Little bit of soy sauce on the lemon bars brings amazing depth.

Coming up with the survey: 😈 Making the survey: 👿

The first teens to go gn > ɲ must have felt so cool

My research

I'm ready for this semester to be over

Just finished phonetic measurements for a QP. If I never saw Praat again in my life I would sleep so soundly.

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I'm so in break mode I saw a class meeting today I got jump scared.

Every time I spell the word genealogical I'm like, no way that's right.

Has anyone heard "I'm flex" to mean flexible (in schedule)? If so, who uses this?

A syntactician walks into A'

That French /e ~ ɛ/ contrast sounds to my American ear like it's /ɪ ~ e/. Are the French vowels really high? Are the English vowels really low? Or is IPA just fake?

What I learned at #LSA2026, part 2 (a very long thread) Preference for expletives in tough-construction-y adjectives cannot be derived from LLMs trained on child-sized amounts of input, so the human preference might come from somewhere else (Gotowski & Davis) (W&M MENTIONED)

Everything I learned at #LSA2026, part 1 (a very long thread) Unsupervised grouping methods are computationally cheap and reveal unexpected results (Larson & Amaral) Translated texts are a means of studying authors' metalinguistic knowledge of language differences/change (VanMeter)

Just packed for six days of travel in a backpack. Not a carry on. A personal item. Get on my packing game.

Check out KU at #LSA2026!! I'm on at 4 on Thursday with Jean Paul Ngoboka where we look at grammaticalization in Kinyarwanda 🇷🇼 On Friday at 2:15 Phil Duncan is showing how "have" predicates in Me'phaa are applicatives 🤩

한국어 오디오 테이프를 끝냈어요. 아직 잘 못하지만 더 공부하고 싶어요. 한국어를 정말 좋아해요!!

Pressure's on.

Here's the first PRETTY sunrise of the new year. Sorry January 1st. January 4th chewed you up.

Good morning 2026!

Goodbye 2025!

This series of language courses always assumes not only that I'm gonna have a rental car BUT ALSO that the gas station won't be self service. Anyway 석유 좀 주세요. 가득 채워 주세요.

283 Praat measurements stand between me and this QP

Good news: I finally finished chopping up my elicitation audio into single-utterance clips ready to analyze! Bad news: there are 2,378 of them 😱

HANGUL TIER LIST S ㅅ ㅇ A ㄹ ㅁ B ㅂ ㅊ ㅍ C ㄱ ㄴ ㅌ D ㄷ ㅈ ㅋ F ㅎ

Nothing says underused like the 2pl form of a verbal paradigm

These audiotapes I'm doing, they usually make 30 lessons per language. I just discovered that for Korean they made 150 😱

Anyone have any sources that compare topicalization in Korean and Japanese?

Not even 24 hours later and I'm changing one of my conclusions to the literal opposite

I was 21. Helaas pindakaas!

To my ear the three Korean stops sound like: Plain: singleton aspirated~plain~voiced Tense: geminate plain Aspirated: geminate aspirated ...which I know is not quite right but it's what I hear. I've been primed to listen for tone but I just don't hear it! (And I'm Chinese! What's wrong with me!)

Once again letting myself believe I might be close to finishing this QP

What even is the paraphrase of "I wouldn't know" as polite alternative of "I don't know?" My gut is that it conveys humility by making it more individual-level, like "I'm not even a person who would know that"

That department potluck was so good it should go in our recruitment materials.

Woooow. These Pimsleur audiotapes are good. In lesson 1 they teach you English-ACC as a unit without decomposing it - the bare minimum to ask "Do you speak English?" In lesson 7, they teach the word "soju," and then say, when you talk about drinking SOMETHING, you say, soju-ACC...

新しい 言語の勉強を始めて良かったですね。実は今学期落ち込みましたけど毎日少しの進歩をして気分が良くなりました。この勉強に招待してくれた同学生に本当に感謝したいです。

Wait wait wait, in English you can say "I wouldn't know" as well!!!

日本語を知って韓国語の勉強はカンニングのようです（笑）

Stats are so hard. I thought I was gonna do one lmer and get The Answer

I love how 안녕히 계세요 runs together in rapid speech. /anjʌŋhi kjesejo/ gets put through the articulatory wringer and emerges as a barely-recognizable [ʌ̃ɪ̃ʌ̃ɪ̃ɰes̞ʰeɪo].

What is the 겠 doing in 모르겠어요 'I don't know'? A cursory search suggests 겠 is associated with volitionals or probability, neither of which feels I-don't-know-y.

FINALLY got this picture sent to me

My Korean cohortmate is leading a breaklong Korean-learning sprint! 저는 한국어를 조금 할 수 있습니다!

Semester 3 was 3 and 13/32 pounds.

School's out!

It's honey mustard in the lead but spicy ranch might be coming up from behind.

It's December? No it's not

I'm pleased to share that cooking an orange peel with the pork shoulder really does make a huge difference. You get little pops of citrusy fragrance. Delightful!!

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What? FLOWCHART is evolving!