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View article: In my hood: Scaling urban personae outside the urban center
In my hood: Scaling urban personae outside the urban center Open
Examining regional variation across African American communities has advanced research on African American English beyond its treatment as a singular, uniform variety. While the earlier focus on inner-city, and often male, youth prioritize…
View article: Talk about testimony: courtroom dialogue as racialized interactions
Talk about testimony: courtroom dialogue as racialized interactions Open
Within the criminal legal system, judges, jurors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, experts, and law enforcement officers all might employ language or language practices in the courtroom that can evoke racial bias against an accused person, …
View article: AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect Open
Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from help with writing 1,2 to informing hiring decisions 3 . However, these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making th…
View article: Multidimensional Identity as Bricolage: Indexing Race and Place in Bakersfield, California
Multidimensional Identity as Bricolage: Indexing Race and Place in Bakersfield, California Open
While traditional variationist research has been critiqued for positioning ethnic and regional variation in terms of separate “lects,” recent work has adopted a more nuanced view in which racialized subjects can combine individual linguist…
View article: Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality
Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality Open
Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their j…
View article: Language on Trial
Language on Trial Open
This essay draws on the case study we conducted of Rachel Jeantel's testimony in the 2013 trial of George Zimmerman v. The State of Florida.1 Although Jeantel, a close friend of Trayvon Martin, was an ear-witness (by cell phone) to all but…
View article: Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics
Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics Open
African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized. For example, regional and social variation in the speech of African American…
View article: Intersections between Race, Place, and Gender in the Production of /s/
Intersections between Race, Place, and Gender in the Production of /s/ Open
Articulation of /s/ has been linked with gender identity in both production (e.g., Podesva and Van Hofwegen 2016, Hazenberg 2012) and perception studies (e.g., Strand 1999), with women producing a fronter /s/ than men, and a fronter /s/ be…
View article: On negotiating racial and regional identities: Vocalic Variation among African Americans in Bakersfield, California
On negotiating racial and regional identities: Vocalic Variation among African Americans in Bakersfield, California Open
This paper investigates the linguistic construction of ethnic and regional identities through the use of a local feature, BAT retraction and lowering (D’Onofrio 2015, Kennedy and Grama 2012, Podesva, D’Onofrio, Van Hofwegen and Kim 2015). …