thank you!! I am excited about this paper!! Here is a LinkedIn post where I explain it in lay terms:

Listened to an auto-voice read a NYTimes article to me (thanks to my workplace for the free Times subscription!, major perk!). "Minneapolis-St. Paul" was read as "Minneapolis Street. Paul."

Let our 2.5-year-old watch her first movie - Apollo 13! She only saw 15 minutes of it because she was also playing, but she definitely understood the plot (after we explained it to her) - “that little girl” (a minor character to whom she relates) “is sad because her daddy’s spaceship is broken.”

I keep thinking about how the “big beautiful bill” violates the general rule (Scontras et al!) that more subjective adjectives typically appear further away from the noun that they modify. Normally it would be “beautiful big bill”

I’m in a Facebook group about type 1 diabetes and someone has lamented that it’s a real shame that “AI” has not found a cure for it yet and I am just wondering what they think AI is 🤔

happy to share a new paper drawing on the work of my undergrad research team (Language & Identity in the New South)! "Social Meanings of the Low-Back-Merger Shift among Young Asian Americans in Georgia", *American Speech*. 1/

One for @dailynous.com: Agnes Callard on Bari Weiss’s podcast discussing her philosophy of her complicated personal life. I took Agnes’s class in 2011

Adorable language progress from my 2-year-old. On her baby brother’s hiccups: “He’s hicking up.” (She parsed “hiccup” as a particle verb like “pick up”!) Seeing me and Dad folding laundry: “I want to play laundry with you” (as if we play with it like she plays with toys)

We are staying in an AirBnB this summer in California while renting out own Atlanta house on AirBnB. It’s interesting what stuff is considered essential to be provided by the hosts (dish soap, hair dryer which I never use) and what stuff guests are supposed to get themselves (toothpaste).

Greetings from my first day on BlueSky (2025), which reminds me of my first day on Facebook (2005), when I thought that Facebook would be a fleeting trend like MySpace and Xanga (and now maybe also X/Twitter). How wrong I was, & how interesting that different platforms have such different lifespans.