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/...

Small update: I surveyed my class of 24 students, mostly from KS/MO and a few from NE, MN, and SD, and no one had heard of "whip a shitty", but 100% of them called a u-turn a "yoo-ey". But instead of "whip a yoo-ey" they said "pull a yoo-ey".

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

Let's ギョプる!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Yes! 🙌

So proud to be from NE Ohio 😊

New paper alert: congrats to Profs. @cbchang.bsky.social, Sunyoung Ahn & Youngjoo Kim on the publication of "LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency"! 🎉🎉 link.springer.com/article/10.3... #OpenAccess #Korean #LanguageProficiency #LanguageAssessment #langsky 🐦🐦

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

#Linguistics at the University of Georgia is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in #phonetics and #phonology. Spread the word and let me know if you have questions! linguistlist.org/issues/36/31...

Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind

Tomorrow (10/2) at 4:00 pm we are welcoming Dr. Katie Hoemann from the KU Department of Psychology as she gives a colloquy talk entitled, "Around the world and in every day: The contexts that structure our understanding and experience of emotion". The event is open to the public 🌻

Anyone familiar with Tagalog who can answer: Makita normally marks the seer with the "ng" case: Nakita *ko* siya. But in this existential sentence, why is the seer in the "ang" case? May nakikita *akong* katiwalian sa transaksiyon.

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling! www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... #langsky 🐦🐦

And that’s a wrap! Thank you to our stellar presenters, reviewers, attendees, volunteers, sponsors, and organizers for a fun and successful #SLRF2025 conference. This would not have been possible with your support. We hope to see you all for #SLRF2026 in Montréal!

Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Syntax and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Ohio State University osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

I don't want an "AI assistant" for anything ever get out of my face and stop asking.

Take a short SURVEY to help #LabPhon20 organizers understand what might constrain in-person conference attendance, given issues of immigration, funding, and accessibility. We strive to make a realistic and equitable conference plan, including for students. ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Found myself scrolling through old tweets this evening and this photo was a real nostalgia hit (ignore the date, it was around July 2020). This was my route to the "fancy" grocery store; I walked this path roughly once a week for 8 years. Yeonhui-dong was one of my favorite neighborhoods in Seoul.

Next Thursday, the Hall Center for the Humanities will welcome linguist and writer Abduweli Ayup, a specialist in Uyghur language education. He will show the film "All Static and Noise", a documentary on China's Uyghur detention camps, and discuss his work promoting the Uyghur language.

If ChatGPT 5 was a PhD, it would tell you all the uncertainty and limitations about its answers

I had such a good time speaking with the incredible @annehelen.bsky.social for the Culture Study pod! Check it out to learn more about regional accents of English (including a detour through Utah, h/t @joeystanley.com) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Tinted car windows should be illegal. As a pedestrian it is maddening when I cannot tell whether a driver is looking in my direction and has noticed me standing there. Even as a fellow driver I find it frustrating and it seems just as dangerous.

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

Congratulations to Dr. Ayumi Nobuki, who successfully defended her dissertation today! Her dissertation was titled "Comprehension of an Implied Meaning in Children: Investigating a Role of Contrastive Particle in the Felicity Judgment of Sentences", and she was advised by Prof. Utako Minai. 🎉

Opinion from Ben Palen: How this Kansas farmer tries to make sense of the dispiriting mess in Washington, D.C. #ksleg

We are excited to announce our #LabPhon Association's 2025 off-season programming, a series of three events on #prosody and #suprasegmentals. All events are scheduled during July and August, and they're FREE for ALP members. 😎 🌞 Info and registration are available here: labphon.org/content/summ...

The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of. Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business. NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation. GTFO

I'm looking to recruit participants aged 18+ who are based in the United States and speak English at home. You'll need headphones for this study (it's listening to audio clips), it will last ~30 minutes, and you can receive $5 for participating! illinoisstate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This point is not made enough. The US has an embarrassment of riches of great colleges and universities. There are strong institutions in every state. It’s as if those places don’t count.

Lab Manager position at the University of Michigan. Come join us as part of an active research community across many different labs (phonetics, computational, sign language, etc.) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Brill, baby, Brill!

Come to Glasgow on May 28 for Phon-UP 3 (Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy)! Attendance is free. Please repost for reach! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phon-up/

ecclesiastical Latin is about to get hit by the Northern Cities Vowel Shift

EALC at Indiana U. is hiring a NTT #VisitingAssistantProfessor of #Japanese #language & #linguistics. Position begins Aug 1 2025. All apps received by May 23 2025 are guaranteed full consideration; open until filled. For complete info see: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29467 Please share!

"One of the best decisions we made recently was replacing a slow, manual content creation process with one powered by AI. Without AI, it would take us decades to scale our content to more learners." But the content is total shit. Has the CEO ever actually used his own product?

Korean rare book open house today. This collection of rare books did not exist before I came to UCLA. It's going to keep growing, since we have one of the largest premodern Korean programs in the country.

anybody have the Hoosier Mental Lexicon handy?

This Thursday, April 3, we will be hosting our inaugural Oread Lecture in Linguistics, featuring Dr. Karthik Durvasula from Michigan State University! His talk is entitled: "Deriving incomplete neutralisation through abstract representations". It will be held at 4:00 pm CDT in DHDC (Dole) 2092 🌻

“I first learned about science at Lincoln Elementary and through my local 4-H club,” writes neuroscientist Molly Stanley of Iola, KS 🌻. But it was at Allen Community College and the University of Kansas where she realized she could *be* a scientist. Now she’s fighting to protect that path. 🧪🏠

I enjoyed the syntactic ambiguity in the first sentence: "Rep. Sean Tarwater prayed Thursday for his House colleagues who support a satanic plot to make a mockery of his faith." At least for me, "to make a mockery" attaches more easily to "prayed" than to "plot" (the intended reading). #linguistics

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

I have students record production exercises for my intro phonetics class, and one of them came to me today with a novel problem: for forms that were [ejective]-[vowel] or [click]-[vowel], her PC was simply not recording the ejective or click, apparently filtering it like it was background noise.

Zoom link is available if anyone would like to watch remotely!

Preparing for my lecture tomorrow on the mental lexicon.