Huge thanks to the Surrey Morphology Group and especially @erichround.bsky.social for the incredibly enthusiastic welcome and interest in the the life cycle model and Latin phonology over the last couple of days! Many many terrific and immensely valuable discussions and interrogations 🙏

Looking forward to giving talks and chatting to people at the fabulous Surrey Morphology Group www.smg.surrey.ac.uk over the next couple of days. Here to discuss the life cycle of phonological processes - my favourite 🤩

Looking forward to giving talks and chatting to people at the fabulous Surrey Morphology Group www.smg.surrey.ac.uk over the next couple of days. Here to discuss the life cycle of phonological processes - my favourite 🤩

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

An @xkcd.com for #langsky 😄 xkcd.com/3025

Yes indeed! The slipperiness of syllables makes them a lot of fun 🤩 Some great work on syllables from a really wide range of perspectives in this volume (including a diachronic chapter by me at the end 😁) brill.com/edcollbook/t...

I remember when writing this bit on pain interjections I thought, somebody should check this at scale Well, turns out it works like this in >150 languages! Consider it checked. Congrats to Maïa Ponsonnet @acwiek.bsky.social et al. for a cool paper pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... covered in SciAm

Move over bouba-kiki! New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them. The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them". #iconicity 🐦🐦

Looking forward to this festive occasion today! 50th anniversary of the Oxford Comparative Philology Seminar. Happy memories and old friends! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/...

There are approximately 7,000 languages ​​in the world. All languages ​​transmit information at a similar rate (39 bits/s). Languages ​​spoken faster have less information density per syllable, according to the findings of a recent linguistic study of 17 languages. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!

Hope everyone is getting over yesterday's wild linguistic celebrations! 🥳 😜 Thought for today is Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero's (2020) wonderful observation on abstraction and micro-/macro- detail in theorising, which keeps coming back back to me... (1/4)

Happy National Linguistics Day! 🥳 To celebrate, I plan to read some work outside my own area of expertise today 📖 😊

National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study! Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da... #NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!

#linguistics #englishlanguage #phonology #history

A high school teacher and Cambridge University lecturer, Rebecca Mitchell, wants to make 26th November the first National #Linguistics Day in the UK. I think this is a great idea, and really want to support it, but I have only just heard about it! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin...

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Terrific event at the York Theatre Royal yesterday showcasing the work of the A Voice for King Richard III project. The speaking Richard was stunning! Huge congrats to the many talented teams and individuals involved (15th-cent pronunciation courtesy of David Crystal). news.sky.com/story/king-r...