Rebecca Starr
@rlslinguistics.bsky.social
Linguistics updates from around the National University of Singapore and elsewhere, from Dr. Rebecca Lurie Starr.
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🚨 New OA article!
What does it mean to have a "cute" voice?
In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture.
Read here: 👉
What does it mean to have a "cute" voice?
In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture.
Read here: 👉
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October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 New OA article!
What does it mean to have a "cute" voice?
In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture.
Read here: 👉
What does it mean to have a "cute" voice?
In their new paper "Clip Voice", Zichuan Yu & Rebecca Lurie Starr’s explore how vocal styles reproduce stereotypes of infantilized femininity in Chinese online culture.
Read here: 👉
New paper with my student Zichuan!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Clip Voice: Misogyny and the Renegotiation of a Gendered Vocal Style in Chinese Digital Discourse
The participatory culture of social media allows women's voices to be heard but also parodied and policed. On Chinese social media platforms, where performers rapidly adopt and transform vocal trends...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
New paper with my student Zichuan!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) - Volume 54 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I've got a new paper out with Shoba Bandi-Rao and colleagues on the evaluation of inter-turn silence in Singapore English! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Perceptions of inter-turn silence after requests in standard and colloquial Singapore English
This study explores how ‘formality’ distinctions affect interactional norms. We investigated whether features associated with Standard and Colloquial Singapore English influence listeners’ percepti...
www.tandfonline.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've got a new paper out with Shoba Bandi-Rao and colleagues on the evaluation of inter-turn silence in Singapore English! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Can ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?
April 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?
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Last December @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I visited @tsunglunone.bsky.social at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and were interviewed by a linguistics student. Here's a summary!
lingsights.tw/articles/61
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language
lingsights.tw/articles/61
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language
語言如何映照身份——Hall-Lew與Starr的社會語音學對話（上） - 言來如此 Lingsights
｢社會語言學是一門研究語言如何在社會脈絡中運作的學科。」Starr用一句話簡單明瞭地解釋了社會語言學的核心概念。他隨即補充道，其實有兩個更細緻的定義：「其中一種研究方式，是探討語言如何在社會脈絡中運作；另一種則是透過語言來研究社會世界。」前者強調語言結構加上社會變因，後者則以語言為工具，研究社會現象，Starr表示，不同學者會依據自己的興趣從不同的角度切入，有著不同的思考模式，而這也正是Starr...
lingsights.tw
March 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Last December @rlslinguistics.bsky.social and I visited @tsunglunone.bsky.social at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and were interviewed by a linguistics student. Here's a summary!
lingsights.tw/articles/61
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language
lingsights.tw/articles/61
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #academia #research #findings #language
Up next, when I walked into this panel Kewen asked if I could present my student Yunbo's study, so I'm going to try to wing it! The word of the year is indeed rawdogging... #LSA2025
January 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Up next, when I walked into this panel Kewen asked if I could present my student Yunbo's study, so I'm going to try to wing it! The word of the year is indeed rawdogging... #LSA2025
A plug for our NUS students: at 12pm in Salon B, Kewen Zheng will be talking about students' writing anxiety and ChatGPT use. Then, at 12:30, Yunbo Mei will be discussing language ideologies and market dynamics in China's English language teaching landscape. #LSA2025
January 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A plug for our NUS students: at 12pm in Salon B, Kewen Zheng will be talking about students' writing anxiety and ChatGPT use. Then, at 12:30, Yunbo Mei will be discussing language ideologies and market dynamics in China's English language teaching landscape. #LSA2025
Adolfo Hermosillo and colleagues are presenting on intensifier variation in Salinas California, using data collected for the Voices of California project. #LSA2025
January 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Adolfo Hermosillo and colleagues are presenting on intensifier variation in Salinas California, using data collected for the Voices of California project. #LSA2025
Lisa Sullivan is testing different levels of metalinguistic awareness of a set of variables: bag-raising, Canadian ay and ow raising, and ay monophthongization. #LSA2025
January 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lisa Sullivan is testing different levels of metalinguistic awareness of a set of variables: bag-raising, Canadian ay and ow raising, and ay monophthongization. #LSA2025
Thanks to everyone for visiting our three posters! Please do come to my final talk on romance audio dramas, there will be cute fan art! #LSA2025
January 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thanks to everyone for visiting our three posters! Please do come to my final talk on romance audio dramas, there will be cute fan art! #LSA2025
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"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown–Jan. 10—The American Dialect Society, in its 35th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected rawdog as the Word of the Year for 2024. More than three hundred attendees took...
americandialect.org
January 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
Sali Tagliamonte and a crew of students are presenting on parallels in variation and change between UK youth and Canadian elders. #LSA2025
January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sali Tagliamonte and a crew of students are presenting on parallels in variation and change between UK youth and Canadian elders. #LSA2025
Claire Henderson and colleagues find that spelling norms in Canada have actually shifted towards UK norms over time, unlike other aspects of language. #LSA2025
January 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Claire Henderson and colleagues find that spelling norms in Canada have actually shifted towards UK norms over time, unlike other aspects of language. #LSA2025