Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15

hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social

If anyone knows anyone who's successfully transitioned from academic Linguistics to data-type work in industry please could you put me in touch? I'd love some advice on what sort of jobs to look at and how to translate my skills and training in a way companies will understand

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech. And they still charge you to publish and your library to read. When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview? 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

The Langauge Learning Lab at MSU (my lab!) has an opening for a 1-year post-doc fellowship in language disorders. The position starts August 2025 and may be renewed for a 2nd year. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For full details and to apply go to: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Norway considers hiring US researchers that would associate with running projects like my ICONIC project. Specifics are not defined yet, but if you are a postdoctoral researcher working on iconicity and would like to come to Oslo and work with me, shoot me a PM. shorturl.at/4Zxzz

Wanted: Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences Happy to chat about procedural aspects of the job and connect with our welcome center, who are amazingly helpful in getting settled in Osnabrück #JobSky www.hs-osnabrueck.de/wir/jobs-und...

Caitlin Halfarce talking to us about the Manchester Voices Project at the MCRL symposium today :-) great work!

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE @caitlin91.bsky.social

🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

There have been better years to be on the academic job market... that's 15 UK universities in dispute over job cuts

Okay #rstats folks and Bayesian enthusiasts. I want to fit monotonic splines in brms. I found forum posts from 2019-2021. You can fit them with scam, but the package doesn’t play well with the standard post-processing of mgcv. Has anyone figured out a way to get this done by now?

The only uni ranking I will share: bantshire.github.io/rankings.htm...

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Sharing the academic highs and lows... Hey look - that's me! Delighted to have been invited to speak to the Manchester Forum in #Linguistics this week I did my first ever conference presentation here in 2019 so it's a wonderful full circle to be back as a plenary #MFiL2025

Sharing the academic highs and lows...this week I was rejected without interview from the only job commutable from where I live that's come up in the last yr. I partially met criteria for subject expertise; didn't meet criteria for demonstrating ability to identify/make applications for grant income

✨ ATTN Education and Sociolinguistics friends! ✨ I'm hiring a postdoc, to work with the MI Diaries Project! This position is renewable for up to 3 years total. Please share widely! careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

I've spent so much time recently reformatting a paper for Word that was originally part of my thesis written in LaTeX that the availability of LaTeX templates might become a major factor in my next journal decision So which #Linguistics journals do these except Journal of Linguistics?

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/?

Job market friends (or ppl at the other end of the process), how do you answer 'why this university' when the answer often is...it's the only job that's come up in the last year

Officially out today! The paperback edition of 'You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak'. Available in all the usual places. scribepublications.co.uk/books-author... With some kind words from @susiedent.com, @simonmayo.bsky.social, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, and Gyles Brandreth😁

If I could give any advice to PhD students these days, it is to be serious about statistics. So many jobs require statistics knowledge.

Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Vacant PhD position in Linguistics, specifically multilingual language development (Ukrainian/Russian/Swedish) at @uu.se. #academicjobs www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🚨 We are recruiting! 5-year post-doc in Computational Humanities at the University of Lausanne Working language: French Details: www.unil.ch/news/1743431... Deadline: 22 April 2025 I'm happy to (informally) answer any questions. Please share widely! 🙂

Just wanted to share the small project I'm working on, aiming to provide an open workspace to hone literature searches with a visual interface. This will allow for searches to be shared in an interpretable and easy to rerun form with their own UID and hosting.

Have we actually found a sensible usage case for a pie chart? #DataViz (context, my dislike for pie charts has become such a running joke that my friends now send me examples whenever they come across them)

We are looking for someone who has experience in running non-profit initiatives / companies, ideally with a language science or background. Any pointers?

The first ManyLanguages project is under way. If you want to get in involved and share your expertise, please get in touch with the leadership team. I will be the analysis lead and would love to get a few quant people together to think about how to tackle the analysis. Get in touch with me!

🚨🚨🚨 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

#Linguistics friends, is there a term to describe the following phenomenon: Characters in an alphabet that have the same sound in one language but distinct sounds in another language due to language evolution. In Amharic ኣ and ዓ are the same sound but in Tigrinya they are distinct.

#linguistics does anyone have a copy of Lehiste, I., & Peterson, G. E. (1961). Transitions, glides, and diphthongs they could send me? (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America)

📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online 🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers. ECR & PhD students encouraged to join! 🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5

From my best friend's youngest 3;3 O: "what time are we in?" mum: "...modern era?" ...mum has now realised she's actually assessing is it snack time, lunchtime, playtime, bath time, bed time etc... #LinguistBabyPhotos

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

Today copy+pasting methodology sections from a past paper #CountsAsWriting (yes of course I'm going to edit them)

Anyone know a way to turn these alerts off...the academic job market is depressing enough without an email reminder of it on a regular basis...

Our final talk of the day is from @robdrummond.bsky.social who is bringing us bang up to date with the latest Manchester Voices research.

It's our 101th episode!  So this month we're giving you a tour through the levels of language using a classic LING 101 style: from the smallest (sounds, handshapes) to largest (discourse)

I love a good people don't understand alphabets joke as much as the next classically educated linguist...but this is fake, it's from Reddit www.reddit.com/r/TheOdyssey...