The Linguistic Society of America (LSA), founded in 1924, is the leading U.S. professional organization dedicated to advancing the scientific study of language. We are teaching and research professors, data scientists, Natural Language Processing and Understanding experts, K-12 teachers, community language revitalization specialists, language documentarians, UX researchers, non-profit owners, translators, and software engineers.



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Ty Gill-Saucier
University of Washington

My work examines how language regard, sociophonetics, and neural processing intersect, with a focus on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I study how social experience shapes how people perceive and process speech, and how these patterns extend to automated speech recognition systems. Linguistics matters because it helps us understand and address systematic bias in both human cognition and speech technologies.
 

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The LSA Submits Comment on FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Reflecting our ongoing work to bring the empirical findings of linguistics to policy makers, the LSA submitted a comment on a Federal Communications Commission Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require call center workers pass a proficiency test in "American Standard English." As explained in our comment, the proposed rule is built on three presuppositions about language that are not supported by evidence.

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