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Now available! THE CRIP LINGUISTICS READER is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” Visit our website for more information on this latest release from GU Press! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-...

New preprint on prosody in the brain! tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu HeeSoKim NiharikaJhingan SaraSwords @hopekean.bsky.social @coltoncasto.bsky.social JenniferCole @evfedorenko.bsky.social Prosody areas are distinct from pitch, speech, and multiple-demand areas, and partly overlap with lang+social areas→🧵

Extremely proud to have contributed to this amazing three-part Special Issue on Vanuatu languages, out now in Te Reo! Especial thanks to the wonderful editors for pulling off this major achievement. You can read my contribution here: nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...

Do subtypes actually exist in speech sound disorders? Errors: are they disorders or are they compensations? A dimensional framework. Rethink our foundational knowledge: New paper www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum... @tricmc.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @thespeechprof.bsky.social

The first ever monolingual Irish dictionary has been launched www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I'd like to see more articles on the meaning of terms usually translated as "language". The concept of community languages as a way to keep secrets is definitely not unique to Vanuatu...

Very glad to say I contributed to two articles in these special issues. Will post links and summaries tomorrow

Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...

Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...

if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity

i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. it's such an honour to receive this funding 🌸🩷

A lot of laughter during linguistics talks, especially after playing or reading out interview extracts, is problematic

Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.

Who is doing the read for this? If they're an Aussie I'm somewhat impressed with both mita lol youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?... #linguistics

Deadline’s coming up in 2 weeks’ time! Don’t miss your chance for up to $800 to attend the ALS conference.

🔐💰 @ashajournals.bsky.social McAllisterT PrestonJL BenwayNR HillJ LaraMP LeeceMC LiangW & HitchcockER 2025 Rhotic Acquisition Is >Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Tx for Residual #ChildSpeechDis Primary Outcome of a RCT doi.org/10.1044/2025... @meiriongwril.bsky.social @jscobbie.bsky.social

Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x

Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

My paper about normalizing vowel formant tracks is published online at Linguistics Vanguard. The approach to defining formant track normalization I describe in the paper is implemented in the tidynorm package jofrhwld.github.io/tidynorm/

Learn to build your own corpus, query language patterns, and draw insights from real data. This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research. Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Please help circulate widely! Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022 Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social

If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here! The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics star-linguistics.org

Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

The abstract submission deadline for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference has been extended to Friday 8th August, so you have a week to get your abstracts in! Hope to see lots of you in Wellington in November! nzlingsoc.org/conferences/...

Cad é an Ghaeilge ar "voice of a generation"? Ar fheabhas. youtu.be/_SVNTv44C4g?...

This video sums everything up youtu.be/wA_jroxKpao

Not sure how this will go but either way it’s a big deal for climate accountability Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Definitely yeah nah for reflexive TA (and qual more widely). Gen AI discourse is productive. Be wary of what’s being produced as we discuss Gen AI (to support or resist) - but resist ✊🏼 #QMiP2025

Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology

New ERP study with Brittany Lee! Fingerspelled word primes elicit early N400 effects for printed word targets, similar to printed primes and unlike ASL sign primes. This results suggest shared orthographic representations for fingerspelling and print. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The call for papers for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conference is open! nzlingsoc.org/conference/c...

In this BSL video summary, Kearsy Cormier revisits our highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in British Sign Language (BSL), co-authored with Sandra Smith & @zedsehyr.bsky.social What is constructed action, you ask?

“I always had a picture of Matariki next to my bed when I was growing up. I found it in National Geographic . . . I ripped the page out and put it on my wall, not knowing it would become really important to me later in life.” — Dr Pauline Harris, astrophysicist and expert on Māori astronomy.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

This is the response (that I put together alongside the editorial staff of The Conversation) to David Seymour's defence of the "Victim of the Day" harassment campaign against experts in Aotearoa. #nzpol #kikorangi

I got an email from the 'committee for academic freedom' asking me to sign a petition to say that I shouldn't have to voice beliefs I disagree with. I *love* a dogwhistle (academically speaking...) so I spent my coffee time reading their website.

The welcome session for #LancsSS25 is now underway!

“When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won’t say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80.

The amazing @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Barbara M. & I build towards (sadly not obv to all): "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas." rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Hey team, this is important: the wonderful Pukaha/Mt. Bruce eco sanctuary needs our help to stay open due to having their funding slashed (looking at NACT 👀). Can you help? I’m going to be looking at what I can give this week at work. pukaha-donation-appeal.raiselysite.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

Glottolog 5.2 has just been released at glottolog.org Get the full data at doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or the CLDF dataset at doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or browse at glottolog.org #glottolog

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NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really pleased to see my chapter in great company in this chunky collection... National norms supporting small-scale multilingualism: Vatlongos communities in Vanuatu. Huge thanks to all the young Vatlongos community members who took part in this research!