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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Not another case of final voicing? Laryngeal Realism, Late Middle English delaryngealisation and impossible phonological change” by Patrick Honeybone (Sep. ’26) phoneybone.ppls.ed.ac.uk/ell-delaryng...

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OTD 343 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The myth of phonetic erosion” by Fae Hicks and Patrick Honeybone (Sep. ’26) phoneybone.ppls.ed.ac.uk/phn-erosion....

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Categorical perception of Mandarin tones in Jingpo native speakers” by Binghao Wang, Xinyuan Li and Yao Lu (Sep. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Yao-...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ooh: “Prominence in Lio: an experimental investigation of word stress” by Michelle Mayro (Aug. ’26) search.proquest.com/openview/5be...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Diné Bizaad, a descriptive sketch” by Jennifer Reyes Morgan (Sep. ’26) search.proquest.com/openview/e83...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Spatiotemporal articulatory modulations under stress: evidence from Italian” by Riccardo Orrico, Bowei Shao and Maria Giavazzi (Sep. ’26) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Acoustic correlates of Albanian word stress in relation to the Balkan Slavic environment” by Irena Sawicka, Artur Karasiński and Andrzej Żak (Sep. ’26) link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teaching syntax these days and it’s messing with my head

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Parsing, productivity, and word prosody: the interaction of stress assignment and morphological processing in Vedic Sanskrit” by Ryan Sandell (Sep. ’26) link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last week I asked my phonology students to submit speech errors involving liquids from YouTube, etc. Here’s a nice one that just happened: “bleing a Blue Jay”

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Up here in Canada, th-stopping is more standard in Newfoundland and Labrador English, due to Irish influence, but when th-fronting does occur, notably among some speakers with some British ancestry, it shows the same context-sensitivity as in AAVE

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my daughers once left a sticky note on the fridge: ”DAD I WANT TO GO TO BANTH”

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Learning: sparse spaces, phonology,” an old lecture by Patrick Winston in the online course MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73h...

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14. Learning: Sparse Spaces, Phonology

YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Illustrations of the IPA: Danish” by Nina Grønnum (Sep. ’26) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaC6...

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Illustrations of the IPA: Danish

YouTube video by International Phonetic Association

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

th-fronting is a such a pain for teachers and students. Its application varies across varieties, class, age, and phonological contexts. Its status as lexical vs. surface-phonological vs. phonetic also varies across individuals and words. And [θ] and [f] really do sound identical (as do [ð] and [v]).

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Handy lit review: “The vowelization effect in Arabic reading: a systematic review and the conditional facilitation account” by Abeer Asli-Badarneh and Ibrahim Asadi (Sep. ’26) link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Flow nation: Sound, space and solidarity in South Asia” by Ali Raj (Sep. ’26) — sounds interesting but, as is all too common with PhD theses, “This item is currently under embargo. It will be available starting 2031-06-22.” academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Procrastination and tongue function in older adults: a cross-sectional study” by Kohei Yamaguchi, Ayane Horike, Kanako Shibahara, Rieko Moritoyo, Kanako Yoshimi, Kazuharu Nakagawa and Haruka Tohara (Sep. ’26) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“A sketch of Hadza grammar” by Andrew Harvey, Richard Griscom and Jeremy Coburn (Sep. ’26) journals.flvc.org/sal/article/...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Stress-induced lengthening outside stressed syllable nucleus in Finnic and Tlapanec: a challenge for theory and typology” by Natalia Kuznetsova, Oscar Cornelio Tiburcio and Hiroto Uchihara (Sep. ’26) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It is not worth your time, and it is definitely not worth your money.” Devastating review, but I’m hoping for some push-back-and-forth. The engagement would be good for both @languagejones.bsky.social and @etymologynerd.bsky.social. And ok, yes, entertaining for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5T...

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Etymology Nerd’s Algospeak: Double Plus UnGood

YouTube video by languagejones

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I spent a summer in Bangui when I was 9, surrounded by this language. I remember thinking it sounded cool and not too hard: “Sango: a social and linguistic history” by the late William J. Samarin (2026) www.sil.org/resources/pu...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cool alternation in ‘autumn’ [ˈɑɾəm] vs. ‘autumnal’ [ɑˈtʰʌmnəɫ]

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Christian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICPhS extended the deadline to 10/9! What a relief! We have a little time to make sure we all can get things submitted in time. I'm elated since I had such a busy September and we're still processing data for our paper. icphs2027.ca/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers – ICPHS 2027

The organizing committee is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 21st International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, which will take place on August 9–13, 2027, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has launched.

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why yes, I did begin today’s lecture on moraic theory with 🎵 “How do you solve a problem like morae?” 🎶

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Shared structure and divergent phonetic grammars: prosodic fine-tuning of vowel nasalization in Australian and American English” by Jiyoung Jang, Hyunjung Joo, Sahyang Kim, Anne Cutler and Taehong Cho (Sep. ’26) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are some cool sounds in Wu, Min, etc. Cf. “Phonetic typology of the consonants of Chinese dialects” by Wai-Sum Lee & Eric Zee (2010) www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/confe...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quirky (in a good way) thesis: “Dynamic interaction of linguistic streams during processing” by John Robert Starr (Aug. ’26) www.proquest.com/docview/3385...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*s > ɬ in Taishan, Kaiping and Heshan (Tan 2017: 161)

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Common Southwestern Wu: a study of transition in Chinese historical phonology” by John Carlyle (Sep. ’26) www.proquest.com/docview/3385...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Greek fortition in Logical Phonology” by Kyle Gorman (Mar. ’26) lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Consonant–vowel asymmetries in L2 Japanese length contrasts: evidence from Italian learners” by Motoko Ueyama (Sep. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Moto...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Handout from today. zenodo.org/records/2280...

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just finished this new painting, hope you like it! Northern Spirit XVII 24x48 acrylic on canvas monica-morrill.jimdosite.com

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surfside II 30x48 acrylic on canvas monica-morrill.jimdosite.com

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Seglets over segments” by Chris Golston and Wolfgang Kehrein (Sep. ’26) academic.oup.com/book/63273/c...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Open access: “Phantom stress in tone sandhi: evidence from Shaoxing Wu Chinese” by Xinyi Wen (Sep. ’26) www.lotpublications.nl/phantom-stre...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Smorgasbord of morphophonology: “Le lexique wolof: quelques éléments de procédés de dérivation nominale et aspects phonologiques” by Abibatou Diagne (Sep. ’26) bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-o...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Linguistic typology and learning biases: a study of syllable-copy reduplication across modalities” by David Schwitzgebel and Sharon Peperkamp (Sep. ’26) escholarship.org/uc/item/5nv0... Very helpful discussion of production/perception disparity in cognitive biases in artificial language learning

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cool: “Charles Lewis Reason (July 21, 1818 – August 16, 1893) was an American mathematician, *linguist*, and educator. He was the *first* black college professor in the United States”

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The grand sonority delusion” by Martin Krämer and Draga Zec (Sep. ’26) academic.oup.com/book/63273/c...

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Majestic Coast 30x48 acrylic on canvas

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Orthographies of Indigenous languages in British Columbia are trending, so I’ll share the orthography of a language in BC that I had the honour and pleasure of working on. Oowekyala distinguishes 44 different consonants (20 more than English) and 32 vowels and syllabic consonants

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Issues in sequencing: from features to phrases” by Eirini Apostolopoulou and Martin Krämer (Sep. ’26) academic.oup.com/book/63273/c...

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The phonetic linearization of asymmetric structures in phonology: a comparative study of traditional syllable structures and PfP phonological structures” by Kuniya Nasukawa (Sep. ’26) academic.oup.com/book/63273/c...

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