Superlinguo turns 13 this week. In the ever-shifting online landscape I've loved having this anchor, and watching my interests and writing change over the years. I still post at least monthly. You can follow here, the mailing list, or good old RSS.
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'Wait, other people do WHAT?'

Out latest bonus episode is all about how our mental images, inner voices, and other thought shapes are surprisingly different from each other

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The LingComm grants are running again in 2024!

We have (at least) two $500USD grants for communicating linguistics to wider audiences. Please share with colleagues, friends and students if they have a pop linguistics project that needs some support!

lingcomm.org/grants/

Very excited to have a new team-authored chapter in the Open Access book Inclusion in Linguistics, launched alongside Decolonizing Linguistics.

Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics
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SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects!

Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of Erin McKean @[email protected] and friends of Kirby is not on this app!!!! (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)

It can be hard to hear subtle differences between vowels, so linguists also make visual versions of them

We talk with Bethany Gardner about how they plotted 400 vowels from previous Lingthusiasm episodes onto a graph to show how our accents differ!
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I have been wanting someone to make cool vowel graphs out of mine and Lauren Gawne's speech on Lingthusiasm for ACTUAL YEARS and now we've found Bethany Gardner to do it and I'm really psyched about it!

How I made multiple backups and still almost lost my honours thesis: superlinguo.com/post/743960489…

This is a mildly improbable story I tell while teaching fieldworkers and other researchers about data management

In the final episode of Field Notes podcast, we get an interview with the show's host Martha Tsutsui Billins about her work with Amami.

This show has been five great seasons of interviews with linguistic fieldworkers. Martha has created an amazing resource: fieldnotespod.com/2024/02/21/epi…

Today is Global Language Advocacy Day #GLAD24 , and to kick things off here in Australia, I want to share this wonderful article by Ngarra Murray on the importance of embracing First Peoples' languages. More to come throughout the day.
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If you combine #nerd #culture with #linguistics , you get a very happy Keighley. Lauren Gawne has collaborated with Dr Peta Freestone and Jess Kruk to look at how #scifi gestures live on in the real world.

Read more: tinyurl.com/bdmr9p2x

No such thing as the oldest language

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Lingthusiasm episode 88

The weird thing about academic publishing is that things are always published so long after finishing them. So my 2023 in review includes (a) being home with a baby all year but also (b) 3 linguistics articles (on gesture! lingcomm! education!)
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The LingComm grants are running again in 2024!

We have (at least) two $500USD grants for communicating linguistics to wider audiences. Please share with colleagues, friends and students if they have a pop linguistics project that needs some support!

lingcomm.org/grants/