Allison Shapp, PhD

The Language Construction Kit The LCK is also available in a print edition, four times the length, published by Yonagu Books on Amazon.

It looks like the author also has a website with resources! www.zompist.com/kit.html

This looks exactly like what I was thinking of! A whole book might be a bit much to throw at the student, but I'm going to try get my hands on a copy of this to use it as a road map, since I am also not a conglanger. Thanks!

Does anyone know of good resources for conlanging? For a v. creative HS student that I'd like to help work through the process a little more methodically. I'm thinking smthg that introduces the ideas of phono inventory, typology of possible morph and syntax systems, etc. Thx! #linguistics #conlang

what is a shell formation? Google's telling me about mollusks, but that doesn't seem like it fits the context.

I can imagine exactly the chain of events where he's upset about a tweet like this and someone had to talk him down saying "No one's here to set a record. Just concentrate on not falling" and that's why he's parroting those same words back like a 3 year old.

#linguistics #interviews #datacollection #grants #independentscholars

In this spirit- I live on the Lower East Side in a community with folks that have been here their whole lives, some of which were definitely here when Labov did his work in the 60s.

I have access to this resource and would love to collect interviews, but would need some sort of funding. Ideas?

monster

also would allow for other researchers to go "oh hey! That's exactly the type of data I've been looking for to test my existing hypothesis. Wanna collaborate?"

that'd be a great idea for a type of conference submission, actually. "I have this data, everyone come and give me ideas and strategy for how best to use it." win-win for the whole community.

I don't understand how they don't. He's saying his stupid things TO the actual leaders of the world. Can't they do us all a favor and just bum rush him or something? Detain him in the UN. Put the US in time out?

Thank you for taking one for the team and sharing this. I was almost overwhelmed with second-hand embarassment cringe just from READING your summary, I can't imagine how those folks in that room made it through.

the most accurate take

ok, but...are they? what's the answer?

jinx!

There was that one year we got Thanksgivukkah,
now we've got...Rapt-Hashanah?

taking being called "fascist" as an insult means that you know it's a bad thing to be! So don't be it!

yes, thank you - i'd like news alerts/headlines about things that have already happened. Not that "might" happen or "could" happen. Especially the ones that are like "X is set to announce ___ at a conference today." Then f'in report on it once it's actually announced.

Her qualifications are a PhD in Psychology, a position as the head of Child Psych training at Harvard Med, and the critical thinking skills to identify and discuss one facet of an issue without implying that no other possible nuances exist. What are yours?

www.massgeneral.org/children/doc...

Does the cockpit even have a door to the outside to jump out of if one wanted to? 😛

ooh, and it looks like it's been updated in the last few years with a new set of MRIs with better resolution!

Thank you! This is perfect, and I love that it has multiple different people that you can compare.

Thank you! I think this is the one I was thinking of, but didn't get the right search terms to find it again.

and/or, is there an interactive mid-sagittal diagram to play around with, like this one but for for vowels?

incl.pl/sammy/

maybe you know, @lisabdavidson.bsky.social ?

Can anyone direct me to some resources with MRI videos of vowel productions? I know I've seen websites or youtube channels with a collection of them before, but I'm having trouble locating what I'm thinking of. #linguistics #phonetics

@jofrhwld.bsky.social Hi! Do you have a recc of a reading (academic or newsy interview) that mentions the short-a split in Philly? I have an intro phon student in a class with mostly west coasters who showed interest in a little more info on why her vowel intuitions aren't matching everyone else's.

Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice.

People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.

Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.

Speak up now. Press conference today.

it's baffling that more of the super-rich don't just go enjoy it and leave us alone. more money makes NO difference at that level, it's all ego.

like Black Mirror