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The serendipity of “the next book over” in libraries and used book stores is a wonderful and often overlooked method of randomly learning new and fascinating things.

New paper out! Turns out people are pretty good at converging or not on command. But my favorite part is that Americans' TRAP vowels end up conflicted between the TRAP they just heard and that elephant BATH in the room Super fun & my 1st collab w/ Cynthia www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/2...

Cognitive control in cross-dialect phonetic imitation

This paper explores deliberative and automatic processes in phonetic imitation across geographic dialects. 136 American English speakers shadowed an Australian model talker and were instructed to imit...

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Spotted in the wild, perfective of "draw" as "driven"

Do I have anyone on here who can help with a tricky issue in early modern (late 16th century) Portuguese lexicography / etymology?

🌟 Really excited to share that our article, “A Crosslinguistic Corpus Phonetic Analysis of Intrinsic Vowel Duration,” was just published in the Journal of Phonetics! Joint work with @mzhang89.bsky.social Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We don't get tons of musical acts coming to the non-KC parts of Kansas, but on August 10 in Salina you can see Men at Work, Toad the Wet Sprocket, AND *checks notes* Shonen Knife.

Halal, Arabic and French are among the skills Lawrence honed to be good hosts to the Algerians | via Emma Noble #ksleg

Halal, Arabic and French are among the skills Lawrence honed to be good hosts to the Algerians • Kansas Reflector

LAWRENCE — Bidding for a spot as a host city seemed nearly impossible. Until it wasn’t. The University of Kansas, Explore Lawrence, Rock Chalk Park, and Lawrence city government teamed to argue that  ...

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Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027! Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026 Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Confs: 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation

sadly real history has very few Norway-Brazil clashes but kids I'm here to tell you about a little game called Civ VI

I also missed this. I got to know him a bit during my time at Indiana, which was my first job after grad school. He was very supportive and kind to me.

Chandan Narayan@ch-narayan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I somehow missed that Bob Port passed away in February www.mykeeper.com/RobertPort

TIL it wasn't just Clever Hans

Anyone willing to try an online experiment for one of my students? She’s investigating listeners’ ability to discern a real human voice from a deep fake synthetic voice: 🧠💬 uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This should be fun! I anticipate much discussion of the pin-pen merger!

KU Linguistics@kansaslinguistics.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library THIS SATURDAY 11 am - 2 pm to explore language with KU linguists! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language. There will be stickers and buttons and bracelets- what more could you want? 🌻

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Michael Chesnut@michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Good article on the declining number of foreign faculty in Korea and the challenges facing Korean universities which are recruiting academics internationally, with some good commentary from Hong Kong and elsewhere www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2.1 is out now, a special issue on "Hanmun Teaching and Hanmun Grammar" (in OA 🙏) @ www.jospl.org/articles/cur...

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp@schrift-sprache.bsky.social · last yr.

New OA journal: Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies @ jospl.org

‼️🔔 My paper, "Hypercorrect Moun[tʰɨn] in Utah English", has now been published in English World-Wide. 🎉🥳🎊 tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Hypercorrect Moun[thɨn] in Utah English

Abstract This study analyzes unstressed /tən/ in words like button, kitten, and mountain. In Utah, there are three variants: North American mainstream [ʔn̩], forticized [thɨn], and local [ʔɨn]. While ...

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English Korean 🤝 hengma

A somewhat chance encounter with Prof. Chungmin Lee of Seoul National University, in which he illustrated things like contrastive focus and scalar implicature, and I was like "Wait, this is something you can study?" And that, friends, is how you get a BS in Accounting and a PhD in Linguistics.

Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · 7mo ago

Do you remember how you found out that linguistics existed and was a thing you could get enthusiastic about?

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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. (Note, I wasted most of my undergrad on a business degree.) Social Dance 2 Tax Accounting Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation The Eastern European Experience in America Elements of Japanese Culture

Rachel Burdin@rsburdin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Avoiding English/Ling/Music courses (Majors/Minor)... Intermediate Jogging 19th Century Russian Literature Chekhov Political Philosophy The Medieval Church

Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...

I am planning to be there! Very much looking forward to it.

Jen Nycz@jennycz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The program for GURT 2026 ("Futuring Linguistics") is live! Gonna be a good one docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?

📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815

I'll take it.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 9mo ago

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Does anyone know of a language anywhere in the world that has two different words for writing done by hand and writing that is printed or created by mechanical/artificial means?

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧

My paper with Eunjong Kong on Korean "short tongue" pronunciation is finally out 🎉 Recently there has been more discussion of "short tongue" in the context of aegyo, a Korean cute speech register, and "short tongue" is one of its linguistic hallmarks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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