In The Media

Chambers discusses her research on increased false positive rates for AI detection for writing from autistic authors.

BuzzFeed has created an online quiz to have you guess the native language of various english talkers. They used exclusive samples from the archive to do it. Take the quiz yourself: http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliafurlan/so-uh-where-are-you-from

The language you use may save you money....

Young goats learn new and distinctive bleating "accents" once they begin to socialize with other kids.

Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages.

A fascinating New York Times article on "one of America's most ambitious lexicographical projects," the publication of the 60,000-entry, multi-volume dictionary on the country's regional dialects.

The 3 October issue of The New Yorker magazine includes a piece by John Colapinto that describes how brand names are created. In it, he notes how brand-naming firm Lexicon includes linguists in its formula for success.

The Linguistics Department's Speech Accent Archive was recently featured on WAMU Radio. The database contains 1,500 samples of spoken English.