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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Word order matters for learning words: 2-yr-olds learned novel adjectives in a prenominal ("This is a fip cup") but not a predicative ("This cup is fip") position. The ease of learning a new adjective is influenced by the construction in which it appears. on.asha.org/4ygAQAI

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Two-Year-Olds' Acquisition of Novel Adjectives in Prenominal and Predicative Sentence Frames

Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to determine whether toddlers could learn novel adjective meanings when the adjectives appear...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/09/2026

Alright 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice here we go.

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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pocket friends: Red Cross Wellington is ready for sewing machines for former refugees, and we need to get six machines from Palmerston North to Wellington. Might anyone be driving PN-Welli in the next couple of weeks, and be willing to transport things? Thanks!

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

MY HEART! We were waiting for the paperwork to finalise & it’s now OFFICIAL. Today @sirbeans.bsky.social & I are announcing our indie Irish #gamedev studio: ORGANIC MATTERS. We’re a lean, craft-led studio focused on human-made projects. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1bX...

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Announcing "Organic Matters": Our Irish Indie Game Studio

YouTube video by Organic Matters

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Speakers and learners of #tokipona Please help us with our research on toki pona pronunciation patterns! If you're 18 or older, and happy to record your voice for our study, please help by following the link. It takes less than 10 minutes. (1/4) labbcatcorpus.canterbury.ac.nz/toki-pona/el...

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Elicit Speech

The first time the app runs, it must be connected to the internet.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Your partner getting employment doesn't stop you being disabled suddenly - it might even increase the costs if they are unable to offer as much free help. But your access to financial aid for that disability is entirely dependent on that partners income.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience

Illustration of a tapas table set with small plates of food, one labeled /tapa/. The image is created by Adriana Ojeda. Text reads: TAPA, Toolkit for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis. Runs on your local machine. Open source, free.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In a keynote at Sociolinguistics and AI Conference, Prof. Rodney Jones analyzes discourses about “consciousness” and the “great awakening of AI” and explains ideologies of prompts as incantations. This is technoanimism, and it’s more evidence that people are orienting towards “AI” as religion.

“Waking up AI is about waking you up” TikTok clips

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our first paper introducing the concept of sufficient frequency in word learning is out in JEP:General. 🧵👶💬https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2028-07021-001.html

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APA PsycNet

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Tuta @tuta.com · 10/08/2026

🚨 Google is killing Android freedom. 🚨 Android is supposed to be open, and your phone should be yours → NOT GOOGLES. Find out more: tuta.com/blog/android... Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/keep-andro...

Screenshot from Keep Android Open titled, "Your phone is about to stop being yours. 145 days until lockdown"

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Open-access grammars by UC Publications in Linguistics escholarship.org/uc/ucpress_u...

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics at MMU (p/t; fixed term). Deadline August 16. The role would suit people with interests and expertise in issues concerning critical language pedagogies, language and social justice, and educational linguistics. manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

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Lecturer (Critical Applied Linguistics) - (9121) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

A photograph of multiple fire service vehicles parked on moorland. In the background, white smoke from multiple fires is rising.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In the end, it wasn't even close. The pīwakawaka is the best "ordinary" bird in the world! Undefeated in 8 matches, this little guy was the class of the tournament by some distance. #WorldCupOfBirds

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

To do research is, among other things, to give value to ideas. To review is to critically assess the value of ideas. If you think this process can be done by a Chatbot, you probably shouldn’t be anywhere near it.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 16/07/2026

It's suddenly very important to me that bsky knows about Chase, my friend's cat who kept being taken to the vet by very well meaning people who thought he was lost as he wandered about town. Now he's famous www.facebook.com/chaseisnotlost

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

our linguistic justice oracy framework intervenes prior to the publication of the ‘official’ DfE framework. it offers a vision for an anti-racist and anti-ableist oracy which sustains the linguistic dexterity that all children bring to school with them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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An oracy framework for England’s schools: linguistic justice edition

It is September 2028. All schools in England have just started teaching the new national curriculum. As part of this, they are adhering to guidance contained within a new oracy framework, named as ...

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Nicolas Lambert @neocarto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The {planisphere} R package is now available on CRAN. It provides 117 original map projections, including Spilhaus, Airocean, Deltoidal, Dodecahedral, Waterman, Interrupted Mollweide, and many others. 🌍 #rspatial Code: github.com/riatelab/pla... Documentation: riatelab.github.io/planisphere/...

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I've got my own private herb garden. This thyme, it's personal.

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ʤan~ʤɑn~ʤɔn @languagedoodad.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I made a Phonology Feature & Segment engine app. You can query a given segment inventory by features or query features by segments. It uses set computations to determine natural classes, minimal feature specifications, segments needed to form a natural class, etc. jhnwnstd.github.io/phono-feature/

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Phonology Segment & Feature Engine

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Phonology” by Maria Mendes Cantoni and Magnun Rochel Madruga (June ’26) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Great! Looks useful Btw: seen my rcldf package? Aims to make using these types of data much easier. Keen for more people to test it out! github.com/simongreenhi...

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GitHub - SimonGreenhill/rcldf: rcldf - The R library for reading CLDF files

rcldf - The R library for reading CLDF files. Contribute to SimonGreenhill/rcldf development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I made a tutorial on how to plot grambank data with R for my grad students, thought I'd share while I'm at it. If I get around to doing part 2 (adding the second data set, highlighting one language), I'll keep you posted.

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Creating a typological map with R

In this tutorial, we learn how to create a typological map with R, in R studio. This is the first part, in which we plot data from Grambank to a map of Cameroon

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My first proper foray into Afroasiatic-level reconstruction just came out in BJALL: "Disentangling Afroasiatic *t-morphemes: No path from middle to imperfective" brill.com/view/journal... Sadly not open access, but I'd be delighted to send a copy to anyone who asks me for one (myfirstname@gmail)

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 19/06/2026

Are we pronouncing the G in algae the same was as the G in gif?

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Sociolinguistics is asking, “why is it Waldo in NAmerica and Wally in UK?” (and Charlie in French)

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Harriet Sheppard @harrietsheppard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The recording for our #LanguageMattersInThePacific seminar is now up. Closed captions have been manually checked. Unfortunately, the zoom recording didn't capture the view seen by attendees so interpreters are visible instead of some panellists www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkfp...

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Language Matters in the Pacific: Sign languages in the Pacific

YouTube video by Language Matters in the Pacific

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Eleanor Ridge @eleanorridge.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Applied linguists, come be my colleague! We're advertising an ongoing position as a lecturer in applied linguistics at the Massey campus in Palmerston North, NZ. I'm happy to answer any questions I can about the job, institution, location etc... www.researchgate.net/job/1037552_...

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LECTURER IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS at Massey University in Palmerston North, NEW ZEALAND

Jun 8, 2026 | Lecturer in Applied Linguistics School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication College of Humanities and Social Sciences Palmerston North... | NEW JOB

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LECTURER IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS at Massey University in Palmerston North, NEW ZEALAND

Jun 8, 2026 | Lecturer in Applied Linguistics School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication College of Humanities and Social Sciences Palmerston North... | NEW JOB

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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today's www.collocateswordgame.com word is "conference", which is a neat coincidence after returning from LTRC 2026 in Montreal last night. I did okay on this one - the obvious verb collocates got me 86 points. The rest needed a bit more careful thinking on my part. Give it a shot!

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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Letícia Moraes studies how AI erases minority identities. Silvia Maria de Sousa examines how AI constructs discourse. Together, they tested ChatGPT and Sabiá on Brazilian regional slang. The gap in their answers tells a bigger story. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics #AIbias

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

oh cool we’re already at “fully AI-generated videos about how AI steals Indigenous languages” now with bonus slop images of generically “Indigenous” women, and a “nobody’s talking about it” while referring to but not actually naming the specific Māori people who are VERY MUCH talking about it

screenshot of a youtube video with AI slop image of three generic “Indigenous” women wearing a mishmash of clothes from a bunch of cultures and holding what appear to be Kindles. Video title is “AI is stealing Indigenous languages (and nobody’s talking about it)”, and video label says “made with AI”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 04/06/2026

literally nobody is cautiously welcoming this overhaul

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We must be fearless. We must have fearlessness. We must not be fearlessnessless. We must not have fearlessnesslessness. We must be fearlessnesslessnessless.

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Ake (not a kererū .... yet) @tenamu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Silly wee song with some tuna from Perspex Window Music youtube.com/shorts/8Q08h... #sythsky #droneday

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Te Wai Ōrea #droneday #shorts

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 29/05/2026

When Australia did this it cost the federal government millions, ruined untold lives, and drove multiple people to suicide; but sure, let's learn nothing and do Robodebt here too

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b𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

the collective noun for homophones is a heard

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