Flagging this up as a generous and excellent resource from @scoretta.bsky.social

Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate.

Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists.

#TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

I really enjoyed #BAAP2026, meeting colleagues old and new, and seeing the diversity and strength of phonetics (which is so often +something, like psychology, social issues, tech, language acquisition or in my case conversation analysis) in Britain.

BBC Four - Art of Persia Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Very exciting work!

Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter Abstract This paper investigates the phonetic and social organisation of laughter in spoken conversation. Building on conversation analytic research that highlights laughter as a complex interactional...

Link to the paper, Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter:

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

@marinanc.bsky.social doing us proud condensing a tightly written paper into 15 fun and informative minutes at the British Association of Academic Phoneticians in Warwick today.

Here comes the ☀️

The York English Language Toolkit returns on 10 July 2026. This free hybrid CPD workshop for A-level English Language teachers features talks from Prof Devyani Sharma, Prof Paul Kerswill, Prof Sam Hellmuth and Dr Kobin Kendrick. Save the date.

englishlanguagetoolk...

Géraldine Enjelvin, Yumi Nixon and Ulrike Wray use traditional Japanese Kamishibai storytelling to teach languages. They are bringing interactive workshops to York schools and the York Festival of Ideas this June.

Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

I’m enjoying the conversational poetics of ‘a healthy body of work’, Edward!

It’s savoury! A bit like a fancy Spanish omelette.

Look up Ottolenghi’s cauliflower cake recipe — it’s really good and easily adapted with ingredients you like.

The Department is hosting an African Linguistics Workshop featuring new research from staff and students. Special guest Prof Enoch Aboh (Uni of Amsterdam) joins the session following his Robert Le Page Lecture. 13 March at 09:30 in AEW/106.

Read the programme: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

And I was interested that the shop assistant just reached for the requested item, without an
eye roll, or an embedded correction.

it's rather like the restaurant where some friends and I were served [fəˈkeɪʃə] with our soup.

... spelling conventions, eh?

I go into the bread shop, and the woman after me says:
have you got any [ˌsaɪəˈbatə]?

What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?

Join us to hear from alumni working in teaching, marketing, and the Civil Service. Discover how they used their degrees to shape their careers.

5 February 2026, 15:00–17:00, B/T/019

Register here: tiny.cc/LLSalumni

Are you a current MA/PhD student, or a recent PhD graduate? York's annual conference on Conversation Analysis is open for abstracts. Keynotes and workshops in CA skills by me and @ana-ostermann.bsky.social Ana Cristina Osterman.

I was in Finland at -30. Advice from friends there, which worked: mittens are better than gloves; use silk or wool liners; make sure nothing is tight.

thank goodness for prosodic features, including glottal stops, and the past tense of 'eat' as [ɛt].

Excellent overview of current theory, and hopefully interesting for colleagues in #CA. "it is not always clear how posited categories are realised in spontaneous speech... but existing studies suggest that caution is needed when we assert the generalizability of laboratory data."

My Nordic friends say always use mittens, not gloves, if it want warm hands.

Thank you for saying this. It’s exactly what I feel.

It's a sign of the times that the Journal of the IPA will no longer be published in print. It's a sign of my age that I will miss receiving the yellow and black volumes and lining them up with the issues I've collected since 1998. Browsing electronically isn't the same pleasure.

What excellent news! No one's life was better for not being able to take part in this scheme.

We are excited to have Professor Richard Ogden (@richardogden.bsky.social) as an invited speaker at #YorCCA2026! His research combines phonetics and CA to explore how phonetic detail shapes social action. His work deepens understanding of turn-taking, stance, and non-lexical vocalisations in talk.

Groundbreaking monolingual Irish dictionary launched A groundbreaking new monolingual dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge that provides people with a new way to understand, use and learn the Irish language, without relying on dictionaries in English or in ot...

The first ever monolingual Irish dictionary has been launched www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

#YorCCA YorCCA 2026 YorCCA 2026 will take place on the 17th-18th of July 2026 at the University of York Main Conference: 17th July 2026 Workshops: 18th July 2026

YorCCA's website: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

YorkCCA is York's annual CA conference organised by PhD researchers at the University of York and affiliated with the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication @uoycaslc.bsky.social. Next year's conference is 17-18 July. The other invited speaker is me!