The puff of pit and spit was as a bell
To drive Elise to major and do well

Is it not odd that I quoted Whitman in both my LING classes yesterday? Last day of winter lectures!

I was already assuming the ice would be messier on the way home and this confirms it!

Wait, is this your own pic? Postcard-level!

Thank you for the unplanned reminder that I should prepare some pre-term folk linguistic probing with my roster before winter quarter starts!

also it's not clear that the folk linguistic conceptualization of Valley Girl is clear or unified about what the linguistic behavior is, even within CA. Current Gen Z students know the term but many assume it invokes HRT and creak, dimensions that weren't on the radar in mid-80s

Correct, Californians do not associate those places with upper middle class - and ofc many do associate "valley girl" as a label with the SFV in particular. I'm not sure how many think of upper middle class entitlement as its primary index though.

I have encountered Californians from LA who thought "Valley Girl" invokes the central valley (while also using "the valley" to refer to the San Fernando valley)

I am a fan of the expression "repeat offender" in this context! :D

Second Language Phonology Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Second Language Phonology

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Second Language Phonology' by Ellen Simon.

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next two weeks!

Issues in Metrical Phonology Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Issues in Metrical Phonology

Another excellent new contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology is now available!
Issues in Metrical Phonology: Insights from Ukrainian
Beata Łukaszewicz & Janina Mołczanow
This publication is Open Access, freely available hereforth!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Psycholinguistics and Phonology Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology' by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula.
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Freely accessible* from Cambridge University Press for the next four weeks!

*the temporary free access does not seem to be operative yet so I'll repost when it is

Psycholinguistics and Phonology Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology' by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula.
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Freely accessible* from Cambridge University Press for the next four weeks!

Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology', by Jane Chandlee. Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next FOUR weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Dress

Fwiw we saw the stage musical in London this past summer & nearly the entire cast used English accents (except Oz, who was vaguely transatlantic). I think sometimes the choices are partly a function of the actor's toolbox

Watching both soccer and hockey today and I cannot stress this enough, just use one camera please. No closeups or cuts during live play. Please.

Bonjour hello, a demain

They contacted you?? Say yes! Trivia is 1/3 of the game

Bruh

Also, Greek π was adapted from a Phoenician glyph for /p/ which, prior to acrophonia, was a logogram for 'mouth' (i.e. piehole apparently)

I read once that the mathematical use of π originally was in reference to circumference (perimeter, hence Greek P), not the ratio of circumference to diameter, so the shift of the symbol's interpretation to how we use it now is an example of mathematical metonymy

My pie recipe uses h₁, h₂, and h₃. You can't taste them but you know they were there at some point

No I mean a system where TRAP is [æ] before nasals but [a] (in the IPA sense) otherwise

No it's not been reversed it's [a] otherwise

[æ] is alive and well as the prenasal allophone of TRAP in 3rd Dialect vowel systems 🙂

Yes, Dec through early Feb

2 twist 2 turious

In 2021 when we taught online I started each lecture with a song selection from youtube. On Feb 2 that year I used I Got You Babe. Played it again the next class, Feb 4. Sadly, no laughs or any other kind of reactions