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Lacey Wade

@laceywade.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. of Linguistics @ the University of Kansas.

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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Neither is quite right, but we explore where these perceptions come from and more in the paper! Other things we learned: Kansans are surprisingly good at identifying fellow Kansans by their voice, and everybody is surprisingly good at knowing where Kansas is on a blank US map.
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our new paper shows that Kansans and non-Kansans have very different ideas about Kansas speech. Kansans think they don’t have an accent, but non-Kansans think they sound Southern! read.dukeupress.edu/american-spe...
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What Does Kansas Speech Sound Like? It Depends Who You Ask | American Speech | Duke University Press
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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815
blue and green cover of the book "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory", edited by Jennifer Nycz and Lauren Hall-Lew, published with Oxford as part of the Oxford Surveys in Phonology and Phonetics
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Jeff Holliday @jeffholliday.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My paper with Eunjong Kong on Korean "short tongue" pronunciation is finally out 🎉 Recently there has been more discussion of "short tongue" in the context of aegyo, a Korean cute speech register, and "short tongue" is one of its linguistic hallmarks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!
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Introducing tidynorm – Væl Space
Here’s a brief introduction to the new tidynorm package.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
HEY SO I TO GET TO SHARE THIS NOW. REALLY EXCITED
publishers marketplace screenshot: HOW TO NONBINARY A LANGUAGE by Kirby Conrod was sold at auction to Julia Steer at OUP by Kate McKean
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today I told some UK collaborators that we couldn’t have “dialect diversity” or “algorithmic bias” in the title of a grant that would be reviewed by the NEH. I have never felt less free to speak or do my job than I do right now.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics 🐦
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Finding out about children’s language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
Finding out about children’s language
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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Hey, this was my first qualifying paper! Believe me, conservatives think gender-neutral language is *literally* evil, and masculine marked role nouns are their weapon of choice
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/02/2025
Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.
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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This goes so fucking hard dude
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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KU Linguistics @kansaslinguistics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This week, the Linguistics Department invites you to our undergraduate Research Symposium, where some of our students are presenting original research. Lila Church is giving a talk featuring her honors thesis on storytelling in indigenous language education. /1
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Me: Why did the chicken cross the road? 3-year-old: Chicken who? Me: No you’re supposed to say “I don’t know, why?” 3: I don’t know, why? Me: To get to the other side! 3: *laughs wildly* 3: 3: The other side who? #AllJokesAreKnockKnockJokesWhenYoure3
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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 01/12/2024
Dear students. Your professors have meals with, hang out with, share social media with, and drink with, the people you are citing. If the LLM you used says something off the wall, I will hunt it down because I'm going to go, "That person doesn't think that; we talked about it over manhattans!"
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Liz K @elizann811.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
The way I felt seeing this is also how I feel when my students turn in AI responses and then are flabbergasted that I can tell.
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KU Linguistics @kansaslinguistics.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
KU Linguistics was represented at NWAV 52 in Miami this weekend by Prof. Lacey Wade (center) and 4th year student Tyler Hausthor (right), who gave a talk entitled, "What makes a speaker sound Kansan?" 🌻 They also caught up with KU Linguistics BA alum Griffin Lowry (left)!
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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Abstracts for the 48th Penn Linguistics Conference are due Nov 17! PLC is run by Penn Ling grad students and we welcome a wide variety of submissions from faculty, students (graduate and undergraduate), and independent researchers. More details here: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/p...
PLC 48 will take place on March 16–17 in Philadelphia with keynote speaker Vera Gribanova, panelists Dan Swingley, Jane Chandless, and Micha Elsner, and moderator Charles Yang
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
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Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence
Author(s): Wade, Lacey R; Embick, David; Tamminga, Meredith | Abstract: Expectation-driven convergence occurs when speakers shift their speech to approximate the language they expect rather than obser...
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Ooh, thanks for catching this. Copy-paste fail. Link here doi.org/10.5070/G601...
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Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence
Author(s): Wade, Lacey R; Embick, David; Tamminga, Meredith | Abstract: Expectation-driven convergence occurs when speakers shift their speech to approximate the language they expect rather than obser...
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Cool bonus finding that lower frequency items show more convergence (even though ppl aren’t actually hearing the words—or even vowel—they are imitating). Implications for the mechanism behind frequency effects in convergence more generally?
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Non-Southerners converge toward monophthongal /ay/ if they are simply *told* they are listening to a southerner (even if they aren’t!)
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Southerners converge toward monophthongal /ay/ (a feature of Southern US speech) when they hear *other* southern-accented features, even if they think the speaker is from somewhere else—like Ohio!
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
escholarship.org/uc/item/2h3118… New paper out in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social w/ Dave Embick and Meredith Tamminga showing that experience with a given dialect modulates which cues participants use when converging toward a speaker of that dialect.
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Lacey Wade @laceywade.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
My favorite mug is my “JJJ” mug because every time I use it I think about the person printing the mug designs taking the initiative to turn the design upside down because “JJJ” with upside down birds obvs makes more sense than the alternative.
Mug with three birds and three IPA flap symbols turned upside so it reads “JJJ” with upside down birds.
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