TLDR (5/5):

As the researchers note, linguistic analysis isn’t just academic — it can expose the cracks where justice itself is lost.

#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #policeevidence #policediscourse #languageasevidence #authorshipanalysis #authorshipattribution #policestatement

TLDR (4/5):

Before mandatory audio recordings were introduced in 1995, “verballing” — fabricating or distorting confessions — was a known risk.

#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #policediscourse #languageasevidence #authorshipanalysis #authorshipattribution

TLDR (3/5):

In other words, the so-called “record of interview” that convicted Jamieson couldn’t realistically have captured even the gist of a real conversation.

#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #policediscourse #languageasevidence #authorshipanalysis #authorshipattribution

TLDR (2/5):

Even the quickest participant reached only 34% accuracy compared to the true transcript. Those typing at more realistic speeds — around 40 words per minute — captured barely 20% of what was said.

#langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #policediscourse #authorshipattribution

The idiolectal information in long character n-grams: An experiment using paraphrasing Long character n-grams (n = 7-9) have been used successfully with the n-gram tracing algorithm for authorship analysis (Grieve et al. 2019) and their success is consistent with predictions of cognitiv...

Slides of Sadie Barlow's and my talk at #IAFLL2024 "The idiolectal information in long character n-grams: An experiment using paraphrasing" now available here: zenodo.org/records/1263...
#forensiclinguistics #linguistics #idiolect #authorshipanalysis #authorshipattribution