Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
143 followers · 447 posts · Server h4.ioTo "throw a rock in a haystack". This is a new #saying for me, and I can't find any references to it in Google books or on the web in general. #Crawford is from #Omaha, so maybe it's a saying in #Nebraska considering the states #agriculture activities. It implies to me that one is making a commotion to get whatever it is one wants to come out of talk.
#linguistics #semantics #languagevariation #dialectology #boxing
#saying #crawford #omaha #nebraska #agriculture #linguistics #semantics #languagevariation #dialectology #boxing
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
141 followers · 433 posts · Server h4.io
In #Xmen c1966, #Cyclops says "what say we" rather than "what do you say we". My first impression was that this sounds antiquated, and indeed, the latter has become far more frequent over time in American #literature (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=what+say+we%2Cwhat+do+you+say+we&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3).
#Marvel #comics #Americanliterature #linguistics #languagevariation #languagechange #syntax
#xmen #cyclops #literature #marvel #comics #americanliterature #linguistics #languagevariation #languagechange #syntax
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
141 followers · 424 posts · Server h4.io
Spotted in #Xmen c1966: "shall waken". We can suppose this in variation with "awaken" and take into account #style to an extent if we compare only when preceded by "shall". Unsurprisingly, "awaken" has always been more common in American #literature when #intransitive (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shall+waken%2Cshall+awaken&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3), although these sort of pairs where the standard #transitive version is used intransitively could be interesting to look at further
#Marvel #comics #socioilnguistics #languagevariation #morphology #syntax
#xmen #style #literature #intransitive #transitive #marvel #comics #socioilnguistics #languagevariation #Morphology #syntax
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
141 followers · 423 posts · Server h4.ioI don't know anything about #English as it's spoken in #Oklahoma, so I was a bit surprised to find "peoples" and "people's" in the speech of this man. (Me and my wife just got a #uromastyx #lizard, BTW, so if anyone has good tips, lemme know!)
#english #Oklahoma #uromastyx #lizard #languagevariation #sociolinguistics #Morphology #lizards
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
130 followers · 376 posts · Server h4.ioWhich #pronunciation do you use for #crayon and why are the others wrong?
#pronunciation #crayon #linguistics #phonetics #phonology #languagevariation
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
127 followers · 359 posts · Server h4.io#Transcribing #interviews where the only #annotations are #pronouns so I'm #annotating as I go. So slow that I'm not sure this is better than listening back a second time to do the annotations instead.
#linguistics #methods #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #corpuslinguistics
#transcribing #interviews #annotations #pronouns #annotating #linguistics #methods #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #corpuslinguistics
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
125 followers · 348 posts · Server h4.ioJust learned that "tarp" is short for "tarpaulin". Who on Earth says that latter?? As far as #English #literature is concerned, almost no one these days: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tarp%2Ctarpaulin&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3
#linguistics #lexicography #languagevariation #morphology #languagechange
#english #literature #linguistics #lexicography #languagevariation #Morphology #languagechange
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
126 followers · 338 posts · Server h4.ioOk #corpus people who use #ELAN, how do you store #metadata on the participants you're #transcribing? Seems the devs suggest CMDI files, but that seems overly complicated (unless there's some benefit for exporting afterward).
#linguistics #corpuslinguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #psycholinguistics #transcription
#Corpus #elan #metadata #transcribing #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #psycholinguistics #transcription
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
122 followers · 319 posts · Server h4.io@grvsmth @maitxinha @linguistics It wouldn't be hard to quantify for the features that have been studied -- just count how many times the conclusion has been that it's a change from below vs not -- but it would be difficult to generalize to all #languagechange from there since #languagevariation/#sociolonguistic studies pretty much never use random sampling. But when the conclusion is the same for feature after feature in community after community, it becomes easier to say the claim is accurate
#languagechange #languagevariation
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
119 followers · 311 posts · Server h4.io#ZipfsLaw makes it hard to study #lexical #variation in #language, but some features would be difficult even with very large #corpora due to being homophonous with a more frequent feature. One I've come across lately is "I hate it" where the #demonstrative "that" is more common, e.g. in response to seeing a scary clown image.
#linguistics #languagevariation #syntax #morphology #pronouns
#zipfslaw #Lexical #variation #language #corpora #demonstrative #linguistics #languagevariation #syntax #Morphology #pronouns
Emily M. Bender (she/her) · @emilymbender
11735 followers · 1298 posts · Server dair-community.socialQuery for #lazyweb #linguist friends. Favorite citation for the idea that varieties associated with marginalized communities change more rapidly, because they function in part to prevent understanding by outsiders?
#lazyweb #linguist #linguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation
Alon Lischinsky · @alischinsky
365 followers · 425 posts · Server sciences.social
TIL that some speakers inflect the “on X's behalf” construction for plural, labiodental voicing and all, and it's truly blown my mind
#BritishEnglish never ceases to amaze #morphology #syntax #dialectology #LanguageVariation #linguistics
#britishenglish #morphology #syntax #dialectology #languagevariation #linguistics
Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith · @grvsmth
372 followers · 1077 posts · Server lingo.lolDoing a singer hangout on Zoom. My teacher, who's from western Pennsylvania, is asking people "Want spotlit?" and I love it! #linguistics #dialect #LanguageVariation #SyntacticVariation
#linguistics #dialect #languagevariation #syntacticvariation
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
107 followers · 237 posts · Server h4.io
Spotted "inventor extraordinary" rather than "inventor extraordinaire" in #Spiderman c1965. I was quite surprised to see there was a shift to the latter in American #literature and that it was relatively recent (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inventor+extraordinaire%2Cinventor+extraordinary&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3). Interesting case of #syntactic #borrowing where the #lexical borrowing lagged behind the post-nominal placement.
#languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #Marvel #comics
#spiderman #literature #syntactic #borrowing #Lexical #languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #marvel #comics
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
107 followers · 237 posts · Server h4.ioSpotted "inventor extraordinary" rather than "inventor extraordinaire" in #Spiderman c1965. I was quite surprised to see there was a shift to the latter in American #literature and that it was relatively recent (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inventor+extraordinaire%2Cinventor+extraordinary&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3). Seems like a good example of #syntactic #borrowing via #lexical borrowing given the post-nominal placement but dropping the #French form.
#languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #Marvel #comics
#spiderman #literature #syntactic #borrowing #Lexical #french #languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #marvel #comics
Jo Ran🥑 · @joran
202 followers · 391 posts · Server mstdn.social
En México, parece haber ganado (por uso) la forma "chocolatín" sobre "pain au chocolat. Aunque a veces, puedan coexistir. No es sorprendente, dado que "chocolatín" es más transparente y "adaptable" a la fonología del ESP.
Y si quieren saber más sobre este eterno debate de formas, y la variación lingüística, por aquí les hablo al respecto. Por cierto, yo soy team #painAuChocolat por la variante de francés que hablo.
https://youtu.be/RyQX8wwzTIk
#linguistics #languagevariation #painauchocolat
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
90 followers · 139 posts · Server h4.io
Spotted in #Avengers c1966, #Hawkeye saying "come natural" instead of "come naturally". Apparently there has never been a time when the former was more common in #literature (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=come+natural%2Ccome+naturally&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3).
#Marvel #comics #linguistics #languagevariation #syntax #morphology
#avengers #hawkeye #literature #marvel #comics #linguistics #languagevariation #syntax #Morphology
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
89 followers · 133 posts · Server h4.ioThe amount of #codeswitching by #boxing commentators in the #Philippines is fascinating. This fight with Mark #Magsayo is no exception. I've watched upwards of 50 fights where this is the commentary style. I'm not familiar with the linguistic behavior there outside of this domain, so I'm really curious how this works in other contexts.
#languagevariation #sociolinguistics #languagecontact #borrowing #tagalog #discourse
#codeswitching #boxing #philippines #magsayo #languagevariation #sociolinguistics #languagecontact #borrowing #tagalog #discourse
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
88 followers · 119 posts · Server h4.io
"We've too many" spotted in #Avengers c1965, as opposed to "we have too many". This might just be part of #StanLee's #idiolect. The former has never been more common in American #literature (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=we+have+too+many%2Cwe%27ve+too+many&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3), which could be a prescriptive aversion to contractions, but it also shows far fewer results in a Google search.
#Marvel #comics #linguistics #languagevariation #languagechange #morphology #syntax
#avengers #stanlee #idiolect #literature #marvel #comics #linguistics #languagevariation #languagechange #Morphology #syntax
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
42 followers · 1 posts · Server h4.ioJ'ai changé de serveur, ça fait je vais faire une nouvelle #introduction.
Je suis #sociolinguiste (candidat de doctorat) spécialisé en #variationlinguistique en #Louisiane et sur internet, surtout en #français et #créole. J'aime aussi la #scienceouverte.
À part de la #linguistique, je m'intéresse à la #musique, les #comics, la #boxe, et les #Saints de la #NouvelleOrléans.
I'll also post in #English.
#sociolinguistics #sociolinguistique #languagevariation #music #boxing #openscience #NOLA
#introduction #sociolinguiste #variationlinguistique #Louisiane #français #créole #scienceouverte #linguistique #musique #comics #boxe #Saints #NouvelleOrléans #english #sociolinguistics #sociolinguistique #languagevariation #music #boxing #openscience #NOLA