The SpecGram Linguistic Advice Collective SpecGram Vol CLXIX, No 3 Contents What Can Visualizations enGender?—Decreasing Man’s Power While Increasing Grammatical Accuracy—Megan Smith and Le Anne Lucia Spino

Kill All Phoneticians

by Die Lingulelen
With apologies to Johnny Cash

The taste of love is sweet
When two syntacticians meet
But can our love survive
If we don’t agree how to derive?

Intense romance between scientific rivals
Do you believe in data or is Chomsky’s book your bible?
We are still united / by one conviction:
Hate of phoneticians ... hate of phoneticians

Your wanna-contraction claims fill me with hate
But I still wanna copulate
A trace can’t keep want and to apart
But you left a trace in my heart

Intense romance between scientific rivals
Do you believe in data or is Chomsky’s book your bible?
We are still united / by one conviction:
Hate of phoneticians ... hate of phoneticians

Kill all phoneticians ... kill all phoneticians ... kill all phoneticians


The members of Die Lingulelen, sorted by approximate height, are:
  • Katerina Kandylaki, M.A.: Vocals
  • Stephanie Leser, M.A.: Konzertukulele
  • Lea Schäfer, M.A.: Tenorukulele
  • Sophie Elsässer, B.A.: Sopranukulele
  • Jona Sassenhagen, M.A.: Bass & Vocals

The SpecGram Linguistic Advice Collective
What Can Visualizations enGender?Decreasing Man’s Power While Increasing Grammatical AccuracyMegan Smith and Le Anne Lucia Spino
SpecGram Vol CLXIX, No 3 Contents