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Uriel Cohen Priva
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Linguists seem to believe that modeling an effect using random effects causes the estimation to be very different than using fixed effects, because random effects are assumed to be normally distributed. Usually, the estimates are (almost) identical, regardless of the actual distribution.
The R code shown is: g <- 1:200 |> as.character() g.x <- 2**rnorm(length(g)) n <- 10**4 y <- rnorm(n) + g.x d <- data.frame(y, g) m.lmer <- lmer(y ~ 0 + (1 | g), d) m.lm <- lm(y ~ 0 + g, d) cor(coefficients(m.lm), ranef(m.lmer)$g[,1]) and the result is 1 (the two perfectly match) The following R code: g <- 1:200 |> as.character() g.x <- runif(length(g)) n <- 10**4 y <- rnorm(n) + g.x d <- data.frame(y, g) m.lmer <- lmer(y ~ 0 + (1 | g), d) m.lm <- lm(y ~ 0 + g, d) cor(coefficients(m.lm), ranef(m.lmer)$g[,1]) The result is again 1 R code: g <- 1:200 |> as.character() g.x <- c(runif(length(g)/2, 1000, 1100), runif(length(g)/2, 0, 100)) n <- 10**4 y <- rnorm(n) + g.x d <- data.frame(y, g) m.lmer <- lmer(y ~ 0 + (1 | g), d) m.lm <- lm(y ~ 0 + g, d) cor(coefficients(m.lm), ranef(m.lmer)$g[,1]) Again, the correlation is 1, despite the very non-normal distribution
July 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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So sad to hear of Ian Maddieson's passing. He was an amazing linguist but also an inspiring instructor and a big part of why I went into phonetics. I've always been in awe of the depth and breadth of his knowledge of the most obscure languages and will miss his kindness and wit. RIP, Ian~ 🐦🐦
Ian Maddieson at Berkeley Linguistics' commencement, with Rebecca Cover and Charles Chang
February 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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cdicanio.bsky.social
New #labphon publication out today. I was happy to help this one along.

www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
Contrastive vowel length and segment duration in production and perception in Djambarrpuyŋu
This paper deals with segment duration and phonological length in production and perception in the Australian language Djambarrpuyŋu. It provides an acoustic phonetic account of vowel and consonant du...
www.journal-labphon.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Her 8yo bilingualness:

/hameil oʊnli χosemz et hakor/
'the-coat only blocks+z ACC the-cold'

That's a double decker code switch
January 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
You can now share our Linguist List post as well!

Open area Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown, deadline February first

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December 12, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Brown's Program in Linguistics (that us!) is searching for a Visiting Assistant Professor (open field). One year appointment, possibly renewable, 2:2 teaching load, February 1st deadline

Please apply / retweet / forward

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December 11, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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The search for new (co-)editor of Language has started! Please circulate widely. And do reach out if you have questions and/or are interested in applying. I did this job for six years — it was hard work, but also very rewarding.
Journal Language Seeks Next Co-Editor
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December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Goodness, you had to ruin this website too.
May 2, 2024 at 8:25 AM
There's no symbol for uvular approximants in the IPA. How about /ᴙ/?
April 5, 2024 at 1:38 PM
A student once had me prove to the entire class that schwa and ʌ are not the same.
March 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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echodroff.bsky.social
Incredible and comprehensive introduction to stats and R for linguists by Jessamyn Schertz! 👩‍💻📈

R bookdown link here: individual.utoronto.ca/jschertz/tea...
January 9, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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coatless.bsky.social
Exciting {quarto-webr} double feature update! 🚀

Changes (v0.3.8/9):
🚀 Turbocharged with webR v0.2.2
👋 No more `webr-*worker.js`
📦 Autoload packages
🌈 Colored STDOUT/STDERR output
🎨 CSS Classes
🔮 Prelim RevealJS support

👉 github.com/coatless/qua...

#quarto #rstats #webr 🌟
The GIF showcases different use cases of webR inside of RevealJS through the quarto-webr extension.
November 17, 2023 at 3:25 AM
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NSF is searching for a “rotator” Program Director for Linguistics. If you're interested in learning more about this opportunity to work with a fantastic team and serve language scientists across the country — reach out with questions! new.nsf.gov/careers/open...
Behavioral Scientist (Program Director)
We seek a Program Director who can cultivate a portfolio that addresses all aspects of Linguistics and human language sciences, including language infrastructure and the science of documenting endange...
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November 14, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Israel news item (related to politics, but isn't really). The situation in Gaza *increased* Israeli Palestinians' (that is, Arab Israeli citizens) identification with the state of Israel, by a huge margin. I just hope Israel doesn't squander that sentiment as it always does. The alt text translates.
A figure that shows Jewish and Palestinian / Arab Israeli citizens over time. Identification is fairly solid for Jews, but shifted from around 85% to 94% between June and November. For Palestinian / Arab Israeli citizens it jumped from 40% in June to 70% in November, and has only been that high in 2005 (the year Israel pulled out of Gaza) but never since. Margin of error is 4%
November 10, 2023 at 2:32 AM
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kmahowald.bsky.social
DEADLINE EXTENSION! If you wanted to submit to the special issue of Journal of Memory and Langauge on Language Models and Psycholing but just missed, good news: we will be accepting Stage 1 (one pager!) until Nov 15. sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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November 1, 2023 at 10:25 PM
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betsysneller.bsky.social
Cohen Priva & Gafter: the actuation of unstressed /a/-raising in Modern Hebrew

Low vowels raise (centralize) when not stressed (/i/ and /u/ don't show a difference in F1-F2 by stress)

#NWAV51
October 13, 2023 at 8:04 PM
I should not have logged in to Bluesky today. I'd rather not know what some of you think.
October 10, 2023 at 11:44 AM