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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The puff of pit and spit was as a bell To drive Elise to major and do well

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Is it not odd that I quoted Whitman in both my LING classes yesterday? Last day of winter lectures!

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I was already assuming the ice would be messier on the way home and this confirms it!

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Wait, is this your own pic? Postcard-level!

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Thank you for the unplanned reminder that I should prepare some pre-term folk linguistic probing with my roster before winter quarter starts!

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

also it's not clear that the folk linguistic conceptualization of Valley Girl is clear or unified about what the linguistic behavior is, even within CA. Current Gen Z students know the term but many assume it invokes HRT and creak, dimensions that weren't on the radar in mid-80s

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Correct, Californians do not associate those places with upper middle class - and ofc many do associate "valley girl" as a label with the SFV in particular. I'm not sure how many think of upper middle class entitlement as its primary index though.

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I have encountered Californians from LA who thought "Valley Girl" invokes the central valley (while also using "the valley" to refer to the San Fernando valley)

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I am a fan of the expression "repeat offender" in this context! :D

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Second Language Phonology' by Ellen Simon. doi.org/10.1017/9781... Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next two weeks!

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Second Language Phonology

Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Second Language Phonology

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Another excellent new contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology is now available! Issues in Metrical Phonology: Insights from Ukrainian Beata Łukaszewicz & Janina Mołczanow This publication is Open Access, freely available hereforth! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Issues in Metrical Phonology

Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Issues in Metrical Phonology

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology' by Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula. doi.org/10.1017/9781... Freely accessible* from Cambridge University Press for the next four weeks!

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Psycholinguistics and Phonology

Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

*the temporary free access does not seem to be operative yet so I'll repost when it is

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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Psycholinguistics and Phonology

Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Psycholinguistics and Phonology

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology', by Jane Chandlee. Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next FOUR weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology

Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Quantitative and Computational Approaches to Phonology

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fwiw we saw the stage musical in London this past summer & nearly the entire cast used English accents (except Oz, who was vaguely transatlantic). I think sometimes the choices are partly a function of the actor's toolbox

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Watching both soccer and hockey today and I cannot stress this enough, just use one camera please. No closeups or cuts during live play. Please.

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

They contacted you?? Say yes! Trivia is 1/3 of the game

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Also, Greek π was adapted from a Phoenician glyph for /p/ which, prior to acrophonia, was a logogram for 'mouth' (i.e. piehole apparently)

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I read once that the mathematical use of π originally was in reference to circumference (perimeter, hence Greek P), not the ratio of circumference to diameter, so the shift of the symbol's interpretation to how we use it now is an example of mathematical metonymy

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

My pie recipe uses h₁, h₂, and h₃. You can't taste them but you know they were there at some point

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

No I mean a system where TRAP is [æ] before nasals but [a] (in the IPA sense) otherwise

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

No it's not been reversed it's [a] otherwise

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

[æ] is alive and well as the prenasal allophone of TRAP in 3rd Dialect vowel systems 🙂

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Yes, Dec through early Feb

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

In 2021 when we taught online I started each lecture with a song selection from youtube. On Feb 2 that year I used I Got You Babe. Played it again the next class, Feb 4. Sadly, no laughs or any other kind of reactions

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

In the example you give, I assume you've used allcaps to indicate phrasal stress occurring earlier than the final word (which ofc happens if discourse context motivates it)

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

I'd call it focus stress. Unless context demands otherwise, primary phrasal stress tends to occur on the primary stressed syllable of the final word. Focus = primary phrasal stress occurring somewhere other than canonical position

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

We also have an endearing trait in which no two big lecture halls have the same room number, so 1004, 1006, 1179, 1560, 1009 are all the largest halls in their respective buildings (and that's an incomplete list too)

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

U of Ottawa, U of Arizona, UCSB are all Bldg-Rm. I've heard the opposite at UCSB but the directory system definitely uses bldg first

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

I'm not usually a "look what shite I got the AI to produce" kind of guy anymore, but behold:

Prompt asks ChatGPT a trivia question, ChatGPT gets it very wrong

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I would not have noticed if you had not pointed it out!

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Do you not know about goalies?

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

wow, that's so awesome, thank you for locating this and sharing it! I stand corrected, clearly

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wendy cloudberry @wendycloudberry.com · 05/11/2023

Please enjoy this, the most breathless and accurate description of a javelina ever penned (see alt for easier-to-read copy):

A screenshot of an article in SALON with the heading “Wild pig-like animals are tearing up an Arizona golf course”.

The accompanying photo is of a javelina in recline, presumably on said golf course.

Excerpt reads as follows:
“She's an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She's an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for her grub-worm girl dinner. She's a guerilla class-warfare legend whose mating call sounds like the hissing warb-garble of a cappuccino machine milk-steamer. She's the internet's most beloved trash-eating ungulate - the uncompromising, the indefatigable, the lovely javelina.”

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

It's pylon, primarily, for me. Like not infrequently I will think, these other drivers are so slow and in the way it's like they're all pylons. Wondering now if it's an item in any regionalism survey

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

New contribution to Cambridge Elements in Phonology: 'Complexity in the Phonology of Tone', Lian-Hee Wee & Mingxing Li. Freely accessible from Cambridge University Press for the next two weeks! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

We have 2 intro level socio courses, Language in Society and Language & Power

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Chara 4eva. In 2006 Ottawa could only afford to keep Redden or Chara, not both. They traded Chara to Boston; Ottawa went to the final in 07 but lost to Anaheim. I still think not having Chara was the difference between making the final and winning it.

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Contemporary Linguistics, Archibald et al, does at least some of this IIRC

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

'soccer' is sure to show up on the list and also be an example (as I'm sure you know) of one of the British-origin 'Americanisms' (scare quotes necessary because the word is used anywhere where there is some other more predominant kind of football)

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

like, ask a bunch of UK residents what are the Americanisms that bother them the most (basically, a folk dialectological study). Name 10 of them. Amalgamating across responses, surely you'd get a substantive list.

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I think if there were such a thing I would love to see it, and if there weren't (and had I the bandwidth) I'd want to work on it. I can imagine constructing a list of salient items, perhaps via a pretest or survey, and then working through them case-by-case.

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Bob Kennedy @bobksb.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I am all for bleets. Skeet is gross

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