As I’ve been reading about Canadian French, I am surprised by how much most language policy/stats in Canada is obsessed by how many of the French speakers know English. There are other languages spoken in Canada too, though maybe this reflects historical fears over separatism.
I'm glad that chaotic good ideas inspire.
I mean you probably shouldn't steal it from a state park but maybe an office park is fair game.
But isn't it free in New England woods?
Illegal because there's an inherent order to the album or illegal because they're overplayed?
The lengths some phonologists will go to to avoid (a) lexical exceptions or (b) dactyls.
Omg tell me you're running 7.0. This brings me back.
Do you like pu erh tea?
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One thing that I worry about from my country’s big sloppy self-shagging with respect to research funding is that fieldwork will become ever rarer. It’s such an important area of work and it remains a major area where there are new discoveries and knowledge creation.
It’s remarkably hard to find tenured fieldworkers who do language documentation at public institutions in the US. I imagine the same is true for sociolinguistics. A history of blacklisting research in these areas in the past (and present) still shows up. #linguistics
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PS: I doubt these UB funds could be transferred elsewhere (and the experiments would take place here), but once the experiments are run, analyses can be done anywhere. If it’s production/acoustic data, there’s always a lot of post-processing too.
I’m going to put this out there - I have some funds to run lab experiments involving prosody and segmental articulation. I’m happy to collaborate with people who want to do this work but don’t have much funding, especially given the federal funding catastrophe.
#linguistics
...that you keenly observe when older linguists just are not citing anything published within the past decade (or more). To me that’s a sign that they should retire. I won’t name names, but several textbook authors are probably within this bunch.
2/2
Part of growing older as an academic is learning that you have to make an active effort to read things by younger scholars (and stop assuming the older work is the most relevant). It’s good that I like to read, so I enjoy this side.
However, the other side of this is… 1/2
Those things are much cheaper in The Sims.
A My Little Tony doll, which is a my little pony which is the body of a pony and the head of the dude on the pizza box. The Pizza man. I have changed the logo for my little pony to say my little tony
Woke up from a dream (Nightmare?) this morning. The toy that was all the rage with the kids was “my little Tony” dolls. I had to exorcise this thought, I'm so sorry.
Different. [pɒn ʃap].
Evaluating different papers on the prosodic hierarchy, I’m surprised by how limited wordsets are in individual experiments. If we take Winter (2015) seriously, we should care about “the other N” not only for ecological validity, but b/c just adding repetitions increases type I error.
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India ink on top of watercolor? I love it.
You don't revive an area with a data center.
Just when I thought we were safe, dad jokes come out of gnomewhere.
The proposals to make every little thing compliant were mostly invented by people who have no research experience, imho.
But also, if you just give students handouts and don’t post anything on UB Learns, then would you be automatically compliant? Or non-compliant?
The US is notorious at creating new laws that effectively nullify constitutional rights. If you're not allowed to protest w/in 25 feet of a church, what does this mean for massive protests? We have to fight against this evil and insidious creep on our rights.
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I keep getting Facebook photo reminders when I log in there. I took lots of photos of flowers and pretty things around the house.
This has been a persistent issue with lots of higher ed in the US too. They downsize lower-level admin to save costs and then tell faculty to use software written for admin. You get things wrong or the remaining low level admin have to field questions about the software all the time.
Since SUNY does not give us any admin privileges either, I opted to completely avoid my university-approved upgrade (or leave it in my office for emergency purposes). I bought my own macbook so that I can do what I need on it without submitting work orders every time I have to upgrade Praat.
This is similar to the issue that came up when I had to figure out the difference between the Triqui pluractional existential mmàn vs. the count existential bà. Some entities could take either depending on how group/mass-like you thought they were. Beans are also hard to count. It’s fuzzy.
