Linguistics updates from around the National University of Singapore and elsewhere, from Dr. Rebecca Lurie Starr.https://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mkshnuabj227My paper with Yunbo Mei on the masculine fizzy voice 气泡音 style in China is now up at Gender and Language! https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/gl-2024-002201 May 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkshnuabj227https://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mi64dr7m2c2yExcited to be contributing to this new era of Asia-Pacific Language Variation as co-EIC! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Mar 2026 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi64dr7m2c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbzf67c6oc2bSebastian Leal-Arenas is presenting on L2 Spanish acquisition of prosodic patterns for particular word orders. Do students improve with explicit teaching? #LSA202609 Jan 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbzf67c6oc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbzbazjsbs2dAt 2:15 I'll be presenting work with my student Zichuan on the role of host region and home region on L2 English speakers from northern and southern China! #LSA202609 Jan 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbzbazjsbs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbzb7nz4u22dFirst in our session is Dima Smadi on phonetic attrition in L1 Arabic-L2 English. #LSA202609 Jan 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbzb7nz4u22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbyrdbj4jc2jFirst up in our session, Mingyeong Choi from Georgetown is talking about two types of questions in Korean! (For the second time in a row at LSA this year, the session chair has not turned up, so I am now ad hoc chairing.) #LSA202609 Jan 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbyrdbj4jc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbyqn4a2u22aMy student Wang Yao will be presenting our project on cuteness in Chinese state media at 10 AM in Galeries 4! #LSA202609 Jan 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbyqn4a2u22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbx63u7dks2qThe panel this evening is Language and Meaning in the Balance, with John Baugh, Scott Kiesling, Kelly Wright, Lal Zimman, Tracey Weldon, Robert Henderson, and Wesley Leonard. #LSA202608 Jan 2026 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbx63u7dks2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbx3w7qjbk2fThe #LSA2026 opening ceremony begins with a welcome from the Chitimacha tribe.08 Jan 2026 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbx3w7qjbk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbwy55i45s2oNext, Lim and Kang are presenting on JH vs z among Korean bilinguals! #LSA202608 Jan 2026 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwy55i45s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbwwkv7zl22rNext, Gutierrez Topete and Lopez are presenting on Spanish-Yucatec Maya bilinguals and nasal depalatization! #LSA202608 Jan 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwwkv7zl22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3mbwv2vkm6k25In the first session of #LSA2026! Grace Wong and Charlotte Burnham of Stanford are presenting their work with Ariel Chan on the impact of language dominance on VOT in English Cantonese code-switching.08 Jan 2026 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwv2vkm6k25https://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lyqx2rfntc2cNew paper with my student Zichuan! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.1271513 Sep 2025 23:37 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyqx2rfntc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lsedw3mavc2oI've got a new paper out with Shoba Bandi-Rao and colleagues on the evaluation of inter-turn silence in Singapore English! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13488678.2025.251749624 Jun 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsedw3mavc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lmkeksl2es2dCan ChatGPT reflect upon its own sociolinguistic behavior? Nope. For the past few days, ChatGPT has been responding to me in Singlish (based on a prompt from months ago that it has mysteriously decided to recall). But today, I asked it to analyze some rap lyrics, and something changed. 1/?11 Apr 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmkeksl2es2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkqdyjnks2dUp next, when I walked into this panel Kewen asked if I could present my student Yunbo's study, so I'm going to try to wing it! The word of the year is indeed rawdogging... #LSA202512 Jan 2025 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkqdyjnks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkpwvmzd22tNUS's Kewen Zheng is presenting on how ChatGPT can serve to increase writing anxiety among non-native speaker students. #LSA202512 Jan 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkpwvmzd22thttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkjoklytk2rAt the oral histories panel! First up, Isaac Bleaman and Chaya Nove on Yiddish and the oral histories of Holocaust survivors. #LSA202512 Jan 2025 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkjoklytk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkgwsw6gk2dNext, Emmett Jessee is presenting on trans identity and sibilant perception. #LSA202512 Jan 2025 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkgwsw6gk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkfeatpcc2oA plug for our NUS students: at 12pm in Salon B, Kewen Zheng will be talking about students' writing anxiety and ChatGPT use. Then, at 12:30, Yunbo Mei will be discussing language ideologies and market dynamics in China's English language teaching landscape. #LSA202512 Jan 2025 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkfeatpcc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfkf7cnqus2oFinal day of #LSA2025! Here at the ADS session, first up is Bill Kretzschmar on salience and dialect features.12 Jan 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkf7cnqus2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfikzexcrc2iAdolfo Hermosillo and colleagues are presenting on intensifier variation in Salinas California, using data collected for the Voices of California project. #LSA202511 Jan 2025 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfikzexcrc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rlslinguistics.bsky.social/post/3lfiiczlvz222Lisa Sullivan is testing different levels of metalinguistic awareness of a set of variables: bag-raising, Canadian ay and ow raising, and ay monophthongization. #LSA202511 Jan 2025 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:cda4ouxumjshea7h2tck5m2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfiiczlvz222