Lauren Hall-Lew

@lhlew

Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.

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Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Jul 12

I appreciate this table! Voice quality is so complex! Podesva & Callier (2026) "Understanding voice quality variation by attending to multiple phonetic dimensions: The rise of creaky voice in California." doi.org/10.1017/S095... #creakyvoice #vocalfry #phonetics #sociophonetics #voice

A screenshot of a table in a journal article. The title is "Table 1. Types of creak and some of their phonetic properties, with primary acoustic correlates (after Keating et al., 2015)." The phonetic properties are "Low Pitch" "Irregular Voicing" and "Glottal constriction" And the six voice quality types are "Prototypical" (creak) "Vocal Fry" "Multiply pulsed" "Aperiodic" "Non-contricted" and "Tense"

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Apr 9

Starting off Day 2 of #BAAP2026: "Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics" by Patrycja Strycharczuk, Justin Lo, & Sam Kirkham. Individual differences in palate result in individual differences in /i/ production that aren't reflected in acoustics. #phonetics

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Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Feb 14

LOL these are the synonyms Microsoft automatically offers up for "Middle-Class"

A screenshot of the word "Middle-Class" in black font with three words below it in grey font: Unadventurous, Staid, Predictable.

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Jan 23

et tu, Routledge?

A screenshot of a form online asking for someone's last name. The last name as a hyphen in it, between two names, and the form font is in red indicating an error. The error says: "Last Name contains invalid characters."

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Jan 11

This graph is (on) fleek 😎 @jwgrieve.bsky.social, @andreanini.com & Diansheng Guo. (2017). Analyzing lexical emergence in Modern American English online. English Language & Linguistics, 21(1), 99-127. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #language #change #linguistics #variation #eyebrows

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Sep 3

At the end of my Q&A yesterday @scillym.bsky.social asked a Q that I think I got wrong. She sat down thinking she'd misunderstood something but I think I misunderstood her Q. Here's the relevant slide... Can you ask it again, Emma? Apologies!! #uklvc15

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Aug 31

This is just cruel. Google Scholar needs a button you can click that's like, hey, stop it, some people are still mourning this person's death. @developers.google.com

Screenshot of part of an email. The subject line reads "Follow articles by Jan Blommaert." The email is from Google Scholar Citations. The body of the text says "Get an email when Jan Blommaert writes a new article."

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Jun 18

An AI "wrote" a review of a book review that I wrote as an undergrad. No I'm not going to read it. Meanwhile, #FreePalestine

A screenshot that says ACADEMIA: An AI wrote a review of your paper: Kunming Chinese (review)...

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Mar 21

I'm sure it's shocking now. I was curious to find the source, and all I could find was the same graph from a different publication. FYI: Ayres, R. U., & Ayres, R. U. (2020). The Rise of Corporate Capitalism and Its Champions. On Capitalism and Inequality: Progress and Poverty Revisited, 101-112.

A line graph showing cumulative change in real annual household capital income, by income group, showing increasing differences between income groups between 1979 and 2007.

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Mar 10

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Feb 23

Happy belated wishes for International Mother Languages Day www.un.org/en/observanc... A photo from the walls of the celebration happening right now in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. #Bangledesh #Scottish #Gaelic

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Feb 18

I just made this graph and immediately had the thought, "aw, middle class nouns are messing everything up", and now I'm thinking about what an apt metaphor that is for the current state of the world (and I'm no longer thinking about English (-ing) variation). #sociolinguistics #variation #metaphor

An image of three bar graphs: MC, LMC, WC. Each has four bars: noun, adjective, gerund, verb. There's a steady decline in the proportion of "velar" except for the outlier: MC noun.

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Dec 5

Finding stock images of non-white people is slowly getting better, but if you want to find silhouette icons of 'people' they are still clearly silhouettes of white people. For example, results of the Google Image search term "silhouette mother" #race #hegemony #bias #annoyed

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 26

Are you in Taiwan? Come say hi at my talk on 11th December at National Taiwan University's Institute of Linguistics: "Indexicality and Language Change" #linguistics #sociolinguistics #lvc #variation #soundchange #semiotics #indexicality #Taiwan

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 8

Karen Beaman with beautiful data at #NWAV52 that makes a point I'm hugely sympathetic to: "Is it accommodation or identity? Yes." (I.e., it depends.)

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 8

#NWAV52 If you're looking for a lunch #recommendation we went to a spot on Lincold Road yesterday called Havana 1957 and it was excellent 😋 #Cuban #Miami #MiamiBeach

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 7

Jeffery Reesor talks about all the brilliant "that's not linguistics" work that Walt Wolfram has done which has changed and expanded the definition of what linguistics actually IS. #NWAV52

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 7

Mary Kohn talks about the importance of staying at land grant universities and leveraging power for change; Walt Wolfram is exemplary of this. See: the Land-Grab Universities project www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/... #research #ethics #engagement #NWAV52

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 7

Unofficially called the "We Love Walt" Panel 💞 #NWAV52 #sociolinguistics #linguistics #variation #hero #icon #mentor #academic #joy

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Apr 23

"An evening of transfeminist poetics" Friday, 26 April 2024, 5-7pm The Project Room, 50 George Square ucue.ticketbud.com/an-audience-... "...an evening of performances/talks by Nat Raha, Harry Josephine Giles, and Harvey Humphrey." #trans #feminist #artists #gender #genderidentity #Edinburgh

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Mar 20

The Problem with Plastics assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/...

A graph showing what happens to plastics based on 2017 data. On the 70% used once, 55% are discarded after a single use, 10% incinerated, 6% recycled, but of that 6% only 1% put back in use.

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Mar 14

We're in paperback!!! And we're 20% off!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Hall-Lew, Lauren, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.) 2021. Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. #sociolinguistics #variation #indexicality #books

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Jan 4

you've gotta be kidding me, microsoft outlook 🙄

Screenshot of an email being composed with the word "alright" highlighted and the advice from Microsoft Outlook being to use "all right" instead because "This term" (alright) "may strike your reader as too informal."

Lauren Hall-Lew@lhlew· Nov 2

Amusing description of a three-way coding scheme for speech style, based on "vocabulary and phrasing," -- "Colloquial, formal, pompous." (Newman & Mather, 1938, p916) #linguistics