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Kimberly Becker

Kimberly Becker

Aug 31, 2026

3:00
So why don't you just give us the high level summary and then we'll dig in from there and jump off into some larger questions.
3:09
Sure.
3:11
Well, first, let me say, so my background is in applied linguistics, which is a little bit different from theoretical linguistics in the sense that I'm mostly interested in describing what language does in the real world.
3:26
And not prescribing what language should do.
3:33
And my training for my master's and my PhD was in corpus linguistics, which is, you know, big databases of language that we study to look for patterns.
3:46
And so, actually, the story behind that research is that I had, I don't know if you're familiar, there's a platform, it's a social media platform for researchers and academics that is called ResearchGate.
4:00
It's where we can share our research a little more openly than, you know, especially if it's kind of behind a paywall, people can share.

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26:55
Whatever the latest trend is.

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