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Darin Flynn
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assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary.bsky.social
Nice, thanks for sharing! Cool idioms and vowels, e.g. their DRESS vowel seems closer to [e]. Love the old typewriter at the beginning, too — I have one in my office :)
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Distinguishing two types of topics in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from syntax-phonology interface” by Yidi Xiao and Chen Zhao (Nov. ’25) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Gestures and signs are phrases not words: a high definition account” by Luis Escobar L.-Dellamary (Nov. ’25) www.preprints.org/frontend/man...
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
“No additional strata, no loop! A reanalysis of Malayalam compound morphophonology” by Katie McCann and Jochen Trommer (Nov. ’25) direct.mit.edu/ling/article...
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
L’attaque des attaques
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Scrat — scleral squirrel
/ˈskɹæt/ /ˈsklɛɹl̩/ /ˈskwɜɹl/
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“Igpay Atinlay inway Igpay Atinlay: ethay igpay atinlay ictionaryday orjectpay” ybay Ianbray Ray. Irshmanhay, Aurielay Away. Onesjay andway Oesephjay Day. Onoughmcday (2008) www.sigbovik.org/2008/proceed...
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Book review by Miki Mori (Nov. ’25): “On Under-reported Monolingual Child Phonology” edited by Elena Babatsouli (’20/’25) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Good syntax tree drawing exercise
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Balanced literacy instruction hilariously destroyed in a single glorious minute
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“The position of Tomoip in the Oceanic family” by Russell Barlow and Malcolm Ross (Nov. ’25) doi.org/10.1353/ol.2...
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“How pitch gestures facilitate L2 lexical tone learning: the role of L1–L2 perceptual assimilation in Mandarin speakers’ acquisition of Thai tones” by Keke Yu, Jie Zhang, Zilong Li, Xuliang Zhang, Yiyuan He, Li Li and Ruiming Wang (Nov. ’25) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“Epenthesis and prothesis in Tetun Terik: phonological exaptation and the loss of vowel-initial verbs” by Tamisha L. Tan (Nov. ’25) dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2...
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“On the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian voiced coronal obstruents” by Kye Shibata (Nov. ’25) dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2...
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“Spectral cues influence perception of voice onset time when using the /ɑ/ vowel: pitfalls and solutions” by Lexi Olson and Matthew B. Winn (Nov. ’25) pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Coda nasals in early Germanic languages” by Andrew Kostakis (Nov. ’25) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Telling compounds and phrases apart in Vietnamese: a random forest classification” by Sandrien van Ommen, Catalina Torres, Lâm Quang Đông, AnneLise Giraud and Balthasar Bickel (Sep. ’25) pasteur.hal.science/pasteur-0530...
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Notably, he gestures (as he puts it) at “phonologization, the insertion of morphophonological exponents” (p. 69) in his analyses of individual languages, e.g.:
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Category-specific effects” by Jennifer L. Smith (Oct. ’25) users.castle.unc.edu/~jlsmith/hom...
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM