An language model that detects the emotional state of the speaker and responds accordingly. Interestingly, the model will use certain features, including ones we've studied in class like derhoticization, to indicate certain emotional states. It likely also has learned, inadvertently, to detect/classify human emotion by paying attention to these variables. An open question is how language models like these will affect language change, if at all.

A 2012 article about a German father who supports his son's desire to wear skirts and dresses by wearing a skirt himself.