Bob Kennedy
bobksb.bsky.social
Bob Kennedy
@bobksb.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UCSB; aka bk.dot.sb; Phonology, Socioling, Variation, Lang and Sports, Meme creator & theorist, Genre-shifted music; UAz, U'O, LCI, Jeop!, H&C
New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Second Language Phonology' by Ellen Simon.

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next two weeks!
Second Language Phonology
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Second Language Phonology
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Another excellent new contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology is now available!
Issues in Metrical Phonology: Insights from Ukrainian
Beata Łukaszewicz & Janina Mołczanow
This publication is Open Access, freely available hereforth!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Issues in Metrical Phonology
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Issues in Metrical Phonology
www.cambridge.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Bob Kennedy
New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology' by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula.
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Freely accessible* from Cambridge University Press for the next four weeks!
Psycholinguistics and Phonology
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology' by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula.
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Freely accessible* from Cambridge University Press for the next four weeks!
Psycholinguistics and Phonology
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology', by Jane Chandlee. Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next FOUR weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology
www.cambridge.org
December 9, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Watching both soccer and hockey today and I cannot stress this enough, just use one camera please. No closeups or cuts during live play. Please.
June 22, 2024 at 12:33 AM
I'm not usually a "look what shite I got the AI to produce" kind of guy anymore, but behold:
December 13, 2023 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Bob Kennedy
Please enjoy this, the most breathless and accurate description of a javelina ever penned (see alt for easier-to-read copy):
November 5, 2023 at 4:28 PM
New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Complexity in the Phonology of Tone', Lian-Hee Wee & Mingxing Li. Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next two weeks!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 23, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Happy Roger That Day
October 4, 2023 at 9:44 PM
We've moved on to Welcome to Wrexham. Surprising how many plot points its first season shares with Ted Lasso S1 & S2, even though TL is fictional and aired earlier than WTW
October 4, 2023 at 12:22 AM
It should be clear that I'm a bit cranky if I sign off my email with "ragards,"
October 2, 2023 at 5:27 PM
Forgot to tag #linguistics for this thread
I came across this meme in a FB group I follow, but was saddened to see that comments were closed by admin because people were getting nasty. The meme calls out ppl who nitpick grammar in comment threads, but many group members took the opportunity to air their own grievances. 1/
September 27, 2023 at 1:42 AM
I have never been a "play music before class" kind of instructor (except during WFH) but occasionally I consider it. Any good reasons to do it or not to?
September 27, 2023 at 1:38 AM
I came across this meme in a FB group I follow, but was saddened to see that comments were closed by admin because people were getting nasty. The meme calls out ppl who nitpick grammar in comment threads, but many group members took the opportunity to air their own grievances. 1/
September 26, 2023 at 8:42 PM
a thread of random observations re: speech in Ted Lasso
(I mean these as observations not criticisms)
(also check me if I'm wrong on any of them) #linguistics 1/
September 22, 2023 at 4:41 PM
I have deactivated my Tw*tter accounts :D
September 21, 2023 at 2:07 AM
Welcome to Bluesky, we have 4 rules around here:
1. Conditioning
2. Versatility
3. Awareness
4. (tba)
Welcome to Bluesky, we have rules around here:

1. You can be my bodyguard
2. I can be your long lost pal
3. You can call me Betty
Welcome to Bluesky, we have rules around here:

1. Drive west on Sunset to the sea
2. Turn that jungle music down
3. Close your eyes and you'll be there
September 15, 2023 at 6:23 PM
I Am Once Again Overperforming In My Learned League Rundle
September 12, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Quote bleet with a game that's nostalgic to you
September 3, 2023 at 10:59 PM
From the "time is a construct" department: next week I start teaching summer session
August 23, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Me: just because a borrowed word has plural morphology in its source language, doesn't mean the borrowing language will treat it as a plural
Them: can you move? I'm just trying to pick out some broccoli
August 22, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Wait

Does bluesky rhyme w/ winooski
August 21, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Rebleet w a fave meme you've made
August 16, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Bob Kennedy
Republicans are banning books, entire fields of study, and dismantling public universities, so naturally all the people who said that the intolerant left was going to do these things are instead writing books about the dangers of “wokeness”
August 16, 2023 at 1:25 PM