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An interesting side note of our paper: “Reproducible Research Practices and Transparency across Linguistics”
Linguistics is still a very WEIRD discipline:
Corresponding authors of articles are mostly from N.American or Europ. institutions (65%) and the studied languages were mostly Indoeuropean (60%) with a heavy focus on English (40%). Way to go for our field.
Today's unsolicited #PresentationDesign tip for academics:
Keep important text in the upper half of your slide. In many physical set-ups, slide shows are projected onto low hanging screens. 🧵1/3
Both #powerpoint and #keynote offer a slide navigator (see below). Within the presenter mode, you can simply search for the one slide you want to show the audience and select it behind the scenes.
Don’t be that person that causes seizures by frantically flashing dozens of slides. Show the audience what you intend to, show them that you are in control 🧵 (2/2)
I will try to post more about effective #SciComm #SlideDesign and #DataViz again.
Today's tip: Make the most out of your final slide. Instead of a "thank-you-slide", your last slide should guide the Q&A and give your take-home message some extra screen time. Don't miss out on adding your contact information.
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We predicted that vocatives should be particularly tune-friendly. We collected a corpus of 100+ languages, extracted the phonological form of vocatives and compared them to structural case markers, a control for which we have no reason to assume pitch-friendliness.
The data suggests that vocatives occur are substantially less likely to contain consonants. We speculate that tune-driven phonetic variation has been grammaticalized as vocative markers in many languages.
A talk on clear and credible #DataViz in science and I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience. Would love to hear your thoughts on my perspective:
It is that precious time of the year again, when I teach the dangers of the p-value 😂