#phonology — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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@7c0h

Now also on youtube for those who do not want to go to Instagram:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pSOlRUr5yCY

#Linguistics #Semantics #antics #fun #phonology #more #morephology #morphology

@7c0h

Now also on youtube for those who do not want to go to Instagram:

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#Linguistics #Semantics #antics #fun #phonology #more #morephology #morphology

@7c0h

Now also on youtube for those who do not want to go to Instagram:

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#Linguistics #Semantics #antics #fun #phonology #more #morephology #morphology

@7c0h

Now also on youtube for those who do not want to go to Instagram:

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#Linguistics #Semantics #antics #fun #phonology #more #morephology #morphology

@7c0h

Now also on youtube for those who do not want to go to Instagram:

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#Linguistics #Semantics #antics #fun #phonology #more #morephology #morphology

Any starter packs for #Phonology #DiachronicPhonology #HistoricalLinguistics #ComparativeLinguistics #Loanwords #LinguisticTypology or #Etymology

Today's mini-survey: do you pronounce the 'o' in “marathon” and “telethon” the same or different? (and where are you from, if you wish to divulge)

(My prediction hidden in reply to this post.)

#phonetics #phonology #linguistics

With the death of Congressmember Bill Pascrell last week, one of the great syncopated Italian-American names is gone from politics:

https://gothamist.com/news/longtime-nj-congressmember-bill-pascrell-dies-in-office-family-announces

#phonology #linguistics #onomastics

📢New Publication Alert!

📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.

This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.

Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.

🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422

📢New Publication Alert!

📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.

This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.

Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.

🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422

📢New Publication Alert!

📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.

This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.

Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.

🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422

📢New Publication Alert!

📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.

This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.

Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.

🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422

Audio Etymologies of the Day

Central to the Proto-Indo-European vowel system is the pattern of vowel changes named "ablaut" by 19th c. German-speaking linguists, e.g.:

root: √*s—d “sit, settle”
e-grade: *sed- > sit
o-grade: *sod- > sat
zero grade: *-sd-, in *ni-sd-o > nest
long e-grade: *se:d-i‑ > seat
long o-grade: *so:d-o- > soot

sometimes leading to differences between languages. Audio examples at
http://www.ancientsounds.net/ablaut.html

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

If you’re interested in linguistics, phonetics, or the nuances of the differences between American and Southern British English, check out this video by the fabulous Dr. Geoff Lindsey:

How do you pronounce KAMALA?
https://youtu.be/NihLE-wh0xc

#english #phonetics #phonology #linguistics

Audio Etymologies of the Day

How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? The next instalment of my sprawling web pages on this question focusses on fricatives and frictionless continants (basically, r and l):
https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants3.html

Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.

#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean

New schedule for "just a normal guy" blawnk! 🧍

🐊 Checking out Lil Gator Game tomorrow for no reason.
🐦 Linguistics Lessons RETURN for a review of Places and Manners of Articulation! Now with Vowels, too!
🐰 Maple_QB joins me for this week's Training the Trainer!!

And tell your dad blawnk says Happy Father's Day~ 😏

STREAMS @ https://blawnk.com!

#blawnk #VTuber #ENVTuber #Streamer #LowPoly #Twitch #Furry #LilGatorGame #Nintendo #Pokemon #KaizoIronmon #Linguistics #Phonology

New publication! :D This project was an international collaboration between Eastern Kentucky University and the Universidad de Oviedo.

When reading in English, bilingual children from USA focus on how the words sound (phonology) while bilingual children from Spain focus on how the words are spelled (orthography). Both groups are able to read but they do so differently.

#BilingualWordRecognition #orthography #phonology #pseudohomophones #mousetracking

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13670069241229394?fbclid=IwAR0M5AV09QvbW7Pw4yuvGfYuCLPKYVO2B1b-YaFEFhITfvD5Q-HB75UByHM

Sometimes I think that what I find so inherently comforting about New York/New Jersey accents is how they don't go in much for /u/-fronting.

They treat the vowel quadrilateral with some goddamn RESPECT.

#linguistics #phonology #phonetics #sociolinguistics #prescriptivism #JustEnoughKnowledgeAboutPhoneticsToMissThePoint

Phonestheme: Groups of words with the same phoneme that have a common meaning or sense. Ie: slick / slide / slither / slog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonestheme?useskin=vector
#onomatopoeia #linguistics #phonology #etymology #language #phoneme #+

Phoneticians of Mastodon, help me with Praat. I seem to recall once upon a time there was an easy short-cut to make an interval appear across multiple tiers. What is it?

'Enter' just creates a boundary on the active tier. How do I make an interval boundary appear across all tiers without endlessly trying to click that damn circle?

#praat #phonetics #phonology #linguistics #psycholinguistics #icphs

Schrödinger's #vowel moments today reading the word "lido": l/aɪ/do and l/iː/do simultaneously came up in my head, and there's honestly no telling what I would say until I open my mouth (I did not)

#phonetics #phonology

Click languages: Short sample of someone pronouncing four click consonants used in southeastern Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHGOYu6Fl0&t=168s
#southafrica #phonology #language #phonemes #khosa #click #zunda #zulu #+

What is the progressive form of consonant fortition? Fortiting?? That just sounds weird 😂 #phonetics #phonology #soundchange #linguistics

Ich muss dazu sagen, dass alles Genannte auf das in Deutschland gesprochene Deutsch zutrifft (und vielleicht nicht mal auf das gesamte Bundesgebiet). Ob das in Österreich und der Schweiz oder anderen deutschsprachigen Gegenden auch so gesagt wird, müsst ihr mir verraten.

Und dann noch ein paar Hashtags, für die oben kein Platz war: #Phonetik #Phonologie #phonetics #phonology @linguistics

The programme for #Phonology in the Nordic Countries #FINO is online! Starts tomorrow and my talk is on Friday
https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/fino-2023-program-book-of-abstracts/

JOB ALERT 🚨 x 2!

Lecturer in Phonology
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CVY552/lecturer-in-phonology

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CVY540/lecturer-in-sociolinguistics

University of York UK

(aka Associate Professor, permanent positions)

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #sociophonetics #phonology #AcademicJobs

Please pass the word on!
*Deadline: Jan 11th *

Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

#eldraeverse #conlang #eldraeic-language #linguistics #phonology #speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian

Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

#eldraeverse #conlang #eldraeic-language #linguistics #phonology #speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian

Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

#eldraeverse #conlang #eldraeic-language #linguistics #phonology #speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian

Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

#eldraeverse #conlang #eldraeic-language #linguistics #phonology #speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian

Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian (1): Letters and Phonemes

#eldraeverse #conlang #eldraeic-language #linguistics #phonology #speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian

Hi everyone we are the Phonetics Lab at Lancaster University! We'll be tooting about fun phonetics stuff as well as news from our lab and collaborators. @LAEL #introduction #phonetics #linguistics #phonology #labphon #sociophonetics #articulation #forensicphonetics #speechtech #bilingualism #ultrasound #EMA

Hi everyone we are the Phonetics Lab at Lancaster University! We'll be tooting about fun phonetics stuff as well as news from our lab and collaborators. @LAEL #introduction #phonetics #linguistics #phonology #labphon #sociophonetics #articulation #forensicphonetics #speechtech #bilingualism #ultrasound #EMA

Hi everyone we are the Phonetics Lab at Lancaster University! We'll be tooting about fun phonetics stuff as well as news from our lab and collaborators. @LAEL #introduction #phonetics #linguistics #phonology #labphon #sociophonetics #articulation #forensicphonetics #speechtech #bilingualism #ultrasound #EMA