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Steve Winters

@swinters.bsky.social
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I'm a professor of linguistics at the University of Calgary, specializing in phonetics and speech perception. I'm just here to add some more linguistics to my life.

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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I thought the Norwegian soccer team dressing up as Vikings for their team photo couldn't be topped, but it looks like the Belgian soccer team has taken it to another level.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Minnesota nice thread.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The kid has now come up with her own little phonetic transcription system for English. And yes, she likes to translate things into Kannada.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My 7-year-old daughter made up this alphabet song of languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y4...
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The Language Alphabet Song
YouTube video by cognitivephonetician
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We had a speaker yesterday from NZ who was talking about how he has to change the way he pronounces Auckland for speech recognition engines, and it made me realize that running through the pronunciations of Oakland-Auckland(NZ)-Auckland(Am) might be a good way to demonstrate the [o]-[ɔ]-[ɒ] triad.
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I present, the lenition hypercube
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
To wit.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My lab group will be participating in this interesting little conference up in Edmonton this weekend: matips.org/matips2025/d...
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start [Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences]
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I've recently gotten to know someone who universally uses "there is" for both singular and plural nouns. So, rather than saying "there are books in the library" or perhaps "there's books in the library", they say "there is books in the library". Is this the start of a trend?
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Overheard in my lab today: "I think L*+H is my favorite pitch accent."
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Apple's new AirPods now do live translation of a foreign language. Hmm. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
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New Apple Intelligence features are available today
Apple today released new Apple Intelligence features that elevate the user experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Fun fact: the road signs on U.S. 93 between Missoula and Kalispell are written in {Salish or Kootenai} and English.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Some nice examples of Canadians pronouncing the stressed vowel in "Nirvana" as [æ] here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9u5...
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Bootleg of Nirvana Calgary show surfaces
YouTube video by CTV News
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We are hiring! If anybody you know does experimental syntax, feel free to send them our way! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1609537...
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Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics in Calgary, ...
Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics in Calgary, ...
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I have students record production exercises for my intro phonetics class, and one of them came to me today with a novel problem: for forms that were [ejective]-[vowel] or [click]-[vowel], her PC was simply not recording the ejective or click, apparently filtering it like it was background noise.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hey, look, it's the Midlands dialect region.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
When you drive through eastern Montana, the landscape eventually empties out to the point where the road signs start directing you to specific people's homes, rather than to cities or towns. What I didn't realize until this past week is that Google maps effectively does the same thing.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Can you accurately pronounce these Minnesota place names? Wayzata Shakopee Vadnais Heights Mahtomedi Montevideo Bemidji Le Sueur Waseca Ely Beltrami
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Oof.
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Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am currently laying over in the Regina airport and wondering whether this is the worst blend ever.
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