Brett Baker
@bjbaker.bsky.social
Phonologist, dad, and sometime psycholinguist wannabe. I study and promote Australian Indigenous languages and cultures. UMelbourne. Truth is, I'm mostly here for the physics arguments. And the archaeology.
Congratulations! Great pic!
September 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Congratulations! Great pic!
DEFENCE - remove barriers
DECRY - apply tissues
DEPORT - after de dinner
DECRY - apply tissues
DEPORT - after de dinner
May 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
DEFENCE - remove barriers
DECRY - apply tissues
DEPORT - after de dinner
DECRY - apply tissues
DEPORT - after de dinner
The B in DEBT owes you nothing
February 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The B in DEBT owes you nothing
They don't need anything from you. They don't care about you. I think that's the difference.
February 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
They don't need anything from you. They don't care about you. I think that's the difference.
I went to bed last night wondering whether the world was going to be obliterated overnight (I don't have that thought often) 😀😳
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I went to bed last night wondering whether the world was going to be obliterated overnight (I don't have that thought often) 😀😳
For too long I pronounced 'misled' as [mizld], i.e. past tense of 'mizzle'. I kind of prefer it to mis-led, actually.
January 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
For too long I pronounced 'misled' as [mizld], i.e. past tense of 'mizzle'. I kind of prefer it to mis-led, actually.
and can alternate with /t/ (and doesn't alternate with /j/, usually)
January 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
and can alternate with /t/ (and doesn't alternate with /j/, usually)
In Australian languages, it gets worse: most of them have two 'rhotics', /ɻ/ and /r/, and they behave quite differently in terms of phonotactics and alternations. /ɻ/ behaves like the other semivowels, /j/ and /w/, and can alternate with /j/, /r/ behaves like the other liquids to some extent
January 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In Australian languages, it gets worse: most of them have two 'rhotics', /ɻ/ and /r/, and they behave quite differently in terms of phonotactics and alternations. /ɻ/ behaves like the other semivowels, /j/ and /w/, and can alternate with /j/, /r/ behaves like the other liquids to some extent
I have a major problem with the term 'rhotic' though, for exactly the reasons you point out: that it encompasses sounds of many different manners and places of articulation including zero
January 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I have a major problem with the term 'rhotic' though, for exactly the reasons you point out: that it encompasses sounds of many different manners and places of articulation including zero