Christian DiCanio
@cdicanio.bsky.social
Phonetician and linguist studying prosody and indigenous languages of Mexico / Fonetista y lingüista que estudia idiomas indígenas de México. University at Buffalo. He - él - il - sij³. 🏳️🌈
Also ttrpg (rifts, d&d)
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdicanio
Also ttrpg (rifts, d&d)
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdicanio
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My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
I wish more people posted about linguistics on bsky. Even if I try to follow all linguists, people end up talking about politics all the time. When #bsky is just another ragebait or anxietybait machine, people avoid it.
I care about politics of course, but I try to have boundaries too.
I care about politics of course, but I try to have boundaries too.
It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
December 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I wish more people posted about linguistics on bsky. Even if I try to follow all linguists, people end up talking about politics all the time. When #bsky is just another ragebait or anxietybait machine, people avoid it.
I care about politics of course, but I try to have boundaries too.
I care about politics of course, but I try to have boundaries too.
Clothing shopping is terrible when you are over 40 and a bit out of shape. I don't know what person invented the idea that gay men must all like it.
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Clothing shopping is terrible when you are over 40 and a bit out of shape. I don't know what person invented the idea that gay men must all like it.
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"Ellison is currently making a hostile bid to ... acquire the media behemoth Warner Bros. Discovery. ... the president has used recent episodes of 60 Minutes to suggest he is displeased with Mr. Ellison’s stewardship of CBS."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
"Ellison is currently making a hostile bid to ... acquire the media behemoth Warner Bros. Discovery. ... the president has used recent episodes of 60 Minutes to suggest he is displeased with Mr. Ellison’s stewardship of CBS."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Carmen quietly meditates on Paul's half-graded calculus exams as they happened to be lying in the sun this morning. I do not believe she helped with grading otherwise.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Carmen quietly meditates on Paul's half-graded calculus exams as they happened to be lying in the sun this morning. I do not believe she helped with grading otherwise.
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Leaving aside their role in aiding a research workflow with segmentation, have MFCCs taught us anything about speech production or perception? They're not acoustic cues for production or perception. The brain selectively attends to different aspects of the spectrum, not an undifferentiated whole.
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Leaving aside their role in aiding a research workflow with segmentation, have MFCCs taught us anything about speech production or perception? They're not acoustic cues for production or perception. The brain selectively attends to different aspects of the spectrum, not an undifferentiated whole.
In this writing and reviewing season, I would like to kindly remind linguists to not hide your data or your observations behind what you think is "the main theoretical point of the paper." Cursory data and description are the linguistic impostor syndrome in writing. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In this writing and reviewing season, I would like to kindly remind linguists to not hide your data or your observations behind what you think is "the main theoretical point of the paper." Cursory data and description are the linguistic impostor syndrome in writing. 1/2
Submitted my labphon abstract (with my student Mariana). I am actually quite excited for both LabPhon and the 2nd Corpus Phonetics conference to be in Montreal this coming June. I’m helping co-organize CorpusPhon again with @echodroff.bsky.social, @mzhang89.bsky.social, and @chenzi.bsky.social.
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Submitted my labphon abstract (with my student Mariana). I am actually quite excited for both LabPhon and the 2nd Corpus Phonetics conference to be in Montreal this coming June. I’m helping co-organize CorpusPhon again with @echodroff.bsky.social, @mzhang89.bsky.social, and @chenzi.bsky.social.
What does it take to convince Americans that immigrants, regardless of their status in this country, are not bad people? that they commit crime at half the rate as non-immigrants? that they are 80-90% of the agricultural workforce? that they improve depressed communities? 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
What does it take to convince Americans that immigrants, regardless of their status in this country, are not bad people? that they commit crime at half the rate as non-immigrants? that they are 80-90% of the agricultural workforce? that they improve depressed communities? 1/2
Out now. Obstruent singletons are usually associated w/function words and geminates w/content words, but this is less true for sonorants. So, the contrast in the former class becomes weaker. It's here where the length contrast has been lost in other varieties.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus - Christian DiCanio, Jared Sharp, 2025
Itunyoso Triqui (Otomanguean: Mexico) has a typologically uncommon contrast between singleton and geminate consonants which occurs only in word-initial position...
journals.sagepub.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Out now. Obstruent singletons are usually associated w/function words and geminates w/content words, but this is less true for sonorants. So, the contrast in the former class becomes weaker. It's here where the length contrast has been lost in other varieties.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I started looking at #bsky again just to realize that it’s mostly doomscrolling. Like, I want to follow informed people who care about things in the world, but when every post is “look, we’re f4kt!” then I kind of want to hide and avoid panic. Can't we communicate better?
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I started looking at #bsky again just to realize that it’s mostly doomscrolling. Like, I want to follow informed people who care about things in the world, but when every post is “look, we’re f4kt!” then I kind of want to hide and avoid panic. Can't we communicate better?
A recent presentation here. I have a few recent talks and a paper too, but I suppose I’m most interested in feedback from this since it’s not primarily on phonetics/phonology. It reflects what is a fairly fleshed-out outline of Ch.15 of my grammar. #linguistics
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Triqui Information structure
PDF | An overview of information structure in Itunyoso Triqui, with particular attention on methods of topicalization, the complex pronominal clitic... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
www.researchgate.net
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A recent presentation here. I have a few recent talks and a paper too, but I suppose I’m most interested in feedback from this since it’s not primarily on phonetics/phonology. It reflects what is a fairly fleshed-out outline of Ch.15 of my grammar. #linguistics
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Field research doesn’t run at the speed of research where there are “breakthrough advances”, especially when you are taking your time trying to properly understand things. We’re taught to pay lots of attention to the latter, but the former requires more patience. Can we reward patience? How?
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Field research doesn’t run at the speed of research where there are “breakthrough advances”, especially when you are taking your time trying to properly understand things. We’re taught to pay lots of attention to the latter, but the former requires more patience. Can we reward patience? How?
What if the great barrier (part of the Fermi paradox) is not about technological advancement, but instead about civilizations ultimately destroying themselves because of the greed and hoarding of the ultra-wealthy?
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What if the great barrier (part of the Fermi paradox) is not about technological advancement, but instead about civilizations ultimately destroying themselves because of the greed and hoarding of the ultra-wealthy?
Whenever I look up anything on multinomial regression...
(1) Uh, we should have used it, but we binarized everything instead
(2) Here it is! Run this code. What's a random effect?
...
(1) Uh, we should have used it, but we binarized everything instead
(2) Here it is! Run this code. What's a random effect?
...
September 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Whenever I look up anything on multinomial regression...
(1) Uh, we should have used it, but we binarized everything instead
(2) Here it is! Run this code. What's a random effect?
...
(1) Uh, we should have used it, but we binarized everything instead
(2) Here it is! Run this code. What's a random effect?
...
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There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.
Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.
Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Two UB biomedical engineering students from Sri Lanka were taken by ICE in Williamsville today. @ubuffalo.bsky.social
Fucking ICE just disappeared two of our neighbors from their car; they had the courtesy to put the car back in the driveway , but left their 5 lb dog inside the house to die. Is America great again now‽ #MAGA
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two UB biomedical engineering students from Sri Lanka were taken by ICE in Williamsville today. @ubuffalo.bsky.social
Our short vacation in Rhode Island has been nice, but the food here is really underwhelming. Newport is just expensive and mediocre. It could be good if it weren't so white everywhere.
August 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Our short vacation in Rhode Island has been nice, but the food here is really underwhelming. Newport is just expensive and mediocre. It could be good if it weren't so white everywhere.
Nice article by @jrkasstan.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Nice article by @jrkasstan.bsky.social
The magenta dragon came out well. It's hard to get a good angle of the eyes though.
August 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The magenta dragon came out well. It's hard to get a good angle of the eyes though.
Husband sees flashlight on Kohl's website (he is addicted to Kohls cash) only to discover that Torchy300 is underwhelmingly smaller than advertised.
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Husband sees flashlight on Kohl's website (he is addicted to Kohls cash) only to discover that Torchy300 is underwhelmingly smaller than advertised.
So, with the orange enemy-of-the-people firing the director of the bureau of labor statistics, what public sources on the US economy should the engaged public utilize instead? Aren’t there institutes who track these things themselves? Advice @epi.org, @economist.com? #econsky #publiceconomics
August 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
So, with the orange enemy-of-the-people firing the director of the bureau of labor statistics, what public sources on the US economy should the engaged public utilize instead? Aren’t there institutes who track these things themselves? Advice @epi.org, @economist.com? #econsky #publiceconomics