshub.github.io). Primarily sociophonetics methods broadly. What topics would be helpful for you or your students?

How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks Social reinforcement and norm learning interact with social media design to amplify moral outrage in online social networks.

Twitter trains you to create more outrageous content. From 2018-2021 my team developed a tool to measure outrage on Twitter. Here's our paper showing that “likes” and “shares” teach people to express more outrage over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Quand rouler du r faisait chic Aujourd'hui l'histoire | D’abord synonyme de prestige et de culture, le r roulé s’est imposé peu à peu dans le langage populaire. Wim Remysen, professeur de sociolinguistique et d'histoire de la langu...

J'étais ravi de participer à l'émission Aujourd'hui l'histoire pour parler des origines du R rrroulé, jadis marqueur de prestige et de culture.

C'est première fois qu'on aborde l'histoire d'un trait de prononciation à l'émission! 🗣️

Pour réécouter l'épisode 👇
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Phonetic Diversity vs. Sociolinguistic and Phonological Patterning of R in Québec French In this study, we investigate the multifaceted realizations of the /R/ consonant in Québec French (QF) by combining sociolinguistic and phonological approaches. First, from a sociophonetic point of vi...

🎉#NewPublication with M.Hutin on #rhotics in #QuebecFrench. We show how sociological (speakers' location, age and gender) and phonological information (phoneme's syllabic position) allows to explain the uses & choices of 9 different variants of /R/.
www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/...

What is linguistics?

What is #linguistics? A thread 🧵

Survey for linguists, all about Open Science! Please participate!

The Linguistics Data Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance invites linguists to participate in a survey on Open Science, the management and sharing of research data in our discipline: nettskjema.no/a/openlingui...
#lingdata

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.

SwearSky Bluesky profanity, as it happens

The Bluesky Swear Word Visualizer is absolutely amazing (and is that Matt Berry's voice?)

swearsky.bagpuss.org

Navajo woman makes children's books to preserve her people's language A Navajo woman is trying to protect languages and bring families together. She is using her own busy books for little ones to make a big difference.

Navajo woman makes children's books to preserve her people's language www.fox13now.com/new...

Normalize asking your colleagues for IPA transcriptions of their names.
#linguistics

Come work with me / us: two fully funded, 4-year PhD positions in sociophonetics. Starting 06/25. Let's go! 🚀⬇️ #sociophonetics #swissgerman #deutsch #schweizerdeutsch #soziolinguistik #soziophonetik