They gave me a scroll yesterday! In Latin!

RT @LabPhon: Vowel & consonant duration vary inversely in Australian #Yolngu language Djambarrpuyŋu, so what’s contrastive? A pair of produ….

Introducing Grok Imagine.

When you're done with that, as a treat, you can also check out the paper that she and I did for SST on vowel duration patterns in contexts where length is *not* contrastive.

Check out Katie Jepson's cool new LabPhon paper which teases apart the influence of vowel and consonant duration on the perception & production of phonological vowel length!.

Got carried away, more highlighting options coming soon to an R package store near you! shown here in pink for that authentic Praat feeling!

There are also signal-specific arguments for making just the pitch, or formant contour, or whatever stand out. This is also implemented in the Shiny app. Have fun plotting! (3/3)

The main new thing is the 'highlight' argument for making portions of signals stand out with a different color, point size, or similar. This can be done by specifying exact times or by matching labels in a TextGrid (2/3)

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

Try it out! Let me know if anything doesn't work! Enjoy some nice REAPER-predicted glottal closure instants!

REAPER is a command line tool that outputs raw text, which can be a hurdle for installing & using if you're not used to that sort of thing. The R library helps with installing & calling REAPER, importing the output to R, and converting REAPER output to a Praat-readable format.

In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech)

I've received funding from @Carlsbergfondet for the Category-shifting Change in Real Time Project, where I'll track small incremental sound changes with major linguistic consequences in a large longitudinal corpus! I'm very excited and grateful to be able to pursue this!.

RT @masonderegger: Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill….

RT @NC_Renic: if academics are so smart why can't they connect to eduroam?.

Praat: a language and environment for statistical computing

RT @tamarathcke: We have a job opening for a professor of Romance linguistics (with focus on Italian) - come join us @UniKonstanz @Konstanz….

I am so so honored and grateful that this paper has been selected for the JPhon ECR Article of the Year award!

Finally -- SoE/strength of harmonic excitation in Praat!

RT @bstorme2: The Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) is taking place at the U. of Amsterdam in 2025. And Leiden is hosting a satellite….

PSA: R packages on CRAN now have DOIs (fx 10.32614/CRAN.package.ggplot2)! Huge development for people who want to cite R packages in papers but think regular URLs in reference lists are not aesthetically pleasing.

RT @dorrego: Hey @AstonUniversity,.Glad you're improving your staff-student ratio. However, I'd appreciate it if you didn't use my face to….