Darin Flynn

Excellent affirmation. I hope you also have or get a C. S. Lewis-like friend :)

In general, implosivation (at least initially) seems to be a general west Indian ~ east Pakistani areal feature, also reported by Khan (2012) for Gujarati though not phonemized there. And even though not the whole inventory of Sindhi/Saraiki, neighboring Marwari, Dhatki, etc. have some of them.

“English iambic meters and the tension asymmetry” by Patrik Bye (2019) www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr...

Interesting: “In my own RP variety, the occasional weak form of ‘no’ is permissible with the comparative forms of adjectives, e.g. ‘no longer’ [nəʊ~nə lɒŋɡə], ‘no wiser’ [nəʊ~nə waɪzə], but not NPs, e.g. ‘no sane person’ [nəʊ~*nə seɪn pɜːsn̩].” (Bye 2019: 38, fn. 4)

Thanks for mentioning Saraiki; so cool! Can you point me to somewhere/someone discussing the development of implosives? bsky.app/profile/avza...

Saraiki stress and syllabification

Saraiki vowels

“Saraiki” by Firdos Atta, Jeroen van de Weijer and Lei Zhu (2022) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“A phonetic description of Káínai Blackfoot” by Natalie Weber and Donald Derrick (Aug. ’25) scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/c453bb...

ABSOLUTELY.

I have posted a new substack about how linguists came to lose the original distinction between phonology and morphophonology.
richardwojcik.substack.com/p/how-lingui...

We Are Still Under the Spell of Split-Brain Research For decades, researchers insisted the left brain dominates all aspects of language. But rare cases of "word deafness" and new experiments reveal a hidden symmetry.

We are still under the spell of split-brain research. My new piece in @psychtoday.bsky.social. Excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

attn @saraheaton.bsky.social

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

Quite a read. “Hindawi, an open-access publisher that was shuttered because of rampant paper mill activity after Wiley acquired it”; “of the 79 papers that one editor had handled at PLOS ONE, 49 have been retracted”; etc. www.science.org/content/arti...

If there isn’t an established term, I’m tempted to call it Cockney slang, i.e. Cockney rhyming slang minus the rhyming part ;)

Quick question for poets and others in the know: What’s the literary term for using slang rather indirectly by giving the definition of that slang term’s literal meaning? Confusing, I know! That’s kinda the point! To clarify, here’s my fave example c/o Jay-Z (“ice” = diamonds & jewelry by extension)

“William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024)” by Penelope Eckert (July ’25) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last Forum Lecture of the Institute!
Join us this Wednesday (August 6) for the talk by Marianne Mithun (Hale Professor, UCSB).

👩‍🏫 “From Prosody toward Explanation?”
🕕 Aug 6th, 6–7 PM
📍 STB 156

“Relations between family environment, the rate of externalizing problems and cognitive functioning of primary students with ADHD” by Wiktoria Walenista, Bernadetta Izydorczyk, Małgorzata Lipowska and Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska (Aug. ’25) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Given that I allow (epi)(dèmi)(olo)(gístic) in isolation, I was expecting eurhythmy-induced optional “iambic reversal” at the prosodic-word level in phonological phrases like (epi)(dèmi)(olo)(gȉstic) (dáta), like this:

cf. Hayes (1984: 26, fn. 4)

cf. also Àpalachicóla vs. Apalachicòla físhing or Àpalachicola físhing, Apalachicòla Ríver or Àpalachicola Ríver

This is surprising to me because “iambic reversal” is obligatory at the colon-level in tripodic words like ‘Apalachicola,’ but it applies at the prosodic-word level in phrases like ‘Apalachicola Bay’

Thanks to @olliesayeed.bsky.social and @cobbaalt.bsky.social for helpful discussion!

Likewise, I allow (super)(càli)(fragi)(lístic), but phrase-level eurhythmy changes it to (sùper)(cali)(fràgi)(listic) (èxpi)(ali)(dócious)