![Wordle](/linguistics/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/wordle_196_example.svg_.png?itok=CCtoOxzK)
Alexis Palmer, assistant professor of linguistics at CU Boulder, is a self-described word game aficionado. She is also a computational linguist, a subfield of artificial intelligence that sits at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. CU Boulder Today spoke with Palmer to learn more about the Wordle phenomenon.