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Sam Hellmuth
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languages & linguistics, mostly Arabic & mostly phonology, views my own, Prof @UniofYork [sæm ˈhɛlmʌθ] (she/her)
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Today I made this plot (among other things)
A pitch contours plot showing the shape of pitch rise at the end of questions in Cairene Egyptian Arabic, on words with different numbers of syllables, and with the stress on different syllables of the word. The rise typically starts at the beginning of the stressed syllable then carries on rising towards the end of the utterance. There are some dinks in the rise along the way in some cases, but those can mostly be explained by the properties of the sounds in the word, such as a fully voiced /d/ between two vowels, that depresses the F0 contour due to voicing during the closure.
August 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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@sustrans.bsky.social great trip this weekend 🌞 #BucketList
Touring bike leaning against the pavement on a bright sunny day, with wall of the Larpool Viaduct behind and Whitby Abbey in the background on the horizon
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Christmas holiday reading sorted... @mythicalbritain.bsky.social
Opening page of The Romance of William and the Werewolf, translated by Michael Smith, illustrated with a black and white linocut print of a fierce looking black dog looking left
December 8, 2024 at 2:27 PM