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If machines are now becoming participants in linguistic environments, the big question may not just be how well AI imitates human language but how human & machine communication will begin to reshape one another.

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At the same time, as AI voices become more sophisticated, we may begin to recognise distinctly artificial styles of speaking as a new kind of register in their own right.

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Remove them & synthetic speech may become smoother but also less communicatively rich.

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Features we often treat as “messy” — pauses, hesitations, false starts, changes in rhythm — can carry meaning, identity & social information.

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This piece by @celesterl.bsky.social asks us to think beyond whether AI can produce grammatically correct language & towards something much more human: how that language is actually experienced by listeners.

🔗 tinyurl.com/522m4xt3

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COT or CAUGHT? 👂

Same vowel? You may have the cot–caught merger, common in California and the American West.

What about Don/Dawn?

Where are you from?

Full tutorial in comments. 🌴

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗼-𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
(𝗕𝗟 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝟭 𝗖 𝗜𝗜𝗜, 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝟮𝟯𝟰𝗿-𝟮𝟳𝟰𝘃)
Brent A. Pitts, Heather Pagan (eds)

More Info: bit.ly/4emYeVA

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📢 Interview!
Our team member Jan Zalega have just published an interview with Prof. Nick Haslam, the psychologist who introduced the notion of “concept creep”. In the interview, Haslam shares his views on concept creep and the role of social media in the process.
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Languages of Roman Britain Explored at Aberystwyth Conference

www.welshcountry.co.uk/languages-of...

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#NowReading2026 EXOPHONY: VOYAGES OUTSIDE THE MOTHER TONGUE by Yoko Tawada translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda via New Directions Books imbibed at Blackhole Coffee Roaster #Machiya #町屋 #Coffee #Books #Linguistics #CoffeeSky #BookSky #lingSky

"Doubt" and "dubious": Why uncertainty comes in twos.

Both invoke a metaphor of "being of two minds". And those aren't the only words to do it.

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Also, "They can take out a city" followed by "Let them …" doesn't bode well for the 'ability' reading of CAN.

The 'permission' reading is the more salient one.

The BBC article, again: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6r7yn8pknyxo

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