Tara McAllister

@bitslab.bsky.social

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Linguist and SLP at NYU. Trying to raise a bilingual child in a mostly monolingual household.

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I would love to hear what parents think about coding for their kids and who is sending their kids to classes/camps/afternoon activities where the kids supposedly learn coding? I'm asking because when my kid was 2 years old, we toured some summer camps where they offered coding to the kid campers. And there are constant posts here about coding as afternoon activities for kids at the pre-K and kindergarten level. Like how many of you parents, with kids taking coding classes or after school activities in coding, actually do write code in real life? (I'm not talking about the fluff languages like Ruby, Python, etc. but real core C++/Java?) Like, do people not understand that it's just a gimmick? It's not like you, the parent, are there watching your child writing a function call, building a hash table, or optimizing an algorithm.
Eric Zemmour a sauté sur le mot affrication, sans le comprendre Sur X, Eric Zemmour a sauté sur le mot "affrication", "mais bien sûr c'est l'Afrique, la voilà enfin la preuve du grand remplacement !" Ce serait presque drôle s'il était le seul à avoir tweeté son fantasme raciste. Affrication, en fait, de fricare, frotter, frottement, qui se produit au niveau du palais, celui qu'on a tous en haut de la bouche, la bouche, cet organe trou avec une langue dedans, dans lequel les humains articulent les consonnes, voyelles : bref, ici, il s'agit, pour être précise, une palatalisation.
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The letter g makes the /d͡ʒ/ sound when followed by letters e, i, and y as in gym, giraffe, and genre
NYU Steinhardt Awards Inaugural Dean’s Innovation Grants. Tara McAllister: Advancing Technology for Gender-Affirming Voice Training. McAllister’s work seeks to improve the tools available to transgender and gender-diverse people who choose to pursue gender-affirming voice training (GAVT). GAVT guided by a speech-language pathologist can help trans people achieve a comfortable vocal presentation, but such services are expensive and often inaccessible. With this funding, McAllister and her interdisciplinary team will develop and test interactive voice-training software with trans people seeking GAVT in New York City with the goal of distributing it as a free web application to increase access.