U of C makes it to top 100 list on Times magazine calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

‘lioness’ /ˈlajənəs/ vs. ‘lionness’ /ˈlajennəs/

Happy to see Avery & Idsardi (2001) terpconnect.umd.edu/~idsardi/pap... discussed in Salmons’s chapter in The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems (Feb. ’26) doi.org/10.1163/9789... Quarter-century old Dimension Theory still has much to offer in the great laryngeal debates, as Salmons shows

Lexical stress errors can help us assess childhood apraxia of speech; however, identifying these errors isn't always easy. This article from AJSLP highlighted that SLPs and students in CSD were able to properly identify these stress errors https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00170

#OTD 199 years ago, William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) was born 🎂 A scholar of Sanskrit and the Vedas, he championed an evidence-based approach to linguistics. He argued that language is a social institution, not an organism nor a direct expression of its speakers’ Volksgeist. #LinguisticBirthdays

For a more detailed discussion of Whitney’s conception of language and his intellectual background, check out episode 8 of our podcast! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/09/01/p... #Histlx

Good read. Murphy pans Iain McGilchrist (not in Hickok’s book), defends “a certain older, now retired linguist” on language v. thought and suggests “the fact that our definitions of language are now quite unintuitive is a sign of progress, and should be welcomed” bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bi...

“Enhancing our understanding with context and prosody” by Marianne Mithun (Feb. ’26) romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/u...

rhyme > grammar

Just saw on the other platform that Jonas Sibony has published his online dictionary of the Arabic Varieties of the Jews of Morocco www.jonas-sibony.com/djm/

Join us next Friday for the next talk in our speaker series! Demonstrative ku in Korean: Its prosodic and syntactic analyses Dr. Kyumin Kim (Chungbuk National University) and Dr. Emily Elfner (York University) Friday, Feb 13 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

Calls: Workshop at LabPhon 20: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection

Another instance of expletive infixation where the first foot straddles two words: “Thàt’s ĕ-f*-nóugh!”

“The phonetics of Tarifit: variation and change in a Moroccan Amazigh language” by Mohamed Afkir and Georgia Zellou (Feb. ’26) [free until Feb. 18] www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📢 C-STAR Lecture Reminder Join us for the upcoming lecture by @gregoryhickok.bsky.social on Friday, February 6th at 1 pm EST: "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language and Its Sensorimotor Foundation" No registration needed. Access through: cstar.sc.edu/lecture-seri...

Looking for opportunities in linguistics? Visit the LSA Job Board for the latest job postings and professional opportunities across the field. Whether you’re searching for your next role or ready to share your work, the LSA Job Board is a great place to start. www.lsadc.org/jobs_search....

“Mm, cotton candy” –my daughter, as she snapped this

So excited to see the Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language come out!! Here is my chapter on Experimental approaches to sound symbolism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Fave overtensing example:

Bonus: nice ejective at 15:40 youtu.be/o5HF7banagI?...

“Where the R’s survive in England: Lancashire rhoticity!” by Geoff Lindsey (ft. Danielle Turton) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5HF...

The Workshop on Logical Phonology was held on January 23 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Handouts and slides are available here: wellformedness.com/wolp/

“The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: cognitive, neural, and [wait for it] neurochemical [!] perspectives” by Chenwei Xie and William Shiyuan Wang (Jan. ’26) www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/14...

Open-access book: “Phonetics and phonology of Ibero-Romance languages” ed. by Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza (Jan. ’26) mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/bo...

“The paths to rhotacization in Tangut, with new evidence from Qiangic” by Mathieu Beaudouin (Jan. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Math...

“Timing the difference: a study of gemination in Dogri consonants” by Pranav Badyal (Jan. ’26) karolinum.cz/casopis/auc-...

“The explanatory power of iconicity in language” by Ludovic De Cuypere (Jan. ’26) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

“Phonographic writing systems” by Dimitrios Meletis (Jan. ’26) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

“The segmentals and suprasegmentals of ideophones” by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Jan. ’26) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Incidentally, I knew that Aussies were busy merging a lot of vowels before /l/ (fool=full, deal=dill, Ellen=Alan, cult=colt), but I didn’t know about dole=doll: “A Doll on the Dole: Prelateral Length Mergers in Australian English” by Joshua van de Ven et al. (2024) assta.org/wp-content/u...

OH an Aussie alpaca farmer say /ˈælpəkə/ or /ˈælˌpækə/ (like a pseudo-compound; cf. BACKgammon, JACKhammer, ANTacid, etc.) — hard for me to tell [ˈæɫpɐkɐ] and [ˈæɫpækɐ] apart in Strayan

/ˈfɐbɪŋ/

English proverb: "More haste, less speed" Algerian proverb: اغضب تعطل ʊγṣeb taʕṭəl ambiguous between: = hurry and you get delayed = force it and you'll break it (The list is about 40% good, 40% indifferent - but 9-9-6 is such bad advice that it makes the rest irrelevant. Esp if you marry early!)

The first 2026 edition of our newsletter on recently published works in the history and philosophy of the language sciences is here 🤩 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/01/29/p... #Histlx

@gregoryhickok.bsky.social will be giving a C-STAR lecture on Friday, February 6 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time regarding his new book 'Wired for Words'. I'm sure it will be provocative in the best possible way. Please attend and prepare your most challenging questions! cstar.sc.edu/lecture-seri...

#OTD 161 years ago, Karl Luick (1865–1935) was born 🎂 He specialised in the history of English, but also studied the phonology of German varieties spoken in Austria, Viennese German in particular. A street in Wien-Donaustadt bears his name. #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

“Vowel length” by Kevin M. Ryan (Jan. ’26), draft of a chapter to appear in “The phonology of vowels” edited by Martin Krämer and Violeta Martínez-Paricio meluhha.com/articles/rya...

Huh, I hadn’t noticed this before @tonogenesis.bsky.social pointed it out:

Here’s the slide from Diego’s talk bsky.app/profile/calg... that now has me on the lookout for “quandaries”

ugh, I have the hardest time pronouncing OIL. Rating: 0/10, probably my least favorite English word. Fun tangent: People in mh family circle reference this Andy Griffith song in which BOIL rhymes with FILE. But I do not know if any of my family members say it that way. youtu.be/Eu77tX7uDvc?...

Indigenous language reclamation is happening from the grassroots in Taiwan too www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

“When vowels glottalize without strictly aligning with prosodic boundaries: marking prosodic structure in American and Australian English” by Jiyoung Jang, Sahyang Kim, Anne Cutler and Taehong Cho (Jan. ’26) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Hm. I meant “one of the friends of one of my daughters,” but that was too long and awkward. Unfortunately, “one of my daughters’ friend” is ungrammatical (to me), so I was left with “one of my daughters’ friends,” which has the wrong number on ‘friend’ :( To quote Fillmore kb.osu.edu/server/api/c...

This evening one of my daughters’ friends asked her to ask me why she sometimes pronounces ‘both’ as “bolth.” Here’s my answer, in case it’s of wider interest (or if anyone disagrees)? The likely reason is that the “dark l” sound at the end of a syllable like ‘bowl’ sounds like ...

My 7-year-old daughter made up this alphabet song of languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y4...

Does anyone have this 5-page article on Sanga (Bantu L35, DR Congo): Coupez, André. 1969. « Une leçon de linguistique ». Africa-Tervuren 15(2). 33–37.

I’m a bit skeptical of Jaker’s iambs www.cambridge.org/core/journal... but it’ll be cool to read his new article in *Linguistic Inquiry* “How natural Is tonal phonology? What happens to stress-tone interactions when tones reverse?” by Alessandro M. Jaker (Jan. ’26) doi.org/10.1162/LING...

Groovy: “On the origin of the effect of silent articulation on speech perception” by Sarah Carneiro Pereira, Jean-François Patri and Gilles Vannuscorps (Jan. ’26) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Great study: “L3 acquisition of Mandarin Chinese stop consonants by learners with L1 Spanish/Thai and L2 English” by Jingyi Han, Ting Wang and Miao Zhang (Jan. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Miao...

“Handbook of phonetics and phonology of modern Iranian languages” edited by Reza Falahati and Zahra Ghane (Jan. ’26) link.springer.com/referencewor...