Alexis Palmer, assistant professor of linguistics at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä 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. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Today spoke with Palmer to learn more about the Wordle phenomenon.