@samhellmuth.bsky.social
languages & linguistics, mostly Arabic & mostly phonology, views my own, Prof @UniofYork [sæm ˈhɛlmʌθ] (she/her)
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New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates
22.01.2026 23:31 — 👍 16 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0last few days to support Robyn if you would like to she has made a lot of effort doing this and we cannot thank her enough.
her fundraising page is still open please give what you can. Thank you
OED says "toe-rag" www.oed.com/dictionary/t... @susiedentwords.bsky.social #TheArchers
16.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very happy to announce another article is out this week 🎉!
This paper took some time to get from my PhD to here, but I'm so happy it has now found a home in SSLA: doi.org/10.1017/S027....
Special thanks to my supervisors and co-authors @samhellmuth.bsky.social and Leah Roberts.
First paper of 2026 with Rhys Sandow, @jwgrieve.bsky.social, and Rose Stamp!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The new @lagbling.bsky.social website is looking very snazzy 👀 www.lagb.org.uk #linguistics
19.12.2025 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve written a long blog here that comes out of various things that I’ve worked on with other people this term. It’s about accents... again! Sorry, not sorry.
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-a...
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12.12.2025 13:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Hi @lner.co.uk - can you contact your rail replacement contractor asap and ask them to ensure the coaches parked along Knavesmire Road this morning do *not* leave their engines running while parked up please? There are kids and families at football matches having to breathe the fumes. Thanks!
12.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A nice one for #EnglishLanguage A level #accents and #diversity @englangblog.bsky.social
Source: BBC
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Yes - I wouldn't expect TRAP in 'magic' to vary.. I've had a happy time listening to Grimsby accents on TikTok though to check, but so far noone has said 'magic' so, who knows? 😂
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A pitch contours plot showing the shape of pitch rise at the end of questions in Cairene Egyptian Arabic, on words with different numbers of syllables, and with the stress on different syllables of the word. The rise typically starts at the beginning of the stressed syllable then carries on rising towards the end of the utterance. There are some dinks in the rise along the way in some cases, but those can mostly be explained by the properties of the sounds in the word, such as a fully voiced /d/ between two vowels, that depresses the F0 contour due to voicing during the closure.
Today I made this plot (among other things)
06.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
18.07.2025 17:42 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Touring bike leaning against the pavement on a bright sunny day, with wall of the Larpool Viaduct behind and Whitby Abbey in the background on the horizon
@sustrans.bsky.social great trip this weekend 🌞 #BucketList
13.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm glad we'll see you the week after next. And yeay for the plants :)
02.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, I was in but didn't know you were there :( I wondered why your plant had suddenly appeared in the foyer...
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Only one month to go till York English Language Toolkit 2025!
Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
Registration link: bit.ly/yelt2025work...
We've just got a new episode in the can which will come out very soon. It's our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social teacher CPD event. Coming soon! Get signed up here if you haven't already: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
06.06.2025 11:18 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.
Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)
Yet another reason to use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !
12.05.2025 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Desperation has reached unspeakable levels. Mothers are boiling grass to feed their families. Children are suffering unbearable hunger, trauma, violence, and abandonment.”
~Karol Balfe CEO ActionAid Ireland
Irish Examiner
Would 100% recommend this.
01.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
The University of York’s English Language Toolkit brings cutting-edge linguistic research into the sixth-form classroom, offering free resources, case studies, and CPD opportunities to inspire and support A-level English Language teachers. #NATE www.nate.org.uk/2025/05/01/l...
01.05.2025 13:58 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open! Outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops
The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!
#linguistics #EnglishLanguage
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