My article with @wmgbennett.bsky.social is finally out! We show that Xhosa speakers generalize the alternation of certain noun class prefixes to novel words based on root length—suggesting a synchronic pattern, rather than the fossilized remnants of a historical process. #linguistics

On the productivity of length-based alternations in Xhosa noun class prefixes

Noun classes in isiXhosa are each associated with specific prefixes on the noun stem. Some of these noun class prefixes exhibit length-based allomorphy: they take one form before multisyllabic stem...

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New *bnick just dropped #linguistics #ghent #belgium

If you’re at #ACAL57, come see my (first) talk—it’s in the room with the (literal) brains!

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Just finished The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com - fantastic, devastating sci-fi with plenty of twists and tongues. A definite addition to the “language and linguistics in science fiction” course I’ll one day teach! #linguistics #scifi (Advance review copy from Edelweiss; release date April 21)

I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.

Alde McDonald hadde a farme Laude sing cucu And on farme a cow in barn And springth the wud enu Hither and yea thither now Laude crie the mu Loweth now the calv and cow And wel singest cucu

Angus Main@angusmain.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Old McDonald had a farm On the feast of Stephen And on that farm he had a cow Deep and crisp and even

Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats

📣 PsychoPy Studio is out now!! ✨ Which also means swish new branding on psychopy.org ✨ We really hope that this improves user experience in general. Please download and try it. Let us know how you get on via the forum discourse.psychopy.org/t/introducin...

I. Can. Not. Wait!

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We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to **PsychoPy Studio** This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron. Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter 🎉 🚀 blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...

The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.

I've been a faculty member in #Linguistics at a high-profile US university for for over a decade now. Most years I've been involved in graduate admissions. As of this year I'm the Graduate Chair for my department. I thought it might be helpful to share some advice for grad applicants...

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt

PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book, and all I can say is if you’re a sci-fi fan, put this on your calendar for May when it comes out! What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions. (Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)

Radiant Star

An electrifying new space opera of power, politics, and faith, set in the world of the Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie's ground-breaking, Hugo Award-winning scien...

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Poll for those who do experiments: Does your IRB require in advance all audio clips you will play to participants (e.g. for a discrimination task)? A) They're fine with a description B) They want samples but not all stimuli C) They want all audio stimuli

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Does anyone know anything about Praat and accessibility? TTU is beginning to request accessibility documentation (i.e. VPAT) for all software in use. My impression is that Praat doesn't play well with screen-readers, and I haven't been able to find a VPAT. #praat #linguistics #accessibility #a11y

If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken. Happiness comes from Star Trek, not relationships.

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

I'm going to finish this manuscript by the end of the week, I told myself

The narrator of my audiobook keeps pronouncing Xhosa as [hoʊsə], with initial [h]! - Usual English pronunciationː [ˈkoʊ.sə] - In Xhosaː isiXhosa [isì‖ʰɔ́sa] I don't expect audiobook narrators to know orthographies of Bantu languages, but I do expect them to look up unfamiliar words. #linguistics

Having fun with some animal sounds for practice stimuli in our AXB task. 🔊sound on!

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering. Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch... Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I think the only hope is that eventually they’ll run so many ‘inconclusive’ UBI trials that everyone will de facto be on UBI even though they won’t ever decide to implement it.

This exists… At least I think it does?

Unalaska, Alaska - Wikipedia

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Space-station specific accents are going to be so cool.

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @hislopmd.bsky.social

Descartes gave us all the tools we need to survive in an era of misinformation. Simply begin with the understanding that you are real but everything else is fairly likely to be the cruel games of a demon sent to torment you specifically.