Probably to my detriment, I like to join communities that discuss linguistics on social media. I don t mean following others who conduct linguistic research I do that, too but rather communities where linguistics is discussed by anyone who happens to be interested in discussing it. I figure, What s the use of all the [ ]
I had a good time at LAVIS5 / SECOL91 this weekend, a linguistics conference about the southern United States. Louisiana was well represented. Here s my contribution.
Finally, I decided to do a project following open science guidelines. I ve spoken about this in a rather old post no. Then, I was describing a workflow that resembling software development. Unfortunately, even though I ve implemented this workflow since, I ve always felt too rushed to do any preregistrations or even submit my projects to the [ ]
I m very happy to be able to say that my master s thesis, entitled LOL sur Twitter: une approche du contact de langues et de la variation par l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, has been published to the digital library website at UQAM. If you re interested in linguistic variation, French on Twitter, social network analysis as it [ ]
Grad school is essentially a juggling act: you not only have to perform in your classes, but you have to work as a TA or RA, do your own research, and make sure that you nurture your social life so that you don t go insane. One way to make this task much more manageable can [ ]
I ve never liked Chomsky, despite never reading anything by him. His ideas are so prevalent in linguistics, at least in American universities, that you don t really have to read his work to be exposed to his ideas. However, it s important to me to have a good idea of the context within which ideas have been [ ]
Somewhat related to a recent post of mine, I came across this troubling article in the NY Times by David Reich, a Harvard geneticist who seems to regularly be described as eminent , in which he argues that it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among races.' He seems to have positive [ ]
Lately, I ve been trying to learn more about open science and how it relates to research I ve done, research I d like to do, and how it relates to sociolinguistics in general. One topic that comes up regularly when talking about open science is pre-registration. For those who aren t familiar with this process, pre-registration refers to [ ]
It s been a long time since I ve written a post here, but I promise, there s a good reason: I was finishing up my master s thesis. However, now that it s submitted, I can talk a bit about what I did.1 Because I made use of social network analysis to detect communities in the study, there was [ ]
I finally finished watching this over breakfast this morning. Something interesting from a linguistic perspective is that they don t seem to use any English words in their Cherokee despite heavy contact, perhaps because they go to lengths to create new words for new things (see 35:00). This is not the strategy taken elsewhere, such as [ ]