Artificial intelligence language models and the false fantasy of participatory language policies | Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York

Take a look at our first publication from our very first volume, Mandy Lau's (2021) article, "Artificial intelligence language models and the false fantasy of participatory language policies"!

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#appliedlinguistics #languagepolicy #AI #LLM #languageideology

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Here's a clip of the #Welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt […]

Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Evaluative reactions to minority languages and their varieties: Evidence from new speakers of West Frisian - Volume 54 Issue 2

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Who (race/ethnicity, class, knowledge etc) are “standard”?

Oh, ELL are not “standard”. Why? How?

“To give you a sense of the context, we started with over 420 applicants and invited the top 7 standard and 2 ELL to campus.” —— rejection email to finalists. #raciolinguistics #languageideology

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.@TheHBow , a student in the class after my sociolx class, wonderfully described his Bristol, TN variety as “like having a really great handicap in golf: people assume you’re dumb so you say something reasonably smart and they think you’re a genius.” #languageideology