Sam Hellmuth

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)

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics - Behavior Research Methods This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to...

The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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

I'm glad we'll see you the week after next. And yeay for the plants :)

Oh, 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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The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level

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...

The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level

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

Please 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 !

“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.

Linguistic research and the classroom: the University of York’s English Language Toolkit - National Association for the Teaching of English 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 sup...

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...

The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level

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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The York English Language Toolkit - Workshops FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level

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

We're hiring, so come join me in the number 1 Norwegian Study Centre in the WHOLE WORLD.

We're looking broadly for an enthusiastic teacher in Contemporary British History (1750 - present), Sociology or
The Arts and Creative Technologies.

Link here - jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Ach - I'm sorry you've had bad news after bad. It won't be personal, though it will feel like it is. I hope you can take a break in the next two weeks.

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Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction Dates: Monday 16th June - Wednesday 18th June 2025 Online Course Leader: Marina Cantarutti

The early bird fees for our online course on the Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction are now available until May 2nd. The course is now half full and places are going fast!
Looking forward to welcoming you for three days of phonetics and interactional analysis.
york.ac.uk/phonetics-talk

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Or: use @ecosiasearch.bsky.social !

Send us the versions you've tried for expletive positions that work and don't work and we'll see what we can do <linguist rolls up sleeves>

Though I just did the math(s) and it is at 2am GMT so not for the faint hearted ;)

@englangblog.bsky.social

Photograph of London's East End with multicultural crowds in a market

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
#linguistics #london #langsky

We want to raise £30,000 towards a ‘Welcome To The Fringe: Palestine’ project, bringing artists from Palestine to Edinburgh to perform and participate in the biggest arts festival in the world.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...

📣The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" is now advertising 12 PhD positions (2025-2028) in multiple different projects. The application deadline is January 17. Find more information below: sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the...

🙋‍♀️ me too - Schools Council History Project - it is partly why I went on to study Arabic

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