Dusan Nikolic

Go @charysbrussell.bsky.social , @dusannikolic.bsky.social, @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social and @swinters.bsky.social!

I am slowly leaning towards calling Serbian a restricted tone system in my work; and I am gathering materials for a potential article on whether Serbian is a pitch accent or restricted tone system or something else, but it is an interesting case, for sure.

My pleasure! :)

YouTube video by Dusan Nikolic Language of Rap Music (Rap Linguistics) - Linguistically Aware

Okay, I finally found some time to post this episode on YouTube, with subtitles! 😎 Not too bad, but the star is of course @phono-logical.bsky.social with his vast knowledge of rap music, Sociolinguistics, Phonology, etc. Such a great episode, recommended to everyone! youtu.be/EtJJ_8NGSGI?...

Impressionistically, yes, we could probably say this, but I don't see any evidence for it, at least not in Stoney (for now, we need a proper research on this).

I remember that we wrote down that potentially pharyngeals could be rhoticized, but with no secondary articulation for sure. In addition, in some informal inspections of the spectrograms of words such as 'roro' or 'rheyam', there was no rhotic articulation, so I tend to agree here with Dr. Flynn.

I can definitely see the value in the proposed r-flavoured epiglottal fricative /ʜ/. The main issue is that we cannot carry out the research on any aspect of the language without the authorization from the community and the company. This makes it a bit difficult for me to support the-above claim.

So far, from what we know from Morley Stoney, and mind you, there is not a lot of research, we don't think that Stoney has epiglottal fricatives but rather pharyngeal fricatives /ħ, ʕ/. For example: dictionary.stoneynakoda.org#/L/rhoka.

Thanks both. Let me unpack everything you wrote and get back to you. :)

‘We are done with corruption’: how the students of Serbia rose up against the system In a country grappling with weak rule of law, many seek freedom from a government long seen as authoritarian

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Great book. Would be nice to have it in the lab 📚

I would love to be added 🙋🏻‍♂️

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Oh yes, I totally understand…

Honestly, for me it was simply a show, so I really liked it. I would not use it as an example referring to accurate historical events. I don’t do that with any show out there. But if you need something accurate, then I don’t have any suggestions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The most recent I watched is Shogun, and it’s brilliant. I also liked a comedy called The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (if that counts).

Ross thinks he is Indiana Jones while holding a soft dino toy

This term I am teaching Linguistic Anthropology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and I honestly can’t wait to start! 🎉🥳🎊🙌
Some of the myths we will address are well illustrated in the photo 🗿 😊

An explanation can be found in Keith Johnson’s work on vowel normalization. You created a phoneme/ a category of the vowel /a/ while acquiring the language, there is also the frequency effect, the recency effect, etc. I will do my best to create a video about it and notify you :)

Now more than ever, education in the social sciences that isn’t being gatekept by moral panics around (especially US) universities is super important, and basic linguistics classes can be really useful places to start unlearning a lot of racist thought and “common sense” about language and humans.

I don't, but that would be a nice topic to explore and share. Would you prefer a Praat tutorial or a more theoretic approach?

Linguistically Aware – CJSW Radio

The podcast is now hosted by another linguist from our department, Brooklyn Shepard, and Brooklyn is doing an amazing work! Listen and enjoy! 🙌🏻🎧 cjsw.com/program/ling...

Some of my guests were amazing @phono-logical.bsky.social and @swinters.bsky.social

Very few people know that I was the host of the podcast, "Linguistically Aware", broadcast once monthly on a local radio station, CJSW 90.9.

YouTube video by cognitivephonetician Daily Gramle - December 15th, 2024

Prof. Winters (@swinters.bsky.social) solves today’s Gramle (Spectrogram Wordle) nascl.rc.nau.edu/gramle/ in one guess, under a minute, yet again! youtu.be/LxMjvY_Smu4?...

Absolutely! Although I would like to try myself in a Gramle tournament 🏟️ 😀

I’ll definitely have to check this Syntactic Prosody Phrase. I wonder how, if at all, interferes with the Intonational Phrase which also controls the command prosody.

A very informative and interesting read👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻

YouTube video by Dusan Nikolic Reading Spectrograms - Gramle - Dec 8

Some students mentioned Gramle (spectrogram reading) to me yesterday so I solved one today and filmed it describing what I can see, thinking it might be useful for the finals. Great fun!
youtu.be/Cu-4k4GJV-s?...

That could very well be the case. I loved Shogun, too, and I believe the series reached the peak when it comes to emotional investment of the viewers in the penultimate episode that they maybe wanted a less intense ending. Because the Shogun already happened, right.

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