marginaling

There was a lot going on this day. Clockwise from top left: common note to self; design for dimensions, top surface, and innards of a tap dance floor; marked out stupid puns involving “tap;” phonetic transcription; notes on binding theory.

Look carefully, this one’s askew.

I am not sure if it has to do with gestures or not when quails “do it,” but I know that gestures are at least involved when humans do it. And I should hope it’s not qualitatively the “same thing” but rather a “diff thing.”

This refers to the actual difficulty of my articulating the sound (I think I meant either palatal plosives or any implosive), not some weird sound symbolism thing. And those are F1/F2 arrows, PS.

I felt guilty and needed validation; having to produce uvular articulations makes me very self-conscious.

Response to a classmate saying, “You’re creaky voice girl this morning!” Because it was 8:30, and I was. (Erm, those are supposed to be vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages…)

I am really bad at vowels and obsessed with the word “dispreferred.”

One more for now, just to get the ball rolling.

They are insidious! They are everywhere! Also, the VOT for vowels following [k] is much longer than the VOT for vowels following [p]! Aspiration!