Richard Ogden

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So that's why the module is so popular!!

Delighted that our module The Language of Turn and Sequence was renamed The Language of Turn and Sequins by Zoom's captioning system.

I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂

Water fountain with the word water in several languages, the last one being Sámi, čáhci

Train map of northern Norway with some place names in both Norwegian and Sámi

A couple of signs in Trondheim. Good to see the inclusion of Sámi, something that can’t be taken for granted.

Haha! I’d never thought about that. To be fair to English spelling, it’s actually Latin spelling, and faithful to Latin morphology

Just one of many great sessions at Nordisco in Trondheim this week.

Gorgeous! I’m just glad to have survived the bumpiest landing ever. Even one of the cabin crew said she felt sick!

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Link to BBC story about under-threat language courses https://bbc.com/news/articles/c8e9d73lwkro

Words matter. Language matters. Languages matter.

@spencerhazel.bsky.social on how universities cut their language degrees, AND stress the importance of language, AND use language poorly and offensively in communicating their decisions ("marketing-infused slop").

#AcademicSky #Universities

See you there (wearing a head torch 😆)

YouTube video by Glen And Friends Cooking Custard or Cake? This Vintage Pie Recipe Surprised Us!

I love this YouTube channel. This episode combines home cooking from an old Canadian cookbook with the linguistic and cultural subtleties of writing a recipe in English and French. youtu.be/GYkxduAIhT8?...

it's not even a representation of one!

What a joy this book is. I wish it had been available years ago when I was taking classes

A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).

Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...

What about the start and end points of the diphthongs? When I produce these words, the first part takes up a greater proportion of the vowel before -d- words than in -t- words (I have [d] and [t] here).

A Firthian approach would be to consider the whole 'piece' and its features: that would not focus on a phonemic contrast, but on the full set of ways the contrast is produced, allowing the phonology and morphology to talk to each other, of course.

Accent bias logo. Four speech bubbles in four different coloured squares.

Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:

accentbias.ed.ac.uk

Are there any differences in the durations of the diphthongs before the taps?

How about this one from Sociology in York? Patient choice in practice: translating research findings into training and national guidelines for medical students and practitioners results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/ea621...

Michael Slavinsky is the founder of Languages For All, a charity which exists increase the number of modern language students at A-level and degree level from state schools. He will talk about how school collaborations! Free but booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/webin...

Text from Eurostar telling me to arrive at departures at 1358.

This kind of precision timing is pragmatically strange. Not 5 to 2, not 2pm. Does arriving at 1359 count as late, and I will be denied boarding? This is exactly the sort of point Harvey Sacks made in his Lectures. People don't aimlessly use numbers like this in real life!

Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

In Aix en Provence today for the PhD exam of Kübra Bodur, whose PhD is all about phonetic reduction. Excellent work all round! Afterwards, there was a table of wonderful home-made Turkish food that she and her family had made.

How much precious academic and professional support time and energy goes into making applications, whose success rate is essentially that of a lottery -- not to mention evaluating them. It's hard to see how this is properly 'strategic' or beneficial.

Good thing then that this week's White Paper fails to recognise modern languages as a key skill for young people.

"Languages" appears twice. Here's one: "language students could have conversations with artificial intelligence, building
confidence and breadth". Bit naive. Conversations about what? What did you think of the film? What's the best pastry you sell? Can you help me find a good place to eat nearby?

Don’t you think he’s re-parsing it as a simple word rather than a compound, analogous to metallurgy, nutalogy? And with it, a shift in primary stress. (Of course, all scripted, so made up and playful.)

Not only ‘not a word’ but also ‘non-speech’! (Now wondering what most of my research in the last 15 years or so is about.)

Congratulations to Katariina Harjunpää and Beatrice Szczepek Reed on this lovely collection of papers on interspecies interaction, for which Leelo Keevallik and I wrote a commentary.
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🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal

📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.

I'm really pleased to be running a workshop on the phonetics of talk in interaction at ICCA in Edmonton next year.