Your dissertation has the word "prosody" in the title!!

If you have no idea what praatpicture is but you think it looks cool, you can learn more here! 3/3
rpuggaardrode.github.io/praatpicture...

- and you can now highlight different parts of figures in different ways (thanks to Josie Riverin-Coutlée!) 2/3

praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3

As the man himself pointed out, "nobody knows how to pronounce Ladefoged". This is true! But we're working on it!

Colleages @fburroni.bsky.social @aleeseblock.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out what the exact outcome of /d/-vocalization actually is, and our work amazingly won the Peter Ladefoged award at this year's BAAP! Thanks for this, it's a great honor! 2/2

Fun fact, the name Ladefoged is Danish. It's notoriously difficult to pronounce in Danish, because the 2nd and 4th syllables are both "soft d's", the bizarre outcome of a historical /d/-vocalization process. 1/2

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech Processing Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech ProcessingDepartment: Phonetics Laboratory / Linguistics and English LanguageLocation: Bailrigg, Lancaster, UKSalary: £39,906 (pro-rata if part...

I’m hiring an 18-month postdoc to work on physics-informed machine learning for acoustic-articulatory speech inversion at
@phoneticslab.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline: Friday 10 April.

🔗 More info & applications: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Ditto Denmark, which is also famously HUGE and far away from the equator

Something like `if (any(dir.exists(filename))) filename <- list.files(filename, pattern = ext)`. Haven't run across issues yet, but I guess limiting file extension patterns is crucial.

I have a bunch of functions where `filename` can be either a string pointing to a file, a string pointing to a directory, or a vector of strings pointing to filenames. May well be bad practice, I don't think I've done this in a library that has gone through CRAN review...

Great news! Thanks so much Christian!

Ah, that's really good to hear!

I was hoping to go to CorpusPhon2 but was a bit shocked yesterday to see that the deadline is already in a week. I've been looking for a call online but hadn't managed to find one before yesterday.

I think we might have had the same reviewer 🙃

Same! Won't see you there!

Is that even a "legal" package name? Fairly sure R wouldn't allow package names with hyphens in them!

Hi Samuel! There's currently no option to directly control the number of axis ticks, although this is something I could probably implement without too much trouble. If you set `min_max_only = FALSE`, R will automatically set axis ticks depending on the size of the plot

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And this isn't even at all a complex example

I get a bit of a headache just looking at that matrix, it's pretty clunky

In case any of this is helpful

\usepackage{tikz,tikz-qtree}

\tikzset{mytree/.style={baseline=(top.base),
level distance=2em, sibling distance=4em, align=center,
parent anchor=south, child anchor=north, anchor=north}}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes,shadows,arrows,positioning,graphs,matrix}

Right! There are a few things in my preamble probably related to this, but I can't remember anymore what the logic was! Should've written more comments 😵‍💫

I had this sort of thing in my dissertation which was done with tikz. Looks like delinking was just a small = placed in the middle of the line, not super elegant but got the job done

Was wondering about this! Last week, someone on my street had put out a trash can with a sign on it saying BLACK ICE VERY SLIPPY

One of my favorite street names in Leiden!

Other goodies include overdue bug fixes, and the option to specify energy ranges by channel when plotting stereo or multi-channel data. The manual is up-to-date, and this new version should be available on CRAN very soon!
rpuggaardrode.github.io/praatpicture...

Mainly, you can now easily plot ERB and Mel scaled spectrograms and spectra. This something that I didn't know a nice way of doing before but came in handy when teaching the difference between 'physicalist' and 'perceptualist' (?) scales. Hope this can be useful to others too!

I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂

Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, has announced a position as Full Professor of Indo-European Studies: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...