3 new papers-download all from sverrestausland.github.io (1) W/ Maria Evjen & @timoroettger.bsky.social: "Investigating potential MERGED and DISTINCT speakers in an ongoing merger" in @labphon.bsky.social (2) Likskapen millom norsk og færøysk (3) Norsk busetjing på Færøyarne etter svartedauden

Can we reliably identify MERGED vs. DISTINCT speakers during ongoing sound change? #Acoustics + #perception data from #Norwegian /ʃ, ç/ show that a principled boundary between speaker groups does not exist. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon @timoroettger.bsky.social @stausland.bsky.social

Me har tre ledige stillingar på vårt nye "Senter for norsk fagspråk i bruk" - to ph.d.-stillingar og éi postdok-stilling. Merk at søknadsfristen er 20. oktober! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Nina Hagen Kaldhol and I have a chapter entitled "There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali" in the book "Synchronic and diachronic approaches to tonal accent", edited by @anghyflawn.net and Björn Köhnlein. Preprint: sverrestausland.github.io/publication_...

Phonology hivemind: For a BA course, I want to assign a paper that lays out the essentialist vs. emergentist debate for phonology, in practice markedness vs. functionalism/evolution. The paper that first comes to mind is Kiparsky 2006 in Theoretical Linguistics. Any other suggestions?

Registration is now open for the conference Phonology in the Nordic Countries, hosted at the University of Oslo Feb. 20-21, 2025. There is no conference fee, but please register by Feb. 1 if you intend to come! A preliminary program will be added soon. fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/f...

Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025. www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

We at the University of Oslo are hosting the conference Phonology in the Nordic Countries (FiNo) February 20-21, 2025. A call for abstracts is posted at the conference website, and the deadline is Nov 10: fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/f...