This Project explores syntactic diversity found in varieties of English spoken in North America. By documenting the subtle, but systematic, differences in the syntax of English varieties, it provides a crucial source of data for the development of theories of human linguistic knowledge.
How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models
Language models (LMs) can produce fluent, grammatical text. Nonetheless, some maintain that language models don’t really learn language and also, even if they did, that would not be informative for the study of human learning and processing. On the other side, there have been claims that the success of LMs obviates the need for studying linguistic theory and structure. We argue that both extremes are wrong. LMs can contribute to fundamental questions about linguistic structure, language processing, and learning. They force us to rethink arguments and ways of thinking that have been foundational in linguistics. While they do not replace linguistic structure and theory, they serve as model systems and working proofs of concept for gradient, usage-based approaches to language. We offer an optimistic take on the relationship between language models and linguistics.
Getting started - Docs
Discourse Graphs are a tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis, enabling researchers to map ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format.
Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch I 2025
Are you Slop??
Are you Slop? Analyze your 'slop score' - a measure of how generic or unique your text appears to language models.
How Do You Talk? — American Accent Quiz & US Dialect Map
Discover where in the United States people talk like you with this interactive American Accent Quiz. Get a personalized dialect map based on the Harvard Dialect Survey.
The Lexicon Interop Problem - anuj's leaflets
Competing AT platforms are using different lexicons. Should we be worried?
Grammatica voor NT2-docenten Alles wat je over het Nederlands wilt weten
Word een nóg betere docent NT2. Veel lestips over grammatica en schrijfvaardigheid, en (online) workshops voor ervaren en beginnende docenten.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
In my work at Clay I recently wrote an internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, and I’m sharing it here. It’s my hope that one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
Learn Dutch • Online Dutch Grammar Course
Learn Dutch grammar: Spelling and pronunciation, verbs, pronouns, nouns and articles, word order, and more. It includes sound files and exercises, and an active forum to post your questions..
Language models are multiverse generators
"Actualities seem to float in a wider sea of possibilities from out of which they were chosen; and somewhere, indeterminism says, such possibilities exist, and form part of the truth."
lexicon.community
lexicon.community has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Introduction | RLHF and Post-Training Book by Nathan Lambert
A first-principles introduction to RLHF, what it changes in language models, and how it became part of modern post-training.
A Grammar of Institutions
The institutional grammar introduced here is based on a view that institutions are enduring regularities of human action in situations structured by rules, norms, and shared strategies, as well as by the physical world. The rules, norms, and shared strategies are constituted and reconstituted by human interaction in frequently occurring or repetitive situations. The syntax of the grammar identifies components of institutions and sorts them into three types of institutional statements: rules, norms, and shared strategies. We introduce the grammar, outline methods for operationalizing the syntax, apply the syntax to an analysis of cooperation in collective dilemma situations, and discuss the pragmatics of the grammar for analyses of behavior within complex institutional settings.
Linguistic aporia - The Cynefin Co
My post of the day before yesterday expressed concern about the general dumbing down of discourse and I explicitly linked the desire for simple recipes and undemanding explanations in the sphere of management to the growth of unthinking populism in the political sphere. I ended it with three simple things to do if you don’t […]
