Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research?
Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)!
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i don't see why they can't do all the track and field events at both olympics. put a coat on
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
The end of this process ALWAYS involves treats as rewards as well
My brain does this too, and the only thing that has worked for me is turning every big overhead light on and leaving it until I'm done to motivate/torture myself to go faster
i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
I still cannot suspend my disbelief that [tʌigəɹ] is attested
Blue Jays, Dodgers cause mass confusion by dressing up as each other for Halloween world series game
Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.
slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
I went to a friend's house in high school and there was a man I'd never seen before there. Her mom says he's John Malkovich, her close childhood friend. I who know zero celebrities was like oh neat nice to meet you. Only afterwards did I realize he's famous 😬
if i were designing a thing to stop projectiles in their path i would simply not put a giant hole in it!!!
Email subject saying Strava is acquiring Runna
Boston Accent Tech News
decoy minimal pair?
Paradise....Silo.....Fallout.....there's never been a better time in history to be a tv show about people living in a bunker
Thought-canceling headphones
I am firmly in the [ilæn] camp. I think I must've interpreted it through analogy to LAN the network, like E-LAN.
I can't unsee the [ilɑn] pronunciation now 🫣
My paper with @ajdinkin.bsky.social on the low-back merger in New Orleans is out in Journal of English Linguistics! The tl;dr is that - LOT/THOUGHT are merging in NOLA & not just because of retreat from marked Yat features like raised THOUGHT. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
It’s book release day! @perj44.bsky.social & I are so proud of our Cambridge Elements volume on “Language and Place,” which is available for immediate download as an open access PDF as of today 🤩 #linguistics #lingsky
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Hopefully the first and the last time! 🤞
It’s fun to catch up with friends at #LSA2025 & #ADS2025, and WOTY is always a highlight.
But nothing will beat @mkb933.bsky.social GIVING A TALK ON SOMEONE ELSE’S BEHALF (not a coauthor!), on short notice, while chairing the session, and then taking questions to pass on to authors.
Legendary.
View from behind Oregon receiver and Ohio State DB with the ball bouncing on the OSU DB's helmet
BONK
“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
Several copies of "Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language" with Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt as editors.
Table of contents. 1. Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation by Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt. 2. Local Attitudes and Dialect change in a Tourist Town by Aaron J. Dinkin. 3. Says No More: Intergenerational Change and the Development of the "New" New Orleans Vowel System by Katie Carmichael. 4. What Kind of Fronting? Leveling of /o/ in Raleigh by Sean Lundergan. 5. Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia by Jon Forrest, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, and Lelia Glass. 6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of *ain't* for *didn't* in Post-Migration Philadelphia by Sabriya Fisher. 7. Why San Franciscans Used to Sound Like New Yorkers by Lauren Hall-Lew. 8. When *Missoura* got *Warshed* Out: The Rise of Prescriptivist Influence as a Factor Reshaping Pronunciation by Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf. 9. Contested Place Construction and "Local" Sound Change by Daniel Duncan.
Oh hey look! After three years of hard work by so many awesome contributors, the folks at the @americandialect.org and @dukepress.bsky.social, the 109th Publication of the American Dialect Society is a real book!
#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
/ɛ/ in "regular" but inexplicably /eɪ/ in similar items like "lego"
Me subtly convincing all of my socio students to use the matched guise technique and/or priming for their final projects: 😈
Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave! #nwav52
