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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Whether there’s lateral airflow or not (I’m struggling to hear it), the final nasal is dark in resonance.

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only a couple of days left to apply! Turn-taking in Social Interaction: 5-day workshop (with me, @elliotthoey.bsky.social, Chase Raymond, Jeff Robinson); 3-7 May 2027, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands #emca emcawiki.net/Turn-taking_...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are delighted to announce our multi-site, bilingual and hybrid Postgraduate Colloquium in Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the wonderful team at PUCV in Chile. Our Call for Papers for postgraduate research students will be shared very soon.

Poster that says 'Materialidad/Immaterialidad. Materiality/Immateriality. 18-19 Novc 2026. Colquio de Postgrado Arts y Humanidades. Facultad de Filosofía y Educación. PUCV. Postgraduate Colloquium in Arts and Humanities. Humanities Research Centre University of York.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are numerous Firthian analyses from the 1940s onwards that attribute contrasts like these similarly: features of parts of syllables or other similar ‘pieces’.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No, the point is that what you call moose in America is called elk in Britain and älg in Sweden. Just like your robins are not like ours.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, elk. Moose if you’re in America, where elk refers to an animal we (in Britain) call a deer. If you want etymological evidence, elk in English is älg Swedish.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thanks to Marina’s hard work and wizardry setting up recordings with belts to measure breathing, video cameras and mics, we were able to take a first look at breathing in interactional today, starting with a word search — the start of some exciting work!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Revealed as a New Yorker thanks to Mary/merry/marry, fizzy drink, pecan and supermarket trolley 😆

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Her work argues that phonetic details like this tell us a lot about word structure and meaning, and we use it. “Mistake” doesn’t have transparent morphology to most English speakers, but “mistime” does. So your observation is grounded in linguistic structure.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There are many features that distinguish eg mistake from eg mistime: transparency of meaning, rhythm, the duration of the sounds, and the amount of aspiration for [t] — almost none for mistake, plenty for mistime. Lots of work on this by Sarah Hawkins at Cambridge.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wanted to add a d, and make it upper custard.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There’s an error in the transcription though!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I love the data in this talk! It’s all about rhythm, melody, breathing….

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Maybe in the mists of time! But not part of my family tree.

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CJ Koenig @cjkoenig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@saulalbert.bsky.social celebrating the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction — a significant resource for CA & social justice. #ICCA2026

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You did a great job — very nice work!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s an ingenious take on the mess on a plate that is poutine!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I can recommend the Japanese curry poutine. It’s a bit weird, with carrots, apple, sesame, squeaky cheese and Japanese curry sauce. But it is delicious.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Early notice of the Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations, whose 20th anniversary is next year. Fantastic keynote speakers! The call for papers will be out in early September; until then, please feel free to circulate the information. sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

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8th Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Memories of David Hockney’s work at Salts Mill in Saltaire. There is always something of his to enjoy there, and it brings a lot of people a lot of joy. Farewell to a wonderful innovative artist.

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Noel Nguyen @noelnguyen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

At long last, our meta-analysis covering close to 70 studies conducted over the last 25 years on phonetic convergence between speakers in speech is out in the Journal of Phonetics authors.elsevier.com/c/1nEdMLix~5... @laboratoire-parole-et-langage @ilcb.bsky.social @montclair-state-university

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Not sure I've seen this change-in-progress in writing before. The verb 'are' agrees with the things just before it ('bikes' and 'larger items'), not with 'space', which is the (singular) subject of the verb.

A sign on board an LNER train in the UK. "Storage space for bikes and larger items of luggage available on this train."

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Personally I’ve seen it as being a guard against worshipping the ritual rather than what lies beyond it; and of making things into any empty form. We can even do that with our silent worship, which isn’t just silence.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

Frizon shelter - a curved space with seats like swings and lovely coloured perspex in the roof and a view of the city of Umeå at dusk. Two teenage girls sit in one of the swing seats having a chat.

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This looks like a rich and informative set of studies in rhythm in speech!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I used to sit in meetings with someone who was fluent in meaningless management b--cks, and idioms like back-seat drivers not reaching for low-hanging fruit in that area going forward. My brain can't process this nonsense!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It just seems inconsistent with the table of symbols they set out for RP here www.oed.com/information/..., which does not contain [aɪ] ("still widely used")

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Oxford English Dictionary

The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"In our geopolitically volatile age, with global supply chains exposed and defence and diplomacy the watchwords of the day, language degree closures represent a loss of critical linguistic and cultural skills." Well said. Learning languages is a skill we need.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Look at Sarah Hawkins work (over many papers) on the difference between words like mistimes/mistakes? It’s a very complex set of studies, hard to reduce to short texts!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

What a joy to see Bury Art Gallery’s exhibition on Victoria Wood, who died 10 years ago. You can really see the work she put into her scripts.

Bury art gallery with a crowd outside.
Banner saying We’d like to apologise to our viewers in the north. It must be awful for them.

Items from Acorn Antiques.
Well that certainly sounds like a genuine Picasso but I would have to see it to be sure.

Drafts of the script for the ballad of Barry and Freda. Woman’s weekly magazine in the background.

Manuscript for dinner ladies.

SEATING AREA
JEAN:
We're getting nowhere anyway sex wise.
You ku Keith ra
her Ineeded t meke more 1 an eft
in bed.
DOLLY:
Not surprised,
if you spend
the whole time reading
Catherine Cookson.
JEAN
I dort! etc ete AS P. 4.
ANITA:
- burkmark.
Is Catherine Cookson the one
on the telly? And it's all lovely and old fashionedy and they go round in carriages?
BREN:
No, that's Jane Austen. If they're in carriages and their
bosoms are like just under their necks - that's Jane
Austen. Catherine Cookson,

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I’m the person with the grey hair in the first picture! Yesterday was a lot of fun, nice to see it captured!

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

And the spelling supports this too: <au> in English isn't usually natively [aʊ] (I mean, look at poor Finnish, with its 'sauna'!).

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So I'd say this is evidence that the lexicon isn't one big system, but lots of smaller interacting systems, and part of their status as systems is slightly different patterns of distribution. This is 'the phonotactics of German (etc) names in English', etc.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I don't know all these names, but the point is, they are names, and names are often not like other words. The Scots (and Geordie) exceptions are noticeably Scots/Geordie precisely because they 'feel' different from other words -- you can recognise their origin by their phonotactics

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you’re interested in language, eating, how we express ourselves, or any combination of these things, Sally’s blog is a really great read!

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Rebecca Barnes @drrebeccabarnes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Professor Jeff Robinson, Portland State University will be a Guest Tutor on our Introduction to Conversation Analysis and Health Care Encounters 2-day course, St. Anne's College, Oxford, 10-11 June 2026. Join us! 🤩 @iscaupdates.bsky.social @oxqual.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social #EMCA

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Flagging this up as a generous and excellent resource from @scoretta.bsky.social

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I really enjoyed #BAAP2026, meeting colleagues old and new, and seeing the diversity and strength of phonetics (which is so often +something, like psychology, social issues, tech, language acquisition or in my case conversation analysis) in Britain.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Four - Art of Persia

Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@marinanc.bsky.social doing us proud condensing a tightly written paper into 15 fun and informative minutes at the British Association of Academic Phoneticians in Warwick today.

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