Darin Flynn
@phono-logical.bsky.social
assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary.bsky.social
Earlier today I came across the post below and thought to myself, “I’m pretty sure their awesome food helped too”
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Earlier today I came across the post below and thought to myself, “I’m pretty sure their awesome food helped too”
“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...
btw, seems that Hammond entertains the possibility of a three-syllable foot in words like ”Wìnnĕpĕ-f*-sáukĕe” or “Kàlămă-f*-zóo”
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
btw, seems that Hammond entertains the possibility of a three-syllable foot in words like ”Wìnnĕpĕ-f*-sáukĕe” or “Kàlămă-f*-zóo”
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...
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
“Swiper, no swiping!” is like telling Paul here that he can’t use a hammer at work
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Swiper, no swiping!” is like telling Paul here that he can’t use a hammer at work
“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!
Diphthongs can be slightly longer before heterosyllabic /d/ than before heterosyllabic /t/. On the other hand, stems can be slightly longer before Class-II suffixes like ‑ie/y, ‑ing, and agentive ‑er. So the following pairs are especially likely to present the same overall durations:
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Diphthongs can be slightly longer before heterosyllabic /d/ than before heterosyllabic /t/. On the other hand, stems can be slightly longer before Class-II suffixes like ‑ie/y, ‑ing, and agentive ‑er. So the following pairs are especially likely to present the same overall durations:
“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...
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”