CJ Young | 楊淳然 Iûnn Sûn-Jiân

I’m out of town this week unfortunately!! Sorry to miss your talk and hope you enjoy SB!!

Calls: 27th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages: Deadline has been extended to January 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth.

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10…

This whole thing just makes me so sad. We were at Peabody together and I premiered his piece! It’s really hard watching him continually dig himself deeper into this hole, entirely of his own doing.

You can find it at Nikka Japanese Market on Calle Real

Depictions of the front and back of a small bottle of S&B Sansho Japanese pepper.

If y’all like Szechuan pepper then may I introduce you to sanshō! It’s got the same attributes but a more pronounced delightful citrus-ness to it.

Bill Labov has passed away after a long and extraordinary life. The founder of variationist sociolinguistics and the academic adviser and grand-adviser to so many in our field. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and students today.

Congrats!

A screenshot of the abstract of the paper “Non-core case marking in Batanic languages” by CJ Young, with keywords, DOI, and publication information.

My first ever journal paper! Terrified but so excited to see it in print. This is for the underdogs: Batanic langs & oblique case. Turns out the oblique does more and the locative does less than we think! Happy to bring Batanic to the fore of Austronesian linguistics! doi.org/10.1515/stuf...

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Missed a bit of Pic 3 under the nutrition label.
"Product name: tea leaves
Ingredients: natural tea leaves
Place of origin: Taiwan
Date of production: displayed on packaging
Storage duration: 2 years
Storage method: avoid locations w high temperature, humidity, direct sunlight
Weight: (not printed)"

Np. I’m just happy to promote Taiwanese tea 😊

... but this kind of product is most likely oolong tea.
Pic 4: large print - "Longfeng Xia (Dragon Phoenix Gorge) High Mountain Tea"; small print - "Taiwan High Mountain Selection" (Longfeng Xia is a place in the tea-growing region of mountainous Nantou County in central Taiwan)

... conditions of the natural environment, it is harvested by hand with two leaves per stem(?), the final tea product has a sweet and mellow taste, the aroma is delicately sweet and elegant, it leaves a pleasant finish in the palate, as is worthy of the highest quality tea." Not very informative...

Pic 3: "[Strictly selected high elevation quality tea] This tea is harvested from Taiwan's original high elevation forested tea area, the temperature difference between day and night is large, enshrouded by clouds and mist, the soil is fertile and unpolluted, suitable rain, in these advantageous...

Pic 1: vertical calligraphy - "Taiwan mark/seal"; small horizontal text - "Taiwan tea, world fragrance/aroma"
Pic 2: "Taiwan high elevation tea fragrance/aroma"
Pic 3: it's mainly a description of the terroir, harvesting, and flavor profiles. (cont'd)

Schwa is so mid. #linguistics

Poster for WAIL 27 at UCSB

🚨 Announcing the 27th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 27)!

May 2-3, 2025

Abstract deadline: December 31, 2024
Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese

See wailconference.org for more