Joey Stanley

jbe-platform.comHypercorrect Moun[thɨn] in Utah EnglishAbstract This study analyzes unstressed /tən/ in words like button, kitten, and mountain. In Utah, there are three variants: North American mainstream [ʔn̩], forticized [thɨn], and local [ʔɨn]. While ...

16 Mar

‼️🔔 My paper, "Hypercorrect Moun[tʰɨn] in Utah English", has now been published in English World-Wide. 🎉🥳🎊 tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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Josef Fruehwald

@jofrhwld.bsky.social

21h

After hearing about it at NWAV, I've implemented Lobanov 2.0, (as well as pre-aggregation for any vowel-extrinsic technique) in tidynorm

jofrhwld.github.ioNormalizing unbalanced vowel class data in tidynorm 0.5.0 – Væl Space

Thinking about all the knitting I’m *not* getting done on the plane because I grossly underestimated how much I’d need on this trip.

Montreal-bound for #nwav54. Leaving my house at 2:30am is not ideal but here we are.

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I do love walking past two dozen empty gates to get to the one flight that is actually happening right now.

Either there’s a lot about airport logistics that I don’t understand, or capitalism, at play here.

Montreal-bound for #nwav54. Leaving my house at 2:30am is not ideal but here we are.

TIL the security checkpoint in SLC opens at 3:30am.

That’s quite the relative clause.

A few hours after class, a student asked if they could "zoom into" class. I think of "zoom into" as attending live, but it looks like they used it to mean "get access to and watch the recorded lecture." So that was interesting.

“Claudish” for #WOTY2026.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd

reviewing a revision to a paper and it seems like the authors discovered claude in the meantime—the whole thing drips with claudish now 😫

11 out of 11 appointments done for today.

sltrib.comAn LDS church will be torn down for the Bangerter Highway project. Before that happens, members dug up a piece of its past.A 1980 time capsule was supposed to stay buried until 2030. But with the LDS church set to be torn down for the Bangerter Highway project, members dug it up early.

In my idiolect, I use the term "highway" for anything from a major interstate to a two-lane country road that connects two cities. I don't naturally use the word "freeway" or "interstate." So this sentence took a sec for me to parse.

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In addition to razing the church, plans for the final stretch of the Bangerter Highway project involve relocating residents of 239 homes in West Valley City, leveling eight businesses and building over a park.

I'd have to check with other Missourians, but I suspect naming conventions in Missouri are the cause. I grew up taking Highway N (a two-lane road) to Highway K (a four-lane road) to get to Highway 40 (a state highway) or Highway 70 (an interstate).

It causes confusion now. When asked what side of town I live on, I told someone I lived "by the highway"—meaning the interstate—and they interpreted to mean the state highway (the one with stoplights and goes in a different direction).

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And yes, I liberally type compound words without a space.

I should probably get back to work.

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I probably would have rephrased it as something like "the eventual goal of a highway without stoplights." Look, I never said it's a useful idiolectal feature.

Also, apparently I say "stoplights" instead of "traffic lights."

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com

What is a very Missourian thing is to call frontage roads "outer roads." ("Take Highway K until you cross the highway, and then turn left to go westbound on the north outer road.") So if we've got one weird road thing, maybe we have another.

It took six months(!) but I finally finished knitting this scarf! It’s my first time working with hand-dyed natural fiber yarn—a souvenir from #LSA2026 in New Orleans. The main part is #128 and the end is #239 from Hitomi Shida’s 250 Japanese Knitting Stitches. Looking forward to the winter!

sltrib.comVoices: When Utah schools lose language classes like mine, students lose more than words“It is time for state leaders to reinstate language requirements in our schools before the global superpower we built is lost for good,” Kylie Howe writes in an op-ed.

The wavy edges are not part of the pattern and are there just because I just barely pulled out the pins from blocking. Those’ll (hopefully) smooth out.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

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“It is time for state leaders to reinstate language requirements in our schools before the global superpower we built is lost for good,” Kylie Howe writes in an op-ed.

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt

@betanalpha.bsky.social

12 Sept

Friendly reminder that the mean of ordinal data (and ordinal probability distributions) is literally undefined, let alone a bad idea, without imposing extra-ordinal structure. For much more, including how to build analyses under these conditions, see betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt....

betanalpha.github.ioOrdinal Modeling

11 Sept

The Silo series on Apple TV is, dare I say, better than the book.

11 Sept

(I just finished season 2.)

11 Sept

Also, there’s a really awesome detail at the end where musical motif throughout the series, which is the first four notes of a minor scale ascending, reverses. I think it happened when Juliet finally makes it back. Super cool.

5 Sept

Linguists: <- @jofrhwld.bsky.social: ->

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co

Seeing as the right-assignment operator has come up in this thread, I wanted to once again asserts that it should properly be read as “begets”.

lin611-2026.github.ioHow Tos – Lin611 - Quantitative Methods

24 Aug

Make a band bigger: Greater London Symphony Orchestra

Jesse Sheidlower@jessesword.com

Make a band bigger: Weezest

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Josef Fruehwald

@jofrhwld.bsky.social

21 Aug

In preparation for my quant methods class, I've apparently written ~35 pages of how-tos about tech config, "How do I...?" and "What is...?" They're all CC-BY-NC, and most pages have a typst pdf version.

21 Aug

I chatted with someone from Mozambique today and this is my interpretation of his explanation of the 2S pronouns and conjugations in his variety of Portuguese: * você - realis V * tu - realis T * vós - irrealis

21 Aug

In the Brazilian variety I learned, você was the T form and o/a senhor(a) was the V form. That irrealis one definitely wasn’t there but his explanation was super clear (albeit in layperson’s terms). If true, having a different pronoun for irrelais is pretty cool.

10 Aug

I bought a single leaf of a 1582 printing of the Geneva Bible. Did I pick a page with personal religious significance? Nah. I picked one that shows the origin of the #linguistics term “Shibboleth” and describes 42,000 people getting killed for “having an accent.”

10 Aug

Besides, even if the fancy pages or the ones with famous passages weren't already all taken, it would have cost more. Not too many people are clambering over an obscure passage in Judges!

7 Aug

As a Missourian and dialect specialist, yes.

Christopher Jones@ccjones.bsky.social

I can’t stop smiling at Kansans and Missourians upset about Ted Lasso’s portrayal of KC and its people on the grounds that they “don’t have accents.” My friends, you do.

7 Aug

But, as always, “be curious [about language], not judgmental.”

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Christopher Jones

@ccjones.bsky.social

7 Aug

I can’t stop smiling at Kansans and Missourians upset about Ted Lasso’s portrayal of KC and its people on the grounds that they “don’t have accents.” My friends, you do.

6 Aug

FWIW, I play piano (mostly Debussy rn), play organ (started in 2020), knit (started in 2024), do big Rubik’s cubes (7x7x7 is a relaxing size), play Minecraft on my phone, and listen to audiobooks while running. I just started sewing (bc shirts never fit) and I’m about to join an a cappella group.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

@betsysneller.bsky.social

31 July

See you in Montreal! #NWAV54!

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Betsy Sneller

31 July

This is a really great question, and I'm gonna go... pretty in depth to answer it so buckle up (if you wanna come along for the ride)! (1/n)

Not a Real Guy@phonyperson.bsky.social

Is there a general Michigan accent that's reliably distinguishable from that of the broader great lakes?

joeystanley.comA teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley

📣‼️🔔Introducing VoxHumana: a "spiritual successor" to DARLA. 🎉 🗣💬 Upload an audio file to VxH and it'll transcribe it with Whisper, do forced alignment with MFA, and extract formants with new-fave. It's not live yet, but I hope to get it up and running soon. joeystanley.com/blog/voxhuma...

I think the field owes Jim Stanford and a monster debt of gratitude for tirelessly maintaining DARLA for over a decade. It's time to pass the baton and I'm happy to take it.

Stay tuned for updates, especially when this goes live.

joeystanley.comA teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley

(If you work with non-English languages and are interested in testing VxH on your data, please reach out and let me know. I don't really have a good way to evaluate the output for languages I'm not familiar with.)

I wasn't planning on formally announcing VxH for a few more months, but with the early-than-expected shut-down of DARLA, I felt that I ought to at least tell people about it now. Sort of a "save-the-date" announcement. Except I don't quite have a date yet.

joeystanley.comA teaser for VoxHumana – Joey Stanley

@betsysneller.bsky.social

VxH has some benefits over DARLA: up-to-date software under-the-hood, batch processing, support for non-English languages, and many other small quality-of-life improvements.

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Marc Hudson

@marchudson.bsky.social

24 July

From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for.

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Betsy Sneller

25 July

Is there a font nerd out here who can tell me about the font Mamdani is using to caption his videos (I think it’s the same as on his campaign posters?) It’s like… slightly nostalgic, evokes summer camp aka fun and good and sun. This guy is so good at his brand.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

It’s flooding season, New York — but city government is prepared. This morning, we announced a $43.2 million expansion in the Bureau of Coastal Resiliency — a team of engineers, field inspectors, and city planners ready to protect our city from flooding.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

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23 July

A summer storm rolls through the Salt Lake Valley as seen from the Oquirrh Mountains at sunset July 21. (Photo by Francisco Kjolseth)

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AR Deal

@ardeal.bsky.social

2 June

we ran the numbers-- they are bad

profling.beehiiv.comThe academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibesthe numbers are also bad

17 July

What #WOTY2026 this could be!

Because Language (becauselangpod)@becauselanguage.com

explosive diarrhoea #WordOfTheWeek