Calle Börstell

Big math the size of a small math

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗪𝟮)

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... based of the Swedish "(två)ställig". I would often sign ARGUMENT and then add some depicting sign with WORD (baby-C) to illustrate the construction. Always a tradeoff between meaningful depiction and directly linking to source terminology.

There's ofc a lot of linguistics terminology that doesn't really fit the concept at face value. I think the STS strategy has been to either calque or fs, or come up with a meaningful sign. 'Transitive' got its own sign during my PhD, probably because it was discussed often enough, but it was ...

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

A histogram spanning from 20 to 50 years old on the x axis, with a slightly left-skewed distribution with a mode at 37. Title reads "How old is Calle? Simulated distribution based on students' guesses".

Teaching about distributions on your birthday and asking your students to (anonymously) guess your age as an in-class activity.

Apparently I'm approximately this old:

Does anyone know a copy editor who specializes in editing phonetics and phonology paper? I need their service. I don't want to pay any company #linguistics #language #phonology

In STS, I've only ever seen and used the sign ARGUMENT (which looks like NTS EKSEMPEL).

In international contexts, I've fingerspelled ARG.

Signed language linguists, what sign do you use for argument when you’re talking about argument structure? There isn’t a specific sign in Norwegian SL, so would love your thoughts 🙏

What a year, huh?

Captain, it's February

What a year, huh?

Captain, it's February

Mange tak! I've written stuff just like that before, that checks the input and functions accordingly. To me that makes it very easy to use, but since I may be aiming for CRAN with this one, I'd like to make things as clean and by-the-book as possible.

And I feel like I've seen some simple read function that could in fact also be pointed at a directory or at least input a vector of files, but I cannot find it so perhaps it's just the stuff I've written myself in the past (which may be bad practice) 🙃

Thanks! I think the goal for me is a wrapper for (the many) users who don't know how to iterate over files, so they could instead point it at a directory and the wrapper iterates over files with a set extension. This is handy when the files are nested in subfolders, so potentially recursive search.

Are there any best practices in #RStats package development for:

(a) letting a file-reading function accept either a single file or directory input and reading iteratively/recursively in the latter?

(b) writing a separate wrapper that reads files iteratively/recursively?

Are there any best practices in #RStats package development for:

(a) letting a file-reading function accept either a single file or directory input and reading iteratively/recursively in the latter?

(b) writing a separate wrapper that reads files iteratively/recursively?

If they were kind enough to set you up with rlepic-4278 for your 14th EM account, the least you can do is fill out your full name, title, work & private addresses and phone numbers, areas of expertise, links to social media and ORCID and confirm a new password 3x, to decline & give them 5 new names.

Makes it fun to figure out the derived forms:

utgift 'expense'
eftergift 'concession'
uppgift 'piece of info'
ingift 'married into'
bortgift 'married off'
motgift 'antidote'

I've definitely written "reaserch" at least 100 times in my life.

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#RStats

✅️ 🐋 have vowels
✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs
❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test
❓️ 🦙 do center embedding
❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths

#linguistics

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How do sighs, gasps and laughter regulate the way we speak?

Prof Richard Ogden has received AHRC and DFG funding for a new project, 'Brevit'. The team will use respiratory technology to analyse breathing behaviour in conversation.

Read more: www.york.ac.uk/langu...

#langsky

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

👉 Optimality Theory
👉🥌 🇨🇦Optimality Theory🇨🇦

#linguistics

A graph with the title "Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ: Data from 1935–2024 by 5-year averages" on a light blue background with a pale green area resembling land. The x-axis shows years by 5-year increments and the y-axis shows the rounded number of sheep per people. Between 1935 and 1980, the ratio is about 20:1, but then rapidly dropping to about 5:1 in the 2020s. The top corner shows an outline of Aotearoa. Caption reads: "Packages: {tidyverse, marquee, patchwork, rnaturalearth, rvest}; Data: StatsNZ & Statista via TidyTuesday & Wikipedia; Visualization: C. Börstell"

Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for #TidyTuesday

🐑:👤 🇳🇿🌿

#R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction In this paper, we investigate multimodal recipient feedback in casual dyadic conversation in four languages: German Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, spoken German, and spoken Russian. Taking a mo...

Bauer, A. & Gipper, S. & Herrmann, T.-A. & Hosemann, J.. 2026. Rethinking linguistic feedback: A modality-agnostic and holistic approach to multimodal addressee signals in spoken and signed dyadic interaction. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–50.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

A two-sided bar chart showing the average number of medals won per Olympic Games: top 10 countries by most winter medals won relative to summer medals. Austria and Norway are the only two countries for which the mean number of medals per games is higher for winter games than summer games

Bananas are green,
not fully ripe.
Forget {magrittr}
I love native pipe |>

Roses are red,
violets are blue.
The {dplyr} update
lets you filter_out() too