Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 1h« La pertinence du trait ATR et de l’allongement vocalique en joolɐ fooñi et en gʊñaamɔlɔ, langues atlantiques du Sénégal » par Lamine Bodian (Oct. ’26) unora.unior.it/handle/11574... 100 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 1h“Proceeding of the 4th Symposium on West African Languages (Naples, 21–23 September 2022)” ed. by Gian Claudio Batic and Valentina Schiattarella (Oct. ’26) unora.unior.it/handle/11574... 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 19h“AccStack: an agentically compiled catalog of word stress and tone, with sources” by Matthew D. Schwartz, Kevin M. Ryan, Matthew K. Gordon, Joe Pater and Larry M. Hyman (Oct. ’26) AccStack: accstack.org paper: bootloops.ai/stresscatalo... 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 19hComparison of guttural coarticulation in Arabic and Amis 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 19h“Asymmetric lingual effects of guttural consonants on Amis vowels: an ultrasound study” by Hsin-Hsiang Lin, Ting Huang, Yueh-chin Chang and Feng-fan Hsieh (Oct. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Feng... 020 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20h“The mouth vowel /æɔ/ in CAAE has a different trajectory from [Mainstream Aus. English] as documented in the literature: it originates from the dress vowel [e], and then lowers to above the target of strut [ɐ], without further travelling into the back vowel space, resulting in a quality of [eɐ].” 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20h“An acoustic study on diphthongs in conversational Central Australian Aboriginal English” by Yizhou Wang, Carmel O’Shannessy, Vanessa Napaltjarri Davis, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen and Denise Foster (Oct. ’26) www.jbe-platform.com/docserver/fu... 110 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20hI’m surprised this question didn’t make the biggest-changes list: 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 22hCool: “A new survey of Canadian English: Fifty years of language change” by Charles Boberg, Claire Henderson and Jackson Mundie (June ’26) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 040 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 22h« De la divergence du français mitchif : le cas des marqueurs de conséquence » par Davy Bigot et Robert Papen (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Good to know you hear something in the vowel of become too! Vowel harmony affecting (h)as is possible, but after posting that clip, it dawned on me that he’s from the Irish diaspora. Be-perfect forms like “he is left” survive in Irish-stock varieties in the US and Canada, incl. in my extended family 120 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Misplaced my glasses this evening so I misread this as, “Do we have free Wifi?” 1102 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Moynihan’s pronunciation of ‘become’ caught my ear just now, but his non-standard use of ‘is’ is interesting, too. (I don’t think there’s an intrusive l here. I’ve been hallucinating these since I began working with a student who pronounces quite a few, e.g. ‘both’ as “bolth”.) 230 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just me, maybe, but I think haiku translations should use the 5–7–5 mora pattern and typical poetic devices (alliteration, assonance, consonance, etc.): 120 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 10/10/2026« Elle est toute cuisinée. » Dubé wrote this 75 years ago. Not sure, but this expression seems similar in meaning and use to “she’s so cooked” in more recent informal English. If so, very cool! 130 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My son uses “tireder.” It’s a word, and combining the past participle and comparative suffixes *should* be ok, as they’re both inflectional, but it’s still kinda weird to me. Compare *worrieder, *honoreder, *boreder, *shockeder, *pleaseder, *scareder, *thrilleder, *skilleder, *feareder, etc. 320 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@becauselanguage.com quickly and kindly suggested a better analysis (thanks!), which I've bastardized in the trees below. He doesn’t use strict X-bar theory with 1st-y students, so he's able to use a ternary branching NP which spares him a major flaw in my tree-analysis—that ‘more‘ dominates ‘than’ 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Roughly, I adapted Larson’s ’88 analysis of adjectival comparatives, except that I follow the course textbook (Contemporary Linguistic Analysis) in placing Deg in the specifier position 110 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m a phonologist teaching syntactic ambiguity this week. Most cases are pretty easy to explain to my first-year students, but this one is tricky. I only teach NPs, not DPs or DegPs, so I can only share basic analyses in class. Syntax gurus: do you think these trees are reasonable enough to share? 130 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026«Desarrollo de interacciones entre glotal y sonantes en lenguas mataguayas: el caso nivaĉle» por Analía Guttiérrez (Sep. ’26) www.researchgate.net/profile/Anal... 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m starting to feel bad for bringing up this phonotactic ;) 120 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not specific to Utah English but exciting to see /t/ → [ʔ] documented not only immediately before /n/, but also across a vowel (“at a distance”), as in ‘buttons’ below. Also great that they document the glottal stop dissipating into creaky voice, as in ‘mountains’, or into vocal fry, as in ‘carton’: 020 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Go big or go home, I guess: “How does the human brain accommodate 6,500 languages?” by David Kemmerer and Adolfo M. García (Sep. ’26) www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fu... 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“What [ju] know about that?: Changing patterns of glide deletion in memphis African American English” by Nikolai A. Schwarz-Acosta, Rhosean Asmah and Nicole Holliday (Aug. ’26) pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This varies in Western Canada, too. My eldest pronounces ‘button’ as [ˈb̥ʌʔn̩]. My second-eldest pronounces it [ˈb̥ʌɾn̩]. My second-youngest says [ˈb̥əʔə̆n], and my youngest says [ˈb̥əɾə̆n]. 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Glottalization and hyperarticulation of /t/ in the Wasatch Front variety of English” by Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff and Richard A. Wright (Sep. ’26) pubs.aip.org/asa/poma/art... 110 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Proposed typology of metrical representation levels, with four attested language types 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Prosodic prominence and phrasal intonation in Amharic” by Jackson Kellogg (Sep. ’26) open.bu.edu/items/6bdaee... 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The program is now available for the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2026, which will be held in-person later this week at the University of Maryland, College Park. Below are the abstracts of the invited talks by profs. K. Hitczenko, H. Goad, and M. Baese-Berk drive.google.com/file/d/18p3U... 010 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These nice contrasts were the highlight of Prof. Toivonen’s talk, at least for me: 020 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I expect that the English discomfort with syllable-final clusters like /kʃ/ and /nʃ/ (pace Yiddish ‘mensch’) will also subside in Canadian English as (boy) names like these are increasingly common: Aksh, Ansh, Daksh, Shivansh, Trayaksh, Vedansh, Naksh, Reyansh, Jaksh, Devansh, etc. 200 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The phonotactic against CɹVɹ and ClVl in English is mentioned by Halle & Clements (1983), Davis (1988) and Cairns (1988), and more recently by Walker and Proctor (2019): 211 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026English phonology has long forbidden syllables with the same liquid in coda and complex onset (*plɪl, *flɪlf, *kɹɪɹ, etc). But Punjabi English allows /bɹɑɹ/, apparently. I imagine that in time this phonotactic will disappear from Canadian English, too. 230 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My colleague Diego Krivochen mentioned this kind of conjunction today, which is apparently possible for some speakers—but not for me! Maybe ‘it’ is not semantically empty for those speakers?? Or maybe they think ‘it snowed’ introduces an implicit, unpronounced nominal subject ‘snow’ for ‘covered’?!? 020 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It *appears* to get it when given the preceding context, but ironically, it misinterprets the preceding phrase, which is supposed to mean “that I will love (someone)” 020 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I also discovered through him that the regular omission of « ne » creates ambiguity and misunderstanding. For instance, he misunderstood « j’aurai plus de soucis » as “I’ll have more worries” 140 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My son is reading Zone by Marcel Dubé and has fun questions about the grammar. E.g., he asked why they use « que » in questions. I tried and failed to explain that the complementizer preempts the overly formal inversion of the subject-verb order. Anyhow, I hadn’t noticed this about French before 030 0
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... 000 0
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.... 020 0
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-... 000 0
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ooh: “Prominence in Lio: an experimental investigation of word stress” by Michelle Mayro (Aug. ’26) search.proquest.com/openview/5be... 010 0
