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Natalie Weber

@lxgonetocanada.bsky.social
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they/them. Linguist from Texas. Works in Connecticut. Fieldwork in Canada.

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Natalie Weber @lxgonetocanada.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New paper out in IJAL! "Beyond Minimal Pairs: Distributional Evidence For Two Additional Vowels In Blackfoot". journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Includes methods for finding phonemic contrasts in polysynthetic languages with few minimal pairs.
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Natalie Weber @lxgonetocanada.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
New video on what to consider when designing language classes! Fifth in a series by the Fieldwork Group at Yale about how linguistics could support community-based language projects. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWr2...
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Designing language courses: working with a linguist
YouTube video by Yale Linguistics
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Natalie Weber @lxgonetocanada.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Pleased that this co-authored articulatory description of Blackfoot has been published! We also summarize the current study and point out areas for future research. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/c453bb...
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A phonetic description of Káínai Blackfoot
This paper presents the Blackfoot (Algonquian) phonetic system from data provided by Tootsinam (Beatrice Bullshields, 1945–2015), a native speaker of Káínai’powahsin, the Blackfoot dialect associated ...
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Natalie Weber @lxgonetocanada.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
New video on language learning and how to increase language exposure! Fourth in a series by the Fieldwork Group at Yale about how linguistics could support community-based language projects. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkwm...
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Increasing language exposure: working with a linguist
How language exposure helps children and adults learn languages. Includes examples of how to increase language exposure inside and outside of the classroom t...
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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
If you haven't heard, applications for The Endangered Language Fund's 2023 #Native Voices Endowment Grant are open! #Grants are available for work on #documentation & #revitalization of a number of Native American #languages. More info: endangeredlanguagefund.org/native-voice...
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Natalie Weber @lxgonetocanada.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Okay, has anyone created an algorithm to refind your twitter friends and mutuals on bluesky? It's so much work to rebuild the network. :/
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