Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

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 ...

African American English (AAE) is a variety of English spoken primarily, though not exclusively, by Black Americans of historical African descent. Because AAE varies from white American English (WAE) ...

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in a wide range of applications, from summarizing news articles to serving as study assistants in classroom settings 1, but emerging evidence ...

With each version of large language models like ChatGPT, developers have gotten better at filtering out racist content absorbed through sources like the internet. But researchers have discovered more ...

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 new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta $META, and Google $GOOGL, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against ...

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 ...