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MIND Your Languages Lab

@MINDLanguages

Language and cognition research lab focussing on speakers of Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard & Dialect varieties. Based: @AbertayPsych, led by @DrNeilKirk.

Dundee, Scotland Присоединился Ocak 2018
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DIGIT@digitfyi·
As synthetic voices become indistinguishable from real ones, DIGIT spoke with psychologist Dr Neil Kirk about how our instinct to trust our own accents could make way for deepfakes targeting not just individuals, but entire regions. buff.ly/6OZVoOj #tech #deepfakes #AIvoices #AyeRobot
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Neil Kirk
Neil Kirk@DrNeilKirk·
New preprint of my #AIVOICE work - I used the Voice Changer feature on @elevenlabs and showed that listeners weren’t all that great at distinguishing natural from AI-enhanced voices, but were more likely to believe the voice was human when it spoke a familiar regional dialect.
PsyArXiv bot v2@PsyArXiv_bot_v2

"Eh? Aye!": Categorisation bias for natural human vs AI-enhanced voices is influenced by dialect. osf.io/skcv2/

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Prof Joanna Kopaczyk-McPherson
Prof Joanna Kopaczyk-McPherson@JoannaKopaczyk·
An excellent start to #ICL2024 Francis Ameka in the first plenary flags a Western theoretical bias in linguistics and a crucial shift from Western standard languages to minority non-standardised languages. @DrNeilKirk you got a shoutout!
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Neil Kirk
Neil Kirk@DrNeilKirk·
Looking for a fully-funded PhD investigating language control processes using some very fancy virtual production technology? Then come and work with me at @AbertayUni in Sunny Dundee! (RTs appreciated).
MIND Your Languages Lab@MINDLanguages

Excited to offer a funded #PhD studentship at the intersection of Psychology & Games Tech, investigating cognitive processes in speakers of @MINDLanguages using state-of-the-art #VR & #VirtualProduction facilities in our ViPRE Studio. Deadline 11th Aug. abertay.ac.uk/about/working-…

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MIND Your Languages Lab@MINDLanguages·
Check out this thread showcasing one of our recent publications! We are really proud to have published this as a Registered Report and hope this will be the first of many, such is our commitment to #OpenScience 🧠
Neil Kirk@DrNeilKirk

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 - @MatDeclerck and I are really delighted to have had a #RegisteredReport published in @PLOSONE investigating language control processes in speakers of Dundonian Scots and Scottish Standard English, funded by @CarnegieUni . 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

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Neil Kirk
Neil Kirk@DrNeilKirk·
Proud face of someone who made a decision 14 years ago to quit playing World of Warcraft and go back to uni, who found out today he got promoted to Senior Lecturer 🥳
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Psychology@Abertay
Psychology@Abertay@AbertayPsych·
Interested in studying Psychology in Scotland's coolest city? Come and apply to study with us in 2023/24. Offer holder days will be held on 22 & 29th April. Check the video for more about who we are and what we do...👇 youtube.com/watch?v=qI5TCC…
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MIND Your Languages Lab@MINDLanguages·
I use the example of Scots - despite official recognition as a minority language, it's not always given that status even by speakers themselves.The paper summarises our previous work with Dundonian & Orcadian speakers, highlighting similar findings to bilingual research🧠🗣️
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MIND Your Languages Lab@MINDLanguages·
In this position piece, I outline the lack of diversity in the language varieties that are often studied in psycholinguistic research and how this can impact bilingual research by misclassifying some speakers as "monolingual" despite engaging cognitive mechanisms like bilinguals.
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MIND Your Languages Lab@MINDLanguages·
🚨New paper just published online in Applied Psycholinguistics by @DrNeilKirk : MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals” bit.ly/3V5pH1N
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Neil Kirk
Neil Kirk@DrNeilKirk·
ICYMI - our paper with Orcadian speakers: #SummaryLimerick "There once were some speakers from Kirkwall, who some might call 'monolingual', But when their chantin's exhibited, their Orcadian's inhibited. Cognitively, it's like being a bilingual!" bit.ly/3hONdCf
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