UCLinguistics

Welcome to the Twitter page of the Linguistics programme at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

[jen hay @jbhay]

Check out https://t.co/IvIXtUa1B2 - an atlas derived from > a 400B word georeferenced web/twitter corpus, showing where the world's languages are being used. Awesome work from https://t.co/pjvBCdK55y @nzilbb

[heather froehlich @heatherfro]

DEAR EVERYBODY MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER, USE A CITATION MANAGER, that should be covered in the first year professional development seminar along with How To Not Be A Total Dick To Others, that is it, you can all thank me later

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not appreciated enough imho

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congrats to SM Kabir & family: SM (PhD Education, supervised by Kevin Watson & Janinka Greenwood) won Best Paper at the 'Innovative & Sustainable Development of English Language Teaching in the Digital World" conf (Bangkok) and then welcomed a beautiful baby son into the world!

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new paper by Kate Whisker Taylor (York St John University, UK) and Lynn Clark (UC Linguistics): "Yorkshire Assimilation: Exploring the Production and Perception of a Geographically Restricted Variable". https://t.co/GHBwDsDsbW

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new paper by Daiki Hashimoto (PhD UC Linguistics, now Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo): "Sociolinguistic effects on loanword phonology: Topic in speech and cultural image" open access! https://t.co/6K3V6gOkFm

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@warren_maguire @robdrummond need a hashtag so I can follow all the excitement

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Scholarship for Masters of Linguistics (taught courses &substantial research thesis; 12mnths full time) https://t.co/0KEzqBV6PP #linguistics

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Univ of Canterbury PhD Scholarships: If you're thinking of doing a PhD in Linguistics, look us up & get in touch https://t.co/2qR1uPtrEs

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outside of Canterbury but want to study #linguistics in Nov-Dec? We're offering LING101 The English Language online https://t.co/0HT0atJcCm

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Arshad Ali presents his thesis in 3, in the @UCNZ College of Arts heats

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it's the @UCNZ College of Arts Thesis in 3 heats today - best of luck to all taking part!

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"An Orangutan in Indianapolis Has Learned to Ape Human Speech" https://t.co/MR3aDVuiE0

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this is a great book (also a good way to teach some basic things about syllable structure...) https://t.co/kZDvqsIpwj

[Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @ChristchurchLib]

Our #BookOfTheDay here at #AranuiLibrary
Cat demands Frog to conform. Frog questions Cats reasoning… ^DC

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New in Nov '16. PG Certificate in Arts: the Linguistics & Sociolinguistics of English around the World, by distance https://t.co/RC96OeRm0o

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interested in #TESOL? Here's a new distance Masters, a combination of #language #education and #linguistics courses https://t.co/SoOAk1TksC

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new in 'Language Awareness' by Ksenia Gnevsheva, former Linguistics PhD student, now Linguist at Fluent Scientific https://t.co/Y9WxP4h7Wy

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new by Clark & Watson: "Phonological leveling, diffusion, and divergence:/t/ lenition in Liverpool and..." https://t.co/VC2Cs142tX

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new paper by Lynn Clark & Jen Hay (et al) (open access): “Kia ora. This is my earthquake story”. https://t.co/N6ztdDmfFR

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Our first classes of 2016 start this week, in summer school. Happy New Year everyone!