New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas.
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass ah good, I'm glad that your instance migration went smoothly!
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass glad you were able to get moved ok!
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass@hcommons.social
Welcome, enjoy the stay, have fun.
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@LingLass glad you were able to get moved ok!
@ElizabethLee So far so good!
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@LingLass ah good, I'm glad that your instance migration went smoothly!
@gnomon Seems like it's happening. Fingers crossed!
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass Welcome! This polyglot looks forward to learning from you
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
My son used DuoLingo to learn Arabic as well! Then once he's gotten as far as I could with DL, he switched to Mango -- which he says is actually working better for him. He's been at it for ... at least 3 or 4 years now and can write/speak/read pretty well I think.
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass Hi Laurel, welcome to the fediverse!
I’m a linguistics professor, too, but toot mostly about my private life—and in Danish (may get translated by your app, though). Working mostly in forensic linguistics these days. -
New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
@LingLass We didn't see any mention of cat or cats anywhere. Something must be wrong, surely.
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New Instance #Introduction: I’m a #Linguistics professor in #Texas. Originally from #Chicago. Lived in Birmingham, UK & Hefei (Anhui province) #China. I do research in English lexical semantics, #pragmatics, health communication, and discourse markers, using corpus methods. Currently learning #Arabic on #DuoLingo. I edit #Wikipedia. I love contemporary fiction, science fiction, and #poetry. And #travel—as the budget allows. Welcoming any survivors from my academic Twitter network. Great meeting you all!
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@LingLass We didn't see any mention of cat or cats anywhere. Something must be wrong, surely.
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@LingLass Hi Laurel, welcome to the fediverse!
I’m a linguistics professor, too, but toot mostly about my private life—and in Danish (may get translated by your app, though). Working mostly in forensic linguistics these days.@tanyakaroli Oh how interesting! I've been starting to explore how corpus work applies to forensic linguistics.
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@tanyakaroli Oh how interesting! I've been starting to explore how corpus work applies to forensic linguistics.
@LingLass It is crucial for any kind of authorship analysis, at least. If you’d like some reading on this, I can send you recommendations (there keeps coming new stuff but much is in the computational vein and often not deeply focused on the language or on explainability in court).
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My son used DuoLingo to learn Arabic as well! Then once he's gotten as far as I could with DL, he switched to Mango -- which he says is actually working better for him. He's been at it for ... at least 3 or 4 years now and can write/speak/read pretty well I think.
@anne My students rave about Mango. I’ll have to check it out.
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@LingLass It is crucial for any kind of authorship analysis, at least. If you’d like some reading on this, I can send you recommendations (there keeps coming new stuff but much is in the computational vein and often not deeply focused on the language or on explainability in court).
@tanyakaroli Yes, please! Suggestions are welcome.
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@tanyakaroli Yes, please! Suggestions are welcome.
@LingLass Hi again, Laurel! It took me a while to get back to this after a conference on forensic linguistics last week, but here are some suggestions, all from people well-known within the field:
Kredens, K. & M. Coulthard (2012). Corpus Linguistics In Authorship Identification. In L. M. Solan & P.M. Tiersma (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572120.013.0037
Wright, D. (2017). Using word n-grams to identify authors and idiolects: A corpus approach to a forensic linguistic problem. International journal of corpus linguistics, 22(2), 212-241. https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.1558/ijsll.v20i1.45
Grieve, J. (2023). Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, vol. 19, no. 1, 2023, pp. 47-77. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2022-0040
Roemling, D. (2025). Forensic Authorship Profiling Using Geolocated Social Media Data: A Corpus Linguistic and Cartographic Approach. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 100146.
