Laurel MacKenzie

Mission accomplished: introduce Sir David Attenborough to the existence of sociophonetics 🤓

@MarcEBarnard @nyuling We miss you already!

@lauren_headley Sorry, it’s been a while, but I think I remember there being a typo (extra paren) in this… glad you got something working, anyway!

@laurel_mack This worked for me: geom_text(data= df, aes(label = paste("P =", round(pval, 3))), fontface = "italic")

TIL it is possible to combine italics and normal text in a geom_text in ggplot (see pic). All you need to do is spend 2 hours googling and writing code that doesn't work. Wait, no, all you need to do is label = paste("italic(n)==",N)) and include parse = TRUE in the aes().

@IsaacBleaman OMG

@laurel_mack !

@betsysneller @rlslinguistics It seriously is all just about feeds and pooping, isn’t it

@betsysneller @rlslinguistics Classic autocorrect error for parents of small children 😄

Next, Lewis Esposito on changing structures of covariation. #nwav51

Dreamed I was grading a student paper that was a lifespan study of Clarence Thomas, and right before I woke up, Dream Me was writing a comment on the PDF that said “he famously doesn’t talk, so how did you get enough data?” 🤔

@wesleyjsleong Just south of Union Sq! We can catch up there over a drink next time you’re in town! singlishnyc.com

Not only a linguistic name, but they got the IPA right! 👏 @wesleyjsleong

@JoFrhwld This is great. My kid does “sawn,” “tooken,” and “aten,” but I’ve never heard him regularize AND double affix like this

no one, literally no one: a kid with morphology: “giveden”

“maybe you should’ve giveden it water” kids and morphology rule

@jessgrieser I am 100% at the center of that Venn diagram. But these things are wasps!

Surprising non-standard spelling in the New Yorker — is “daub” traditionally in the THOUGHT class? Evidence of cot/caught merger on the part of the author (and copy editor)?

@grvsmth Ah yes of course, I think you’re right about that (see screenshot)! But now I’m mystified by the fact that the NYer saw fit to insert a hyphen but not correct the spelling!

@laurel_mack Since this is a lit-crit article and the sentence is highlighting things that Southern characters in these novels know and the reviewer doesn't, I'm guessing that the name is spelled that way in the text, and the reviewer doesn't recognize that the name is derived from "daub."

@linguistlaura @VerbingNouns Yes! Noticing this too, feels like things have really changed since 2017 when I started putting researchers’ pictures in my lecture slides bc of the “everyone made a man” phenom

@JoFrhwld @kev_watson @AdamCSchembri Marjorie Pak has some discussion of this in her 2016 Glossa paper, Sec. 4.3: pause-fillers don’t trigger a->an but do trigger late-stage phonological rules (she uses flapping as an example), suggesting pause fillers are inserted in btwn the two

@kev_watson @AdamCSchembri in some corpus analyses i’ve done, they don’t trigger a->an, like “I ate an uh…”. so this is interesting!

do filled pauses “er” & “erm” trigger linking-r in BrE?

@JoFrhwld It’s so cute how the pipe command you use looks like a penguin bill

I've gone and implemented this into the course notes I was writing about multivariate models. Note: It's apparently incompatible with auto adding hyperlinks from your code to the docs. jofrhwld.github.io/2023_Lin611/cl…

@AdamCSchembri @JRKASSTAN @grbails Aww, thanks, both! Your students may also enjoy interacting with the maps and taking the survey themselves here: ourdialects.uk

@JRKASSTAN @laurel_mack @grbails It’s fab isn’t it? Well done to the team!

@ShappLing @JoFrhwld @Katharina_Pabst @joey_stan Everyone just come in October and stick around for three months!

@ShappLing @JoFrhwld @Katharina_Pabst @joey_stan Can confirm that this is accurate!! 🗽 Funny (and I think coincidental) the way NYC NWAVs & LSAs have covaried. 2018 NWAV NYU / 2019 LSA NYC. 2023 NWAV CUNY / 2024 LSA NYC!

Still no word in #NWAV51 then, huh?

@JoFrhwld Oh wow, right in the memories

context no brits

@nickfleisher I messed this up like 4 times in a row yesterday. On my phone (iOS 15.6), Select precedes Paste in native Apple applications like Mail and Notes, but Paste now precedes Select in google apps like Docs 🫠