Darin Flynn
@phono-logical.bsky.social
assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary.bsky.social
Wife just called out for “the alarm clock,” meaning (rubbing) alcohol. When I asked how she managed that one, she said, “Dunno, maybe the l’s and the ɑ’s and the rhythm?” Solid analysis
Wife, just now: “I phrase-freemed it” (i.e. freeze-framed)
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Wife just called out for “the alarm clock,” meaning (rubbing) alcohol. When I asked how she managed that one, she said, “Dunno, maybe the l’s and the ɑ’s and the rhythm?” Solid analysis
Reposted by Darin Flynn
Calls: Studies on Indigenous African Signed and Spoken Languages (Jrnl)
Calls: Studies on Indigenous African Signed and Spoken Languages (Jrnl)
Studies on Indigenous African Signed and Spoken Languages (SIASSL)
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal
https://journal.i-hav.org/
Submission deadline: 28 February, 2026
Publication date: Rolling
About the Journal:
Studies on Indigenous African Signed and Spoken Languages (SIASSL) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing scholarship on the description, documentation, and revitalization of Indigenous African languages—both signed and spoken.
The journal is publis
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November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Calls: Studies on Indigenous African Signed and Spoken Languages (Jrnl)
“Modeling contour distortions of linguistic tones in monosyllables” by Zhihao Wang and Youngah Do (Nov. ’25) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“Modeling contour distortions of linguistic tones in monosyllables” by Zhihao Wang and Youngah Do (Nov. ’25) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“The (morpho)phonology of oral stop consonants in Proto-Tupi-Guarani: open issues, closed issues and new issues” by Fernando O. de Carvalho (Nov. ’25) boletimch.museu-goeldi.br/wp-content/u...
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“The (morpho)phonology of oral stop consonants in Proto-Tupi-Guarani: open issues, closed issues and new issues” by Fernando O. de Carvalho (Nov. ’25) boletimch.museu-goeldi.br/wp-content/u...
“Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology Interaction as negotiation” by Nicolau Dols (Nov. ’25) www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology Interaction as negotiation” by Nicolau Dols (Nov. ’25) www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu...
“The phonology of Anêm, a non-Austronesian language of West Britain” by William R. Thurston (1976) d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/125249075/fu...
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“The phonology of Anêm, a non-Austronesian language of West Britain” by William R. Thurston (1976) d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/125249075/fu...
“Specificity and “Non-derived Environment Blocking” in Logical Phonology” by Charles Reiss (Nov. ’25) www.researchgate.net/profile/Char...
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“Specificity and “Non-derived Environment Blocking” in Logical Phonology” by Charles Reiss (Nov. ’25) www.researchgate.net/profile/Char...
“Against strict stratum-internal transparency: within-stratum countershifting in Gallipoli Serbian” by Aljoša Milenković (Nov. ’25) www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/2...
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“Against strict stratum-internal transparency: within-stratum countershifting in Gallipoli Serbian” by Aljoša Milenković (Nov. ’25) www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/2...
Bound to be some interesting intonation/prosodic angle: “Parenthetical Constructions in the Parallel Architecture” by Ray Jackendoff (Nov. ’25) academic.oup.com/book/61631
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November 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Bound to be some interesting intonation/prosodic angle: “Parenthetical Constructions in the Parallel Architecture” by Ray Jackendoff (Nov. ’25) academic.oup.com/book/61631
“Snoring sound analysis” by Li-Ang Lee, Guo-She Lee, Hai-Hua Chuang, Yi-Ping Chao and Hsueh-Yu Li (Nov. ’25) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Snoring Sound Analysis
This chapter delves into the sophisticated realm of snoring sound analysis, emphasizing its critical role in understanding and managing sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). It covers a range of topics fr...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Snoring sound analysis” by Li-Ang Lee, Guo-She Lee, Hai-Hua Chuang, Yi-Ping Chao and Hsueh-Yu Li (Nov. ’25) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Expletive infixation is favoured between stress feet, e.g. “Bànglă-f*-désh”, “hò-f*-tél”, but not “Quĕ-f*-béc”. The surrounding feet may be in different prosodic words, e.g. “Shàngrĭ-f*-Lá”, but this one is new to me: the first foot critically straddles two words in “Gòd fŏr-f*-bíd!”
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Expletive infixation is favoured between stress feet, e.g. “Bànglă-f*-désh”, “hò-f*-tél”, but not “Quĕ-f*-béc”. The surrounding feet may be in different prosodic words, e.g. “Shàngrĭ-f*-Lá”, but this one is new to me: the first foot critically straddles two words in “Gòd fŏr-f*-bíd!”
John A. Dunn’s North Wind Wolf is (don’t blink*) Indo-European and (don’t faint*) Tsimshian ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ne...
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
John A. Dunn’s North Wind Wolf is (don’t blink*) Indo-European and (don’t faint*) Tsimshian ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ne...
Reposted by Darin Flynn
#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Bad cell reception rn. I wonder if signal strength is affected by northern lights
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Bad cell reception rn. I wonder if signal strength is affected by northern lights
“Register effects of imagined addressees on f0 across generations” by Miriam Oschkinat, Melanie Weirich, Daniel Duran and Stefanie Jannedy (Nov. ’25) pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Register effects of imagined addressees on f0 across generations” by Miriam Oschkinat, Melanie Weirich, Daniel Duran and Stefanie Jannedy (Nov. ’25) pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...
Cool: comparative inflection of a trisyllabic stem
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Cool: comparative inflection of a trisyllabic stem
I wish there were a Humans of Forvo. I’d love a profile of Bríd Eilís, say, who has uploaded 13k words and phrases of her Galway Irish. And imagine an interview with someone like user piral58: “You’ll soon have recorded and shared 100k words and phrases of Luxembourgish. What drives you, kind sir?”
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wish there were a Humans of Forvo. I’d love a profile of Bríd Eilís, say, who has uploaded 13k words and phrases of her Galway Irish. And imagine an interview with someone like user piral58: “You’ll soon have recorded and shared 100k words and phrases of Luxembourgish. What drives you, kind sir?”
“Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon” by Nelson Goering (Nov. ’25) www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/2...
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon” by Nelson Goering (Nov. ’25) www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/2...
Fun fact: Davis et al. (2021) report that some speakers in Fort Wayne, IN have /aɪ/-raising, e.g. ‘write’ [ɹ̠ʷʌɪt], but not before [ɾ]—even when the latter comes from /t/: ‘writing’ [ˈɹ̠ʷaɪ̯ɾɪ̃ŋ] cl.indiana.edu/davis/Davis,...
This looks like Joos’s (1942) mythical Dialect B!
This looks like Joos’s (1942) mythical Dialect B!
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: Davis et al. (2021) report that some speakers in Fort Wayne, IN have /aɪ/-raising, e.g. ‘write’ [ɹ̠ʷʌɪt], but not before [ɾ]—even when the latter comes from /t/: ‘writing’ [ˈɹ̠ʷaɪ̯ɾɪ̃ŋ] cl.indiana.edu/davis/Davis,...
This looks like Joos’s (1942) mythical Dialect B!
This looks like Joos’s (1942) mythical Dialect B!
“The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers” by Noah Khaloo and Connor Mayer (Nov. ’25) www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers” by Noah Khaloo and Connor Mayer (Nov. ’25) www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
“The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in English” by Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Hugo Quené and Ted J. M. Sanders (Nov. ’25) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in English” by Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Hugo Quené and Ted J. M. Sanders (Nov. ’25) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A paper title that I’m low-key proud of is “Radical allomorphy in Southwestern Turkish dialects” (with Eyüp Bacanlı) bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.e...
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A paper title that I’m low-key proud of is “Radical allomorphy in Southwestern Turkish dialects” (with Eyüp Bacanlı) bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.e...
“When syntax and semantics of compounds matter to voicing alternations: an experimental investigation of effects of grammatical relation on rendaku” by Michiko Fukasawa (Oct. ’25) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
When syntax and semantics of compounds matter to voicing alternations: an experimental investigation of effects of grammatical relation on rendaku
This paper examines Japanese sequential voicing phenomenon, so-called rendaku from the perspective of syntax-morphophonology interface. In particular, how the nature of the relation between the first ...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“When syntax and semantics of compounds matter to voicing alternations: an experimental investigation of effects of grammatical relation on rendaku” by Michiko Fukasawa (Oct. ’25) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
To -er is human
“I have my thankers to back”
“I have my thankers to back”
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
To -er is human
“I have my thankers to back”
“I have my thankers to back”