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
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.
Carmen is enjoying summer.
August 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Carmen is enjoying summer.
My husband got me the gayest socks.
July 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My husband got me the gayest socks.
Below is cepstral peak prominence, plotted by time for different human-tagged glottal categories. This reflects about 6,000 Triqui tokens of non-glottalized (coded NA) vs. post-glottalized vowels (/aʔ/).
This plot demonstrates a LOT of important findings from my work with a grad student. 1/n
This plot demonstrates a LOT of important findings from my work with a grad student. 1/n
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Below is cepstral peak prominence, plotted by time for different human-tagged glottal categories. This reflects about 6,000 Triqui tokens of non-glottalized (coded NA) vs. post-glottalized vowels (/aʔ/).
This plot demonstrates a LOT of important findings from my work with a grad student. 1/n
This plot demonstrates a LOT of important findings from my work with a grad student. 1/n
Take my course at the LSA summer institute this summer! (I actually have no idea how many people are going to register.)
June 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Take my course at the LSA summer institute this summer! (I actually have no idea how many people are going to register.)
Is hot. Resting. Resting. Sleep. Curl up.
June 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is hot. Resting. Resting. Sleep. Curl up.
Carmen taunting you to touch her belly.
They're actors.
They're actors.
May 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Carmen taunting you to touch her belly.
They're actors.
They're actors.
I don't recommend breaking a finger. I think the worse outcome for this is needing to be on antibiotics for the next 10 days.
May 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I don't recommend breaking a finger. I think the worse outcome for this is needing to be on antibiotics for the next 10 days.
I spent 5 minutes on bsky and I am not filled with feelings of doom! That’s good. Anyways, I painted a dragon and I’m really proud of it! Look! #ttrpg
March 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I spent 5 minutes on bsky and I am not filled with feelings of doom! That’s good. Anyways, I painted a dragon and I’m really proud of it! Look! #ttrpg
What ends up occurring can be a very brief aperiodic portion of the signal -or- something that looks canonically like periodic non-modal phonation (the kind in textbooks) depending on its duration.
You can of course also just get subtle f0 and amplitude dips (cf. Gerfen and Baker, 2005).
13/n
You can of course also just get subtle f0 and amplitude dips (cf. Gerfen and Baker, 2005).
13/n
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What ends up occurring can be a very brief aperiodic portion of the signal -or- something that looks canonically like periodic non-modal phonation (the kind in textbooks) depending on its duration.
You can of course also just get subtle f0 and amplitude dips (cf. Gerfen and Baker, 2005).
13/n
You can of course also just get subtle f0 and amplitude dips (cf. Gerfen and Baker, 2005).
13/n
The literature has the view that vocal fry is this long duration thing that spans over a syllable. That’s because the sociophoneticians are looking at it in languages where it is non-contrastive. We talk about it in English and it spans over whole words.
Here’s one Triqui example of it.
11/n
Here’s one Triqui example of it.
11/n
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The literature has the view that vocal fry is this long duration thing that spans over a syllable. That’s because the sociophoneticians are looking at it in languages where it is non-contrastive. We talk about it in English and it spans over whole words.
Here’s one Triqui example of it.
11/n
Here’s one Triqui example of it.
11/n
Here’s another example of aperiodicity with f0 tracking below. Note that we have very reasonable f0 tracking settings.
One of the issues that comes up here is just how we define “aperiodic” vs. “vocal fry” or “periodic.”
10/n
One of the issues that comes up here is just how we define “aperiodic” vs. “vocal fry” or “periodic.”
10/n
February 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Here’s another example of aperiodicity with f0 tracking below. Note that we have very reasonable f0 tracking settings.
One of the issues that comes up here is just how we define “aperiodic” vs. “vocal fry” or “periodic.”
10/n
One of the issues that comes up here is just how we define “aperiodic” vs. “vocal fry” or “periodic.”
10/n
But here is a production which is labelled “aperiodic” and f0 is still being tracked. In fact, there is hardly any f0 dip here. It doesn’t look like vocal fry mainly because there seems to be a greater loss in periodicity.
9/n
9/n
February 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
But here is a production which is labelled “aperiodic” and f0 is still being tracked. In fact, there is hardly any f0 dip here. It doesn’t look like vocal fry mainly because there seems to be a greater loss in periodicity.
9/n
9/n
What this means is that decisions regarding the type of voice quality variation you observe are somewhat independent of whether f0 is tracked.
Here is one example that I have tagged as “aperiodic” and we observe that f0 is no longer tracked well…
8/n
Here is one example that I have tagged as “aperiodic” and we observe that f0 is no longer tracked well…
8/n
February 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What this means is that decisions regarding the type of voice quality variation you observe are somewhat independent of whether f0 is tracked.
Here is one example that I have tagged as “aperiodic” and we observe that f0 is no longer tracked well…
8/n
Here is one example that I have tagged as “aperiodic” and we observe that f0 is no longer tracked well…
8/n
The idea is that the user specify what they observe from the signal without assigning just one “label” to the realization. Shown here is an example with what appears to be canonical vocal fry (cf. Keating et al. 2015), but we specify whether f0 is no longer tracked and other details.
6/n
6/n
February 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The idea is that the user specify what they observe from the signal without assigning just one “label” to the realization. Shown here is an example with what appears to be canonical vocal fry (cf. Keating et al. 2015), but we specify whether f0 is no longer tracked and other details.
6/n
6/n
From another era... central park in 2002. I can't pull off the spiked haircut anymore, but I used to.
January 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
From another era... central park in 2002. I can't pull off the spiked haircut anymore, but I used to.
I can not download the app though from flathub. It's the same error as before.
December 17, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I can not download the app though from flathub. It's the same error as before.
Maybe a summary of my settings helps?
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Maybe a summary of my settings helps?
These were already selected. I checked and re-opened. No dice so far.
December 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM
These were already selected. I checked and re-opened. No dice so far.
So, when I try Debian instead, it still only brings up the UEFI boot options. This is the problem I had with Ubuntu, so I wonder if it's not about the distro, but about Virtualbox on new macs running Sequoia.
December 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM
So, when I try Debian instead, it still only brings up the UEFI boot options. This is the problem I had with Ubuntu, so I wonder if it's not about the distro, but about Virtualbox on new macs running Sequoia.
