#phonology — Public Fediverse posts

What used to feel ‘eased’, now just felt ‘east’. What used to be ‘alive’, was now just ‘a life’. That was just how it was, ever since they finally devoiced.

#linguistics #LinguisticsHumor #LinguisticsHumour #phonetics #phonology

Reconstructed 17th century English sounds a lot like Irish English. So why is Irish English so phonetically conservative? When English was brought to Ireland, Irish already distinguished vowels before /r/ and palatal /k/ and /g/ before front vowels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZiUQv4F0E

#EarlyModernEnglish #LanguageEvolution #IrishEnglish #phonology #linguistics

@wikidata Cool tool! However, I find myself confused on the hyphenation tasks. I thought that hyphenation and syllabification were two different things. I thought that hyphenation was a typography concern and syllabification was related to phonology. But the hyphenation task references this hyphenation property:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5279

which defines hyphenation as "positions where a word can be hyphenated" and yet, in the "also known as" column, includes the term "syllabification".

Which is it?

For example, the word "Japanology".

For hyphenation, I would leave "ology" as a phonological suffix, and the only hyphen would be between "Japan" and "ology". "Japan‧ology". I've always heard that hyphenation is more a matter of taste than a strict set of rules.

But for syllabification, I would want the number of syllables to equal the number of vowel sounds (five). So syllabification would look something like "Ja‧pan‧ol‧o‧gy".

Though frankly, it seems that there are a whole bunch of rules for syllabification that I either was never taught in school or have thoroughly forgot.

Dropping some linguistics-related tags below to see if I can nerd-snipe anybody into providing more authoritative and/or helpful commentary.

#english #grammar #syntax #morphology #phonology #linguistics

While eavesdropping on Japanese language study material that someone else in the household is playing, I keep hearing word-initial [ts] (or something similar, but definitely an affricate) instead of word-initial [s] (which I have been assured is the correct pronunciation).

Is there a process in Japanese which causes word-initial [s] to resemble [ts] after a glottal stop at a word boundary, before a voiceless vowel, or in some other environment?

#phonology #linguistics #japanese

@winbuzzer
“Unlike traditional ASR systems that require extensive fine-tuning, Omnilingual ASR introduces a novel “Bring Your Own Language” feature. This capability, inspired by large language models, allows users to add support for entirely new languages by providing just a handful of paired audio and text samples.”

Magical thinking, so I'm suspecting hype. A handful of paired samples is not enough data to correctly work out the phonological system of any language. (I used to teach how to do that, with a new language every year.) So I assume it's just transcribing into some generic alphabet (which is certainly possible), without regard to the actual pattern of the language in question. Like using Italian spelling to write down !Xhosa?

Their contribution to data on under-represented languages is welcome, though.

#linguistics #phonology

Did people notice the Great Vowel Shift? (23 mins.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SD60KpJvA

#language #phonology #history #phonetics #speech #linguistics #accents #LanguageChange

This question will plague me for the rest of my life. #Phonology

@transitionalaspect I think for most speakers it's just the way they learned to pronounce the word, but for some it might be an example of dissimulation - they feel that they're not doing it right if they don't have their tongues in two different places!

#linguistics #phonology

One of my phonological pet peeves is people calling palatalized consonants "palatal".
If someone tried to call velarized consonants velar, people would immediately start asking "you mean velarized?".
I'm not sure what is it that makes people say that because palatal consonants aren't uncommon at all: 'y' as in 'you' is a voiced palatal approximant in English.
For added irony, many languages where palatalization is semantically or grammatically significant absolutely do have palatal consonants, like the slender 'dh' in Modern Irish or j/й in Slavic languages, so frequently-heard statements like "nominative plurals of first declension Irish nouns end in palatal consonants" aren't merely terminologically sloppy — they are factually wrong (they typically end in palatalized occlusives, and Irish has no palatal occlusives, only approximants).

#linguistics #phonology

My first grader and I have been playing language games. If you look at that very first card in the top-left, that's the key. All the sounds you need to transcribe American English. Then we gave each sound a number and made up our own alphabets!

The "game" part was that we'd write each other secret messages using one alphabet or the other and then try to decode them.

Anyway, hapiy noow yiyr!

#linguistics #teaching #phonology #writing #spelling

If you're looking for a great #linguistics and #neuroscience read before the break, look no further! In our new paper, we show that the prosodic hierarchy (a pillar of theory in #phonology and #phonetics) is actually neurally implemented during the comprehension of speech. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae479

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