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Audrey Ziehli

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Linguist, PhD student Cognitive linguistics, language(s) of politics, corpus methods she/her

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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
What if every child could find books in their language at the local library? 💛 The Multilingual Library is making that happen - celebrating culture, identity & reading for all. #WorldKidLit #library #diversereading 🌈📖 worldkidlit.org/2025/12/15/t...
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The Multilingual Library: A unique project in the north of England
By Anam Zafar Being a professional linguist, whenever I hear the word “multilingual” I’m just itching to find out more. So, when I first heard about the Multilingual Library (during the fantastic I…
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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our colleagues in the Law department have published an interdisciplinary, German-language collection on hate speech, edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu. Now available in #OpenAccess: 🔓 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111683041/html#contents
Book cover of "Hassrede an der Schnittstelle von Linguistik und Justiz", edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu.
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
library(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2
A density plot with added eyes and mouth to resemble a ghost and a title saying Happy Halloween in a spooky font
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TU Dortmund @tu-dortmund.de · 24/09/2025
Unser Campus-Maskottchen wird vermisst. Wer hat den kleinen zutraulichen Kater gesehen?
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
FYI: New German-English corpus available - MPI EVA Leipzig Corpus
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FYI: New German-English corpus available - MPI EVA Leipzig Corpus
We are pleased to announce that the first German-English bilingual corpus is now available on the CHILDES platform. This longitudinal and dense corpus contains transcripts of spontaneous child–adult interaction involving three bilingual children. At present, only the data from Fion are available, with the remaining children’s corpora to be added in the near future. The Fion corpus spans the period from age 2;3 to 3;11, comprising 211 hours of recordings with 53,372 child utterances and 120,5
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 21/07/2025
brb making "hich" happen
Screencap from the middle of a paper: 
questions like ‘where?’, ‘whither?’ or ‘what?’ and answer them with demonstrative words like ‘there’, ‘thither’ or ‘that’. English, like many languages, allows a range of spatially calibrated answers—here versus there (and yon in older English), hither versus thither, this versus that. Moreover, many languages are like English in having proportional formal relationships between question words and demonstratives. The English formula is wh- for questions, h- for proximal demonstratives, and th- for distal demonstratives, but we don’t do this consistently HIGHLIGHT (we don’t express ‘now’ with hen, or answer which? with hich or thich). END HIGHLIGHT Some languages, like Japanese or Tamil, have systems that are both richer and more consistent (see Evans 2012b for [screencap cuts off mid-sentence]
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 21/07/2025
(from this paper, which is not actually about that link.springer.com/article/10.1... )
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Did language evolve in multilingual settings? - Biology & Philosophy
Accounts of language evolution have largely suffered from a monolingual bias, assuming that language evolved in a single isolated community sharing most speech conventions. Rather, evidence from the s...
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 11/07/2025
The first volume to bring together state-of-the-art studies on language development in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh. The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now #Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky cup.org/4nK7RAS
Cover of The Acquisition of Celtic Languages
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Endpapers @endpapers.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
24. The Jellyfish Garden Paola Vitale & Rossana Bossú @postwavebooks.bsky.social
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LL16 - Linguistic Landscape Workshop 16 @ll16-ude.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We are aware of participants receiving phishing emails from a company calling itself variably "Global Travel Team", "Operations Global", or "Travel Team". #LL16 has not provided participants' email addresses to any third party, nor published them online. Please, do not respond to these messages!
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Schweizerisches Idiotikon @ch-idiotikon.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Jakob Redinger hat 1656 «mit etlich hundert bispilen gewisen, wie die Latinishe Sprach us der Tütshen geflossen» ist. 😃 Schaut man Redingers Beispiele an, trifft man auf gemeinsame Erbwörter, auf Lehnwörter und auf pure assoziative Phantasie – Sprachbetrachtungen, bevor es Sprachwissenschaft gab.
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Audrey Ziehli @aziehli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Seconding this HOORAY!!! Very jazzed about presenting on September 3rd!
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Endpapers @endpapers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
9. There’s No Such Thing as a Silly Question Mike Rampton & Guilherme Karsten @mikerampton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social
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John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Lá breithe sona do @raidiofailte.bsky.social atá 40 bliain ag fás 👏 Belfast's Irish language station Raidió Fáilte celebrates 40 years 🎊 www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
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Raidió Fáilte celebrates 40 years on air as Gaeilge
Northern Ireland's only Irish language radio station, Raidió Fáilte, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
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Audrey Ziehli @aziehli.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Don't we all(e)?
Sidewalk chalk text in child's handwriting that reads "I love rainbowe and sonne" with drawings of rainbows and the sun
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I appreciate that this has been the example in "anankastic conditional" for 18 years
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14/12/2024
With Sesame Street getting canceled, now feels like a good time to share this amazing clip from the show where you had Yiddish, ASL, Spanish, and English all being spoken together in one cozy little shop
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
perfect
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 18/11/2024
Aiming to 'radicalize Main Street,' Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Aiming to 'radicalize Main Street,' Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee
Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Tennessee county, hoping to attract like-minded people from across the country as part of their efforts to “radicalize Main Street.”
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Time to share my favourite entry from the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary again #language #linguistics
Entry for the UK and US pronunciation of Uranus with a Note: The pronunciation /jʊəˈreɪ.nəs/ has virtually disappeared from use, after many years of bad jokes based on the fact that it is homophonous with 'your anus'.
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Esther King @esthermavis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
✍ The Dial's language issue is here ✍ Read the first stories — including this fascinating essay on why AI won't help to protect endangered languages — on our website. You can also sign up to our weekly newsletter to receive new stories as they're published. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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AI Won’t Save Endangered Languages — The Dial
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/202...
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It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
ooooooh #linguistics alert! the team that did the Scots Syntax Atlas (incredible tool!!!!) is collecting data in Ireland and Wales!! Please share these links around! ROI: speakforyersel.ac.uk/roi/ NI: speakforyersel.ac.uk/ni/ Wales: speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/
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Speak For Yersel
Speak for Yersel maps the different words, sounds and sentences used throughout The Republic of Ireland, but we need YOU to do this. Take the survey now.
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