“Effects of coda consonant on syllable-initial Voice Onset Time (VOT) in English and French: the Syllable-Body Stiffness Hypothesis” by Danilo A. Lombardo and D.H. Whalen (Aug. ’26) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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“How the transmission of meaning shapes phonology: Strong and weak phonological patterns” by Andrew Wedel, Kathleen Currie Hall, Elizabeth Hume and T. Florian Jaeger (Aug. ’26) www.academia.edu/167941390/Ho...
This cool morphological error really ought to be more frequent, given that ingrate = ungrateful person
Positive review/handy summary by Monica Vasileanu of Lívia Körtvélyessy’s book “Onomatopoeia: The Colorful World of Sounds” linguistlist.org/issues/37/25...
LINGUIST List 37.2544 Reviews: Onomatopoeia: Lívia Körtvélyessy (2025)
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Darin Flynn@phono-logical.bsky.social · 8mo ago“Onomatopoeia: The Colorful World of Sounds” by Lívia Körtvélyessy (Nov. ’25) www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
An example of the work that must be done to repair Tasmanian language data: the Northeastern language(s) (my current focus) were largely recorded by an Englishman (G. A. Robinson) who couldn’t hear initial /ŋ/. Here are examples of NE forms for ‘spear’ from Plomley (1976):
The little dictionary I made for the Chhé’ee Fókaa is now up on the Tribe’s website: www.saltpomo.org/our-mission-1
Our Language — Chhé'ee Fókaa Band of Northeastern Pomo
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“From semantics to syntax: somatic resistance and phonological remapping in the acquisition of Bebop by a tonal-language vocalist” by Yuan Wang in the journal **Jazz Perspectives** (July ’26) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just found this re: Antetokounm[b]o www.koinegreek.com/post/how-do-...
How do you pronounce Giannis Antetokounmpo's last name? Historical Greek Phonology & the Greek Freak
It is not very often that my field, historical Greek phonology, and modern sports culture cross paths. But following Giannis's historic performance in the NBA Finals, I thought that this would be a ti...
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Darin Flynn@phono-logical.bsky.social · 4d ago/ˌæntətəˈkuːmboʊ/ for me. Not sure why it’s /b/ rather than /p/, but it’s striking that I’ve collected many examples with a long vowel or diphthong before /mb/, but none before /mp/. E.g., chamber /ˈʧeɪ̯m.bəɹ/, cambric /ˈkeɪ̯m.bɹɪk/, cambrian /ˈkeɪ̯m.bɹi.ən/, goombah /ˈɡuːmˌbɑː/, ...
Dictionaries report ‘anosognosia’ as /ˌænoʊˌsɑɡˈnoʊʒə/ (MW, Taber’s), /ˌænoʊˌsɑɡˈnoʊziə/ (Collins), and /æˌnɒsɒɡˈnəʊsɪə/ (OED), but people affected by this condition seem to prefer the more sensible pronunciation /ˌænəsəɡˈnoʊsiə/
/ˌæntətəˈkuːmboʊ/ for me. Not sure why it’s /b/ rather than /p/, but it’s striking that I’ve collected many examples with a long vowel or diphthong before /mb/, but none before /mp/. E.g., chamber /ˈʧeɪ̯m.bəɹ/, cambric /ˈkeɪ̯m.bɹɪk/, cambrian /ˈkeɪ̯m.bɹi.ən/, goombah /ˈɡuːmˌbɑː/, ...
Darin Flynn@phono-logical.bsky.social · 4d agoOoh I just realized Ante[tʰ]okounmpo is an example of Withgott’s Generalization
Open-access grammars by UC Publications in Linguistics escholarship.org/uc/ucpress_u...
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Ooh I just realized Ante[tʰ]okounmpo is an example of Withgott’s Generalization
Ceuta = Sebta Lenition in Spanish or fortition in Moroccan Arabic?
@europe-africa.bsky.social · 5d agoItaly closes border with Spain amid Ceuta migrant crisis https://www.europesays.com/africa/358094/ Young men who returned from Spain gather at the Bab Sebta border crossing near Fnideq, Morocco, Friday. The…
Good stuff: “How <h> is hybrid in Mehri” by Noam Faust and Janet C.E. Watson (July ’26) @radical-phonology.bsky.social radical.cnrs.fr/wp-content/u...
“What African languages can teach us about phonology” at UC Berkeley on Sep. 17–18, 2026 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
“‘Wanna’ contraction in first language acquisition, child second language acquisition, and adult second language acquisition” by Haerim Hwang (2023) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Adolescents activate phonology when reading familiar words” by Jina Kim, Emily Zrostlik and Kristi Hendrickson (July ’26) pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
“A substantive inductive bias for *NonFinalR in an artificial grammar learning replication experiment” by Tsung-Ying Chen (July ’26) www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
My father-in-law’s apartment balcony has a pigeon problem. There are many companies specializing in pigeon-removal/control but my wife has decided we’ll go with this one, based on their name
Why do some English vowels stay hard even after years of study? A Taiwan-led study finds the perception-production link isn’t one connection, it’s several, each tied to a different sound cue and shaped by native-language habits. #Linguistics #SecondLanguageAcquisition #Phonetics
When Your Ear Betrays Your Mouth: What Mandarin Speakers’ English Vowels Reveal About the Wiring Between Hearing and Speech
A phonetic imitation study finds that the link between how we hear a sound and how we produce it is not one connection but several, each tied to a different acoustic cue
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I would also think there is a sociolinguistic element to this. They are the most conspicuous sounds and something that people are very aware of (iirc old-fashioned TV bulletin Hebrew had the pharyngeals). Somali is of course different from Kurdish etc., bc the pharyngeals are ancient there.
“Two /h/s. On debuccalisation in Ancient Greek” by Adèle Jatteau (July ’26) radical.cnrs.fr/jatteau-two-...
“The prenuclear glide in Putonghua: a durational perspective” by Lian Liu, San Duanmu and Zuxuan Qin (July ’26) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#OTD 103 years ago, Morris Halle (1923–2018) was born 🎉 A pioneer of modern linguistics, he was an expert in generative phonology and a contributor to Distributed Morphology. In 1974, he served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
“An optimal(ity) approach to /v/: a phonetic and phonological investigation” by Jillian Maklin (July ’26) ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/wp...
