Janet Ainsworth summarising the #IAFLL24 conference as we head towards its close. She's comparing the abstracts from the 2007 and 2009 conference to those this week.

Worth making police officers aware of this and working on reducing their own disfluency as this may have consequences of perception of deception on interviewees primed by them.
Work in progress.
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Final session before lunch.
Looking at filled pauses eg um, uh, er and their priming effect.
In the justice system, listeners associate filled pauses with lying. Research is into how much priming affect occurs.
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Next up, presentation on "For the Record" project of police-suspect interviews with Kate Haworth and Zoe Adams.
How can linguistics offer to improve interview transcriptions, especially given the large variation between police forces?
#IAFLL24 #PoliceInterviews #Linguistics

Last day of #IAFLL24 begins with Felicity Dreamer and colleagues understanding how influence and persuasion work in online fora.

So most show consistent selection of forms across a lifetime; no particular parts of speech are more stable than others. Number of stable forms increase from middle to old age.
#Idiolect #IAFLL24

I've been looking forward to this. Krzysztof Kredens, Emily Chiang and Amina Heini on language stability over an individual's lifespan. Are some features more stable than others?
#IAFLL24 #LinguisticStyle

Continuing with the analysis of #idiolect, Julija Danu looks at the stability of idiolect patterns across discourse types.
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Day 3 of #IAFLL24 kicks off with Sadie Barlow on an experimental approach to identifying features of an idiolect using long character n-grams.

Looking forward to Day 3 of #IAFLL24. It's going to be 27⁰C today, so glad I'm indoors.

This will be interesting. David Wright on Tag Questions during cross-examination.
#Linguistics #IAFLL24

This will be interesting. Shana Poplack on analysing distinctiveness in trademarks.
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Major FOMO not being at #IAFLL24 All the best to the organisers and participants!
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First parallel session for today - Linguistic Profiling in the American Courtroom.
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Dr Emily Chiang is the first plenary speaker of #IAFLL24 with deviant communities of practice.
#ForensicLinguistics

So, the 5th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics at Aston University begins with a warm welcome from Nicci MacLeod.
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