🚨 New OA article! What does it mean to have a "cute" voice? In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture. Read here: 👉

New paper with my student Zichuan! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've got a new paper out with Shoba Bandi-Rao and colleagues on the evaluation of inter-turn silence in Singapore English! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?

Last December @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I visited @tsunglunone.bsky.social at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and were interviewed by a linguistics student. Here's a summary! lingsights.tw/articles/61 #linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language

Up next, when I walked into this panel Kewen asked if I could present my student Yunbo's study, so I'm going to try to wing it! The word of the year is indeed rawdogging... #LSA2025

NUS's Kewen Zheng is presenting on how ChatGPT can serve to increase writing anxiety among non-native speaker students. #LSA2025

At the oral histories panel! First up, Isaac Bleaman and Chaya Nove on Yiddish and the oral histories of Holocaust survivors. #LSA2025

Next, Emmett Jessee is presenting on trans identity and sibilant perception. #LSA2025

A plug for our NUS students: at 12pm in Salon B, Kewen Zheng will be talking about students' writing anxiety and ChatGPT use. Then, at 12:30, Yunbo Mei will be discussing language ideologies and market dynamics in China's English language teaching landscape. #LSA2025

Final day of #LSA2025! Here at the ADS session, first up is Bill Kretzschmar on salience and dialect features.

Adolfo Hermosillo and colleagues are presenting on intensifier variation in Salinas California, using data collected for the Voices of California project. #LSA2025

Lisa Sullivan is testing different levels of metalinguistic awareness of a set of variables: bag-raising, Canadian ay and ow raising, and ay monophthongization. #LSA2025

PraiseGod Aminu presents on variability in postvocalic /r/ in Nigerian English. #LSA2025

At the sociophonetics session, J Calder is discussing vowel space among nonbinary San Francisco drag queens. #LSA2025

Thanks to everyone for visiting our three posters! Please do come to my final talk on romance audio dramas, there will be cute fan art! #LSA2025

"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...

Thanks to everyone who came to my tilde talk with my student Wang Yao~~ #LSA2025

At the social media panel with a talk by Mark Winston Visona on tweets about policing and epistemic stance! #LSA2024

At the session honoring Bob Bayley, Dennis Preston and Sali Tagliamonte are sharing their fond memories of Bob. #LSA2025

Sali Tagliamonte and a crew of students are presenting on parallels in variation and change between UK youth and Canadian elders. #LSA2025

Next, Patricia Cukor-Avila and colleagues on copula variation and the contribution of social and linguistic factors. #LSA2025

Claire Henderson and colleagues find that spelling norms in Canada have actually shifted towards UK norms over time, unlike other aspects of language. #LSA2025

First up at ADS this morning, Jaime Benheim and colleagues examining lifespan change among the senators from Rhode Island. #LSA2025

During the Saturday 10:45 poster session, poster 1: do Singaporeans incorporate features of AAL when they rap? Work with Rachelle Chua! #LSA2025

Later on Saturday, how do voice actors change their pitch and voice quality when performing different character types in straight and gay romances in Chinese audio dramas? I'll be presenting this work with Yang Yanyu at 4:30 in Salon D. #LSA2025

Coming up on Saturday, first, what does it mean when Chinese speakers use ~ vs. ~~ in digital discourse? I'll be presenting work with Wang Yao on social evaluation of tilde at 9:30 in Salon B! #LSA2025

Hi everyone! I'm giving three talks and three posters at #LSA2025 - luckily, the first one on stops in Malaysian English will be given by my former student Le Xuan Chan, coming up at 3:30 in Salon B!

It's a bit of a trope to say "I took Spanish for 4 years and didn't learn anything", but on average people in US schools do attain some level of functional language proficiency! See this new ACTFL brief by by Koen van Gorp and @mattcoss.bsky.social #lingsky 🐦🐦 www.actfl.org/research/res...

Labov's obituary in the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

Bill Labov has passed away after a long and extraordinary life. The founder of variationist sociolinguistics and the academic adviser and grand-adviser to so many in our field. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and students today.

Thrilled to receive a copy of "Dialect Contact"! @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here based on my undergrad thesis, my first ever publication 🥹 Massive thanks to @jennycz.bsky.social and Victor Fernández-Mallat for the immense work that they put into editing this volume!

My paper with Alamelu Vankatachalam on singular 'they' in Singapore English! repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

New book on Singapore Sign Language aims to raise visibility of local signing www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ne...

Will be seeing everyone at LSA in Philly!

APLV Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multilingualism and Language Contact! More info on our Facebook page: https://buff.ly/3Xe4F48

Wrote a piece for NUS news about Singlish in digital communication! news.nus.edu.sg/singlish-goe...

Our final talk at #methods18 is a plenary from Jane Stuart-Smith on researching rhoticity in Scottish English.

Final talk in this session, Catherine Travis and Gan Qiao on using covariation to investigate the intersection of class and ethnicity. #methods18

After lunch, James Walker is talking about covariation in ethnolects. #methods18

Finally in this session Gia Hurring is presenting on multiplane covariation in NZ English. #methods18

Next up, Elena Sheard and many colleagues are presenting on covariantion in NZ English vowels. #methods18

Next up, we have an organized session on linguistic variation and coherence, introduced by Josh Wilson Black. #methods18

Next up, Fumio Inoue and Yasushi Hanazawa on new dialect forms in Japanese based on multiple correspondence analysis. #methods18

Last day of the #methods18 conference! First up, Felicity Meakins and colleagues are presenting on modeling variables across time and space in the emergence of new dialects. She's introducing a Bayesian implementation of varbrul!

Final talk of the day, James Grama is presenting his work with colleagues on a panel study of FACE and possessive "me" in the NE of England. #methods18

Keiko Hirano presents her paper on longitudinal changes in consonant cluster reduction among US and UK expats in Japan. #methods18

Next, Claire Ye on Beijing Mandarin 儿化. #methods18

Next up, Lucia Fraiese and colleagues on (ING) variation in youth Aboriginal English. #methods18