Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)

Why Do Dialects Develop? 5 Key Factors Dialects appear due to geographic isolation, linguistic contact, social identity, historical shifts, and the way languages change over time.

Dialects are a natural result of how humans live with each other in communities, and they are a wonderful reflection of our history and sense of identity.

#linguistics #language #dialects

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Oh I always just thought it was related to the use of the apparent time hypothesis approach from sociolinguistics, adapted to 'emerging' sign languages.

Yes, I fingerspell A-R-G (with two hands obvs).

I don't know that there is anything, according to Google Scholar anyway.

Great! Maybe you can share the link to the BUCU WhatsApp group?

Can you give an example?

Is there a name for when a method that was originally linked to natural phenomenon takes on a life of its own in the history of disciplines? Specifically that the motivation for using is that it's been used elsewhere?

#linguistics #AcademicSky #PhilosophySky

Public talk on accent bias in HE, led by Christian Ilbury from the University of Edinburgh, at the University of Birmingham, UK, at 6pm on 29th April.
I have long been aware that our students (and staff) who speak with local accents experience discrimination.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/tackl...

Haitian Creole: The Complete Beginner’s Guide An overview of the sounds, sentence structure, tenses, nouns, and basic phrases in Haitian Creole

For most people, a Creole is a broken version of another language. This couldn't be further from the truth. This is an extensive overview of the Haitian Creole language!

#language #Linguistics #Langsky #Languages #Haitiancreole

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New insights into nineteenth-century ASL benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #signedlanguages #ASL

The End of Language As We Know It? Scientists Challenge 60 Years of Linguistic Research An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

SciTechDaily has reported on our paper "The ‘design features’ of language revisited" in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. One short correction to the reporting is that Hockett didn't claim that there is "a set of uniquely human design features" (and we don't claim he did) 1/ #language #linguistics

Me: I understand and appreciate the point that Martin is trying to make about 'neutrality' here.

Also me: Not sure about the 'neutrality' of academia point - don't know if such a position is even possible or desirable.

YouTube video by Martin Hilpert Is Academia broken?

Need some food for thought today? youtu.be/eKlEeKC8qLk?...

Martin Hilpert has you covered. 👇

#BLinguistik #linguistics

Tweet from Alexander Clark: I was explaining at dinner that linguists disagree radically about almost everything and one person said so what do they actually agree about? Just that languages exist? And I was like: well you might want to sit down for this

It is interesting how everywhere in the south of England apart from London hardly registers on this map. But then basically nowhere in the Midlands does.

Forging the Future of Sociolinguistics: The Expanding Pluriverse of Language and Social Justice Click on the article title to read more.

❓What can a social-justice oriented, pluriversal sociolinguistics look like? @yecidortega.bsky.social reflects on this question in his review essay of 3 brilliant new books on critical sociolinguistics, language & social justice. Early view version here! 👇

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Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction In this paper, we investigate multimodal recipient feedback in casual dyadic conversation in four languages: German Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, spoken German, and spoken Russian. Taking a mo...

Bauer, A. & Gipper, S. & Herrmann, T.-A. & Hosemann, J.. 2026. Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–50.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In the British English Dialect Research Bibliography, the study of Birmingham English is noticeably under-represented compared to London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and other major cities. montgomerycm.shinyapps.io/Articles/

Sociolinguists - who has written about possible relationships between the time depth of a spoken language variety and the amount of regional sociophonetic variation? British Englishes show a great deal of regional accent variation whereas Australian Englishes have relatively little.

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Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Almost as good as my rule of thumb: has anyone you know ever written anything in it you want to cite? If not, then it’s not the Journal for you.

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦

it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔

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Screenshot of a chapter by Carl Börstell called "Iconic plurality across modalities"

Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though):
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How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging?

#linguistics

‘Ik heb meer impact buiten de universiteit’ Een hoogleraar die vrijwillig zijn toga inlevert. Het komt zelden voor, maar Onno Crasborn deed het. “Ik heb nu meer impact dan als hoogleraar Nederlandse Gebarentaal.”

'I have more impact outside of university'
Google Translate appears to do a reasonable job translating this article from Dutch into English, so, if you don't read Dutch, you can still check out this interview with my friend and former academic Onno:
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IGALA list: Deborah Cameron, one of the greatest feminist linguists ever, has passed away. Everybody interested in the relationship of #language and #gender, please go and read her witty and myth-busting blog: https://
debuk.wordpress.com/ .
#linguistics #GenderLinguistics

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam!

Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy.

A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents).

uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues

I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
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