WEAK FORMS: Why 'natives' and 'non-natives' sound different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaXYas58_kc&ab_channel=DrGeoffLindsey

#Gramle 836 2/5

https://nascl.rc.nau.edu/gramle/

It's been a while since I've played this, but talking about these games with a student yesterday got me feeling nostalgic for it.

Excellent song by #WillHaven, Finest Our, but the title's play on words only works for those who pronounce "our" as [aʊəɹ] rather than [aɹ]. I use the latter even in stressed positions, which my students tell me is weird now, but this album was recorded over 20 years ago, at which time I assume this was not as weird.

https://tidal.com/browse/track/5522648?u

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What's not to like? Noch bis zum 10.04. bewerben #phonetik #phonetics #linguistics #jobs

https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4202/research-position?page_lang=en

Spotted a (exaggerated?) representation of the #Southernvowelshift in a #HauntofFear issue c1950s: "can't" as [keɪnt] rather than [kænt].

I got invited to write an encyclopedia entry with the broadest topic I can imagine, "Phonetics (an overview)." I wound up really enjoying how writing it made me think about the field. I'm very honored to get to write this, since my own advisor, John Ohala, wrote the corresponding article for the previous editions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323955041002489 #linguistics #phonetics

#Phonetics #Speech #Science #Linguistics

Appel à manifestation d'intérêt pour Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) 2025
5-6-7 Novembre 2025
Paris, France
jcparole@gmail.com

Les Rencontres de Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole ont été créées en 1995. Cette manifestation, parrainée notamment par l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), donnait aux futurs et actuels doctorants ou jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole. La 10e édition qui s'est tenue à Grenoble aura marqué le grand retour de ces rencontres.

Aujourd'hui, nous lançons un appel à manifestation d'intérêt pour une participation aux prochaines RJCP. Nous nous retrouverons cette fois-ci à Paris, du 5 au 7 novembre 2025. Indiquez-nous, via ce formulaire, si vous souhaitez y participer, et nous tâcherons de vous organiser un événement aux petits oignons ;)

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the stability of Notepad++? I installed it on my new PC (for work) today, and it looks IDENTICAL to how it looked when I started using it in gradschool, back in 2011 or so.

I even put a user-defined Praat syntax colouring on it, last updated in 2014, and it still fucking works.

Software people, this is what we want!

#Phonetics #Linguistics #Music

Hi Fedi

I'm giving a talk on the phonetics of beatboxing at my lab this friday (14h, Paris). I'll focus on ejectives and implosives in beatboxing! The seminar is hybrid so do not hesitate to DM me for the Zoom Link

The abstract
https://lpp.cnrs.fr/evenement/srpp-dalexis-dehais-underdown/

@linguistics

Despite being an American I’ve always pronounced Baptist as [ˈbæp̚.tɪst] (that’s voiceless unaspirated [t] not [tʰ]) but recently I’ve heard family members (especially those with Southern roots) pronounce it as [ˈbæːb.ⁿdɪst]. After listening to other Southern preachers pronounce it in the second way, I’ve come to conclude that this must be a very Southern American form of pronouncing it that has migrated to the North through families and churches.
#linguistics #phonetics #dialectology #baptist

Ian Maddieson, RIP

We are saddened to learn from Caroline Smith that her husband Ian Maddieson died on Sunday, February 2. Ian was Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading phoneticians, whose ground-breaking books Patterns of Sounds and The Sounds of the World's Languages (with Peter Ladefoged) shaped contemporary linguistic #phonetics.

https://lx.berkeley.edu/news/passing-ian-maddieson

New journal:

#linguistics #speech #phonetics

Journal of Connected Speech | University of Toronto Press

https://utppublishing.com/journal/jcspeech

Are you a native speaker of a variety of North American English? Dr Geoff Lindsay is running a pronunciation survey and wants your input. https://www.englishspeechservices.com/survey-north-america/. See his YouTube video for fascin background https://youtu.be/-_wmybw-RL0?si=QeWB6zA0w2SL66d4
#phonetics #linguistics #accents #phonemes

There's nothing like recording vocals for a song whose chorus is continually repeating plosives to make clear the value of a pop filter.

In the days when Yiddish speakers were pouring into NYC, many signs had English words written using the Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet. This says "Chicken Market," and since there's no letter for "ch" in Hebrew it's spelled "t-sh-icken." #Phonetics #Yiddish #Hebrew

The University of York offers a course on the #Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction in June this year!

https://www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd/sector-specific-courses/phonetics-talk-in-interaction/

#CallForPapers Approaches to #Phonology and #Phonetics in Lublin, Poland, July 4-5, 2025

#APAP2025 provides a forum for sharing theoretical, empirical or pedagogical findings on phonetics, phonology and their interface

400-word abstracts due March 31, 2025

https://linguistlist.org/issues/35/3267/