Katie Carmichael
@drkatcarm.bsky.social
Sociolinguist at Virginia Tech | Academic mama | Studies New Orleans Language & Culture | she/her
Author of ‘Language and Place’, available open access 👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-and-place/E95116DA21FDDFCDF4DFE5375765514C
Author of ‘Language and Place’, available open access 👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-and-place/E95116DA21FDDFCDF4DFE5375765514C
Uhhhh so apparently this is the AI summary of the Southern Vowel Shift when you google it? Submitted without comment 🤡
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Uhhhh so apparently this is the AI summary of the Southern Vowel Shift when you google it? Submitted without comment 🤡
::slowly stands while clapping::
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
::slowly stands while clapping::
Apparently 'Chronic Stress' is a journal name. But also: this e-mail subject represents an accurate statement 🤣
August 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Apparently 'Chronic Stress' is a journal name. But also: this e-mail subject represents an accurate statement 🤣
My linguist brain always tingles when I pass this place 🙇🏽♀️
April 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My linguist brain always tingles when I pass this place 🙇🏽♀️
A pic of @sidneygjwong.bsky.social talking about Blue Sky, posted to Blue Sky - meta! Has been wonderful to host him this week and hear about his fascinating research 😁
March 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A pic of @sidneygjwong.bsky.social talking about Blue Sky, posted to Blue Sky - meta! Has been wonderful to host him this week and hear about his fascinating research 😁
Continued IPA lessons at school! 🥺 My second grader spontaneously made this chart and started lecturing me about schwa and its relationship to the American English spelling system, — my heart grew 3 sizes this day! Little does he know, schwa lectures are my love language 🫶
March 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Continued IPA lessons at school! 🥺 My second grader spontaneously made this chart and started lecturing me about schwa and its relationship to the American English spelling system, — my heart grew 3 sizes this day! Little does he know, schwa lectures are my love language 🫶
Fantastic cot-caught merger, low frequency lexical item moment (also don’t try to make smoking cool again Gen Z!)
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January 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Fantastic cot-caught merger, low frequency lexical item moment (also don’t try to make smoking cool again Gen Z!)
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/a-pack-...
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/a-pack-...
Semantic reanalysis of ‘ground turkey’ (and no I have no idea why this is randomly on the ground in this parking lot; science experiment on time to freeze in low temps??)
January 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Semantic reanalysis of ‘ground turkey’ (and no I have no idea why this is randomly on the ground in this parking lot; science experiment on time to freeze in low temps??)
One of my favorite road signs (there is indeed both a landfill and a pool down this road, but the implied combo on this sign just tickles me)
January 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One of my favorite road signs (there is indeed both a landfill and a pool down this road, but the implied combo on this sign just tickles me)
January 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
After a pretty disheartening few years of teaching, witnessing a real drop in reading/writing ability of my students post-COVID, of course alongside an increase in leaning on AI-generated text, I'm really pleased to report that my students' final papers this semester NAILED IT. Whew!
December 20, 2024 at 7:12 PM
After a pretty disheartening few years of teaching, witnessing a real drop in reading/writing ability of my students post-COVID, of course alongside an increase in leaning on AI-generated text, I'm really pleased to report that my students' final papers this semester NAILED IT. Whew!
To date, one of my best conference stories. Happy hetero-glace-ia-versary!
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
To date, one of my best conference stories. Happy hetero-glace-ia-versary!
Obsessed with this paragraph from @helendecruz.net’s article on climate change that I just reposted - “when our surroundings are hurt, we feel hurt too.” Link here: aeon.co/essays/how-t...
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Obsessed with this paragraph from @helendecruz.net’s article on climate change that I just reposted - “when our surroundings are hurt, we feel hurt too.” Link here: aeon.co/essays/how-t...
Spotted in my kid’s kindergarten classroom - my linguist heart grew three sizes this day! 🥹
October 30, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Spotted in my kid’s kindergarten classroom - my linguist heart grew three sizes this day! 🥹
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #440,408!
(Mostly I’m just laughed at the “elder certified” sticker. Elder millennial, elder Blue Skyer, the world is trying to tell me something but I can’t quite put my finger on it…)
(Mostly I’m just laughed at the “elder certified” sticker. Elder millennial, elder Blue Skyer, the world is trying to tell me something but I can’t quite put my finger on it…)
September 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #440,408!
(Mostly I’m just laughed at the “elder certified” sticker. Elder millennial, elder Blue Skyer, the world is trying to tell me something but I can’t quite put my finger on it…)
(Mostly I’m just laughed at the “elder certified” sticker. Elder millennial, elder Blue Skyer, the world is trying to tell me something but I can’t quite put my finger on it…)
Was feeling tickled (tinklnd?) that the German word for sparkling word is “prickelnd” - till I realized the English is like “ooooh the water is ✨SPARKLY✨” 🤣🤣🤣
July 16, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Was feeling tickled (tinklnd?) that the German word for sparkling word is “prickelnd” - till I realized the English is like “ooooh the water is ✨SPARKLY✨” 🤣🤣🤣
Coffeeshoppin Athens — the last time I was here was before the pandemic, which feels like a literal lifetime ago
April 5, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Coffeeshoppin Athens — the last time I was here was before the pandemic, which feels like a literal lifetime ago
Why do we need to keep studying African American Language? Because there remain real world ramifications for speakers who “sound Black” and our research should be mobilized to benefit those people, says Sharese.
April 4, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Why do we need to keep studying African American Language? Because there remain real world ramifications for speakers who “sound Black” and our research should be mobilized to benefit those people, says Sharese.
Who can/should study AAL? Sonja says we need subjectivity/positionality statements + reflection on how our identities affect the way we view/collect/analyze language. We also need to interrogate the discipline itself (as I would argue this panel is doing!) - generate a sociology of linguistics #🐦🐦
April 4, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Who can/should study AAL? Sonja says we need subjectivity/positionality statements + reflection on how our identities affect the way we view/collect/analyze language. We also need to interrogate the discipline itself (as I would argue this panel is doing!) - generate a sociology of linguistics #🐦🐦
Sonja follows up, restating the harm that some of these practices caused, and signaled to her in her graduate work what kind of work “counts” or “matters” the field, noting how she has always tried to push these limits to a more holistic view of AAL within its practice-based, cultural context #🐦🐦
April 4, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Sonja follows up, restating the harm that some of these practices caused, and signaled to her in her graduate work what kind of work “counts” or “matters” the field, noting how she has always tried to push these limits to a more holistic view of AAL within its practice-based, cultural context #🐦🐦
Walt shares some of the problematic/exclusionary/white-centering/exotifying practices that characterized sociolinguistic research on African American Language from early studies through the nineties #linguistics #🐦🐦
April 4, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Walt shares some of the problematic/exclusionary/white-centering/exotifying practices that characterized sociolinguistic research on African American Language from early studies through the nineties #linguistics #🐦🐦
LAVIS/SECOL panel on ‘The Intergenerational Study of AAL’ with Sharese King, Sonja Lanehart, and Walt Wolfram #linguistics #🐦🐦
April 4, 2024 at 9:22 PM
LAVIS/SECOL panel on ‘The Intergenerational Study of AAL’ with Sharese King, Sonja Lanehart, and Walt Wolfram #linguistics #🐦🐦
Legitimately cackled 🥲
![[image of crying man meme] text reads: “Bro please come to the conference. Registration fee $1000 ($950 early bird), flights & accommodation $3000. You’ll present for 6 minutes and get roasted. You can’t present virtually because…look you just can’t ok. There’s a yoga session. You’ll get a point on your CV bro please”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xm3rj3gqc2qldxlfz2o5ybh3/bafkreig4bzmd7vmeubtni4bpsyev4nxbuwt2izth3cxjg2eg2gsu6rwjxq@jpeg)
March 10, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Legitimately cackled 🥲
We are all using this to teach syntactic ambiguity moving forward, right? 🤣 #linguistics #🐦🐦
February 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM
We are all using this to teach syntactic ambiguity moving forward, right? 🤣 #linguistics #🐦🐦