Aaron Braver 🐧

Everyone fighing over TIbble versus DF >| vs %>% Me: googling what mean means

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!

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...

Absolutely!

(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...

"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/...

Also, great names for stuff: “The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star”, “The Consorority of the Translocation”, “The Sodality”, “Ooioiaa”

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...

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)

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

Strikethrough lines on a phonological tree I am wondering how I can add some strikethrough lines on a phonological tree. Here is my code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{tikz-qtree} \usepackage{tipa} \begin{document...

Check out this solution with forest (scroll to "a forest solution"):
tex.stackexchange.com/a/379927

It defines a node style

I've used pst-asr with some success in the past: ctan.org/pkg/pst-asr

With parameter [xed=true] on an association line, it gives you the delinking "=" mark.

...If you can get pstricks to play nicely.

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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.

Comic Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens." Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?" Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!" Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

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1️⃣ for sure

sail.usc.edu/span/rtmri_i...

These are great! Do you have them all posted somewhere / can people use them in our courses / is there a way to cite them?

Apologies for my contributions ;)

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Distracted Boyfriend meme: ME looking away from WRITING THE DISCUSSION SECTION to ogle MAKING NEW RESULTS FIGURES

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

Yes, that's the general consensus view—you find clicks in Bantu languages that were spoken near Khoisan languages, but less so elsewhere.

(For one take, see: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...)

Side note for the non p-siders in the audience: The adoption of the click as [k] in English makes a lot of sense, since clicks have a rear velar closure.

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...