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cuban american born on the bayou. linguist, artist, general delight. she/they/dr
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@garicgymro
Same!!! It literally says in my syllabus like not to let other instructors pressure you into sharing your health info!! But either the academic trauma or the, uh, degree to which they remember/follow instructions seems to overshadow it
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Some people want to go to a fricative party because it doesn't stop, but as an introvert I'd like to go to an affricate party that stops before it starts
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I think a lot of language prescriptivists just like noticing details and patterns in language. Part of becoming a linguist (if you do it right) is realizing that you can still notice those things but think they’re cool instead of annoying or deficient🥲
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1. There is no such thing as a lazy accent or lazy speech. It takes the same amount of articulatory effort!
2. You do not need to build muscles in your mouth in an anatomical sense. As a metaphor, sure. As physiology? No.
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I was trying to think of a term other than nibling to describe my sister’s future kids and I landed on “children I c command” also I don't know syntax so don't come for me
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3. The bit about space between your hard & soft palate makes no sense. It's mouth phrenology.
3a. Individual vocal tract anatomy does vary, and correlates of that variation does show up elsewhere. It’s cool as shit! But this isn’t how anatomy varies, or how its effects show up.
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3c. The USA and Australia are both diverse, multiracial nations with continuing histories of settler colonialism. It doesn’t make sense to think about consistent anatomical differences across groups like that.
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To be clear there are huge & dangerous misconceptions perpetuated by this message:
1) existence of measurable differences in human biology based on a social characteristic (nationality)
2) that some ways of using language are “lazy” or worse than others
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This is a sincere question: are you supposed to take babies out for walks? Like *for* the baby? I see a lot of neighbors out with their babies in strollers but I can’t tell if they’re walking for the baby or if the baby is just along for the ride
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GUYS, Cilian Murphy isn't trying to escape a crazy lady. This isn't evidence that she's crazy, or stupid, or a race scientist. Just that she's wrong. It's so okay to be wrong.
The problem is not her; it's misinformation & scientific/media literacy
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5a. There is evidence that speakers of different languages hold their tongues and jaws in different postures while at rest. This is a matter of habit, not constraint.
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3b. If there were consistent differences, they would be population-level trends, not statements about individual anatomy. That’s just how humans work. And, they would vary based on genetics, not nationality.
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5b. Likewise, it’s difficult to produce and perceive differences among sounds that we didn’t hear and produce regularly growing up. Again, this isn’t a matter of anatomy.
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If you're a linguist*, help me out with a secret project and tell me in two sentences max about a connection you see between your earlier life experiences/interests and your going on to do linguistics/language research*
*If you think you might count, you count
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5. You are not building a muscle or creating space when you practice an accent. You don’t change your anatomy based on the language you use—how would you change it back?
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Academics will recommend you a coffee shop and be like oh yeah I wrote my prospectus there! I had a breakdown in the bathroom, the baristas are so nice
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4. Lip rounding is a thing! But not to account for anything the tongue is failing to do. A dialect having rounder vowels than another is just one of the way accents distinguish themselves.
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In college I studied for an oral exam so much so that when I got a perfect score I felt so ashamed, like I had cheated. This is a process I now understand to be called “studying”
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4a. Rounding is one of the differences between “beat” and “boot” in General American English. The lip rounding enhances the differences in the tongue position, because they have the same effect on resonant frequencies.
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It’s cute when a White Australian does it, right? Uhhh it’s not that cute when it gets applied in basically any other real world context
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What's this? Chuck Klosterman's newest book? No, just me playing around with advertising* for the talk series I CANNOT wait for!! (ft
@raciolinguistic
,
@annastrikesbax
& people who don't follow me on twitter!)
*not the official flyer! stay tuned!
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If you're wondering how my first day GSIing phonetics went, I ended class by saying "all right, I guess we're out of time, the point is science is fake*. There is no "right" way to transcribe vowels because it's a biased human analysis of continuous space see you tomorrow"
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this isn't anti-baby sentiment!! i love seeing neighbors out, and a lot of people want their babies to meet my dog since she's so small! I'm just wondering if it's like "i want to get out of the house and the baby goes where i go" or if it's like "babies have to look at trees"
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Did you know that you can have strong Queer characters in your tv shows and their storyline can be about something other than their sexual identity AND you don't have to kill them!
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Are y'all ever just like idk speech perception is magic can i go home now
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I’m always afraid I’m gonna go to a job interview and they’ll be like oh you do phonetics and sociolinguistics? do a northern cities shift right now
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Hello I have been in linguistics school for 10 years and I do not understand why it’s DP and not NP
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New dissertation: “how we perceive spoken language is frankly none of our business, and we should just be happy it works well enough and stop asking questions”
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reminder to you bc i need a reminder to me: Taking more time on your dissertation does not mean that it has to be proportionally more excellent. The rules are still the same; it still just has to get done. Accommodations aren't power-ups that then demand overachievement in turn.
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*ashes cigarette* Uh, yeah… I’m… not that kind of linguist
(You just asked me how many languages I can use)
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Wait your coffee table book collection doesn’t include describing morphosyntax?! What do y’all do when you explain the applicative to your houseguests
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Should I celebrate filing my dissertation by getting a tattoo of the old Praat logo? (I need as many little treats to motivate me as possible)
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If you get an email from me at 9:17 am, just know that I did not write that email at 9:17 am, I wrote it the night before but I didn't want to send it til the next work day but i also didn't want it to be as obvious as 8:00 am
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@BakstSarah
recommends Johnson, Ladefoged, & Lindau 1993:
Articulatory variation in AmEng is individual, not population level. Some people move jaws more, some people move tongues, none of it is consistent with minimizing effort or laziness
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Probably the thing that surprises non-ling/lang people most is when I tell them I don't believe in adjectives. In my professional opinion, they are all essentially verbs or essentially nouns/nominalizations. (I shan't be taking feedback on this stance at this time.)
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in my personal statement for grad school I said 'i am ready to take the next step' bc i didn't realize that a phd is not a 'step,' it's a staircase, it's a cliff face, it's a rusted ladder, it's a staircase but like the eschery staircase from labyrinth
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@avzaagzonunaada
Does it matter? It’s wrong, and not a great thing to have out in the world in my opinion, especially since it’s being taken up as fact!
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How come there's an acknowledgments section but no snubs section. "I would like to exclude the following three people from my gratitude to the UC PhonLab"
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People always ask me why I don’t introduce myself as Dr Rodriguez
The answer is simple: I haven’t finished my doctorate yet and my name isn’t Rodriguez
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@arnsonist
Forwarded it to a friend who actually has expertise in vocal tract anatomy variability! In any case I think we can all agree that it’s disappointing people are willing to believe there are consistent anatomical differences across two multiracial nations (+ settler colonialism)
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I wrote a zine about how listeners use linguistic variation in perceiving speech--check it out! [full img descriptions on site]
#lingcomm
#linguistics
#speechperception
#phonetics
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Someone has to fix southern accents in their smart speaker bc my parents are going to get divorced if my stepdad doesn’t stop yelling at al*xa for counting his jeopardy answers wrong bc she doesn’t understand him
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I have to come clean that I didn’t find this myself, my friend sent it to me with the astute commentary “this can’t be true, right?” It isn’t!!
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I've been working on this cover letter for like a week now, I'd say it's going well
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AND, as others have graciously pointed out: She is wrong in large part bc of how people have failed her!! That's how these systems perseverate. We can't let beautiful people launder these things into sticking around when there is actual research/expertise available
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If you were teaching a course called "Endangered languages: Why does linguistic diversity matter?" and wanted to assign something about signed language(s), hypothetically speaking, what might you do?
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I love talking about things like trap backing and goat fronting with people who don't know what I do
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Is it weird that basically the only things you hear described as 'ample' are bosoms, parking, and opportunity?
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in college i worked for a sociologist & one of the things i remember most was a few scientists saying in interviews that if you're getting public money & public resources to do research, you owe something back to the public & i just like totally absorbed that into my worldview
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being a """linguist in tech""" is mostly just googling "part of speech _______" (it's usually an adverb.)
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One of the things that keeps me going in grad school is the allure of adding PhD to my Twitter name, should I just do it anyway or is that fraud
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Nobody asked me but one thing that sucks about grad school funding + disability/marginalization etc is that if you’re behind you basically get stuck behind bc your record is of being behind so you can’t get any fellowships so you get more behind/burnt out
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We wrote our field methods consultant a poem in South Bolivian Quechua as a holiday gift. We were at a Peruvian restaurant and he went around and showed the card to every South American looking person he could find. That was the most important thing I learned in that class
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We call my paternal grandparents Nana y Abuelo, and apparently my grandpa was really upset that they didn't match and he was like Fine if she's Nana I should be Nano
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If, like me, you were still freaking out that it’s already august, I have some bad news for us
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"I got invited to this lesbians in tech event, do you want to go"
"I'm only half lesbian"
"It's not just for lesbians, it's for like queer women in general"
"I think I'm only like 3/4 woman"
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okay so i got a feedback "allowing other people to just not come [to class] affects everyone's experience" and i'm torn to pieces bc they're not wrong but i also just do not feel right tracking these adults' attendance during the literal frickin end of the world
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I always get so stressed about performing at 100-150% that I end up at like 0-25% so my goal for this year is to perform at like 50-75%. I can write a mediocre dissertation and not be wholly available for students all the time and still be a good person
…Right?
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Hi! I’m writing to check in about the remaining funds in my research budget. Would I be able to use them to hire someone to sit next to me and spray me like a cat every time I stop writing? Thanks so much for your help!
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accommodations are not advantages, giving accommodations is not favoritism, accommodations are not advantages, giving accommodations is not favoritism, accommodations are not advantages, giving accommodations is not favoritism, accommodations are not advantages, giving accommodat
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In 6th grade I gifted my biology teacher a hand-bound book of poems I had written about mitosis
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One of the most dangerous things you can do as a grad student (imho) is to try to write down a straightforward definition of a concept you depend on all the time in crucial ways
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i don't get why it's taking them so long to accept my paper without revisions
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Cannot decide whether to write my dissertation in LaTeX or Google Docs. Currently have pieces of it in both. Not looking for advice, just sympathy
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I do not think that my Praat collage got the attention it deserved so I'm reposting it like an egomaniac
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How many sociolinguists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
It varies!
Not my joke, but my illustration of it is up on my redbubb!
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i have like 2 days to name my dissertation, please drop the name of your dissertation here as examples 🤓
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Lol my fellow grad students, remember when you used to be smart and ambitious
(If you still feel smart and ambitious.... good for you)
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This thought in particular is brought on by a tiktok complaining about a feature of my English (and that of many other Texas girlies I know!) that I absolutely love and not everyone notices! I was almost going to try a Linguist Intervention in the comments but I thought better
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this one. yes I say peeenk and reeeng and i love it and you should love it too!! a lot of us were THOROUGHLY confused in undergrad to learn we were supposed to transcribe it with small cap i
I love listening to other girlies from tx who have this like incredibly peripheral, super high/front /i/ before engma, I’ve never seen a linguist talk about it but we know it’s real
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Finally watching Killing Eve and like not to be dramatic but what did we do as a species to deserve Sandra Oh
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I’ve heard you should let early career/marginalized scholars know when you add their stuff to your syllabus bc it can help with like applications or promotions and stuff but how do you do that without being a weirdo
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@BakstSarah
Bakst 2021
Variability in producing sounds is linked to, but not determined by, palate *shape* (not size). No evidence found that speakers aim to minimize tongue movement
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Idk if I don’t feel super cis bc I’m not super cis or bc the more I think about gender the more I’m just kinda over it, even as a cis (or at the very least absolutely cis passing) person
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One of my best life hacks is to just LARP as a calmer and more confident person
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Today I’m getting hooded! I feel like an IMPOSTER bc I still have to actually finish the diss 😅 I’m trying to stop thinking about that and enjoy all the ways people have been celebrating what I *have* done and join them! (It’s all made up anyway so it’s okay to denaturalize)
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Mostly what i feed myself during the day is what i call "toddler charcuterie"
a handful of peanut butter pretzels, some apple slices, a cheese stick
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Someone on tiktok was like “my Roman Empire is covid, I think about it once a week,” like baby girl you should be thinking about covid every day, multiple times a day, every time you go into public, hopefully wearing a mask
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Like I practiced what I was going to say out loud (as we were in fact encouraged to do), rather than just synthesizing my encyclopedic knowledge on the spot, and like… tbh still feel like I cheated!!
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Basically any time I see a language take on tiktok I scroll away as fast as I can bc that’s work and tik tok is for fun, but like at least half the time it’s gonna come back to haunt ling Twitter
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Get a sneak peek at my 8-page zine about speech perception when you review it for accuracy and accessibility! Dm me for the link!
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wait isn't self-censoring some of the time just... reading the room? like isn't that pretty pro-social?
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Hello, I am a PhD candidate in phonetics. I am teaching undergrad phonetics this fall. I still don't know if it's f0, f1, f2 or F0, F1, F2, or like F0 f1 or f0 or F1 or whatever
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I just got my ears pierced for the fist time. I was so scared I brought a stuffed animal with me. Please tell me you are proud of me
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This may be too niche for my twitter, but: Looking for advice from someone who realized they wanted a career that didn't require a PhD while they were dissertating
How did you decide to finish or not? If you finished, what helped you write your dissertation?
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The underpaid and burnt out grad student urge to reply to student emails asking questions I've covered in a million places with screenshots of every single place I've already answered the question not because it's any less work than answering it but just to prove a point
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Should I put a footnote the first time I cite people I know personally with a positive memory of that person
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sorry for delay in reply, i was avoiding your msg bc the thought of work made me want to die & then like, too much time had passed, yknow? awk! then i literally forgot for a brief, blissful moment, then when i remembered i assumed u hated me so like do i even need to reply?
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If you feel uncomfortable asking for favors, you can borrow my grandma’s advice and think about how good it feels to say yes to other people when you can
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When I first started teaching I cared so much about students not being on their phones but now I put qr codes on all my slides, like yeah chickadee take that phone out, are you actually just swiping on tinder? don't know don't care
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@katiedimartin
Sorry to be the disability reply guy, hate this for both of us, and I know you know this but for anyone reading who doesn’t:
Sometimes people do frivolous-seeming things as accommodations. Being an entitled baby is frivolous and wasteful, but getting support isn’t!
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