Eleanor Ridge
@eleanorridge.bsky.social
Linguist researching Vatlongos language of Southeast Ambrym, Vanuatu
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if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity
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i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. it's such an honour to receive this funding 🌸🩷
The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. it's such an honour to receive this funding 🌸🩷
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A lot of laughter during linguistics talks, especially after playing or reading out interview extracts, is problematic
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A lot of laughter during linguistics talks, especially after playing or reading out interview extracts, is problematic
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Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.
Marsden Fund shake-up raises potential for political interference, Royal Society says
Marsden Fund shake-up raises potential for political interference, Royal Society says
MBIE will take over administration of the Marsden Fund, but the society warns such centralisation could undermine the country's science credibility.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Could I politely suggest, that with how Arts & Humanities research funding has been pulled from all of these, that political interference has already occurred.
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Who is doing the read for this? If they're an Aussie I'm somewhat impressed with both mita lol youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?... #linguistics
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
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October 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Who is doing the read for this? If they're an Aussie I'm somewhat impressed with both mita lol youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?... #linguistics
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Deadline’s coming up in 2 weeks’ time! Don’t miss your chance for up to $800 to attend the ALS conference.
The ALS is calling for applications to two grants (up to $800) to attend the ALS conference:
Student Conference Support Grant;
Indigenous Conference Support Grant
See the website for details including the online application form. The deadline for applications is 10 Oct. als.asn.au/Research-Gra...
Student Conference Support Grant;
Indigenous Conference Support Grant
See the website for details including the online application form. The deadline for applications is 10 Oct. als.asn.au/Research-Gra...
als.asn.au
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Deadline’s coming up in 2 weeks’ time! Don’t miss your chance for up to $800 to attend the ALS conference.
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🔐💰 @ashajournals.bsky.social McAllisterT PrestonJL BenwayNR HillJ LaraMP LeeceMC LiangW & HitchcockER 2025 Rhotic Acquisition Is >Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Tx for Residual #ChildSpeechDis Primary Outcome of a RCT doi.org/10.1044/2025... @meiriongwril.bsky.social @jscobbie.bsky.social
Rhotic Acquisition Is More Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorder: Primary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose: Residual speech sound disorder (RSSD) is a high-prevalence condition that
can limit children's academic and social participation, with n...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🔐💰 @ashajournals.bsky.social McAllisterT PrestonJL BenwayNR HillJ LaraMP LeeceMC LiangW & HitchcockER 2025 Rhotic Acquisition Is >Rapid in Biofeedback Than Motor-Based Tx for Residual #ChildSpeechDis Primary Outcome of a RCT doi.org/10.1044/2025... @meiriongwril.bsky.social @jscobbie.bsky.social
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Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x
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September 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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My paper about normalizing vowel formant tracks is published online at Linguistics Vanguard. The approach to defining formant track normalization I describe in the paper is implemented in the tidynorm package jofrhwld.github.io/tidynorm/
Vowel formant track normalization using discrete cosine transform coefficients
This paper provides an overview of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) as a method for smoothing vowel formant tracks, as well as a procedure to take any speaker normalization method that has been def...
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August 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My paper about normalizing vowel formant tracks is published online at Linguistics Vanguard. The approach to defining formant track normalization I describe in the paper is implemented in the tidynorm package jofrhwld.github.io/tidynorm/
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Learn to build your own corpus, query language patterns, and draw insights from real data.
This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research.
Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...
This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research.
Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
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August 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Learn to build your own corpus, query language patterns, and draw insights from real data.
This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research.
Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...
This hands-on course is ideal for anyone interested in language, technology, or social research.
Join now: www.edx.org/learn/social...
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Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
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If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here!
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
SLCVC2025 Conference - Registration
Registration
The 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' Conference is free to attend, but we would like everyone who is coming to register please.
We would like EVERYONE to register - both pr...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here!
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
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STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
star-linguistics.org
Syntactic Theory and Research
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August 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
star-linguistics.org
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Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...
Auckland.Scoop » Statement On AI In Universities From Aotearoa Communication & Media Scholars Network
auckland.scoop.co.nz
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...
The abstract submission deadline for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference has been extended to Friday 8th August, so you have a week to get your abstracts in! Hope to see lots of you in Wellington in November! nzlingsoc.org/conferences/...
Call for papers - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
The 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be hosted by Massey University at the Massey Wellington campus on November 27-28. Plenary talks will be given...
nzlingsoc.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The abstract submission deadline for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference has been extended to Friday 8th August, so you have a week to get your abstracts in! Hope to see lots of you in Wellington in November! nzlingsoc.org/conferences/...
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the windows taskbar is a UX nightmare...
YouTube video by Recremac
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July 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Not sure how this will go but either way it’s a big deal for climate accountability
Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
‘Historic’ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect
The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.
www.aljazeera.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Not sure how this will go but either way it’s a big deal for climate accountability
Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
Vanuatu’s Ralph Regenvanu should also probably get more recognition for the work he’s done on climate at the global level, including backing the law students on this case
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
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Definitely yeah nah for reflexive TA (and qual more widely). Gen AI discourse is productive. Be wary of what’s being produced as we discuss Gen AI (to support or resist) - but resist ✊🏼 #QMiP2025
Braun says no (yeah nah) to AI. That coding and analysis is a human endeavour. Coding should not be thought of as a laborious task that needs to be completed quickly and “free from bias”, but rather as a worthwhile, enjoyable, and creative experience, where we are the interpreters #qmip2025
July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Definitely yeah nah for reflexive TA (and qual more widely). Gen AI discourse is productive. Be wary of what’s being produced as we discuss Gen AI (to support or resist) - but resist ✊🏼 #QMiP2025
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Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology
Uncharacteristcally long 🧵 (sorry) re: #Qualitative methodologies, science, and 'AI'.
As Qualitative researchers, we should definitely care and remain curious about what 'good work' can look like - but we should be very wary about assuming that a focus on 'rigour' will address this question. 1/13
As Qualitative researchers, we should definitely care and remain curious about what 'good work' can look like - but we should be very wary about assuming that a focus on 'rigour' will address this question. 1/13
July 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology
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New ERP study with Brittany Lee! Fingerspelled word primes elicit early N400 effects for printed word targets, similar to printed primes and unlike ASL sign primes. This results suggest shared orthographic representations for fingerspelling and print. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers
Fingerspelling is a leading predictor of reading ability for deaf people who use a signed language, but few neuroimaging studies have examined how it …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New ERP study with Brittany Lee! Fingerspelled word primes elicit early N400 effects for printed word targets, similar to printed primes and unlike ASL sign primes. This results suggest shared orthographic representations for fingerspelling and print. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The call for papers for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conference is open! nzlingsoc.org/conference/c...
Conference 2025 (Massey University) - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
The 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be held at the Massey Wellington campus from November 26-28.
nzlingsoc.org
July 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The call for papers for the Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conference is open! nzlingsoc.org/conference/c...
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In this BSL video summary, Kearsy Cormier revisits our highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in British Sign Language (BSL), co-authored with Sandra Smith & @zedsehyr.bsky.social What is constructed action, you ask?
Watch Kearsy Cormier revisit her highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in BSL, co-authored with Sandra Smith & Zed Sevcikova. She explains what it is, why it matters & how it ranges from role-shifts to facial expressions.
youtu.be/2MbdKpP4RHY?...
youtu.be/2MbdKpP4RHY?...
Rethinking Constructed Action in BSL: Kearsy Cormier with Sandra Smith & Zed Sevcikova
YouTube video by DCAL UCL
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July 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In this BSL video summary, Kearsy Cormier revisits our highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in British Sign Language (BSL), co-authored with Sandra Smith & @zedsehyr.bsky.social What is constructed action, you ask?