Darin Flynn
@phono_logical
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assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary
Joined November 2024
RT @langofmind: Duration and pitch are phonetic features that are used contrastively for both prosody and segmental phono. But what about i….
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“What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions” by David Sidhu and Penny Pexman (Aug. ’25)
theconversation.com
New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.
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I was so focused on the late dear Hilda Smith’s Oowekyala that I never noticed have-raising in her English:.⠀.<Sas gvàdanukvaa̓a?>./sa-as ˈɡʷada-nukʷ-aʔa/.Pfv.Q-2s.Q quarter-have-Q.‘Do you have a quarter?’
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RT @prof_alderete: Research at the intersection of the psycholinguistics of speech errors and ASR techology: we looked at how WhisperX hand….
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LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal June 25–28, 2026, on the theme “Looking Back and Looking Forward,” to reflect on the field’s foundational contributions while highlighting new directions in laboratory phonology. Abstract submission deadline: Dec 1, 2025
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RT @abenitezburraco: A global and interoperable dataset of linguistic distributions derived from the Atlas of the World’s Languages.https:/….
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RT @neilalexanderw1: My colleague, Dr Nathan White, has written a full grammar of Hmong, which is being released by De Gruyter Mouton. Plea….
degruyterbrill.com
This work is a descriptive reference grammar of Hmong, as spoken in the diaspora in North Queensland, Australia. Hmong is typologically significant given its long history of language contact and...
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“Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy, Artjoms Šeļa, Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plechá (June ’25)
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RT @GregoryHickok: The Secret Life of Words. My new piece in @PsychToday.
psychologytoday.com
Words aren't simply sounds connected to meanings, but involve a hidden "middle layer" that might unlock a deeper understanding of how language works generally.
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awesome: /ɖ/ vs. /ᶑ/ in dialectal Marwari.
@HasanMS_10016 @phono_logical @avzaagzonunaada Some Marwari lects seem to have a retrolex implosive ᶑ. They also apparently lack a ʄ. /ɓ ɗ ᶑ ɠ/.
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RT @AlexF_languages: @avzaagzonunaada @phono_logical Thanks Sā́mapriyaḣ 🙂 .For those interested in our model .– called Historical Glottomet….
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Orthographic fun and joking aside, @avzaagzonunaada tells me that nothing definitive has been written on the remarkable diachronic development of implosives in Saraiki and in other (north)western Indo-Aryan languages. Someone should write a thesis on this cool areal development!.
NB1: For the purpose of this post, I use Nihalani’s (1995) symbols /c ɟ cʰ ɟʱ/ rather than Hussain’s (2018) /ʧ ʤ ʧʰ ʤʱ/. NB2: My last series (/ɦ/ vs. /ŋ/, etc.) would look cooler if Saraiki speakers would kindly adopt /ɧ/. Thank you for your attention to this matter!.
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NB1: For the purpose of this post, I use Nihalani’s (1995) symbols /c ɟ cʰ ɟʱ/ rather than Hussain’s (2018) /ʧ ʤ ʧʰ ʤʱ/. NB2: My last series (/ɦ/ vs. /ŋ/, etc.) would look cooler if Saraiki speakers would kindly adopt /ɧ/. Thank you for your attention to this matter!.
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Love that Saraiki makes these *IPA* contrasts:./f/ vs. /ɟ/ vs. /ʄ/ vs. /ʃ/ vs. /ɠ/ (fɑl ‘lucky draw’; ɟɑɦ ‘guest spot’; ʄɑl ‘tree name’; ʃɑl ‘shawl’; ɠɑl ‘talk’)./ɑ/ vs. /ɗ/ vs. /ɖ/ (ɗɑl ‘crack’; ɖɑkɑ ‘theft’)./n/ vs. /ɦ/ vs. /ɲ/ vs. /ŋ/ vs. /ɳ/ (nɑl ‘near’; ɦɑl ‘well-being’ etc).
“Saraiki” by Firdos Atta, Jeroen van de Weijer and Lei Zhu (2022)
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Foley has three “chapters” total(l)ing 415 pages in Bill Palmer’s “The languages and linguistics of the New Guinea area”.
Foley, W. A. (2018). The languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and environs. In B. Palmer (Ed.), The languages and linguistics of the New Guinea area: a comprehensive guide (pp. 197–431). Walter de Gruyter.
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Foley, W. A. (2018). The languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and environs. In B. Palmer (Ed.), The languages and linguistics of the New Guinea area: a comprehensive guide (pp. 197–431). Walter de Gruyter.
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Consonantal inventory of Kire (Ramu; Giri, Madang Province, PNG)
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“Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes” by Jun Tamura (Aug. ’25)
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