Zixuan Jia
zixuanjia.bsky.social
Zixuan Jia
@zixuanjia.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Auckland
Speech, Music, and Brain
Formerly @MUC @UoEdinburgh @Chinese Academy of Social Science @HKPolyU
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@thecharleywu.bsky.social is giving our second tutorial explaining how we can study complex social behaviour through computational models. As always, code and demo are available in the website! cosmossummerschool.github.io/notebooks/tu...
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure.

In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson.

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The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity
Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🎶 Excited to share our first Stage 2 manuscript - the Mandarin results from our Many Voices 3 project! Led by me, supervised by @patrickesavage.bsky.social and Suzanne Purdy
📖Our paper replicated the cross-cultural speech-song acoustic differences reported by @yutoozaki.bsky.social. osf.io/gwavn_v1
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning.

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
December 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM