Caitlin Halfacre

Duck Duck Go? I think their AI integration is optional

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

I was wrong, not /end
I think that tracks @joeystanley.com's original point - he was interpreting linking /r/ and removed it
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I think because in reading two different things they needed to sound different. And on reflection otherwise how would Lucy have heard that he was misbracketing?
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So I have linking /r/ (and generally intrusive /r/ too - and I think Lewis would have done) but always read this as a child as not having any [ɹ] realisation, so [spɛ: u:m/spɛ: ʔu:m]
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Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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I always tell students to give percentages 0-100 y-axes but chop off frequency measurements because human speech can't have a measure of 0, the bottom of the axis isn't anything meaningful

This is one of those examples where understanding the nature of the data, not just the numbers is important. Does 20 days (or insert equivalent difference here) mean anything in the scope of the y-axis units.

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My first solo author review came back the same week as a 52 student module submission, I'm honestly ignoring it for now...

lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".

stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/

Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)

The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

(and definitely being recommended to lab consult students at NCL from now!)

😲😍 - this is awesome! I don't have any quant teaching opportunities at the moment but have been seriously thinking that if I was to teach from bottom up I'd want to just start Bayesian but I'm not there on the skills to do that completely myself, absolutely on the teaching materials list

New nerdy game 😀

#Lingule #1314 "-ngxama": 1/6
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I don't, but if I was looking I'd start with Heike Pichler's work (just because I've worked with her so she always comes to mind first) - great list of publications here www.dipvac.org/dipvac-key-p...

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I did this today too...you can tell which era it was from by the *finger*

To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏

You sir, have won the internet for today, possibly for this year #tidyverse #dplyr #genzplyr #rstats

Our goal was therefore to engage with the classic & contemporary arguments given by folks in the child-innovator camp, specifically by reviewing (and crediting!) all those who worked hard to dispute their claims over the years. Hope that gives some clarity, alongside the obvious press release 'buzz'

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!

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#UKLVC15 you've been wonderful. Thank you to everyone who organised, presented, asked questions, had intelligent sensitive conversations...all the things. If that was my academic swansong (tbc), it was a pretty great one.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

#ManchesterVoices in the wild(ish). Maya Dewhurst is looking at nasal vowels in Blackpool and Manchester, based on folk and literature associations between nasal quality and Manchester accents. #UKLVC15

As a reader I appreciate a sentence like "A says X, but haven't taken into account Y, which means we can only rely on this as far as Z..." - having trained formally and phonetically quite separately it's really helpful actually having someone think through the crossover

Also because people will take your figures out and use them for teaching - so there'll be a whole load of students for whom that's their first (and often only) exposure to the paper

hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social