Duna Gylfadottir

Linguist, swing dancer, rock climber, immigrant.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

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.

[Antonia @Flaminhaystack]

If the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything

Stamps = Lickie Stickie
Defibrillators = Hearty Starty
Bumble bees = Fuzzy Buzzy
Pregnancy test = Maybe Baby
Bra =Breastie Nestie
Fork= Stabby Grabby
Socks = Feetie Heatie
Hippo = Floatie Bloatie
Nightmare = Screamy Dreamy

[Because Language @becauselangpod]

Economists. Why is it always economists?

I mean, we linguists HAVE been thinking about this stuff for a while, you know. https://t.co/icE3XcxWU6

[Martin O'Leary @mewo2]

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.

[Martin O'Leary @mewo2]

Languages are bananas

[Tom Freeman @SnoozeInBrief]

I get so angry when I see a sign that says “5 items or less” that I actually get my pen out and add the missing apostrophe to “item’s”.

[The Lily @thelilynews]

"Almost all women have had an experience where they have 'let' someone be intimate with them without actually wanting it." https://t.co/MCZeo2nCll

[Eleanor Tiernan @eleanortiernan]

Quick search for #AzizAnsari reveals lots of men setting their sexual behaviour standard towards the dizzy heights of "This is legal, right?"

[Rebecca Starr @rlslinguistics]

Meghan Sumner: the speech signal is inherently social and linguistic. We're at a point where the field of phonetics has recognized this. #LSA2018

[Joey Stanley @joey_stan]

@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

[Dr David Bowie @sociolx]

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

[Rebecca Starr @rlslinguistics]

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

[Duna Gylfadottir @dunafish]

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

[Duna Gylfadottir @dunafish]

Sumner: We can't claim talker group effects on perception with 1 talker per group, have to be systematic to tell these things apart #LSA2018

[Duna Gylfadottir @dunafish]

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