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

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.

🤯 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...

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

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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

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/...

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_...

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.

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

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.

💣 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...

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...

I’m thrilled to announce that our paper, Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis, coauthored with @echodroff.bsky.social, Aref Farhadipour, Jiachen Ma, Annie Baker and Bogdan Pricop from @cl-uzh.bsky.social was accepted for INTERSPEECH2025.

When running ANOVAs in #R, use car::Anova(). aov() and anova() use Type I sums of squares, meaning that order matters, which can distort results in unbalanced designs. car::Anova() is safer because it uses Type II sums of squares by default), each effect is adjusted for all the other effects.

When you train an acoustic model for a tone language with tone labels in the phone set, do you keep the underlying tone label or the surface tone label?

I feel that the world I was familiar with before the pandemic will never return.

Non-Sinitic tone languages are heavily underrepresented in existing speech corpora.

an immodest moment: I think aligned-textgrid is the best package out there for programmatically working with Praat textgrids, and I wrote a *lot* of docs (all put together into one pdf, it's 93 pages)

Never thought I would watch America collapse before China does one day.

I’ll tweet more frequently here I guess?

Sinitic tonology stuff almost always cite Wu, Min languages, as if other Sinitic languages do not exist.

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My entire digestive system feels totally different after the acute pancreatitis I got last month. I now eat only as 40% as I could eat before

Are people still using the "locus equation concept" (the slope of F2 change from the onset to the target of the following vowel) to investigate the place contrasts in obstruents?

Are there anybody who has tried running Bayesian hierarchical model with three layers of nested random structure on a large data set (over 10m rows)?

How does the mind process language so efficiently, even with gaps or errors in what we hear? In this Abralin talk, @fernandaedi.bsky.social presents research on how we handle ambiguity, prioritize essential details, and make sense of sentences in real time. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfP...

If you're interested in trying out LLMs in #rstats but don't know where to begin, I've added a few two vignettes to elmer: elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/elm... and elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/pro...

#statstab #225 An introduction to identifying statistical outliers in R with {easystats} Thoughts: Everyone knows outliers are detected by a z-score > 3! But if you wanna be "modern" try the {performance} pkg. #outliers #r #rstats #bias #zscores #robusr link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🚀 Excited to share findings from our new study on the intonation of focus in Seoul Korean, now published in Journal of Phonetics! A thread🧵 1/8

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www.zhihu.com/column/c_138... I have a small online Praat scripting tutorial written in Chinese. If you have students from China who want to begin to learn it with some content in their own language, please feel free to share!

If your students are learning R but haven't read R for Data Science by Hadley Wickman yet, I suggest you recommend the book. It's one of the best programming textbooks ever written, in my opinion (no matter what programming language it is).

Can’t believe the first Spider-Man movie was 20y ago.

New {paletteer} release dropped over the weekend! 159 color palettes have been added from vangogh, ButterflyColors, MoMAColors, PrettyCols, waRhol, MexBrewer, and ltc. Bringing the total to 2759 palettes from 75 different packages 🎨 #rstats github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

⚠️⚠️New Blog Post!⚠️⚠️ Centering in Moderation Analysis: A Guide I talk about: how to center variables (including categorical variables!), when you need to use it (moderation analysis, ANOVA) and how to do it (with easystats's {datawizard})! #rstats