Sam Hellmuth

ALT Sam Hellmuth in mid flow giving a talk in a glass windowed room, with images on the screen of the Queen Elizabeth II and David Attenborough at different ages.

ALT The photo shows the front cover of the new book edited by Rajiv Rao, with the title The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages. The cover is pale blue showing intersecting ripples on the surface of water.

ALT The photo shows the inside of the book open at the first page of a chapter on Stress Placement in English Loanwords by Speakers of Mirpur Pahari in the UK, by Sehrish Shafi and Sam Hellmuth

ALT A badge saying I'm on a 500 day language learning streak with Duolingo

ALT A large celeriac dressed up with a red Santa hat and a red and green scarf

ALT A photo of the book The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicolson, which is a turquoise green with a colour line drawing of a puffin on the cover, and the subtitle: the lives and loves of puffins, gannets and other ocean voyagers.

ALT A word cloud visualisation generated from a outline draft text for a paper we're preparing for ICPhS on vowel raising in Levantine dialects. The most common words in the text (so far) are: 'vowel', 'corpus', 'data' and 'imala'. Imala is the Arabic term for the vowel raising pattern we're looking at.

ALT James Taylor, seated on stage with guitar, talking into a microphone

ALT Rainy outlook over the Knavesmire, York

ALT Draughtman's drawing of a tenter hook (metal hook for stretching wool cloth) extracted from a page from the trade catalogue of H. Barns & Sons, general iron founders, Bartholomew Street Birmingham, England.

ALT Child's BMX bike, blue and black, labelled Hybrid Theory

ALT View of the track towards Dufton Pike in the Pennines: a rough stone track with grassland along one side and a dry stone wall on the other, with the hills in the distance, under a cloudy sky.

ALT The image shows the rising-falling pitch over words of different numbers of syllables, and with the stress in different places, and suggests that the rising portion of the rise-fall (in York at least) is aligned within the stressed syllable in most contexts. Technical specification: time-normalised GAM (REML) smoothed f0 contour in all rise-fall nuclear contours (N=91) extracted from the York English Corpus data subset of sociolinguistic interviews; each vertical section = 1 syllable.