It is heartbreaking to learn that the young man killed by the Austin bomber had been accepted to a prestigious music conservatory, but we should be careful about how this is framed. Even if he were a kid sticking his middle finger up on instagram he’d still be worthy of mourning.
So yesterday I had an email from Mail Online asking if they could use my etymology charts in an article. I said no, because they’re the fucking Mail. They went ahead anyway, but they put shitty fonts over the top to hide the theft.
@natschilling Schilling: Something to keep in mind is that as sociolinguists, we're not always the dialect experts. We can always learn from our speakers. #ADS2018#LSA2018
Di Paolo & Johnson: Casual and word-list style are radically different—/ŋ/+stop rarely found in casual speech, but dramatically dominant in word-list style (some speakers had it 100% of the time!), with no apparent time trend #ADS2018#LSA2018
Campbell-Kibler notes that you need to choose what kind of uncomfortable you're willing to make participants with the choices you offer in a task and on a questionnaire. Gives example of having third gender option, annoys some respondents. #LSA2018
Johnson & Tracy: logistic model with only acoustic info on [s] is better than human raters at ID'ing male talker sexual orientation, but listeners tune into pitch more than [s] and in general pay att'n to bundles of cues #LSA2018
Sumner: 2-year Syrian residents of Germany are more primed than newcomers by word pairs that are related in Germ. but not Syria (task in Arabic), showing learning of cultural associations #LSA2018