Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Views are my own. No relation to @saydialect.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2007
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I love that the French-y pronunciation of "Target" has made it into a Wiley-Blackwell handbook chapter 😄
#linguistics #sociolinguistics
Salmons & Purnell (2020) 'Contact and the development of American English'. In Hickey, (ed.) The Handbook of Language Contact. (p365)
Behind the scenes in the #NWAV50 planning offices ☺️
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds EPISODE 2
Linguistics, music, math, and the face-off between science and religion. Perfection!🖖🏽🤓🥰
Learn how to say 'hello' in Quechua, Navajo (Diné), and Māori, but through the medium of Scottish Gaelic! youtube.com/watch?v=kHGwIgtv…
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #languages #LanguageLearning #BBC #BBCAlba #CBeebies #CBeebiesALBA #Linda
Three cheers for the specific calls for support put forth in this report! A 5-minute summary: youtube.com/watch?v=UbZEd-tl…
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What a day! So much to celebrate! I am so very grateful for this. Students are what this job is all about 💞💞💞
This brief conversation between @valariekaur & @OBEYGIANT is really, really beautiful. #SeeNoStranger youtube.com/watch?v=6JOqWyFb…
Participant quote from Zhang, C. X., Wang, L., & Rickly, J. M. (2021). Non-interaction and identity change in Covid-19 tourism. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #Covid19 #Wuhan #China #travel #tourism #discrimination #accent #dialect #sociolinguistics #indexicality #shibboleth
This (minus the amusing breathy voice) is how I usually hear it pronounced, with stress on the first syllable: youtube.com/watch?v=9TUV_9Ie…
This is how it's more officially pronounced, with equal stress on the first two syllables: learngaelic.scot/dictionary/…
In honor of today's #ADS2022 #ADSWOTY #WordOfTheYear vote, here are a couple old ballots I found while cleaning my office: 2001 and 2012.
(The internet says the winner in 2012 was 'hashtag', which isn't even on the list, so it must have been a nomination from the floor.)
This book implies otherwise (but I don't know if books are canon) 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=mUb8X5At…
Survived a party with 16 5-year-olds 😴 #weekend #whatweekend
Shout-out to my #9yo for introducing me to my current work/study music: youtube.com/watch?v=030aTu_B…
