Laurel MacKenzie

Linguist & bird enthusiast. Associate Professor at NYU.

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Mission accomplished: introduce Sir David Attenborough to the existence of sociophonetics 🤓

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@MarcEBarnard @nyuling We miss you already!

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@lauren_headley Sorry, it’s been a while, but I think I remember there being a typo (extra paren) in this… glad you got something working, anyway!

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TIL it is possible to combine italics and normal text in a geom_text in ggplot (see pic). All you need to do is spend 2 hours googling and writing code that doesn't work. Wait, no, all you need to do is label = paste("italic(n)==",N)) and include parse = TRUE in the aes().

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@IsaacBleaman OMG

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@betsysneller @rlslinguistics It seriously is all just about feeds and pooping, isn’t it

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@betsysneller @rlslinguistics Classic autocorrect error for parents of small children 😄

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Dreamed I was grading a student paper that was a lifespan study of Clarence Thomas, and right before I woke up, Dream Me was writing a comment on the PDF that said “he famously doesn’t talk, so how did you get enough data?” 🤔

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@wesleyjsleong Just south of Union Sq! We can catch up there over a drink next time you’re in town! https://t.co/jYM5k78sVx

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Not only a linguistic name, but they got the IPA right! 👏 @wesleyjsleong

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@JoFrhwld This is great. My kid does “sawn,” “tooken,” and “aten,” but I’ve never heard him regularize AND double affix like this

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@jessgrieser I am 100% at the center of that Venn diagram. But these things are wasps!

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Surprising non-standard spelling in the New Yorker — is “daub” traditionally in the THOUGHT class? Evidence of cot/caught merger on the part of the author (and copy editor)?

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@grvsmth Ah yes of course, I think you’re right about that (see screenshot)! But now I’m mystified by the fact that the NYer saw fit to insert a hyphen but not correct the spelling!

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@linguistlaura @VerbingNouns Yes! Noticing this too, feels like things have really changed since 2017 when I started putting researchers’ pictures in my lecture slides bc of the “everyone made a man” phenom

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@JoFrhwld @kev_watson @AdamCSchembri Marjorie Pak has some discussion of this in her 2016 Glossa paper, Sec. 4.3: pause-fillers don’t trigger a->an but do trigger late-stage phonological rules (she uses flapping as an example), suggesting pause fillers are inserted in btwn the two

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@JoFrhwld It’s so cute how the pipe command you use looks like a penguin bill

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@AdamCSchembri @JRKASSTAN @grbails Aww, thanks, both! Your students may also enjoy interacting with the maps and taking the survey themselves here: https://t.co/josms9HX4a

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@ShappLing @JoFrhwld @Katharina_Pabst @joey_stan Everyone just come in October and stick around for three months!

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@ShappLing @JoFrhwld @Katharina_Pabst @joey_stan Can confirm that this is accurate!! 🗽
Funny (and I think coincidental) the way NYC NWAVs & LSAs have covaried. 2018 NWAV NYU / 2019 LSA NYC. 2023 NWAV CUNY / 2024 LSA NYC!

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@JoFrhwld Oh wow, right in the memories

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@nickfleisher I messed this up like 4 times in a row yesterday. On my phone (iOS 15.6), Select precedes Paste in native Apple applications like Mail and Notes, but Paste now precedes Select in google apps like Docs 🫠