In downtown Philly! Look at the view!

So, I'm curious if the locals who came up with this actually implicitly have some knowledge of the Northern Cities vowel shift. #linguistics

The greatest accomplishment of our age is the degree to which we're still able to do smart, engaged, dedicated, and caring work while the world's on fire and we're taking care of our health/families. It's nothing short of incredible. Pause or doomscroll and you're liable to lose your wits about you.

Does anyone know where MidPhon 31 will be? The conference was in Indiana in 2025, but it does not appear anywhere on the web for 2026. Maybe in 2027? Several people at LabPhon were talking about it being a good venue for research.

Unsure if I should make a big deal about the fact that Triqui doesn’t like more than one adjective per NP in my grammar. Color + size are ok, but anything else has to be it’s own stative phrase. But also, how often do English speakers actually produce multiple adjectives in an NP? #linguistics

The wind and thunderstorm were crazy last night. A major branch fell off our tree onto our carport. Though, I’m happy to be moving around and functioning again (and happy to be back in CT even if the house work never ends).

Day 8 of my surgery recovery. I'm doing much better. I will only have to lay on my side until tomorrow. On a brighter note, I'm going w/Paul to the ICM in Philly at the end of July. Anyone around Philly want to hang? I'll see museums and other things, but coffee/lunch with people would also be nice.

I miss conversation. Recovering on my side for a week looking too much at my phone sucks.

Oh no. No no no no. GenAI is absolutely NOT about access to information. It is about despoiling our information ecosystem. And the text extruded from chatbots is absolutely NOT expression, since no one is expressing themselves there.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last mo.

AI systems are "at their core, a technology of expression and access to information,” writes Isabelle Anzabi. How governments govern the technology will shape what people can say, seek, and know—and the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva is where Anzabi says the world can get that right.

The default setting of Zoom to share presenter view in PowerPoint and not full screen is a massive technical failure and annoyance in teaching and giving talks.

I attended a lot of #labphon20 remotely yesterday and today and I've been very impressed with the talks. It has been a respite during my surgical recovery. I was especially happy to hear so many people talking about micro and macro studies of phenomena and also on fieldwork. #linguistics

I have a second retinal reattachment surgery tomorrow morning. I've come to terms with it over the past few days, cancelling all my plans to go to Montreal and our plans for a Quebec vacation. The most helpful things are actually people calling or visiting to chat when I am laying down for a week.

Not an expert but I believe this is a description of lawbreaking: "the agency appears to be defying a congressional directive in the final FY 2026 appropriations bill that 'No [NSF] directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level'"

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"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

See you at LabPhon next week and CorpusPhon2 the week after. Our website has a (slightly) revised schedule with abstracts posted as well. #linguistics #phonetics sites.google.com/view/corpusp...

CorpusPhon 2 - Schedule

Monday, June 29, 2026

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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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Is there a gay pride for queer people who are trying but feel like they are mostly failing? Who have never learned to trust positive affirmations? A quiet pride for those of us who just need someone to hold their hand for a little while and listen?

Should this go somewhere else? Comments? christiandicanio.blogspot.com/2026/06/dear...

I wrote this thing. It’s imperfect but it’s something that is up and perhaps useful to students and early post-docs. Ideas are welcome. #linguistics christiandicanio.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-...

At what price will you stop buying certain nice things? A decent bar of dark chocolate? $5 A cappuccino? $7 A loaf of bakery bread? $9 Nice cheese? $15 These are my limits, apparently. I will go without instead of paying this price or higher.

Europeans: “The US is not doing anything about fascism!” Americans: “I went to 3 protests so far this year, volunteered at P, and boycotted X, Y, Z.” Europeans: “Why don’t we see any of this?” Americans: “Because national and international media does not cover it, c.f. fascist control of the media."

The moment I feel that the author of an article just wants to get the background literature section "over and done with quickly," I lose respect for them.

Are words like “necessarily”, “only”, “completely”, and “finally” modal adverbs? Or is there a better name for them? I want to distinguish between these and things like manner adverbs for my grammar. I’m probably not thinking about this correctly though. @rhenderson.net ? @nickfleisher.bsky.social ?

If I’m writing an entire grammar, is it worthwhile to still try to submit a grammar sketch somewhere? Think of it as the tl;dr version perhaps?

AI mostly assumes that people will not want to read. So, it creates stupid lists of things since it assumes powerpointification is easier to interpret. It’s just easier to tabulate, but when the details matter, the whole world is not one big tl;dr.

As workers around the world rally to mark May Day, International Workers’ Day, we speak with organizers in Los Angeles and Chicago.

“No School, No Work, No Shopping”: Workers, Immigrants to Lead Thousands of May Day Protests

As workers around the world rally to mark May Day, International Workers' Day, we speak with organizers in Los Angeles and Chicago. The May Day Strong coalition here in the United States says 3,000 protests and events are scheduled across the country wi...

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US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdown

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Sesamoiditis requires that i wear a dumb boot and walk like an old man for 3 more weeks at least. My foot hurts and I'm supposed to stay off of it, but work and life is supposed to still happen. I kinda need people to just do things for me. I'm not good at this.

Is there an undergraduate textbook in sociolinguistics that does not assume any background in linguistics? Bonus if it is not anglo-centric or focused on British dialectology EXTRA bonus if it includes things like homework exercises. #linguistics

Unabashedly queer from the Irrepressibles. They’ve become one of my favorite artists. I love the lead’s vocals and the instrumentation. Most of their work is deeply introspective and hits hard, whether it’s sorrowful or plucky and waltzy like Two Hearts (from 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKkY...

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