Reposted by language scienceGerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Official English in the US will have life and death consequences. This is not an exaggeration. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 212344
Reposted by language scienceEndangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 24/02/2025A great new resource for language revitalization and promotion! 🤩 194
Reposted by language scienceLinguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 23/02/2025🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦 0137
Reposted by language scienceProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/02/2025Humans, and sadly most other species on the planet, are totally f&%ked. There. I said it. 4035850
Reposted by language scienceProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/02/2025A quick reminder that we are witnessing the beginning of simultaneous cascading global catastrophes. It's a good day for a long walk. 16372106
language science @priap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025We must resist the allure of abstract methods, fixed positions, or other forms of intellectual comfort to avoid the dangers of such complacency. To quote Fanon 1952:12), "I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves." 110
language science @priap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Paraphrasing the follow abstract: Science must be systematic or methodological in order to be rational. But equally, we must recognise our inherent tendency to lose our object if out work becomes excessively instrumental. Hence, we must constantly radicalise our methods. 110
Reposted by language scienceJessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025'Curators should closely study animal remains for any links with Indigenous nations or communities, and researchers should involve those groups when remains are culturally significant' 🧪🏺🦴science.orgBetter care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoplesNew recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains 518931
language science @priap.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Gracias a ti por la respuesta! Sí, lingüista investigando toponomia, onomástica, lingüística histórica de la region 😃 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 22/12/2024'Forms, Mechanisms & Roles of Iconicity in Spoken Language (review)' Argues: — Multimodal bihemispheric comm. system has phylogenetic + ontogenetic advantages — Aids lang learning + processing — Iconicity as integral, not a marginal phenomenon (Open access: doi.org/10.1177/00332941241310119) 🐦🐦 090
Reposted by language scienceChristian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I think we can state clearly what our theoretical perspective is, what hypotheses we're testing, and what the data/results demonstrate. We can speculate about what the results mean for all of "language" I suppose, but linguists almost uniformly ignore language sampling bias. 121
language science @priap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I think Damián Blasi also suggested that the contemporary sample of langs we see worldwide is likely to be genealogically & typologically impoverished, based on population structure change in the Holocene, so some of these Qs may be the wrong questions or unanswerable, but I might be misremembering. 010
language science @priap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Yes, I rarely ever see theoretical perspectives stated explicitly. Timo Roettger's 'preregistration' is one important solution for non-descriptive work, but he also suggests most claims are too quantitatively underspecified to be tested and we need more exploratory research. 110
Reposted by language scienceruhthebird @ruhthebird.bsky.social · 13/12/2024the primary purpose of all social media is to amass data. if BlueSky isn’t taking down what’s supposed to be horrifying or offensive content such as revenge porn, then it’s because they see collecting related user data and interaction metrics as useful to whatever they’re building 041
language science @priap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A great quote for the linguistic anthropologists among us: "We anthropologists [...] must re-examine basic premises and realize that English language patterns of thought are not a necessary model for the whole of human society." — Leach, E. R. (1961). Rethinking Anthropology. p. 27. 🐦🐦 0182
Reposted by language scienceMartin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 21/12/2024LSA president Tony Woodbury on Sapir's idea that each language has its own "genius", and that each language should be described with its own framework, rather than through a general ("theoretical") framework. muse.jhu.edu/article/948426 02313
language science @priap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Shared widely elsewhere: "I have resisted the term 'sociolinguistics' for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” — William Labov, 1927-2024 🐦🐦 0161
Reposted by language scienceChristian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 21/12/2024One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread. 1/n #linguistics 15611
language science @priap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Yes, great point. Thank you for sharing these important thoughts. I often find myself thinking "I know nothing about prosodic / suprasegmental phonology". In fact, I recall faculty berating me for not using more deterministic lang. Coming from the biological sciences, I found that disturbing. 120
language science @priap.bsky.social · 14/12/2024One nontrivial measure of a given framework is its direct utility or benefit to language description. We should consider more gravely the pros and cons of precision contra jargon. 010
language science @priap.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I've heard so many faculty blithely make statements to the effect of "X isn't linguistics". Yet inevitably, it is. 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I've taken to starting semesters by giving guidance on how to read research papers 010
language science @priap.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I was also thinking of doing this simply to avoid the use of LLMs 100
Reposted by language scienceSamuel Akinbo @akinbosk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Do we have any linguist here who is actively documenting iconicity in spoken language? I would love to connect with them. Most of the people I know working on iconicity focus on their he experimental sides of things. 32110
Reposted by language sciencelanguage science @priap.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The first that comes to mind is Hall (2013) on intermediate phonological relationships that as relegated as exceptional and rarely addressed despite their ubiquity (doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2013-0008)doi.orgA typology of intermediate phonological relationshipsThis paper presents an overview of phonological relationships that are “intermediate” between contrast and allophony. As has been observed for many years, such intermediate relationships occur widely ... 031
Reposted by language sciencesigh @wulatum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024A nice article on pronouns in a Grassfields Bantu language - no gender, but fine-grained distinctions in grouping event participants incl some "compound pronouns" #linguisticsdegruyter.comThe Babanki pronoun systemPronominal systems of Grassfields Bantu languages stand out in a cross-linguistic perspective by their high degree of referential precision when it comes to specifying the internal composition of grou... 3276
language science @priap.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Thinking about the systematicity of fast, slow, casual, and careful speech alternations but also what syntactic 'errors' reveal. Jefferson, G. (2004). Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction. †22. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 125, 13-34. 010
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Instances of direct observables in the linguistic signal are first-order phenomena. In contrast, distribution and alternations (patterns of instances) might be second-order phenomena. Third-order would be patterns over those patterns (generalizations): typological tendencies, diachronic pathways. 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024For clarity, we should begin by distinguishing phemomena. I'll borrow from Pierce via Silverstein (1976). 100
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The de facto government sanctioning of nuclear power for AI and the pivot towards multimodality means society is about to become very scary. Dark times ahead. 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Yes, I thought the same. Although in Mesoamerica, I also doubt that tomatoes were present that far north until the last couple of centuries. 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I suppose so, if the bulleted predictions are borne out. It will be interesting to see if the result replicates for VSO 010
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Not true, some of us are interested in facts and science 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024SOV languages tend to show fewer overt arguments in the clause – Example of communicative efficiency (as maximisation of accessibility) – SOV means longer sum dependencies than SVO, so fewer arguments = reduced memory (CogLing Antwerp abstract: benecla.com/wp-content/u...) 🐦🐦 190
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The posted content regards linguistic research in academia. I'm not sure I understand your comments however, so I cannot respond to them. 120
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Thank you. I usually see those grow in bunches rather than pairs so it's remarkable. 110
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm surprised more phonologists and syntacticians aren't working together. We all agree there are minimal units in each domain (phone, morph, etc), but what about a program to identify cross-domain equivalents to phenomena? 120
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The abstract unit of 'phoneme' isn't the most directly observable level of representation. It seems to me that there are different orders of hierarchical representation at play and perhaps psycholinguist can correct me. 000
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024We don't need to discount its psychological reality to distinguish between useful formalization versus psycholinguistic representation. Phonological awareness—which varies—is a conscious phenomenon, where are most systematicity we are interested in occurs without metalinguistic awareness. 100
language science @priap.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Of course, this phenomenon should be described but I don't think it's necessary to capture as a singleton unit or representation. In fact, it seems counterproductive. 100
language science @priap.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Made modified ยำส้มโอ since as I'm allergic to nuts and shellfish. Turned out delicious and I definitely wanted to add shredded chicken. 000
Reposted by language scienceCadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024What can interjections, discourse particles and other 'marginal' elements of language teach us about culture, communication and cognition? Felix Ameka (@unileiden.bsky.social) shares his work on African languages in this Abralin talk. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyxu...youtube.comFelix K. AmekaYouTube video by Abralin 0124
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