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Joey Stanley

@joeystanley.com
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Sociolinguist at BYU. American English (Utah, Georgia, and Latter-day Saints), mostly vowels, some methods. Organist, bread maker, fan of succulents, beginning knitter. joeystanley.com

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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 29/09/2026
11 out of 11 appointments done for today.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 28/09/2026
In my idiolect, I use the term "highway" for anything from a major interstate to a two-lane country road that connects two cities. I don't naturally use the word "freeway" or "interstate." So this sentence took a sec for me to parse.
A screenshot from the news article. "The Utah Department of Transportation has spent more than a decade removing traffic lights along Bangerter Highway and replacing intersections with interchanges, with the eventual goal of turning the highway into a freeway."
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 25/09/2026
It took six months(!) but I finally finished knitting this scarf! It’s my first time working with hand-dyed natural fiber yarn—a souvenir from #LSA2026 in New Orleans. The main part is #128 and the end is #239 from Hitomi Shida’s 250 Japanese Knitting Stitches. Looking forward to the winter!
A red knit scarf. It has an intricate pattern that mixes lace and cables. Part of the repeating design looks like a leaf.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 24/09/2026
“It is time for state leaders to reinstate language requirements in our schools before the global superpower we built is lost for good,” Kylie Howe writes in an op-ed.
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Voices: When Utah schools lose language classes like mine, students lose more than words
“It is time for state leaders to reinstate language requirements in our schools before the global superpower we built is lost for good,” Kylie Howe writes in an op-ed.
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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Friendly reminder that the mean of ordinal data (and ordinal probability distributions) is literally undefined, let alone a bad idea, without imposing extra-ordinal structure. For much more, including how to build analyses under these conditions, see betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt....
betanalpha.github.io
Ordinal Modeling
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 11/09/2026
The Silo series on Apple TV is, dare I say, better than the book.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 05/09/2026
Linguists: <- @jofrhwld.bsky.social: ->
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Greater London Symphony Orchestra
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In preparation for my quant methods class, I've apparently written ~35 pages of how-tos about tech config, "How do I...?" and "What is...?" They're all CC-BY-NC, and most pages have a typst pdf version.
lin611-2026.github.io
How Tos – Lin611 - Quantitative Methods
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 21/08/2026
I chatted with someone from Mozambique today and this is my interpretation of his explanation of the 2S pronouns and conjugations in his variety of Portuguese: * você - realis V * tu - realis T * vós - irrealis
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 10/08/2026
I bought a single leaf of a 1582 printing of the Geneva Bible. Did I pick a page with personal religious significance? Nah. I picked one that shows the origin of the #linguistics term “Shibboleth” and describes 42,000 people getting killed for “having an accent.”
A single leaf from the Geneva bible, showing Judges 12:6–13:21  It is in a two column format with several side notes in the margins. A closeup of Judges 12:6, which is highlighted. It uses some archaic spellings and is in an archaic typeface, including “long s” for lowercase “s.” 

It says “Then said they unto him, Then say, Shibboleth. And he saide Sibboleth: for he could not so pronounce. And then they tooke him, and slew him at the passages of Jordane: and there were overthrowen at that time of the Ephraites, fourtie and two thousand.”

A side note on the word Shibboleth says “Which signified an eare of corne, or the fal of waters.”
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 07/08/2026
As a Missourian and dialect specialist, yes.
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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I can’t stop smiling at Kansans and Missourians upset about Ted Lasso’s portrayal of KC and its people on the grounds that they “don’t have accents.” My friends, you do.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 06/08/2026
FWIW, I play piano (mostly Debussy rn), play organ (started in 2020), knit (started in 2024), do big Rubik’s cubes (7x7x7 is a relaxing size), play Minecraft on my phone, and listen to audiobooks while running. I just started sewing (bc shirts never fit) and I’m about to join an a cappella group.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 31/07/2026
See you in Montreal! #NWAV54!
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is a really great question, and I'm gonna go... pretty in depth to answer it so buckle up (if you wanna come along for the ride)! (1/n)
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 27/07/2026
📣‼️🔔Introducing VoxHumana: a "spiritual successor" to DARLA. 🎉 🗣💬 Upload an audio file to VxH and it'll transcribe it with Whisper, do forced alignment with MFA, and extract formants with new-fave. It's not live yet, but I hope to get it up and running soon. joeystanley.com/blog/voxhuma...
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A teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley
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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for.
Last week, I emailed a (previously?) respectable journal in my field to let them know that a recent article I had been hoping to cite had hallucinated hashtag#AI references and that the author should be asked to update their article with credible citations to support their arguments. 

Someone from the admin team responded to say, basically, that they weren't going to do anything about it. 

I feel like this is how academic credibility dies. The main recourse I have in the face of AI slop is academic papers. If you can't trust journal articles to contain established evidence (even though the system has never been perfect) then I don't know how we can make policy recommendations, advise NGOs and charities, design credible experiments, etc., etc. 

My only hope is that this is the trigger that begins to kill the profiteering publishing system and the 'quantity over quality' performance criteria under which we all are drowning - but I have a feeling that all of academia will need an overhaul to maintain any kind of credibility.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Is there a font nerd out here who can tell me about the font Mamdani is using to caption his videos (I think it’s the same as on his campaign posters?) It’s like… slightly nostalgic, evokes summer camp aka fun and good and sun. This guy is so good at his brand.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 23/07/2026
A summer storm rolls through the Salt Lake Valley as seen from the Oquirrh Mountains at sunset July 21. (Photo by Francisco Kjolseth)
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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
we ran the numbers-- they are bad
profling.beehiiv.com
The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes
the numbers are also bad
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 17/07/2026
What #WOTY2026 this could be!
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 10/07/2026
I recently heard “flaxenmaxxing”, meaning “to arrange a song in the style of Debussy” (from his piece “Girl with the Flaxen Hair”) and I think we’ve hit peak English right there.
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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Prepping a presentation for a genealogy conference next year on AI handwriting recognition, it’s very real limitations, and how to read old handwriting. Here’s my working title: “AI ſucks: That’s an ‘s’ not an ‘f’: How to know and why that matters.”
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 18/06/2026
I know some citation formats use first name initials, but I wish in the citation information they'd spell out those names so that I don't have to hunt them down when publishers ask me for them.
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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🟡🟠🔴 Just stumbled upon a great gradient/color palette generator by @obumbratta.com: obumbratta.com/colour It's inspired by Gregor Aisch's Color Palette Helper (gka.github.io/palettes/#/9...) and brings it to the next level with a color plot, contrast ratios, and different color spaces. 📊
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Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Want to know if your paper is in scope for Diachronica? Here's a guide! First: is it about language change? that is, does it have a **diachronic** component? If not, we are not the right journal for your paper
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Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You, and yes I mean you, should be submitting your best work to American Speech. Seriously.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 03/06/2026
I like how I have a folder in Zotero called "NEW SOURCES" that I haven't added to since 2016.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 02/06/2026
Pacheco-Vega’s tips on writing lit reviews have been really good for me. I especially like the idea of concept saturation and I teach that in my classes. www.raulpacheco.org/resources/li...
raulpacheco.org
Literature Reviews
While literature reviews are part of just about every single scholarly manuscript, I thought I'd
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 02/06/2026
This was the topic of my final paper in my intro to linguistics class. For me, “a couple (of)” means three possibly four. If I mean precisely too, but want to use a generalized qualifier, I use “one or two.” I know it doesn’t make sense but I don’t make the rules of my grammar.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 30/05/2026
Why do I say marshm[ɛ]llow?
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Jonathon Owen @arrantpedantry.com · 29/05/2026
This cake mix-up is a great illustration of a sneaky feature of English phonology: aspiration. But first, some background. www.reddit.com/r/Baking/com...
A cake with "Ghost Dealers" written on it. It has the caption "I asked for go Steelers."
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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sociolinguistic grad students + socio professors with grad students who wish to attend LSA – consider the Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award, which covers $500 towards registration, travel, & lodging for #LSA2027 in San Francisco!! Deadline 6/30 - SELF NOMINATIONS ENCOURAGED!! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...
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Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award
Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 27/05/2026
Here’s a “delightful” little calculation. My landlord paid $260,000 for my townhouse in 2019. I’ve paid $115,000 in rent since June 2020. That’s 44% of the value of the property in six years.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 26/05/2026
Whoa. Praat can automatically transcribe audio using Whisper now. www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual...
fon.hum.uva.nl
TextGrid & Sound: Transcribe interval...
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 15/05/2026
Three years ago I moved a folder from the left side of my desktop to the right. And yet, here I am still instinctively going for the left side whenever I need to open it.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 15/05/2026
Is there a term yet for the act of avoiding in writing things that have been commonly flagged as hallmarks of AI, like "delve" or em-dashes? Like, "I don't want anyone to think this is AI writing so I'm going to not use that em-dash even though it works here."
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 12/05/2026
Outside of linguists, standard language ideology.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 10/05/2026
There’s a physical copy of the ANAE for $300 on eBay. I *definitely* don’t need it but I still kinda want it.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 07/05/2026
There is a gobsmackingly amount of leftover Coca-Coca from last week's SHEL/GURT conference in the copy room across the hall from me. Looks like I'm in for a great summer!
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
LingMethodsHub has been in need of some devops TLC for a while, and I finally got around to it! To make sure things are working as intended, I've put together this tutorial on using @vincentab.bsky.social's {marginaleffects} package!
lingmethodshub.github.io
Using {marginaleffects} to understand statistical models – LingMethodsHub
This is a tutorial about how to use the {marginaleffects} package to extract and plot predictions of interest from a statistical model.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 01/05/2026
I had a cool conversation today with a guy from the Bolivia-Brazil border. I was speaking Portuguese, he was speaking Spanish, and we were talking about Guarani and Quechua.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 29/04/2026
I have an announcement! 🎉
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Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Diachronica gets a paper bump every (northern) summer, and we're seeing submissions pick up. This year, there are many more submissions with AI involvement (declared or undeclared). Here's a brief thread about why the vast majority of such #linguistics papers won't make it past my desk:
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 25/04/2026
It was, in fact, a terrible year for the snowpack.
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 24/04/2026
Just finished grading 63 ten-page papers. That's 200,000 words—about the length of Fellowship of the Ring or Moby Dick—that I had to carefully read and comment in a week. But, the semester is now done!
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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · 19/04/2026
Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research? Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator! americandialect.org/research-inc...
americandialect.org
Announcing the first American Dialect Society Research Incubator!
Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14/04/2026
I need an academic meme of the year competition to teach me all the memes the way the American Dialect Society's word of the year competition teaches me all the youth slang
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