Swiss-bound, baby!
I am so pleased to announce the Project Map Lemon will be seeing you at the QUALICO ’23 conference in Switzerland! I am so thrilled to have been accepted for a talk there, and hope to get lots of feedback from the larger community while I’m there. I’ll be joined by other members from the EVL Lab at Duquesne University, some of which I’ll be meeting for the first time in person since the world ended, which is just crazy! I am so honored, and many many more adjectives.
Ahh, money.
Short update: currently working on securing funding via grant proposals for the next round of Map Lemon respondents; this round will be another focused on Queer people to really elaborate on the data that already exists and reaffirm our suspicions.
After that, depending on the results from analysis we may want to look more into nonbinary people (currently researching methods to analyze their data while avoiding binarism, btw!), we may want to look more into ethnicity, sexuality, etc.
I’ve also fantasized about being able to do research on the effect being neurodivergent vs neurotypical would have on these results, especially since Queerness tends to overlap with neurodivergence, but I think the IRB approval on that would be tricky–we’ll see for the future.
Queering Map Lemon
Short status update: Map Lemon version 2 is now collecting responses! For those of you who don’t know about my research project (which I still haven’t uploaded information about to this site…), Map Lemon currently seeks to establish a baseline for linguistic variation in North America by asking participants to give directions on a map and write out a recipe for lemonade (the logic of these will be explained in a longer post) in a Google Form. During our last round of response collection, we noticed interesting patterns amongst trans people- particularly that they were discernible from their cis counterparts. I’ll upload the full paper shortly for all to see. So, we set out to collect more responses from trans+ people. Data analysis is forthcoming!
Good Morning, CUNY!
Hello one and… none! As it stands, no one reads this blog yet. Perhaps that’s for the better. Today I finished tweaking the visuals to my liking, and I’m going to start uploading useful information to it soon enough.
I plan on using this blog to aggregate my work across classes, as well as a homebase for my CV and other research. Nice to have somewhere to point people to that proves I exist… why do academics like Twitter so much, anyway? If anybody knows what an RSS feed is, please let me know.
I also expect I’ll use this blog for random opinions as well. Listen, I had a blog back in the aughts and that’s what we all did- blurted random opinions out into the void in the hopes someone would listen. Are you the captive audience I’ve been waiting for?
Perhaps I should’ve introduced myself. My name is Theodore, but everyone calls me Teddy (or sometimes Ted, if you’re weird like that). I’m a Computational Linguist, a title which was thrust upon me rather than chosen (can you tell the imposter syndrome hits hard?), and a current Master’s student in Digital Humanities at CUNY’s Graduate Center. My main project is Project Map Lemon, which seeks to establish a baseline for linguistic change across the Internet (and is currently exclusive to North American English, I should add). I’m a volunteer research assistant with the Evaluating Variation in Language lab at Duquesne University, and I’m also currently employable!
You can contact me at: tmanning@gradcenter.cuny.edu.
You’ll find, as well, that I’m a loud gay Jew. I’m not afraid to get political, either. In my free time, I tend to find myself crumbling underneath the weight of existential dread, reading an excess in vampire novels, or playing Minecraft.
Nice to meetcha!
