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Kamiina Botan, Omixōchitl Xocomictinehnemi

No need to hate yourself (I already do that) by howleki Gory selfcest

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Strict identity, sloppy identity, or some secret third thing? (maybe a secret fourth thing if it's a clone...)

I always wondered whether her name was meant as a not so subtle multilingual pun on like, Kimika ~ química (= chemistry, even the pitch-accent pattern matches the stress), or it was just a funny coincidence... maybe nominal determinism is real and she was always meant to be a 詩人、剣豪、哲学者……そして化学のパイオニア

Like to put it another way, signed and spoken human languages share deep structural similarities that birdsong almost certainly doesn't, despite them using entirely different motor and perceptual systems, so there's obviously something more to human language than just the sounds of spoken languages

(Setting aside the fascinating work by linguists and neuroscientists suggesting that birdsong also has recursive syntax like human language)

My relative 💪🤝💪 neurolinguists
being really into bird language

So not that it's not amazing that there are animals that can produce something like the phonology of human languages, but they're only speaking insofar as speech is just phonology with no need for syntax or semantics, as if those whistlers could "speak bird"

I was telling someone about the whistled registers of some Oto-Manguean languages like Sochiapam Chinantec and they seemed very convinced that this meant ipso facto that those speakers (whistlers(?)) would be able to communicate with birds, like if they found a curious enough bird ig

A′-movement out of the VP-ellipsis site confirmed acceptable in toki pona lfgooooo

Reading about Australian languages with super crunk phonotactics (by Australian standards) like Kuuk Thaayorre and Yaraldi expanded my brain so much

Máquina para ver, máquina para entender, máquina para existir, máquina para ser

YouTube video by ずまどら@低浮上中 (男向け)早見沙織・能登麻美子さんの声真似講座やってみた！(＊コメ欄に時間表有り)

List of seiyuutzitzīntin that the discord has joked about needing rtMRI and/or electromyography data for:

- Koiwai Kotori
- Minami (not a seiyuu but,
- Miyamoto Yume
- Han Megumi
- Itou Miku
- ([this person's impression of](youtu.be/3eUfSUgr6vc)) Hayami Saori
- Touyama Nao

Praat spectrograph and waveform of one of Kasaki Nozomi (CV Touyama Nao)'s lines from Liz and the Blue Bird. Bonus points to whoever can guess what it says

Doin some phonetics

Epiphyllum oxypetalum flower shot with flash, lens focused on stamens

Epiphyllum oxypetalum flower hanging in front of a potted gollum jade

Ye xōtla, ye cuepōni

和我都麻母 / 畫尓可伎等良楓 / 伊豆麻母加 / 多比由久阿礼波 / 美都都志努波牟 wa-nga tuma mö / WE-ni kak-i-tör-am-u / ituma mönga / tanbi yuk-u are pa / mi-tutu sinop-am-u 1.S-POSS spouse FPT / picture-LOC draw-INF-take-TENT-ATTR / spare.time DPT / journey go-ATTR 1.S TPT / see.INF-COOR long.for-TENT-FIN ‘[I] wish [I had] some free time to draw a picture of my wife. I [would take it with me] on my journey and long for [her] while looking [at it].’ Kupchik, John. Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111078793

Every other post on this site is like this

I emailed the authors about a (very minor) error I found while reading the preprint for this article, where it gives Nuxalk as an example of a language with both aspiration and ejectivity in its obstruent system (Nuxalk has no aspirated series), but didn't get a response unfortunately 😔

Hell yeah I hopped on ᶢǀʱuːːːːːǁ this season

So I think interestingly of all these approaches, it's only in the strong syntactic ones where 2P is even a position targeted by any module (and only incidentally in that the syntax is not really counting words), in every other approach it's basically a result of syn-phon or constraint interaction

- strong syntactic approaches where clitics are base generated or move to an actual position (e.g. C0) that's then preceded by one overt word
- weak syntactic approaches with syntactic placement (e.g. clause initial) + limited phonological reordering (prosodic inversion to 2P)

You have
- strong phonological approaches with clitics placed entirely phonologically, e.g. phrased in OT terms as interaction of constraints like AlignLeft, NonInitial, Integrity
- weak phonological approaches with syntactic placement and phonological filtering of syntactically acceptable forms

Clitics: An Introduction p.299-306 has a good overview of this mostly drawing on Bošković's typology of approaches to clitics in On the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface. Broadly the approach to W position reflects the division of labor between syntax and phonology and the syn-phon interface

Manga titled She Wants to Date a Girl, not with the de dicto or de re readings, but a secret third thing: she wants to date a guy, no one specifically, but her taste in "men" is such that anyone she wanted to date would really be a girl

want_w(she, λw'. ∃y[guy_w'(y) ∧ girl_w(y) ∧ date_w'(she, y)])

Soyo exploding on the other MyGO!!!!! members asking why they played Haruhikage

Nahua Soyo isn't real, she can't hurt you
Zoyolin: Tlein mach īpampa ōanquēuhqueh in Xōpancēhualcuīcatl?!?!?!

Sandawe fascinatingly also has zero for "give" which both Helen Eaton and Sander Steeman both describe in their grammars, though I think Steeman is the only one who explicitly analyzes it as a zero verb

Metrical Phonology in particular is such a funny example of this. First we had metrical trees our beloved (thesis), then a sort of backlash with metrical grids (antithesis), and then the return of the tree in the form of grids + constituency (synthesis).
Where did that bring you? back to 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳

The gy- initial is kinda giving Tsimshianic, like it should have a CvC redup plural like gyilgyaal or smth

The conditional-topic relationship is very visible in Japanese so there's quite a bit of work in this area of like modality-topicality-conditionality by linguists like Magdalena Kaufman, see for example What 'may' and 'must' may be in Japanese

Maybe you've already read it, but Topics are conditionals:
A case study from exhaustification over questions by Yurie Hara discusses this exact phenomenon in Japanese arguing for Haiman's thesis.

It's pretty rare for all three to contrast in a series for a single verb root but a mix of dictionaries does give:
ne-cuepa-liztli — return, reappearance
ne-cuep-cā-yō — someone's act of return
tla-cuep-tli — something returned

Process nominals are usually in (l)iz-tli, you also have state nominals in cā-yō-tl although (maybe just my limited understanding) these seem to overlap in semantics somewhat with (l)iz-tli nominals
These both contrast usually with tla><lli nominals though which are specifically patients