Robert FromontNew Zealand English speakers vary in terms of how they pronounce several subsets of monophthongs. One vowel subset distinguishes ‘leaders’ and ‘laggers’ of several ongoing sound changes. But do listeners make social judgements based on these covarying vowels? A new #LabPhon article addresses this question by asking listeners to group voices together and provide labels about the social characteristics underlying their groups.
New release for LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Including many improvements to the user experience, and updates to integration modules, plus integration with Stanford Core #NLP's Named Entity Recognizer (NER)
New release for LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Including many interface improvements gratefully received from Dan Villarreal
New release of nzilbb-labbcat #Python package 0.11.0
https://pypi.org/project/nzilbb-labbcat/0.11.0/
Including a new upload API, and support for accessing non-textual annotation data, e.g. images of automatically annotated video frames.
New release of nzilbb.labbcat #RStats package 1.4-0
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nzilbb.labbcat/
Including functions for managing media files, a new upload API,
and support for within-word segment context matching.
nzilbb.labbcat: Accessing Data Stored in 'LaBB-CAT' Instances
'LaBB-CAT' is a web-based language corpus management system developed by the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) - see <<a href="https://labbcat.canterbury.ac.nz" target="_top">https://labbcat.canterbury.ac.nz</a>>. This package defines functions for accessing corpus data in a 'LaBB-CAT' instance. You must have at least version 20230818.1400 of 'LaBB-CAT' to use this package. For more information about 'LaBB-CAT', see Robert Fromont and Jennifer Hay (2008) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.3366%2FE1749503208000142" target="_top">doi:10.3366/E1749503208000142</a>> or Robert Fromont (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.csl.2017.01.004" target="_top">doi:10.1016/j.csl.2017.01.004</a>>.
New release of LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Josh Wilson Blacknzilbb.vowels: Vowel Covariation Tools (0.3.1) is now on CRAN. The package contains many useful functions for applying Principal Component Analysis to vocalic data and visualising the results. Website and documentation here: https://nzilbb.github.io/nzilbb_vowels/
Lauren Hall-LewMy inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Professor+Lauren+Hall-Lew+Inaugural+Lecture/1_upsi58yk
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Professor Lauren Hall-Lew Inaugural Lecture
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew's Inaugural Lecture from 25th September 2024. Sociophonetic indexicality as a window onto language and society.
New release of LaBB-CAT:
Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith@guyjantic These things are almost always contested, particularly in parts of the US that were previously Mexican territory. There was actually a long fight over the vowel (among other things) in "Los Angeles," that only settled down after arbitration from the linguist Dwight Bollinger:
#linguistics #pronunciation #sociophonetics #SocietalBilingualism
https://grieve-smith.com/blog/2013/05/the-politics-of-soft-g/
The politics of soft "g"
Soft or hard "g"? It's been in the news lately in relation to the file format "gif," which is currently enjoying a renaissance as a new generation discovers its usefulness in creating annoying animations. This week the "creator" of the Graphical Interchange Format weighed in that he's always pronoun