Rasmus Puggaard-Rode

They gave me a scroll yesterday! In Latin!

Vowel & consonant duration vary inversely in Australian #Yolngu language Djambarrpuyŋu, so what’s contrastive? A pair of production & perception studies show that V length is contrastive, though both V & C duration influence perception #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

When you're done with that, as a treat, you can also check out the paper that she and I did for SST on vowel duration patterns in contexts where length is *not* contrastive assta.org/wp-content/upl…

Check out Katie Jepson's cool new LabPhon paper which teases apart the influence of vowel and consonant duration on the perception & production of phonological vowel length! journal-labphon.org/article/id/101…

Got carried away, more highlighting options coming soon to an R package store near you! shown here in pink for that authentic Praat feeling!

@Golden_Shackles Wonderful tool. Although this stuff is all done in R (think of the name as a tribute to Praat) -- it's a relatively simple way to make this kind of figure in a more general-purpose coding environment

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

There are also signal-specific arguments for making just the pitch, or formant contour, or whatever stand out. This is also implemented in the Shiny app. Have fun plotting! (3/3)

The main new thing is the 'highlight' argument for making portions of signals stand out with a different color, point size, or similar. This can be done by specifying exact times or by matching labels in a TextGrid (2/3)

Try it out! Let me know if anything doesn't work! Enjoy some nice REAPER-predicted glottal closure instants!

REAPER is a command line tool that outputs raw text, which can be a hurdle for installing & using if you're not used to that sort of thing. The R library helps with installing & calling REAPER, importing the output to R, and converting REAPER output to a Praat-readable format

In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrode/…

@MagnusPharao @Carlsbergfondet Mange tak!

@RPuggaardRode @Carlsbergfondet Tillykke, hvor fedt!

I've received funding from @Carlsbergfondet for the Category-shifting Change in Real Time Project, where I'll track small incremental sound changes with major linguistic consequences in a large longitudinal corpus! I'm very excited and grateful to be able to pursue this!

@highfrontvowel Sounds like English has gone so far as to take other words from other languages into it 😱 huge if true!

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_C…

if academics are so smart why can't they connect to eduroam?

Praat: a language and environment for statistical computing

We have a job opening for a professor of Romance linguistics (with focus on Italian) - come join us @UniKonstanz @KonstanzLing, be my new colleague! Application deadline is 3 December 2024. The post holder is expected to start 1 October 2025. Reposts appreciated!

@tn75146488 Thanks so much!

I am so so honored and grateful that this paper has been selected for the JPhon ECR Article of the Year award!