Linguistic Illustrations

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These people created stimuli that are supposed to sound like the steps between a Proto-Germanic monophthong and the corresponding Old English diphthong, i.e., the x-axis is the degree of monophthongization to dipthongization. They then made listeners judge whether they heard a dipthong or monophthong (after som training).

Figure 3: Mean responses to stimuli for all fifteen vowel continua. Grey squares: Monophthongal (“unchanging”) responses. Black circles: Diphthongal (“changing”) responses.

Hudson, Toby, Jonathan Wei & John Coleman. 2024. Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change. Diachronica (not assigned issue/volume yet). https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23019.hud.

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Anonymous asked:

rytsas, I've been learning valyrian lately and got to the kinship terminology. As perplexing as it is I think I understood it. But why did the words for father and father's brother merge? Was the terminology in any way affected by the fact that the valyrians practiced incest? Are there words for grandparents? if not, is the dictionary growing? I have so many more questions... love your work, kirimvose.

dedalvs answered:

The words didn’t merge: Children call their father kepa, and their father’s brother kepa. Valyrian’s is one of the six basic types of kinship systems—specifically the Iroquois system. If you haven’t seen this image before, this should explain it:

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Only two of the systems actually use different terms for a maternal aunt and paternal uncle. The system we use in English happens to be one of those.

Also, for ease of reference, this is what the High Valyrian image looks like:

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Though, of course, the vowel should be long in ñābranna.

The dictionary is always growing. I’ll continue to work on my languages till I’m dead.

Thanks for the ask!

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Mammola et al. (2023)

H/t @dogreus for alerting us to this paper.

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For those who, like me, were wondering why so many emoji were missing, this is fig 3 of the paper

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Emojis count as linguistics, right?

Full reference: Mammola, Stefano, Mattia Flaschi & Gentile Francesco Ficetola. 2023. Biodiversity communication in the digital era through the Emoji tree of life. iScience 26(12). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569

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Table of the particles (ʔ)e, re, and (-ʔ)o in a number of African languages with description of the function(s) related to clause type marking in each language: vocative (VOC), imperative (IMP), interrogative (INTER), declarative (DECL) or subordination (SUB).

Fehn, Anne-Maria. 2024. “K’ui tii ‘Don’t speak!’ – Morphology and syntax of commands in Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) and beyond”, Linguistique et langues africaines [Online], 10(1). URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lla/13288; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/123pu

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Ahearn, Laura. 2012. Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781444340563

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Pitch trace of the utterance “it’s not that I”, showing a peak on the negation not. A funky way of illustrating pitch? Pitch before Praat?

Labov, William & David Fanshel. 1977. Therapeutic discourse: psychotherapy as conversation. New York: Academic Press. [Figure 3, page 45]

A footnote explains the visualization this way: “Spectral Dynamics Real-Time Analyzer 301C with output displayed on a Tektronix 611 storage oscilloscope. The analyzer synthesizes 500 filters every
50 milliseconds over a variety of frequency ranges; the analysis can be terminated after any given number of filters and a new sweep started immediately. The pitch contour display used throughout this volume is made with a frequ ency range of 5,000 Hz. Each filter has a nominal bandwidth of 10 Hz and an effective bandwidth of 15 Hz. The sweep is terminated after the first 110 filters, so that a spectrum is generated every 11 milliseconds. The display on the oscilloscope is logarithmic and cuts off at 54 db below maximum. High-pass filtering at 12 db per octave begins at 3,000 Hz, and, in addition, the roll-off of the Nagra IV-S tape recorder - LS + FA - is used. Volume is then adjusted so that only the peaks of the wave forms are visible, thus tracing the path of the fundamental frequency without the interference of other signals”

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