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I'll be attending LabPhon20 in Montreal from 26.06 to 29.06. Does anyone want to meet up? I'll be presenting an oral presentation on the 27th at 10:45 am.

The second CorpusPhon Workshop is up, a satellite event at Labphon 2026. Please check this out and submit your abstract! #corpusphonetics #phonetics #labphon2026 #corpusphon

Christian DiCanio@cdicanio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CorpusPhon2 up on @linguistlist.bsky.social #linguistics linguistlist.org/issues/37/753/

Chomsky on Foucault: “I'd never met anyone who was so totally amoral” I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship

Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein

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Work on Chinese tone/speech errors tends to show that speakers replace entire tones with different ones, e.g. tone /51/ instead of tone /213/. To me that has always meant a kind of holistic melody that is non-decomposable. That’s different from languages where contours are decomposable.

www.researchgate.net/publication/... Our paper on the nature of Changsha Xiang positional sensitive tone sandhi has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Phonetics.

(PDF) Tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in disyllabic sequences in Changsha Xiang

PDF | This study investigates tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in disyllabic sequences in Changsha Xiang, a Sinitic language with six lexical tones... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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🤯 Phonetic Universal Uncovered! 🎤 We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).

#statstab #465 How to embrace variation and accept uncertainty in linguistic and psycholinguistic data analysis Thoughts: An accessible paper on communicating your results with nuance. #bayes #bayesian #uncertainty #error #bias #guide #tutorial sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/resea...

🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner

ALT: a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner

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Excited to share our new preprint with @mzhang89.bsky.social : “A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration” 🎉 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bring back the iPod classic and the 3.5mm headphone jack

erika@yeeeerika.bsky.social · 2y ago

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I feel things corrected by Grammarly feel less AI-generated than those corrected by general AI tools (ChatGPT-like). Is it just my illusion?

🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️ Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution

✅Similarity scores: huggingface.co/datasets/pac... 📄Paper: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_... 💻Code: github.com/pacscilab/CV... 💫This was joint work with @mzhang89.bsky.social, Aref Farhadipour, Annie Baker, Jiachen Ma, and Bogdan Pricop

pacscilab/VoxCommunis at main

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal June 25–28, 2026, on the theme “Looking Back and Looking Forward,” to reflect on the field’s foundational contributions while highlighting new directions in laboratory phonology. Abstract submission deadline: Dec 1, 2025 labphon.org/labphon20/home

The similarity score file can be found in our VoxCommunis huggingface repo: huggingface.co/datasets/pac.... You can also see the scripts we used to obtain the similarity scores here: github.com/areffarhadi/...

pacscilab/VoxCommunis · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Miao Zhang@mzhang89.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We presented our attempt to clean the Common Voice client ID for phonetic analysis at Interspeech 2025. Please check the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... The paper is also available at: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

We presented our attempt to clean the Common Voice client ID for phonetic analysis at Interspeech 2025. Please check the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... The paper is also available at: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

(PDF) Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis

PDF | With its crosslinguistic and cross-speaker diversity, the Mozilla Common Voice Corpus (CV) has been a valuable resource for multilingual speech... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Introducing the tidynorm package! It's got convenience functions for applying your favorite vowel normalization methods to point measures, formant tracks, and DCT coefficients in a tidyverse workflow, as well as a flexible framework for defining your own normalization methods!

New insights into German #prosody! How do speakers & listeners distinguish utterance-medial vs. utterance-final #intonation boundaries in #German? Subtle differences in intonation, particularly in the rhyme's f0, are key cues for listeners. #LabPhon #openaccess #kinematics doi.org/10.16995/lab...

When people talk about neutralization in phonology, it's very important to check some phonetic data. It's very probable that we either didn't perceive it or overinterpreted some variance as non-natives.

ggplot2 is turning 18! 🎂 For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights. We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz! 📍 Posit Lounge (402) 📅 June 10, 6–8pm

arxiv.org/abs/2506.00733 Our Interspeech 2025 preprint.

Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis

With its crosslinguistic and cross-speaker diversity, the Mozilla Common Voice Corpus (CV) has been a valuable resource for multilingual speech technology and holds tremendous potential for research i...

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The debate doesn't exist in China, we just call it [ʈʂi˥ aɪ˥ ɛ˧˥fu]

nat alison@tesseralis.site · last yr.

GIF is actually pronounced [xif], where [x] is the voiceless velar fricative

In case people don't use it very often, or never knew its existence, glimpse() from dplyr is a much better function to use when you want to have a very rough look at your dataset than head() or summary().

youtu.be/cE3bK5XXbDc?... I recently gave a brief MFA tutorial.

MFA Workshop on 28 April 2025 | 张淼 Miao ZHANG | PAPPS | ZA JASRA

YouTube video by ZA JASRA (Linguistics)

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💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

I also use Zotero for most of my reading. Other than that, the Google Scholar PDF Reader extension is the best thing w.r.t how citations are handled: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/googl...

Google Scholar PDF Reader - Chrome Web Store

Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

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Very exciting news for PraatSauce users! We've just pushed a new version which fully rewrites the code base, making things faster and simpler to use. Instead of settings parameters in a bunch of Praat windows, you now set them in a spreadsheet file that looks like this github.com/kirbyj/praat...