Laura Bailey
@linguistlaura.bsky.social
Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person.
A short and easy survey about nonbinary names: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Closing date: 19th July 2026 #nonbinary #survey
Nonbinary names survey
Just a fun survey to find out about popular names and common naming trends among nonbinary people! You will get the chance to enter up to three names. If you go by more than three names and you're not...
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This is my semi-regular shout out to linguists: if you have/are a PhD student who'd write a great book review for the Journal of Linguistics, especially if it'd help increase our global diversity of authors, let me (reviews editor) know a couple of books they/you'd like to review. #linguistics
researchgate really wants you to upload full texts, but that just splits your download statistics for their own gain, right? all these people requesting a full text when it's freely accessible somewhere else with just a quick google...
If you've got a spare couple of quid and want to support a good thing, this is one you could consider. Arts Emergency help working-class young people get into arts careers (because opportunities are reliant on who you know, and because funding for arts is being cut so much).
Arts Emergency@artsemergency.bsky.social · 2mo agoPrivilege doesn't trickle down on its own. Someone has to actively share it. That's why Arts Emergency exists.
This matters. Please co-sign. Managers like to pretend that petitions don't move them, but in reality cannot but answer questions about the numbers, and suddenly things that were deemed inevitable appear to be more-evitably-than-previously-declared.
Sign the Petition
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Today's fun 'work' is going to the @britishacademy.bsky.social to hear Mark Steedman talk about LLMs and processing meaning (it's the PhilSoc Anna Morpurgo-Davies lecture). You can join online if you register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-la... #linguistics
Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence
Can Artificial Intelligence truly imitate natural language without any flaws?
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Hey #corpus #linguistics people. Making some transcripts. The auto transcript outputs like this: Speaker Timestamp speaker turn Is this OK, if I use <> for markup? Or is there a way to easily format it like other corpus transcripts: speaker1 speaker turn speaker2 speaker turn
Ah, writing retreat > productive procrastination > new blog post for you all. It's been a while! Enjoy! Despite the title, this is about the meaning of 'like'. #linguistics linguistlaura.blogspot.com/2026/05/lite...
Literally non-literal, when literally asked about literalness
Someone on Reddit was trying to identify the fibre their yarn was made from, and someone suggested burning a bit of it since burning hair/wo...
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I'm at the 'find your voice' stage of our project modules, and am doing the time-honoured task of getting infuriated by the wrong #linguistics on the advice that is on university web pages on this topic. Did you know, it's only 3rd person if it's existential?
Can someone remind me, how do you trick ScholarOne into letting you log into another journal with your existing account? #linguistics
Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Can You Say That?
The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders...
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oh no I just over-simplified prescriptive rules and tense/aspect to the point where I basically said 'anything you say is right' which I suppose I am fine as a position with but I know the listeners of bbc bristol will have just heard me say 'don't worry there are no rules!' #linguistics
This looks really good! #linguistics
Akira Murakami@mrkm-a.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe will be organising the annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School from 6 to 9 July this year. The event will return in an entirely online format. Please see our website for details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu... #ccrss26
Every year I'm surprised by the fact there is one more day of March than I'm expecting there to be. Makes up a bit for having one less hour of Sunday than usual. I also learnt recently that these days are called the 'borrowing days'.
Another day out and proud on the picket lines today at Northumbria University. Staff are fighting to defend the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and stop management’s attempt to force them out through pay freezes. This is about dignity, security and refusing to let pensions be stripped away.
Someone wrote "Most people get whey more protein than is needed" and yes it could have been a pun (it was reddit) but I think was actually a genuine priming error #linguistics
Verb ellipsis klaxon: [characters discuss marriage] 'Ever been?' 'Married? No.' #linguistics
Something students struggle with is constructing ungrammatical examples. Is there a handy chapter on this in a handbook or something? #linguistics
During lockdown I went to tons of online talks and I miss it. What are some good #linguistics talk series mailing lists I can get onto?
My life is literacy-heavy (read a lot as a kid, job involves lots of reading, am v online) so it's rare I find a word that I know the pronunciation and meaning of but not the spelling (rather than vice versa). Today I learnt how 'salchow', a word I've known since I was a child, is spelt #linguistics
I don't know who to tag to thank but I have ALREADY used stuff from the SOTL session at #LSA2026 in my teaching, not even 24 hours after learning it (I looked again at the data in my slides, and talked to students about where it came from and how it was cited). #linguistics
Years ago, 957 people from Twitter contributed to my research on 'because X' and I promised I'd share the results with them. I can't, because twitter, but please share it with people here anyway: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... Non-paywalled pre-print: kar.kent.ac.uk/105654/ #linguistics
8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction
8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction was published in English Sociosyntax on page 227.
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So can someone help me troubleshoot virtual access to #LSA2026? I'm getting a 'host has a meeting in progress' message and don't know what to do about that.
sigh. why do I never remember to tag things. #linguistics
Laura Bailey@linguistlaura.bsky.social · 7mo agoGood news, fans of the @lagbling.bsky.social Activism in Progress series: it's back! First speaker of 2026 is @ramonagonczol.bsky.social talking about heritage language projects with secondary schools. 4pm (GMT), Wed 14 Jan. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d87fb0...
Good news, fans of the @lagbling.bsky.social Activism in Progress series: it's back! First speaker of 2026 is @ramonagonczol.bsky.social talking about heritage language projects with secondary schools. 4pm (GMT), Wed 14 Jan. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d87fb0...
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The current drama in the Archers is over whether you can say “a jug of cocktail”. Ambridge is divided. I find it anomalous, I think, but it ought to be easy to get this sense (compare “a jug of pork pie”: less likely, but definitely grindable). #linguistics
SynTeach is going to #LSA2026! We're doing focus groups while we're there so if you're interested, fill in the form and tick the LSA box. We're looking for teachers and students, people who loved syntax and people who hated it... anyone with syntax Thoughts! #linguistics forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2...
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
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Any other linguists watching this Doctor Who spin off? Definitely room for a linguist in the United Nations of the Land. #linguistics
App idea for someone to make pls: duolingo but for people who a) only want to learn enough to go on holiday in a month's time and will not continue after, & b) are linguists so want it packed with grammar info in order to extrapolate e.g., 'she would like' from 'I would like'. Thanks. #linguistics
My 3mm needles are MISSING. Where can they be?? I don’t lend my good ones and I’m faiiiiirly sure I haven’t got a stray project somewhere (or if so I can’t find it).