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December 11, 2018 Low Brow Posts

Paper Drags: Do Linguistic Structures Affect Human Capital?

In case you’ve been off linguistics Twitter for the last week, you should know that it coniptioned last Wednesday. This is what happened. A study was dropped (ya, academics drop papers)…

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December 4, 2018 Low Brow Posts

Expat v. Immigrant v. Migrant Post 2: Dictionary Examples

The public discourse around people who move to the U.S. is ugly at the moment (the moment being Build a Wall, Travel Ban, and Zero Tolerance). This series (Post 1) uses…

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November 27, 2018 Low Brow Posts

Expat v. Immigrant v. Migrant Post 1: Dictionary Definitions

The public discourse around people who move to the U.S. is ugly at the moment (the moment being Build a Wall, Travel Ban, and Zero Tolerance). This series uses dictionaries and…

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November 17, 2018 High Brow Posts

Emoji Grammar as Beat Gestures

Emoji Grammar as Beat Gestures If you’re a Lingua Bish, you probably know about celebrity linguists Dr. Gretchen McCulloch😻 and Dr. Lauren Gawne 😻. In their presentation at the 1st International Workshop on…

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November 6, 2018 High Brow Posts

Effects of gender and verbal aggression on perceptions of U.S. political speakers

It’s the Year of the Woman 2.0, party people. A record number of women are running for office in the American midterm elections. We will see what happens in the coming…

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October 22, 2018 High Brow Posts

Prospects and Challenges of Short-Term Historical Lexicography

My favorite publication is American Speech, a quarterly journal published by Duke University Press. Yes, it’s a little Anglo-centric, but it has my favorite recurring feature Among the New Words. I…

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October 8, 2018 High Brow Posts

Raciolinguistic ideology and Spanish-English bilingualism on the US labor market: An analysis of online job advertisements

Learn a language, they said. You’ll be more desirable on the job market, they said. Everyone needs to be multilingual to be competitive in this globalized world, they said. Get that…

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September 17, 2018 High Brow Posts

Dismantle the Native-speakerarchy Post 3: Sentence context influences the subjective perception of foreign accents

(This is part of a series. Check out the first post on lexical diversity here and the second post on vowel quality here.) A commonly cited reason for why so-called ‘native…

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September 4, 2018 High Brow Posts

Joining the Western Region: Sociophonetic Shift in Victoria

One thing that’s always bothered me is the lack of language documentation in rural Canada. Studies of Canadian English represent urban areas. And look, I get it: rural Canadians are spread…

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August 19, 2018 High Brow Posts

Language contact, agency and power in the linguistic landscape of two regional capitals in Ethiopia

Do you ever wish that your linguistics interests were more Instagram-friendly? Fear not, m’lady. There’s a subfield for you! Linguistic landscape is a burgeoning area of study that analyzes how language…

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Here's a list of podcast episodes featuring Black linguists talking about various topics

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mixedlinguist Nicole Holliday (mixedlinguist@ohai.social) @mixedlinguist ·

Wow...as soon as people start demanding rights, folks come out of the woodwork with the “it’s not that bad” arguments. Clearly Pinker thinks the current number of murders of black people is acceptable, as long as fewer white uncles feel comfortable saying “nigger” at Thanksgiving https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1268180637418164224

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