News and announcements from the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.
Fediverse address:
@UPennLinguistics@lingo.lol
Tagged: Linguistics
Shaw Alphabet
Dedicated to posting about the Shavian alphabet, an attempt to give the English language a more phonetically logical character set. Named after George Bernard Shaw, who funded it in his will.
Fediverse address:
@shavian@polyglot.city
Linguistics Guppe Group
A Fediverse discussion group about Linguistics. (Click here ⧉ for more about how groups work.)
Fediverse address:
@linguistics@a.gup.pe
Tatjana Scheffler
Professor of digital forensic linguistics at Ruhr-Uni Bochum in Germany. Working on social media data using corpus and computational methods.
Fediverse address (in English & German):
@tschfflr@fediscience.org
Dr Sascha Wolfer
Linguist at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Germany. Interested in quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, text comprehension & comprehensibility, data visualisation, Rstats.
Fediverse address:
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org
Vicky R.
Linguist interested in forensic linguistics, cognitive semantics, authorial attribution, threat assessment and stylistics.
Fediverse address:
@vilyrou@mastodon.social
Journal of Linguistics
Peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical linguistics, published by the Cambridge University Press.
Fediverse address:
@JoLinguistics@mastodon.world
PsychoPy
Free open source software tools to help researchers create experiments in behavioural sciences including psychology, neuroscience, psychophysics, linguistics, behavioural economics etc.
Fediverse address:
@psychopy@mastodon.social
Gareth Roberts
Welsh linguist in Philadelphia, USA / Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia, USA, working at the University of Pennsylvania. Often posts about board games.
Fediverse address:
@garicgymro@toot.wales
Alliterative
Videos about the etymology of the English language, presented by the historian Dr Mark Sundaram.
Fediverse address:
@alliterative@tilvids.com
Furensic Linguist
Linguist and cat enthusiast, author of “Purrieties of Language” exploring online cat-inspired words, memes, hashtags and other sociolinguistic phenomena.
Fediverse address:
@meow_factor@fediscience.org
Evangelia (Lila) Adamou
Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and member of the Academia Europaea. Particular interests language contact, bilingualism and endangered languages spoken in the Balkans and Latin America.
Fediverse address:
@Lila@scholar.social
Babel: The Language Magazine
Print and digital magazine for people interested in languages and linguistics.
Fediverse address:
@babel@masto.ai
DiscourseNet
Non-profit association for discourse studies run by its members.
Fediverse address:
@DiscourseNet@fediscience.org