Chandan Narayan

If you’re going to the LSA, come to the Historical Phonology session. You’ll witness history when I say “multi-talker babble was created from recordings of crowd noise from a staged cockfight.” Such words have likely never been uttered at the austere LSA meeting #LSA #phonetics #Dravidian

FML watching jdv on douthat. At 5:28 he says: "what this is and what this isn't is"

Reading a paper from the 70s that uses "unilingual" and I like it. F mixed italo-greek words. Monoglossic?

Doing lit review and discovered the first (only?) billionaire with a speech science PhD

@sarahhennies.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...

Because everyone's talking about Rush I'm reminded of perhaps the greatest piece of Canadiana www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6At...

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TIL Toronto has a little Malta

I somehow missed that Bob Port passed away in February www.mykeeper.com/RobertPort

$40 to see the ex?! Thought they were anarchists

The real heroes are those that decline a review but give you five names of people to contact

Elsevier: we will join the lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement for AI training. Elsevier: Yes, this AI representation of an ear is an accurate representation for this mathematical model. Fig. 1. Schematic figure representing (...) the cochlea. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@phono-logical.bsky.social Matt Galloway on CBC metro morning repeatedly said “genuine-ly” [dʒɛnjuwajnli] what’s up with that?

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41... Demonstrates the persistence of oddball discrimination, semantic processing & online prediction in individuals under general-anaesthesia-induced loss of consciousness ->complex processing when unconscious

Captain Beefheart

Jealous of dudes on eastern seaboard who get to see the Silkworm/COME tour. Cohen's on fire on this version of Don't make plans skwm.bandcamp.com/track/dont-m...

Watching the Jays and imagining a guileless batter who does an ABS challenge when the ump calls a ball. I feel like this would be a good story for a Smog song

My old bud, jaime, put out this record today. Check it setting.bandcamp.com/album/setting

That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.

Psycholinguistics or Scientology? Thetan Logogen Engram Parallel Distributed Processing Dev-t TRACE TOT

RIP Asha youtu.be/lM7H0ooV_o8

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Sonic Youth, “her name is bubble yum”

My colleague, Thomas Kettig's work is featured on the cover of JASA-EL!

Every wiki entry for a british person ends with “is a supporter of Gloucesteringham F.C.”

Can't stop listening to this record. It's like Neu! with some early 80s NZ or brit or MDID vocals. H/t craig stationmodelviolence.bandcamp.com/album/statio...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

My favorite english drummer. What a way to introduce yourself in a tune. RIP, Terry Cox, a great one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwh0...

Amazed that I’m the same age as the Queen of the kingdom of Canada podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Every fb marketplace interaction I’ve had has been insane

Grant Hart's birthday

TIL that Iranian-american Cyrus Faryar is still around (90!). Always liked this version of the Fred Neil classic

It's 2026 and I just *had* to fax a membership renewal form to Acoustical society of america. 2026. Fax

lousy smarch weather

Just realized this Ex-terminator-> Terminator X

watched this on the rec room tv in my freshman dorm at cal in 92 youtu.be/Rt3UtyP_qpI?...

Heartbroken to learn that my friend, godfather of Canadian sociolinguistics, and Miles Davis biographer, Jack Chambers has moved on.

This is a irl psycholinguistics study revealing the semantic and phonological organization of the lexicon Corsage > Bouquet Bend it like Beckham > Bend over Pac-Man

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

is there anything in the Epstein files about how Big Algorithm needs to force a new band in costumes into our lives every six months?