Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I 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. 000
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The kid has now come up with her own little phonetic transcription system for English. And yes, she likes to translate things into Kannada. 010
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My 7-year-old daughter made up this alphabet song of languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y4...youtube.comThe Language Alphabet SongYouTube video by cognitivephonetician 131
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/11/2025We 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. 010
Reposted by Steve WintersJosef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I present, the lenition hypercube 1217253
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 17/10/2025My lab group will be participating in this interesting little conference up in Edmonton this weekend: matips.org/matips2025/d...matips.orgstart [Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences] 110
Reposted by Steve WintersRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey 261957323
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2025I'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? 000
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Overheard in my lab today: "I think L*+H is my favorite pitch accent." 040
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Apple's new AirPods now do live translation of a foreign language. Hmm. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...apple.comNew Apple Intelligence features are available todayApple today released new Apple Intelligence features that elevate the user experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. 110
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Fun fact: the road signs on U.S. 93 between Missoula and Kalispell are written in {Salish or Kootenai} and English. 020
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Some nice examples of Canadians pronouncing the stressed vowel in "Nirvana" as [æ] here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9u5...youtube.comBootleg of Nirvana Calgary show surfacesYouTube video by CTV News 000
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 08/05/2025We are hiring! If anybody you know does experimental syntax, feel free to send them our way! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1609537...careers.ucalgary.caThree-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, ... 131
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I 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. 154
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 26/12/2024When 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. 020
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Can you accurately pronounce these Minnesota place names? Wayzata Shakopee Vadnais Heights Mahtomedi Montevideo Bemidji Le Sueur Waseca Ely Beltrami 210
Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I am currently laying over in the Regina airport and wondering whether this is the worst blend ever. 130