Hello from Pakistan! #HelloWorld #Pakistan #language #linguistics

Hello from Yemen! #HelloWorld #Yemen #language #linguistics

So interesting to be learning a #language where pausing or sustaining a sound longer than usual can actually change the word you're saying. I catch myself doing this to give myself a bit of breathing room to aid in language production but of course i'm picking the language where doing that may actually make you unintelligible :) #finnish #suomi #Linguistics

The sound of "baby crying" in Catalan!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Singapore! #HelloWorld #Singapore #language #linguistics

I like to think that somewhere in the world, Bonobos are publishing their own paper titled "Humans show first signs of ability to recognize, acknowledge nontrivial syntax and compositionality in animal languages"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-might-be-something-human-in-the-way-bonobos-communicate-their-calls-share-a-key-trait-with-our-language-study-suggests-180986370

@linguistics #language #linguistics #bonobo #animals #science

Post-Doc-Stelle in der Germanistischen #Linguistik an der Uni #Mannheim!

Beginn: 1.8.'25
Befristet auf 3 Jahre
E13 TV-L BW
Frist: 9.5.'25

(Ich habe leider keinen Link dafür, sondern nur ein PDF, das ich hier gescreenshottet hab).

**Word of the week: Tariff**

Nancy Friedman

“_It was actually exported twice: first from Arabic ta’rif (“information, notification, a making known; inventory of fees to be paid”) into Italian, and then, in the late 1500s, from Italian tariffa (“a book of rates for duties”) into English._”

https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-tariff.

#Words #English #Language #Etymology #Linguistics @linguistics

The sound of "belching" in Slovak!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Greece! #HelloWorld #Greece #language #linguistics

Cadernos de Linguística is indexed in DOAJ (@DOAJ), a trusted, community-driven directory of peer-reviewed open access journals. This means our editorial practices are transparent, our content is openly accessible, and authors publish in a journal recognized by funders and institutions.

https://doaj.org/toc/2675-4916
#CadLin #DOAJ #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Linguistics

The sound of "bee buzzing" in German!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

This summer semester I'm very excited to teach a brand-new seminar on "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" @UniKoeln!

Some 20 B.A. and M.A. students studying #linguistics or a Romance language (+ one post-doc) signed up for this rather experimental course, many of whom had never heard of #OpenScience before. For this course, I've ditched the University's learning management system (ILIAS) and opted for a maximally open way to share teaching materials as I go along: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/os-linguistics2025/.

Students are also required to attend at least two #ReproducibiliTea in the #HumaniTeas session and to co-author a blog post about one session. Very curious to see how things will pan out!

I am a sociolinguist and a lot of our research on real, authentic language usage, especially among young people, depends on web crawlers.

Your anti-crawling activism actively sabotages research about e. g. queer language, gender, racism, hate speech and social structures.

Yeah, consent is the highest authority, and "AI" shouldn't be used to replace or underpay workers.
But at some point some of y'all really just act like anti-organ donation activists.

Hello from Uganda! #HelloWorld #Uganda #language #linguistics

The sound of "kiss" in Persian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Dominica! #HelloWorld #Dominica #language #linguistics

The sound of "drinking" in Arabic!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The key role of your 'ums' and 'ahs'.

#linguistics #pragmatics #conversation

https://www.sapiens.org/language/linguistics-interjections-conversation-flow/

Hello from British Virgin Islands! #HelloWorld #BritishVirginIslands #language #linguistics