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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Today Dr. Dušan Nikolić gave a talk on “Perception of lexical pitch accents: the native language acoustic cue approach vs. the target language acoustic cue approach” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Dr. Dušan Nikolić (UCalgaryLing ’23) and Prof. Angeliki Athanasopoulou presented “Real Time Integration of Acoustic Cues of Lexical Pitch Accent: An Eye Tracking Study” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta. Go @dusannikolic.bsky.social!

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I am slowly leaning towards calling Serbian a restricted tone system in my work; and I am gathering materials for a potential article on whether Serbian is a pitch accent or restricted tone system or something else, but it is an interesting case, for sure.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Okay, I finally found some time to post this episode on YouTube, with subtitles! 😎 Not too bad, but the star is of course @phono-logical.bsky.social with his vast knowledge of rap music, Sociolinguistics, Phonology, etc. Such a great episode, recommended to everyone! youtu.be/EtJJ_8NGSGI?...

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Language of Rap Music (Rap Linguistics) - Linguistically Aware

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Impressionistically, yes, we could probably say this, but I don't see any evidence for it, at least not in Stoney (for now, we need a proper research on this).

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I remember that we wrote down that potentially pharyngeals could be rhoticized, but with no secondary articulation for sure. In addition, in some informal inspections of the spectrograms of words such as 'roro' or 'rheyam', there was no rhotic articulation, so I tend to agree here with Dr. Flynn.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I can definitely see the value in the proposed r-flavoured epiglottal fricative /ʜ/. The main issue is that we cannot carry out the research on any aspect of the language without the authorization from the community and the company. This makes it a bit difficult for me to support the-above claim.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So far, from what we know from Morley Stoney, and mind you, there is not a lot of research, we don't think that Stoney has epiglottal fricatives but rather pharyngeal fricatives /ħ, ʕ/. For example: dictionary.stoneynakoda.org#/L/rhoka.

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Stoney Nakoda Dictionary

Stoney Nakoda Online Dictionary

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks both. Let me unpack everything you wrote and get back to you. :)

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Great book. Would be nice to have it in the lab 📚

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I would love to be added 🙋🏻‍♂️

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Honestly, for me it was simply a show, so I really liked it. I would not use it as an example referring to accurate historical events. I don’t do that with any show out there. But if you need something accurate, then I don’t have any suggestions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The most recent I watched is Shogun, and it’s brilliant. I also liked a comedy called The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (if that counts).

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This term I am teaching Linguistic Anthropology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and I honestly can’t wait to start! 🎉🥳🎊🙌 Some of the myths we will address are well illustrated in the photo 🗿 😊

Ross thinks he is Indiana Jones while holding a soft dino toy

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

An explanation can be found in Keith Johnson’s work on vowel normalization. You created a phoneme/ a category of the vowel /a/ while acquiring the language, there is also the frequency effect, the recency effect, etc. I will do my best to create a video about it and notify you :)

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 28/12/2024

Now more than ever, education in the social sciences that isn’t being gatekept by moral panics around (especially US) universities is super important, and basic linguistics classes can be really useful places to start unlearning a lot of racist thought and “common sense” about language and humans.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I don't, but that would be a nice topic to explore and share. Would you prefer a Praat tutorial or a more theoretic approach?

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The podcast is now hosted by another linguist from our department, Brooklyn Shepard, and Brooklyn is doing an amazing work! Listen and enjoy! 🙌🏻🎧 cjsw.com/program/ling...

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Linguistically Aware – CJSW Radio

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Very few people know that I was the host of the podcast, "Linguistically Aware", broadcast once monthly on a local radio station, CJSW 90.9.

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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Prof. Winters (@swinters.bsky.social) solves today’s Gramle (Spectrogram Wordle) nascl.rc.nau.edu/gramle/ in one guess, under a minute, yet again! youtu.be/LxMjvY_Smu4?...

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Daily Gramle - December 15th, 2024

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Absolutely! Although I would like to try myself in a Gramle tournament 🏟️ 😀

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’ll definitely have to check this Syntactic Prosody Phrase. I wonder how, if at all, interferes with the Intonational Phrase which also controls the command prosody.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A very informative and interesting read👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some students mentioned Gramle (spectrogram reading) to me yesterday so I solved one today and filmed it describing what I can see, thinking it might be useful for the finals. Great fun! youtu.be/Cu-4k4GJV-s?...

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Reading Spectrograms - Gramle - Dec 8

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

That could very well be the case. I loved Shogun, too, and I believe the series reached the peak when it comes to emotional investment of the viewers in the penultimate episode that they maybe wanted a less intense ending. Because the Shogun already happened, right.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🎧🎙️

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

I have seen an increase of subscriptions on my channel, so why not advertise it a bit. If anyone needs a full course on Phonetics and Intro to Linguistics (which I created for my students), feel free to like, share, and subscribe :) youtube.com/@dulenini?si...

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Wow, that would've been lovely! We definitely need more of that (rather than hundreds of different tv shows).

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

I had no idea it was a serial! I just remember that I loved reading the Count.

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

My students (Winter 2023) ☺️

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

If you don't enjoy it, your students won't either... so I guess it does benefit your students. :)

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Dusan Nikolic @dusannikolic.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Used to do (or not do) the same thing, but now I do not start any writing or reading without Zotero. It's so efficient and simple.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Humans can write stories. LLMs can write stories. What happens when they write stories with the exact same prompt? A paper that introduces fiction as a prompt in behavioral and computational experiments yielding insights into human and non-human cultural imaginary and biases.

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