next week in #sociophonetics I'm teaching @mixedlinguist.bsky.social's 2024 article on Southern CA English along Black & Latinx teens. Are there good video or audio clips I can use to illustrate this multiethnolect?
The department of #CognitiveScience at @jhu.edu is seeking motivated students interested in joining our PhD program -- including #sociophonetics in my lab! Applications due 1 Dec; for those interested, we have an Application Mentoring Program thanks to current grads. See flyer for QR link.
does anyone in #sociophonetics know how the vowel formant training data or measurement process for DARLA and new-fave might be different? Asking for a whole pile of archival audio that's getting wildly different back-vowel values across the two. @jofrhwld.bsky.social @joeystanley.com ...?
r-atics 8 in Malta is nearly wrapping up – 24 talks, 20 posters, and two days of focused discussion on rhotics: their variation, acquisition, and diachronic change #r-atics #sociophonetics #phonetics
📄 Anna Sophia Stein and Kevin Tang
Title: Modeling Probabilistic Reduction using Information Theory and Naive Discriminative Learning
#Interspeech2025 #SpeechRecognition #ASR #Bias
#Sociophonetics #Sociolinguistics
#InformationTheory #NaiveDiscriminativeLearning
#ComputationalLinguistics🧵3/3
A mug with the words "Kind of a big dill" and a picture of an anthropomorphic pickle wearing sunglasses
Drinking my Dr. Pepper zero and owning my prelateral vowel mergers 😀
🐦🐦 #linguistics #sociophonetics
How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Mine is that in HAPPY vowel variation in Greater Manchester, despite the lax vowel being least prevalent in the south of the city it is very much alive and kicking in this song from one of my favourite bands (from Stockport)
open.spotify.com/track/59EKMm...
#linguistics #sociophonetics #Blossoms
Logo of nzilbb.vowels package. NZILBB koru with words 'nzilbb.vowels' above.
nzilbb.vowels: Vowel Covariation Tools (0.3.1) is now on CRAN. The package contains many useful functions for applying Principal Component Analysis to vocalic data and visualising the results. Website and documentation here: nzilbb.github.io/nzilbb_vowels/
#rstats #sociophonetics
New work by Melanie Weirich on #phonetic detail, #gender and #occupation. Different groups have been analysed, eg woman working as soldiers, man working in kindergarden, persons in leading positions. F0 & formant analyses have been carried out. Those interested in #sociophonetics may have a look.
Come work with me / us: two fully funded, 4-year PhD positions in sociophonetics. Starting 06/25. Let's go! 🚀⬇️ #sociophonetics #swissgerman #deutsch #schweizerdeutsch #soziolinguistik #soziophonetik
disclaimers: (1) this was done quickly - sorry if I missed folks; (2) it's very anglocentric, but I did try; (3) these folk might not say #sociophonetics, but others should check them out; (4) sorry it's not a proper starter pack, but I couldn't work that out. Happy to update!
drum roll - Bluesky's first starter list for #sociophonetics
Abby Walker bsky.app/profile/abby...
Adrian Leemann bsky.app/profile/adri...
Alan Yu bsky.app/profile/acly...
Betsy Sneller bsky.app/profile/bets...
Christian Ilbury bsky.app/profile/chri...
Christopher Carignan bsky.app/profile/cari...
My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
media.ed.ac.uk/media/Profes...
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