For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

A new paper finds that while popular AI models may not be outwardly racist, they are covertly racist when it comes to African American English. Reading time 3 minutes A new paper found that large ...

A dictionary composed of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025. Topping the list is “bussin,” which is an ...

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In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary of African American English gave a status update on the project. As academics explained their various ...

Howard University has partnered with Google to spearhead efforts to enhance AI’s ability to understand African American English (AAE). Howard University has partnered with Google Research to enhance ...

Editors at the Oxford University Press are unveiling a shortlist of words that will be featured in a first-of-its-kind dictionary. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English won’t hit shelves ...

Oxford’s first-ever Dictionary of African American English is set for 2025 release and the first 10 words to be included in the upcoming workbook have been unveiled. One year after Oxford University ...

A dictionary composed of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025. Topping the list is “bussin,” which is an ...