So, who else is going to #UKLVC15 this week?? 🥳
wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/
#linguistics #variation #languagechange #language #change #sociolinguistics #LVC #conference #academia #follow
wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/
#linguistics #variation #languagechange #language #change #sociolinguistics #LVC #conference #academia #follow
United Kingdom Language Variation & Change 15
wp.lancs.ac.uk
August 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So, who else is going to #UKLVC15 this week?? 🥳
wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/
#linguistics #variation #languagechange #language #change #sociolinguistics #LVC #conference #academia #follow
wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/
#linguistics #variation #languagechange #language #change #sociolinguistics #LVC #conference #academia #follow
He has now written a great post on language models and language change!! #LLM #linguistics #languagechange
seantrott.substack.com/p/language-m...
seantrott.substack.com/p/language-m...
Language models and language change: recent evidence
A review of emerging empirical data.
seantrott.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
He has now written a great post on language models and language change!! #LLM #linguistics #languagechange
seantrott.substack.com/p/language-m...
seantrott.substack.com/p/language-m...
Doing the NWAV-AP-abstract-deadline-has-been-extended-to-February-1st dance of happiness 🤣
www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/new-ways...
#sociolinguistics #variation #languagechange #linguistics #conferences #research #academia #asia #asianlanguages
www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/new-ways...
#sociolinguistics #variation #languagechange #linguistics #conferences #research #academia #asia #asianlanguages
January 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Doing the NWAV-AP-abstract-deadline-has-been-extended-to-February-1st dance of happiness 🤣
www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/new-ways...
#sociolinguistics #variation #languagechange #linguistics #conferences #research #academia #asia #asianlanguages
www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/new-ways...
#sociolinguistics #variation #languagechange #linguistics #conferences #research #academia #asia #asianlanguages
Join the July 13th Forum Lecture by Joan Bybee!
"Usage-Based Theory and Language Change"
#LSA #LSA2025 #SummerInstitute #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #Usagebased #languagechange #linguistics
"Usage-Based Theory and Language Change"
#LSA #LSA2025 #SummerInstitute #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #Usagebased #languagechange #linguistics
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Join the July 13th Forum Lecture by Joan Bybee!
"Usage-Based Theory and Language Change"
#LSA #LSA2025 #SummerInstitute #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #Usagebased #languagechange #linguistics
"Usage-Based Theory and Language Change"
#LSA #LSA2025 #SummerInstitute #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #Usagebased #languagechange #linguistics
'chyron': new in the 70s!! Electronically-generated caption across the bottom of screen. Trick: looks Greek but isn't. 😊
#linguistics #language #languagegrowth #languagechange
#linguistics #language #languagegrowth #languagechange
#LNP leader Peter #Dutton just told 12 minutes of Trumpian lies with zero pushback/fact-checking from a mob of journalists.
One journalist did find to promote one of his lies as a chyron.
#journalism #bias #misinformation #auspol
One journalist did find to promote one of his lies as a chyron.
#journalism #bias #misinformation #auspol
November 12, 2024 at 3:42 AM
'chyron': new in the 70s!! Electronically-generated caption across the bottom of screen. Trick: looks Greek but isn't. 😊
#linguistics #language #languagegrowth #languagechange
#linguistics #language #languagegrowth #languagechange
We had an incredible Forum Lecture last Sunday with Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)! ✨
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
July 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We had an incredible Forum Lecture last Sunday with Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)! ✨
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
In 2014 I taught freshman writing with a blackboard and chalk. I noticed students using "delete" to mean "erase."
Recently "delete" means "go out of business" or "become unalive." I've even seen "self-deletion" too.
Censorship, algorithms push slang.
#languagechange #slang #sociolinguistics
Recently "delete" means "go out of business" or "become unalive." I've even seen "self-deletion" too.
Censorship, algorithms push slang.
#languagechange #slang #sociolinguistics
January 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In 2014 I taught freshman writing with a blackboard and chalk. I noticed students using "delete" to mean "erase."
Recently "delete" means "go out of business" or "become unalive." I've even seen "self-deletion" too.
Censorship, algorithms push slang.
#languagechange #slang #sociolinguistics
Recently "delete" means "go out of business" or "become unalive." I've even seen "self-deletion" too.
Censorship, algorithms push slang.
#languagechange #slang #sociolinguistics
🌐 Words evolve — but how?
Professor Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie) explores the fascinating world of semantic change and how meanings shift over time.
🔗 Dive in: oxford.ly/4nVZpxB
#Linguistics #LanguageChange
Professor Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie) explores the fascinating world of semantic change and how meanings shift over time.
🔗 Dive in: oxford.ly/4nVZpxB
#Linguistics #LanguageChange
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌐 Words evolve — but how?
Professor Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie) explores the fascinating world of semantic change and how meanings shift over time.
🔗 Dive in: oxford.ly/4nVZpxB
#Linguistics #LanguageChange
Professor Chris Smith (Université Caen Normandie) explores the fascinating world of semantic change and how meanings shift over time.
🔗 Dive in: oxford.ly/4nVZpxB
#Linguistics #LanguageChange
📢 Publication alert!
Why do some linguistic innovations decline again first spreading throughout the speech community? 🤔
Find it out in my paper on the French verbal periphrasis! 🤓
doi.org/10.1515/zrp-...
#RomanceLinguistics #CRC1646 #DiacronicLinguistics #LanguageChange
Why do some linguistic innovations decline again first spreading throughout the speech community? 🤔
Find it out in my paper on the French verbal periphrasis
doi.org/10.1515/zrp-...
#RomanceLinguistics #CRC1646 #DiacronicLinguistics #LanguageChange
Évolution de la périphrase <aller + V-ant>
While research on language change generally focusses on “successful” innovations, “failed” changes are often neglected. This study examines such a case: the French verbal periphrasis < aller + V- a...
doi.org
April 26, 2026 at 12:03 PM
📢 Publication alert!
Why do some linguistic innovations decline again first spreading throughout the speech community? 🤔
Find it out in my paper on the French verbal periphrasis! 🤓
doi.org/10.1515/zrp-...
#RomanceLinguistics #CRC1646 #DiacronicLinguistics #LanguageChange
Why do some linguistic innovations decline again first spreading throughout the speech community? 🤔
Find it out in my paper on the French verbal periphrasis
doi.org/10.1515/zrp-...
#RomanceLinguistics #CRC1646 #DiacronicLinguistics #LanguageChange
#EACL2026 #LChange #LanguageChange #LanguageVariation #ComputationalLinguistics #SemanticChange #DigitalHumanities #NLP #HistoricalLinguistics
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Grateful to my co-author Nick Haslam for his collaboration and support.
Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...
Slides: www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-e...
#LanguageChange #LexicalSemanticChange #SemanticChange #WSD #WordSenseDisambiguation #DiachronicNLP #HistoricalNLP #CorpusLinguistics #NLP
4/
Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...
Slides: www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-e...
#LanguageChange #LexicalSemanticChange #SemanticChange #WSD #WordSenseDisambiguation #DiachronicNLP #HistoricalNLP #CorpusLinguistics #NLP
4/
March 28, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Grateful to my co-author Nick Haslam for his collaboration and support.
Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...
Slides: www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-e...
#LanguageChange #LexicalSemanticChange #SemanticChange #WSD #WordSenseDisambiguation #DiachronicNLP #HistoricalNLP #CorpusLinguistics #NLP
4/
Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...
Slides: www.changeiskey.org/event/2026-e...
#LanguageChange #LexicalSemanticChange #SemanticChange #WSD #WordSenseDisambiguation #DiachronicNLP #HistoricalNLP #CorpusLinguistics #NLP
4/
Language changes fast. Martin Konvička tracks it across English, Dutch, German, and Czech—and writes about it for people outside academia. Both matter at Cadernos de Linguística.
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
#linguistics #LanguageChange
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
#linguistics #LanguageChange
May 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Language changes fast. Martin Konvička tracks it across English, Dutch, German, and Czech—and writes about it for people outside academia. Both matter at Cadernos de Linguística.
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
#linguistics #LanguageChange
cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
#linguistics #LanguageChange
"It’s still the same linguistic processes. But we are seeing the internet is causing language change to happen faster. It’s causing it to happen more tied to maybe social media trends than ever before … because social media algorithms are rewarding trending words.”
August 11, 2024 at 5:32 AM
🧵 4/4
More broadly, arguments like this tend to frame language as declining. But language isn’t deteriorating—it’s adapting. What we’re seeing here is not degradation, but evolution in response to shifting workplace norms & identities.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
More broadly, arguments like this tend to frame language as declining. But language isn’t deteriorating—it’s adapting. What we’re seeing here is not degradation, but evolution in response to shifting workplace norms & identities.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
March 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🧵 4/4
More broadly, arguments like this tend to frame language as declining. But language isn’t deteriorating—it’s adapting. What we’re seeing here is not degradation, but evolution in response to shifting workplace norms & identities.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
More broadly, arguments like this tend to frame language as declining. But language isn’t deteriorating—it’s adapting. What we’re seeing here is not degradation, but evolution in response to shifting workplace norms & identities.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
Elevator pitch summary: Instead of that traditional 'New Yorky' Yatty sound, many young white New Orleanians demonstrate Low-Back-Merger-Shift-lookin' vowels, alongside /ai/-monophthongization (stable, not new) and /aw/-raising (new!) #linguistics #languagechange #nola
December 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Elevator pitch summary: Instead of that traditional 'New Yorky' Yatty sound, many young white New Orleanians demonstrate Low-Back-Merger-Shift-lookin' vowels, alongside /ai/-monophthongization (stable, not new) and /aw/-raising (new!) #linguistics #languagechange #nola
LSA Registration
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
bit.ly
March 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I came across an article in The Spectator this morning criticising what it calls “LinkedIn speak”—language like 'synergise' instead of 'combine' or 'diarise' instead of 'put in the diary'.
🔗 tinyurl.com/494b3437
🧵👇
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
🔗 tinyurl.com/494b3437
🧵👇
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
‘LinkedIn speak’ is a disgrace
The past few years have seen a slew of devastating style assaults on the English language known as ‘LinkedIn speak’.
tinyurl.com
March 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I came across an article in The Spectator this morning criticising what it calls “LinkedIn speak”—language like 'synergise' instead of 'combine' or 'diarise' instead of 'put in the diary'.
🔗 tinyurl.com/494b3437
🧵👇
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
🔗 tinyurl.com/494b3437
🧵👇
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
What are we calling posting here? What’s the Bluesky equivalent of tweeted/tweeting??
#LanguageChange #bluesky #newverbs #skythoughts
#LanguageChange #bluesky #newverbs #skythoughts
November 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM
What are we calling posting here? What’s the Bluesky equivalent of tweeted/tweeting??
#LanguageChange #bluesky #newverbs #skythoughts
#LanguageChange #bluesky #newverbs #skythoughts
Ever wondered who really fuels language change? 🔗 www.mpi.nl/news/young-c... with @metafrasis.bsky.social @vickyloras.bsky.social @ceciletamura.bsky.social #LanguageChange #Linguistics #MaxPlanck #LanguageEvolution #SocialChange #AdolescentsSpeak #LanguageInnovation
September 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ever wondered who really fuels language change? 🔗 www.mpi.nl/news/young-c... with @metafrasis.bsky.social @vickyloras.bsky.social @ceciletamura.bsky.social #LanguageChange #Linguistics #MaxPlanck #LanguageEvolution #SocialChange #AdolescentsSpeak #LanguageInnovation
Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abor...
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abor...
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abor...
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abor...
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #FirstLanguageAcquisition #LanguageContact #Perception #Production #Productivity #ComputationalModeling #Phonetics #Phonology #Typology #LanguageChange #TheoreticalFrameworks #BiPhon #Praat
LSA Registration
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
bit.ly
March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I keep hearing tech people in podcasts consistently using "phenomena" as the singular. ngram (below) shows it's marginal. any idea how that happened?
#langsky #etymology #languagechange
#langsky #etymology #languagechange
August 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I keep hearing tech people in podcasts consistently using "phenomena" as the singular. ngram (below) shows it's marginal. any idea how that happened?
#langsky #etymology #languagechange
#langsky #etymology #languagechange
Looking forward to the second priming session at #ISB15 starting now with a talk on the fascinating connection between #CLI and #priming as potential #psycholinguistic mechanisms of contact-induced #languagechange.
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Looking forward to the second priming session at #ISB15 starting now with a talk on the fascinating connection between #CLI and #priming as potential #psycholinguistic mechanisms of contact-induced #languagechange.
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
@isbilingualism.bsky.social
そんなイベントあるんだ "Window: languagechange イベント - Web API | MDN" https://developer.mozilla.org/ja/docs/Web/API/Window/languagechange_event
January 9, 2024 at 12:08 AM
そんなイベントあるんだ "Window: languagechange イベント - Web API | MDN" https://developer.mozilla.org/ja/docs/Web/API/Window/languagechange_event
🧵 1/4
The piece frames this as a kind of linguistic performance: a way for white-collar workers to project agency, productivity & authority.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
The piece frames this as a kind of linguistic performance: a way for white-collar workers to project agency, productivity & authority.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
March 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🧵 1/4
The piece frames this as a kind of linguistic performance: a way for white-collar workers to project agency, productivity & authority.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange
The piece frames this as a kind of linguistic performance: a way for white-collar workers to project agency, productivity & authority.
#langsky #linguistics #language #jargon #languagechange