Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Views are my own. No relation to @saydialect.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2007
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I love that the French-y pronunciation of "Target" has made it into a Wiley-Blackwell handbook chapter 😄
#linguistics #sociolinguistics
Salmons & Purnell (2020) 'Contact and the development of American English'. In Hickey, (ed.) The Handbook of Language Contact. (p365)
Behind the scenes in the #NWAV50 planning offices ☺️
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds EPISODE 2
Linguistics, music, math, and the face-off between science and religion. Perfection!🖖🏽🤓🥰
Learn how to say 'hello' in Quechua, Navajo (Diné), and Māori, but through the medium of Scottish Gaelic! youtube.com/watch?v=kHGwIgtv…
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #languages #LanguageLearning #BBC #BBCAlba #CBeebies #CBeebiesALBA #Linda
Three cheers for the specific calls for support put forth in this report! A 5-minute summary: youtube.com/watch?v=UbZEd-tl…
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