Holger Mitterer

Baby sagt sein erstes Wort und diskriminiert damit mehrere Minderheiten Nach mehreren Wochen, in denen er nur unzusammenhängende Silben von sich gegeben hatte, hat der kleine Elias Kühne aus Potsdam heute sein erstes Wort gesprochen. Keine gute Entscheidung – denn…

Baby sagt sein erstes Wort und diskriminiert damit mehrere Minderheiten www.der-postillon.com/2018/02/baby...

Searching for reviewers, I just found a recent paper in the journal I'm editing for — on almost exactly my topic. Cool! Less cool: the author has opted out of reviewing for the journal. If you're publishing in a venue, you should be willing to review for it. Or is Kant too much of an old white man?

Unequal treatment under the flaw: race, crime & retractions - Current Psychology Disciplines in social and behavioral science have become increasingly committed to promoting social justice activism at the expense of viewpoint diversity. The present study documents the impact of th...

Aangezien dat er duidelijke aanwijzingen zijn dat er echt iets mis is (maar een voorbeeld van velen: doi.org/10.1007/s121...), lijkt het mij aannemelijk dat jij het inderdaad mis hebt.

Adventures in /Ɂ/ The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...

What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess

Definitely, there is not necessarily an overlap in people, but social constructivism has made it acceptable to consider multiple truths a thing. I'd go even further and argue that Trump was only possible due to what social constructivism has unleashed.

I'd say "cynical theories" by Pluckrose et al.

Constructivism allows the concept of multiple truths, thereby enabling to push aside any data that don't fit with the theory by saying that there are alternative facts.

For all those here dreaming of socialism, come to Malta where there's only one functional bank. It takes me an hour to deposit a cheque... that's a reality cheque for what you get without competition.

So there is this weird pattern of discrimination (definitely explicit, no IAT needed) in the Maltese rental market. Maltese landlords often reject prospective tenants that are .. (drumroll).... Maltese. Never heard that one before.

PvdD en links? Sinds wanneer? Anthropomorphisierende romantici zijn eerder rechts.

New paper alert:

In my latest paper in BRM, I validate a gamified mouse-tracking task that’s been my go-to for the last years. Perfect for online studies without tricky calibration needed for eye-tracking!

rdcu.be/eKsMo

So, I enjoyed a really nice version of the Magic Flute yesterday in Manoel theatre in Valletta. However, hearing the main Mcguffin being called the Zauberflote took some getting used to. (Ok, this one is for opera loving L2 phonologists, small target audience).

But it s completely outdated on Categorical Perception....

Mir fehlte die Option, dass das die Schuld der Grünen ist!

Going to be a Bayesian nitpicker here, re the body-image study. The fact that some tests were ns does NOT mean they were inconsistent with the hypothesis. For any study, if we have 50% power and half of the tests are significant, this is in fact very STRONG evidence for the underyling hypothesis.

This thread was useful (=close to maximal praise in German)

Why younger Maltese people are now rolling their Rs less A study of recordings of 60 Maltese speakers finds signs of a generation divide

There's an advantage to work in a small (really small, bro) country. It's not that difficult to make it into the main national newspaper:
timesofmalta.com/article/why-...

Bike cleaning day. If I bring out the bike stand, let's make that count.

We'll have a last minute poster at 'r-atics 8 that shows that Maltese listeners, who are used to both trilled and approximants rhotics, associate both with roughness to the same degree.

While everyone is on about how good AI is, Google Scholar suggests to me to add a publication to my profile called
"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics".

I am honored to have (co-)authored the institue, but I will keep away from automatic profile updates for now.

I was using forced alignment short utterances from a speech-production experiment. Using recordings that had been noise-reduced, the results were unusuable, so I tried the original, noisy recordings. Those worked very well.

Can anyone here explain why noise-reduction makes forced-alignment worse?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder I was asked to keep this confidential

I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

Did I mention that I do triathlon?
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

This one is much better:

NLP = Natural Language Processing
NLP = Neuro-Lingusitic Programming

(just in case anyone is wondering, the latter, despite being called programming, has nothing to do with coding)

That piano break from MiTierra

Generting images for eye-tracking via API requests Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Most visual-world eye-tracking study need hundreds of images. That's quite a laborious task. Sine openAI can generate images (chatGPT + Dall-E), I managed to batch generate images via an R-script, which I shared via osf (osf.io/apcyb/). I hope this is helpful.

Fancy a trip to Malta during the best time of the year there?
- Submit an abstract to 'r-atics 8, to be held in Valletta 22-23 May.
- Extended deadline: 21st of January
www.um.edu.mt/research/cog...

Question on the ethics of using ChatGPT in science writing.

As an L2 speaker of English, I sometimes find a sentence not sounds well. In that case, I ask ChatGPT to reformulate (providing the original sentence).
Is that cheating or OK?
Do I need to disclose this at submission (Elsevier asks...)?

One issue with X is that it seems rather naive to me to assume that the algorithm is not rigged to favour the political opinions of Elon Musk. To me, X is quite likely-just has been shown for TikTok-a propaganda machine. I'd pre-register that prediction!