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Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

Question for phonologists: do you know of a good piece (paper, chapter, entry, doesn't matter) that explains in detail how doing OT with autosegmental representations is supposed to work? 1/n

Have not tried this, but it looks great. I can mostly get the Praat picture window to do what I want these days, but it took a decade plus and it's still kinda fiddly. Anybody have any experience using this package?

Anybody have an idea (or a reference) for why initial articulations in a constituent are longer? I've seen one general motor-control principle where you want to minimize the derivative of acceleration. And a bunch of motor-planning explanations of why *final* elements would slow. Anything else?

I'm teaching a seminar on the phonetics and phonology of synchronic lenition, fortition, domain-initial strengthening, etc. Anybody have recommendations for good recent papers I should include? Obviously, I have many good options in my own research area, but I'm trying get outside my bubble.

A thread on data problems in phonology. This quarter I taught the PhD-level intro. For the term paper, borrowing from the great Kie Zuraw, I encouraged students to (1) find a phonological pattern of crucial theoretical interest; and (2) track the description all the way back to primary sources…1/n

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I recently replaced my ancient Mac. In newer versions of OSX, apparently the native Preview app can no longer read postscript files. Which completely screws my workflow for R plots and figures. Two questions: (1) WTF, Apple? And (2) anybody have a recommendation for freeware to wrangle ps files?

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Today I went to my first session of 'spectrogram reading' at UCLA Linguistics. I've been nervous and stressed at my job here so far, and wondering if I really belong. We met in the phonetics lab with lunch and there was a spectrogram projected on the wall. 1/2

Phonetics hivemind: there are studies in many languages on consonants that are *initial* in successively larger prosodic domains ('initial strengthening': word, phrase, utterance, etc.). Do you know any good references on the same question for *final* consonants in various prosodic domains?

About to make the final decision whether I'm going to pay out of pocket to go to the LSA this year. Who's going?

Hey, phon/phon types: anybody been hired within the last 5 years or so and willing to share details about your startup package? I'm putting together a proposal and honestly have very little idea about what or how much to ask for. You can message me or write to katzlinguist@gmail.com .

I think there's been a mistake, sir. I'm an expert on *shitgibbons*.

First post here. I joined because I heard linguists might be talking about linguistics. To those of you who knew my short-lived account in the Other Place, I promise there will no WVU trauma-posting here. I'm gonna lurk for a bit, then maybe post about linguistics myself once in a while.