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Darin Flynn@phono-logical.bsky.social · last yr.

Bilabial vs. labiodental fricatives in Urhobo (Southwestern Edoid; Rolle 2013)

In al-Awabi Arabic (Oman), the prefix vowel of imperfect verbs is generally determined by the place of articulation of the first root consonant: yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!] yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub

"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze" Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview. Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

It has been a great DGfS conference last week in Mainz! I hope I could show that Syriac can contribute to our understanding of cyclic phonology. #DGfS47 #DGfS2025

Dominique Bobeck@dombobeck.bsky.social · last yr.

This is repaired by epenthesis: k<e>tbát. Same with ketbét. This is THE topic of my presentation in a few days at the DGfS meeting: sites.google.com/view/variati...

the real outlier is #Romanian, which, I think, doesn't have a single example of such prothetic vowels in inherited #Latin words. which points either to early diatopic variation in this regard or to different word-initial phonotactic tendencies.

More than 40 downloads in just 2 days! So far and by far, the most downloaded paper of the volume. A big thank you to all who've read (or are reading) the paper! revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl... #linguistics #academicsky

Dominique Bobeck@dombobeck.bsky.social · last yr.

It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?" revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl... Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there! #Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology

(1) How did Syriac end up with different 1s, 2ms perfect forms ket̠bet̠ vs. kt̠ab̠t, if the ancestors are katabt-u, katabt-a? (2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at? (3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?

It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?" revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl... Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there! #Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology

"Arabisch zu sprechen, gefährdet die öffentliche Sicherheit", begründet die Polizei ihr Sprachverbot und kriminalisiert damit pauschal eine Sprache und die Menschen, die sie sprechen. Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!

#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

In Germany, the word RECHTS 'right' has undergone an interesting semantic shift. Concerning politics, it just meant 'conservative'. But now, many use it as 'far-right (populist)'. Being conservative is nothing wrong. But this is not what ppl demonstrate against.

#HeineGegenRechts@heinegegenrechts.bsky.social · 2y ago

Düsseldorf stellt sich quer und Mitglieder der @hhu.bsky.social sind dabei! Wer ebenfalls Flagge für Demokratie zeigen möchte und dafür noch ein Plakatmotiv braucht, kann sich gerne bei uns (auch per PM) melden - wir teilen unseren #HeineGegenRechts mit euch!

“A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia” by Norbert Maïonchi-Pino and Élise Runge www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is censorship, full frontal attack on academic freedom by any means.

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Phonology cannot alter morphology but only phonological exponents! A good example of avoidance of obligatory vowel contrast in stressed positions! (1/n)

Goran@santpolyglot.bsky.social · 2y ago

In Spanish, 'agua' isn't a masculine noun but feminine. El agua → las aguas When a singular feminine noun begins with a stressed 'a' or 'ha' sound (agua, águila, hacha), the definite article 'la' changes to 'el' for ease of pronunciation. #LangSky

CALL FOR PAPERS! I'm happy to announce the 41st Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik: Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds. 12th - 14th of September 2025, Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Germany. Submission deadline: 28th of February 2025 www.phantastik.eu/veranstaltun...

Foreign language taste says more about the ppl who say "I (dis)like the sound of ..." than about the respective languages. Of course I have my phonesthetic preferences, but *familiarity* is a major factor in foreign language assessment. Cf. Reiterer et al. 2020, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foreign language learning motivation: Phonetic chill or Latin lover effect? Does sound structure or social stereotyping drive FLL?

An increasing number of people (e.g., polyglots) report studying foreign languages out of pure pleasure derived from sound or melody. The Romance lang…

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Lena/Лена 🇷🇺@lenastudy.bsky.social · 2y ago

#langsky What is your Top 3 most beautiful languages (to listen to)??? (you don't need to speak them) my top 3: 🇷🇺 Russian 🇭🇷 Croatian 🇯🇵 Japanese

I'm a formal phonologist. This field is/was kind of dominated by men (Halle, Kiparsky, Vennemann, Prince, Smolensky ...). Considering that more than ¾ of the students in my phonology class are women, I decided to present some inspiring female phonologists and their work. (1/2)

William Labov is overleden. Een van de inspirerendste taalwetenschappers die ik heb gekend. Een in memoriam. neerlandistiek.nl/2024/12/in-m...

In memoriam William Labov (1927-2024)

Gisteravond is op 97-jarige leeftijd de Amerikaanse taalkundige William Labov overleden.

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How to say the fire 🔥 in different languages - #Semitic: Arabic: نار nār Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ ʼešāṯā Bibl. Hebrew: אש ʼēš Gəʿəz: እሳት ʼəsat Tigrinya: ሓዊ ḥawwi Akkadian: išātu(m) Mehri: śīwōṭ

Monkey@dragonmonkey2024.bsky.social · 2y ago

How to say the fire 🔥 in different languages: English 🇺🇸 fire Dutch 🇳🇱 vuur Spanish 🇪🇸 fuego French 🇫🇷 feu German 🇩🇪 Feuer #bluesky#langsky#langtwt#wotd

When I started with cuneiform, I learned the "monumental" form of the Old Babylonian period from a primer. But the main bunch of forms, I learned from Atrahasis - Old Babylonian, but cursive. While reading the epos, I made at least 100 flashcards and trained with them.

Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen@thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 2y ago

Sumerian & Akkadian studies (all cuneiform) You learn a maze of conventions - subscripts; accents that aren’t accents; upper case, lower case & italic latinizations; the abbreviations of 1,000 journals, books & universities; the names of 100 scholars Then you can start learning the signs #langsky

The interrogative 'why' in #Semitic languages: - Classical Arabic: li-māðā - Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š) - Modern Hebrew: la-ma - Syriac: l-mānā - Turoyo: l-mən - Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt - Amharic: lä-mən - Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh - Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m) (1/2)

The Oxford handbook of vowel harmony by Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), OUP, 2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#linguistics - How students vs. researchers think about phonology: Students: - In language history, x happened because of y - The letters/sounds Bee, Dee, Gee ... - Ease/difficulty explains everything (1/2)

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Tolkien: Die wahre Geschichte der Ringe - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

J.R.R. Tolkien hat mit seiner Fanstasiewelt Mittelerde ein neues Genre geschaffen. Seine Fantasy-Abenteuer und deren Verfilmungen sind bis heute Kassenschlager. Doch was macht seine Geschichten so ein...

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English names were translated directly from Japanese, but then German and many other names from English rather than the original Japanese. So it’s Nockchan and Kicklee in German. I don’t know about Mandarin or Cantonese. There is very little information that Pokémon reveals about the whole process.

#Romanian saying of the day: Soare cu dinți. 'Sun with teeth.' Said when it's sunny but very cold outside. I.e. with clattering teeth. #langsky

This slide is from my phonology class this semester. In my preparations, I've accidently learned that the meaning of Māori *moana* is 'sea'! Didn't know that before! I suppose it's similar/the same in other Oceanic languages. #langsky #Moana

National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study! Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da... #NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!