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Fernanda Ferreira
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Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, happily living in California. Childless cat lady.
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Some Davis NIMBYs tried to get this house in central Davis designated "historic" to block construction of a 5-story mixed use housing project. Fortunately the move was defeated, a victory for common sense and aesthetic judgment.

An ordinary one-level single-family home that is in no way architecturally interesting or culturally significant.
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My theory is that she believes she’ll sell more copies of her book if people think it contains lots of juicy anecdotes about conflicts between her and Trump, and these abortion comments serve as a teaser.

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Interesting! I sometimes have BBC Radio4 in the background! Like you I’m not really listening but I find the sound and the voices pleasant and even comforting.

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Im curious: you can write while listening to unrelated speech? I can’t even write with just instrumental music in the background!

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As always, we are powered by Janeway Systems platform, hosted by eScholarship publishing services of the University of California, copyedited by our Editorial Assistant Sandy Chung, copyedited and typeset by Silicon Chips, and supported by the psycholinguistics community!

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October is (almost) here, and so are two great new articles that we're delighted to publish in Glossa Psycholinguistics!

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"Wiping out the traces of the people and the places that I've been"

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Just saw someone refer to Twitter as Xitter, which made me laugh out loud because in Portuguese the letter X is pronounced as "sh" 🫢

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Fernanda Ferreira
@fernandaedi.bsky.social
Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, happily living in California. Childless cat lady.
1.5k followers1.3k following321 posts