12 Days of Ling-mas

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The amazing set of notes associated with the collaborative songwriting in this post ended up getting forked in several directions, so I’m going to try to merge as many contributions as possible to date, and suggest that future contributors make sure to check the notes before posting 🙂 Making this a new post instead of a reblog so that it shows up in #linguistics. 

On the first day of ling-mas, professor gave to me a chart of the IPA! (glottalplosive)

On the second day of ling-mas, professor gave to me binary branching (sointerrobanging)
And a chart of the IPA! 

On the third day of ling-mas, professor gave to me three loanwords calquing (balalaikaboss)
Binary branching 
And a chart of the IPA! 

On the fourth day of ling-mas, professor gave to me four stuffed wugs (maggietenobar)
Three loanwords calquing
Binary branching 
And a chart of the IPA! 

On the fifth day of ling-mas, professor gave to me FIVE SYNTAX TREES (sailorsoldierlove)
Four stuffed wugs 
Three loanwords calquing 
Binary branching 
And a chart of the IPA! 

On the sixth day of ling-mas, professor gave to me six heads a-raising

FIVE SYNTAX TREES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing
Binary branching 
And a chart of the IPA!  

On the seventh day of ling-mas, professor gave to me seven stops (or plosives)

Six heads-a-raising
FIVE SYNTAX TREES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing 
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA 

On the eighth day of ling-mass, professor gave to me eight deleted codas

Seven stops (or plosives)
Six heads-a-raising
FIVE SYNTAX TREES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing 
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA

On the ninth day of ling-mas, professor gave to me… nine old aphasics,

Eight deleted codas
Seven stops (or plosives)
Six heads-a-raising
FIIIIIIIVE SYNTAX TREEEEEES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA

Only three more days left to be added! And then we can start talking about making a recording.

On the tenth day of ling-mas,

professor gave to me… ten unbound morphemes,

Nine old aphasiacs
Eight deleted codas
Seven stops (or plosives)
Six heads-a-raising
FIIIIIIIVE SYNTAX TREEEEEES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA

Looks like we have a complete song! High-fives all ‘round!

And in the spirit of collaboration, I’d like to encourage anyone who wants to make this into audio, video, gifs, multilingual, children’s picture book, snow sculptures, or any other version/mashup you can think of. Seriously. Go for it. 

On the eleventh day of ling-mas, 
professor gave to me eleven cleft constructions

Ten unbound morphemes,
Nine old aphasiacs
Eight deleted codas
Seven stops (or plosives)
Six heads-a-raising
FIIIIIIIVE SYNTAX TREEEEEES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA

On the twelfth day of ling-mas,
professor gave to me twelve phrasal verbs 

Eleven cleft constructions
Ten unbound morphemes,
Nine old aphasiacs
Eight deleted codas
Seven stops (or plosives)
Six heads-a-raising
FIIIIIIIVE SYNTAX TREEEEEES
Four stuffed wugs
Three loanwords calquing
Two binary branches
And a chart of the IPA

(from J Paul Sank in the Disqus comments)

Just a reminder that the 12 Days of Ling-mas is a thing that we made a few years ago.