#field linguistics

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Field

beautiful words with "field" for your next poem/story

Afield - out of the way; astray

Brickfield - brickyard

Coalfield - a region rich in coal deposits

Fieldbird - plover (i.e., any of a family Charadriidae of shorebirds that differ from the sandpipers in having a short hard-tipped bill and usually a stouter more compact build)

Fieldfare - a medium-sized Eurasian thrush (Turdus pilaris) with an ash-colored head and chestnut wings and back

Fieldstone - stone (as in building) in usually unaltered form as taken from the field

Greenfield - land (such as a potential industrial site) not previously developed or polluted

Sinkfield - cinquefoil (i.e., any of a genus Potentilla of herbs and shrubs of the rose family usually having 5-lobed leaves and 5-petaled flowers; a design enclosed by five joined foils

Snowfield - a broad level expanse of snow

Urnfield - a Bronze Age cemetery of urn burials

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

More: Word Lists

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

the way that i can always tell if dan is saying “phan” or “fan” rattles me to my core every time. he aspirates the FUCK out of that voiceless labiodental fricative so violently it’s practically a voiced consonant am i right, ling phannies 😝

[gay-pidgeons]

you should be able to go to college for free and also whenever you want

[annabelle--cane]

anyway sorry, I see solid definitions for artistic categories and immediately become the most annoying person in the world

[waitineedaname]

the annoying thing about my thesis topic (real world dialects in fantasy settings and how that reflects linguistic bias) is that when i describe it to people, I either get people who immediately get it and are excited about the topic, or I get people staring at me blankly and just going "oh." and usually the people who are excited about it are not linguists

[croftersforlife]

I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of Sara picking up the speaking patterns of the Danceverses

Like instead of “Oh my God”, she starts saying “Oh my Selios”, and her non-JD friends have no clue what she’s talking about

[delreysdollette]

originally posted by @rockcandysweete on pinterest 𐙚⋆.˚

i miss english class so bad i loved my teacher and had sm friends in there💔💔

[inthekitschen]

Conducting a linguistic analysis for fom the likes of which you've never seen

[forensicfield]

Forensic Linguistics

Here is a glossary of key terms related to Forensic Linguistics:

1. Forensic Linguistics: The application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and techniques to legal and criminal investigations, including the analysis of spoken and written language for legal evidence.

2. Linguistic Analysis: The systematic examination and interpretation of language, including its structure, usage, and meaning, to uncover insights and evidence in legal contexts.

3. Authorship Attribution: The process of determining the author or origin of a written text by analyzing linguistic features, such as writing style, vocabulary, and grammar.

4. Linguistic Profiling: The analysis of language to create a profile of an individual, including their demographic information, cultural background, and psychological characteristics.

5. Discourse Analysis: The study of language in use, focusing on how language is structured and used in different contexts, such as conversations, interviews, and legal proceedings.

6. Stylistic Analysis: The examination of linguistic features, such as word choice, sentence structure, and tone, to identify patterns and characteristics that can help identify the author or origin of a text.

7. Phonetics: The study of the physical aspects of speech sounds, including how they are produced, transmitted, and perceived.

8. Phonology: The study of the organization and patterns of sounds in languages, including the rules and structures that govern their use.

9. Morphology: The study of the structure and form of words, including how words are constructed from smaller meaningful units called morphemes.

10. Syntax: The study of the structure and arrangement of words to form grammatically correct sentences and phrases.

11. Semantics: The study of meaning in language, including how words and sentences convey ideas and information.

12. Pragmatics: The study of how language is used in real-world contexts, including the role of context, social factors, and implied meanings in communication.

13. Linguistic Variation: The study of how language varies across different speakers, dialects, regions, and social groups.

14. Sociolinguistics: The study of how language and society interact, including the social and cultural factors that influence language use and variation.

15. Language Documentation: The process of recording and preserving endangered languages, including their grammar, vocabulary, and cultural context.

16. Expert Witness: A professional who provides specialized knowledge and expertise in a particular field, such as forensic linguistics, to assist in legal proceedings and provide expert testimony.

17. Legal Discourse: The language and communication used in legal contexts, including legal documents, court proceedings, and legal arguments.

18. Miranda Rights: The rights of individuals in the United States, as established by the Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which include the right to remain silent and the right to have an attorney present during police interrogations.

19. Linguistic Evidence: Language-based evidence, such as written documents, recorded conversations, or linguistic analysis, that is used to support or refute claims in legal proceedings.

20. Linguistic Proficiency: The level of skill and competence in a particular language, including the ability to understand, speak, read, and write in that language.

[eresia-catara]

you know that feeling when an engeneering student who happens to do a course of italian diction as a hobby feels entitled to explain linguistics to you — a classics student that, you know, knows something about languages and linguistics — and is also ready to argue that people should all speak one (1) language and write with IPA and Not make Any mistakes Ever and that his opinion is Right and my take that language reflects thought and creativity that you cannot control it and it is us who decide what is right or wrong blah blah is just "humanist whimsy" and I'm "just a romantic 💕"

yeah. that feeling is called arguing +1h with you is not enough I'm about to have a criminal record and I won't regret it 🪓🪓🪓

[crwbannwen]

This is gonna be nonsense to most people but it's intended for those people: Welsh phonetics time.

So I hear a lot of people suggesting that the welsh 'll' should be pronounced like 'sl' [sl] or 'cl' [kl] but 'll' is it's own sound [ɬ]

This is a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. It is different.

Now here's my recording of me saying all of these (in order of /sl/, /kl/, /ɬ/) there's a schwa vowel release after all of them too.

Now first look at the derived pitch (I didn't put that in, the computer did), you'll notice that /sl/ and /kl/ are pretty similar and /ɬ/ isn't. Now I added a schwa to the end of each sound I said (like saying 'puh' for 'p' that than just the actual 'p' sound) so you'll see that the 'luh' sound that 1 and 2 have in common is different to the lluh sound. The vowel release is different.

You can see that all of them have a clear transition to the vowel release, infact you should be able to see two distinct sections for the third one and three for the others (/s/ or /k/ then /l/ and the vowel release), (I'd split /slə/ - where [ə] is the vowel release - at 0.88s to 1.10s [s] to 1.22s [l] 1.37 [ə]. Then I would split /klə/ at 2.64s to 2.77s [k] to 2.85s [l] to 3.00s [ə]. Then /ɬə/ would be split 4.16s to 4.45s [ɬ] to 4.74 [ə])

the /kl/ is less like /ɬ/ than /sl/ is. That's because both /ɬ/ and /s/ are fricative. But if you look at how the frequencies are spread out in these fricatives you'll see that /s/ is a lot more focused at higher frequencies and a lot less focused at lower frequencies. whereas /ɬ/ is a lot more evenly distributed with it's frequencies. whereas the /k/ section is plosive (although unaspirated). You'd probably find that /f/ and /θ/ (the voiceless 'th' in words like 'thing' or 'theory') look very similar in a spectrogram to /ɬ/ but they still aren't the same sound and are actually pronounced further away from the sound we're trying to emulate.

the best way to pronounce it is to pronounce it as intended. Which is as a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. Which I can go throat what that actually means.

Voicless means that your vocal cords will not vibrate to make this sound. if you say the phonetic sounds for 's' /s/ and 'z' /z/ with your hands clasped over your years you should be able to hear and feel the difference between the voiceless /s/ and voiced /z/ (as voicing is the only difference in how those sounds are pronounced).

alveolar is to do with where in the mouth the sound is being produced. Now I want you to feel your mouth with your tongue. put it on your teeth then pull it back over the roof of your mouth as far as you safely can. behind your teeth you'll find a flattist part the then drops to a flat and bony part at the top of your mouth wchich stransitions to a squishier part near the end. The flat part that drops is the alveolar ridge. Then you have the hard palate and the soft palate. So an alveolar sound is pronounced when the front part of your tongue is towards the alveolar ridge (Not necessarily touching it but we'll get to that. Since /s/ is also an alveolar sound, that's why it actually is a closer pronunciation despite being clearly different in frequencies)

lateral we'll get back to because first we need to explain what a fricative actually is. I've already mention four voiceless fricatives here 'f' /f/, 'th' /θ/, 's' /s/, and of course ll /ɬ/. Unlike 'c' /k/ which is a plosive made by creating a complete block in your vocal tract, building air up behind it and then releasing it. A fricative is made by creating a partial block in the vocal tract and making air pass between the articulators and causing friction (i.e. the tongue and the alveolar ridge, or for 'th' /θ/ the tip of the tongue and the teeth).

now in a lateral fricative, we are directing air over the sides of the tongue and not over the tip. 'l' /l/ is a lateral sound as well, although not voiceless or fricative.

So that's why /sl/ almost works as a replacement but doesn't quite. /s/ is voiceless and alveolar and fricative, but it's not lateral. and while 'l' is lateral and alveolar, it is not fricative and is voiced.

So the only way to actually make the 'll' /ɬ/ sound is to make a voiceless (don't vibrate your vocal cords) alveolar (front portion of the tongue to the alveolar ridge behind the teeth) lateral (air flows over the side of the tongue) fricative (air is sent between a gap and partial block to cause friction)

[defectivegembrain]

Happy flapped looking at the historical development of words for "body"

[elvenrunes]

Eldritch god who sucks at learning languages sends linguist to a new world to document and teach them the languages there (this is the vision in which the god tells the linguist their mission)

[szampers]

Before I was aware of szpd, I referred to it as "the Social Alienation", in caps for the reason that I knew it was more than just social alienation in the conventional sense (and also because I find it funny to capitalize words which aren't supposed to be capitalized). The Social Alienation was the closest term I could find for what was in fact szpd, but since uncapitalized it refers specifically to feeling detached from people, which I do feel a great deal, but it didn't exactly point to other things I felt.

Hence why I used it as a personal umbrella term! Which itself contained two other umbrella terms: "language guilt/dysphoria/repulsion" (I still don't know which one fits best), which in turn contained the umbrella term "linguistic freedom". I feel how I experience szpd is somewhat closely related to language, which will have a more detailed post of its own.

A visual representation of these personal umbrella terms.

The Social Alienation referred to social alienation in the conventional sense, but also to my lack of interest and motivation to interact with others, how conflicted I felt about it and the dread that comes at the thought of interacting with others while knowing it is something essential in life. Ouph. This reeks of szpd. But the Social Alienation did do a good enough job to provide me with something to hold onto.

Aside from that, there's also the language guilt/dysphoria/repulsion/whatever. I feel like a linguistic disaster, more so in the past than I do now fortunately. I loathe interacting with the language that is spoken where I live and was born, though it is supposed to be my second language if not a second first language. Go figure! I suppose I'm rather sensitive to language because when I read it or speak this language, the words simply don't ring nearly as well in my head as certain other languages and that bothers the hell out of me. It's a vicious circle as I keep escaping to other languages while I keep getting worse in this harsh, rough language which my life depends on. This contributes to my lack of a will to speak as well, which is connected to the situational mutism probably.

The linguistic freedom is the dream of overcoming the language guilt. It is the most ideal state I can achieve, which is when I acquire the skill to freely speak my mind in any languages I'm supposed to know without struggling to string words together. Preferably i'd get past the people aversion as well but as long as my sociability is at a functional level that's more than enough for me. I treat this as a "if you aim for the moon and miss you'll land among the stars" kind of thing. Part of the whole thing is being able to accept your limits I suppose.

This would be the new model???? It essentially boils down to issues with people and language. Perhaps the language part should be placed outside of the szpd group but they'll still be hardly separable regardless. Either way, szpd provides a stronger and solid foothold for me than the Social Alienation did. It's no longer as abstract as it had been, but it's become more tangible I think. Good starting point.