Phonetics, Language Acquisition, CogSci | co-editor Laboratory Phonology | ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻihttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mtyn5d4d4c2dI'm super sad about Dolly. I wasn't a megafan of her music, but still she was present in my life. A cover of Jolene was one of the first things we arranged when I started playing in a band. A show by Doll Parts, a Dolly cover band, was the first thing I went to in public after the first vaccine26 Aug 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyn5d4d4c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mr6hknb63c2v⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No notes on this encyclopedic record of enshittification [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6hknb63c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mpwjmybokk2pI just looked up Balogun’s background 5 minutes ago and learned that the only way he plays for the US is on a birthright citizenship technicality 😂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpwjmybokk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3moksjg4yls2tI was the second person at my polling site to get one today. I watched them open the bag that the BoE had given them 🏀💙🧡 #knicks18 Jun 2026 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3moksjg4yls2thttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mnkqsqnbuc2wAs someone who sometimes needs to think about lexical gaps for a living, this list caused me a momentary record scratch. For one thing, I wouldn't have guessed that the -id column would be the most complete one. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jun 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkqsqnbuc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mnd4d2kcec2uLinguists: does anyone know of a study showing that VOT shortens the longer the word is? (E.g., something like the Moon and Lindblom 1989 paper, except for VOT and not whole segments.)02 Jun 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnd4d2kcec2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mm56wj6ivs2sCreaky voice/vocal fry is back in the news, but this time to highlight the scientific research about it :) I'm both happy to be quoted in this article and to be the general editor of the journal that published Jeanne Brown and colleagues' paper to begin with! https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526201-vocal-fry-is-more-common-in-men-actually-find-scientists/18 May 2026 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm56wj6ivs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mfa6proies2zGotta love an excrescent stop joke #linguistics #phonetics [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Feb 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfa6proies2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mf3e7ahzwk22Yeah but most importantly, is Grogu going to talk in the new movie? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3e7ahzwk22https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mdqmyvxmck2gJust heard a reading of the 4th Amendment at the People’s Filibuster by the Public Theater, right after someone gave me this whistle to put on my keychain. I hate this timeline so so much.31 Jan 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqmyvxmck2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3mbeoszczps2vI love how New Yorkers are wishing each other Happy New Year and Happy New Mayor all in the same text.01 Jan 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbeoszczps2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m4vmzjuoms2oI'm not the only one on Bluesky saying this, but maybe together we can bring it into being: Brad Lander for first deputy mayor in the Mamdani administration.05 Nov 2025 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vmzjuoms2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m3sdngiuvk26NYC linguists give the linguistic answer, but also patiently explain why this isn't an excuse: “We can learn hard names. We can do it. We can figure out how the spellings map to the sounds. We can all get there. We just have to practice.” - @laurelmack.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/22/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-pronunciation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.C3lS.sxvoLB498fHg&smid=url-share22 Oct 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3sdngiuvk26https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m3iejjtbrc2jI assume NYC should be thanking Portland for introducing blow up aliens, animals and characters to the resistance #nokings18 Oct 2025 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3iejjtbrc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m33jqu6ynk2zIn honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/stories/2025/02/19/olelo-resource-of-the-month-timeline/13 Oct 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33jqu6ynk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m2rkpy2d7s26I'm enjoying this thread about the greatest lyricists, but I can't include John Prine ever since I learned about Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rkpy2d7s26https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3m2m7la7ugc2kIf you’ve ever asked AI to summarize a paper, you know it provides only a surface-level and uncritical description. Even if you asked it for a review, what criteria would it use to provide meaningful critical feedback? If it said “X is unclear”, how would you know humans would feel that way? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Oct 2025 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2m7la7ugc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lzhcxuscp22kSo I take it we're still not going to get to hear Grogu speak? I've been waiting since 2019 (from before we knew his name!) to learn whether they'd make him sound like Yoda or have him just speak Basic, as he obviously should 😆 https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/baby-yoda-first-words-linguistics.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Sep 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzhcxuscp22khttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lzgum3r5bs2eI found an example in the wild on here of a possible suffix usage that we were discussing in class. I want to show my students, but since the post is critical of the administration, I'm worried about potential consequences, even though the content is entirely irrelevant. This is what we've come to.22 Sep 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzgum3r5bs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lz23zv7fdk2gDid they not see Kaʻiana in **Chief of War**? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz23zv7fdk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lyyaeu2q6k2bThe ambiguity of this headline is pretty great. Have we reached the singularity, and this is the only actual proof?16 Sep 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyyaeu2q6k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lydwcinsvk2kI say aloud often that one of the worst catastrophes of this era will be the dismantling of the American science infrastructure. Sorry to be reposting the NYT, but the wording of this headline is more stark and apt than usual. 🎁 link (via my institutional subscription, which I'm not paying for) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.NbYh.qg82CkPuhr2G&smid=url-share08 Sep 2025 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydwcinsvk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social/post/3lxwx3p4uuc24Someday when we can look back at this time, we'll see that there were some profiles in courage. Many judges who made the right call, so many incredibly brave civil servants, labor and immigrant leaders, a handful of college administrator (but a few), even a couple of politicians. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:6tkbfvnphuh3k45dd2laormi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxwx3p4uuc24