{"id":15146,"date":"2022-11-07T06:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2022-11-07T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:14:13","slug":"adele-on-the-linguistics-of-adele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/11\/07\/adele-on-the-linguistics-of-adele\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal: Linguist Ad\u00e8le on the linguistics of Adele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Wall Street Journal needed a linguist to weigh in on issues concerning the proper pronunciation of the name of the singer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adele\"><strong>Adele<\/strong><\/a>, naturally they consulted with our very own Ad\u00e8le \u0097 graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/adelemortier.github.io\"><strong>Ad\u00e8le Mortier<\/strong><\/a> \u0097 who acquitted herself excellently. Perhaps the first time the word &#8220;phonologist&#8221; has even appeared in the Wall Street Journal, for one thing \u0097 though the reference to &#8220;uh-dewl&#8221; in the article should be taken with a grain of salt (there were supposed to be some phonetic symbols there, and the name does not rhyme with &#8220;duel&#8221;). \u00a0If you have not used up your four free articles for the month, you will be able to read all about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wait-how-do-you-say-adeles-name-even-the-expert-is-confused-11667508528\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wait-how-do-you-say-adeles-name-even-the-expert-is-confused-11667508528<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot of the important part below:<br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Pasted-Graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15150\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Pasted-Graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Wall Street Journal needed a linguist to weigh in on issues concerning the proper pronunciation of the name of the singer\u00a0Adele, naturally they consulted with our very own Ad\u00e8le \u0097 graduate student Ad\u00e8le Mortier \u0097 who acquitted herself excellently. Perhaps the first time the word &#8220;phonologist&#8221; has even appeared in the Wall Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15159,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions\/15159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}