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 😄

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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...