Alan Yu

'eliminate the departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian...[and] firing of tenured faculty from...Women’s and Gender Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, history, creative writing, math, physics'

Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Berkeley Linguistics Department this coming fall. I've had an incredible 22 years in Chicago, working with exceptional colleagues and students. I am deeply grateful for all the support and memories we've shared.

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This is a screenshot of the volume cover. The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, & Vijay A. Ramjattan The cover art shows a green balloon with "kein mensch ist illegal" written on it.

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice.

It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:

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We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon

Funding for 'flipping' journals to diamond open access | NWO The Dutch Research Council NWO supports academic journals that wish to transition from a subscription model to an open access model in which authors do not have to pay publication fees. They can soon ...

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What a great opportunity!

Ian was such an inspirational mentor to me, both academically and athletically. He was always so sweet and so English. He will be greatly missed.

Ian Maddieson

I am very sad to learn of the death of Ian Maddieson (on Sunday, Feb. 2). He was a creative thinker, an inspiring linguist, and a wonderful colleague who made a big difference to me intellectually and personally.

I guess the whole DEL program will be scratched. 🤬

Confucius and Plato scholars would always win!

Pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt from kinematic and acoustic perspectives This study investigated the implementation of pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt, across various linguistic contexts VCV, VCCV, VCCV, and VCCCV. We analyzed articulatory and acoustic data from six male sp...

How is pharyngealization realized in across linguistic contexts? In #Tashlhiyt, it's signaled in #coronals by a lowered tongue body & lowered F2 in nearby vowels, which can extend into larger phonetic domains. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon @phbuech.bsky.social @annehermes.bsky.social

This is figure 1, which shows weighted means for trust in scientists across countries and regions (1 = very low, 3 = neither high nor low, 5 = very high).

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? A study in Nature Human Behaviour reports on a survey of 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and finds that trust in scientists is moderately high. https://go.nature.com/3PLgKKU 🧪

6 ways to prepare for a relentless news cycle as President Trump takes office - Poynter If Trump’s first term is any guide, the media will be in his crosshairs. Here’s how to get ready.

Some last minute tips from me published by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on how journalists can prepare for the next four years

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LINGUIST List 36.235 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Instructional Professor (open-rank), Computational Linguistics, The University of Chicago The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us!

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Map of Canada from a 1902 Chinese book

Chinese map of Canada in 1902

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng Many models of word recognition assume that spoken words are faithful to their phonological shape in the lexicon and that word recognition begins with the first incoming segment and proceeds linearly....

Most models of #word recognition assume the input is faithful to #phonological specifications in the #lexicon, but it's not always the case. Results from #lenition in #Mawng & #Iwaidja explore how recognition occurs in such scenarios. @bjbaker.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility

Excited to share our newest article , now in Scientific Reports @natureportfolio.bsky.social . Here we look at interactions between neural coding of temporal cues and pupil-indexed listening effort, and their combined effects on speech in noise intelligibility. - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t agree more!

Funding arts and humanities Arts and humanities research in the UK is consistently producing outstanding work across all disciplines.  By all the criteria of judgement, the Research Excellence Framework, league tables (which …

On the opportunity cost of failing – radically failing – to recognise what we can and what we need to do in arts and humanities to develop a national capability that genuinely supports this country’s future agenda.

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I can’t wait to read this new edition! What an awesome team of authors!

ATTENTION ALL!

This is my full academic review of the 3rd edition:

“FUCK YES. Finally, something ACTUALLY badass!!!!”

You can quote me. 👍🏽

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97 He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

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The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux Human auditory cortex tracks specific acoustic features, providing a multiscale temporal template for subsequent speech parsing.

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... iEEG.
1. syllabic & phonemic timescales both reflected in the acoustic spectral flux
2. cortex tracks syllabic timescale: theta range, phonemic via alpha-beta

Raw acoustic vs. normalized phonetic convergence: Imitation of the Northern Cities Shift in the American Midwest Word shadowing tasks elicit phonetic convergence to the stimulus model talkers, suggesting a tight perception-production link. The magnitude of this convergence is affected by linguistic and social fa...

In word shadowing tasks, do participants imitate formant frequencies or vowel shifts? Given the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, talkers imitate normalized phonetic properties of NCVS vowels, not the overall high F1,F2 frequencies of the model talker. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...