Matt Hunt Gardner 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

New article alert. doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.7… Looking at an old variable using a new-ish tool. #sociolinguistics #linguistics #Maritimes #slx

Hi, linguistics professor here! Free lesson for you that I cover in my intro course: This is actually very normal. Everyone adjusts their language use based on their audience! Please look up sociolinguistics, register, code switching, and style shifting for more information.

#CelineDion !!

Linguists, are we ok?

@Simazhi @FWOVlaanderen @benszmrecsanyi Amazing!!

All in all I'm very excited for what's to come. Starting my mandate @FWOVlaanderen in this fall. Now: first celebrate, then back to work on complexity and alternation/optionality project I'm doing with @benszmrecsanyi and @matthuntgardner! 3/3

Good news, everyone! I obtained a 3 year senior postdoc fellowship from @FWOVlaanderen #fwo This means that I'll be @KU_Leuven @artskuleuven @QLVL_Leuven for quite a bit longer, working together with @benszmrecsanyi and JC Verstraete on a crosslinguistic ideophone project 1/3

#linguistics theconversation.com/no-more-bad-ac…

📋 If you have a spare 5-10 mins, a student on my undergraduate LVC module is conducting a survey about attitudes towards youth language use in the UK: forms.gle/N6vmLQ4EZf4UEB… RTs appreciated!

My analysis of MLE discourse in 200 newspaper articles is out now, and it's open access! 'Learn Jafaikan in two minutes': Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers #MLE #enregisterment #Londondialects #Londontalks sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looks like @AdamRutherford’s been in the pedantry journey 😁

Most English speakers accept the fact that the language changes over time, but don’t accept the changes made in their own time.

This is a friendly reminder of the visiting lecture organized @helsinkiuni : Dr. @matthuntgardner will be talking on the topic "Old Areal Feature, New Social Meaning: The Balto-Atlantic Ingressive yup↓ in Canadian Maritime English" on April 18, at 14.15 at Metsätalo Lect. Hall 6

Happy Jesus Christ Superstar weekend to all that celebrate.

An open letter setting out the importance of linguistics in UK universities. UCGAL: University Council of General and Applied Linguistics linguistics.ac.uk/university-of-…

#linguistics Morphology that keeps me up at night.

@wordspinster The "who cares" part of your comment, however, is important. People, no matter what their job, should be able to take time off to heal without a nation speculating into overdrive.

@matthuntgardner Ok it's a theory I've seen on here before but how does it connect to the doctored photo?

I must be missing something about photoshopgate (or sleevegate or whatever gate we're going to be calling it for posterity) because I just don't understand what anyone thinks it was done to cover up. If it was just poorly executed pointless tinkering then who cares?

@wordspinster Editing out anything visible under clothes, perhaps, and then overcompensating for the required changes. No clue. Not my field. But my suspicion is that the editing was done to conceal something, whatever it may be, and some sort of visible medical device seems plausible.

#cbbuk Does anyone else get the creeps from Louis Walsh, insofar as every time he discusses a woman or anyone around him mentions any female he specifically, immediately (and often only) comments on her looks.