Christian DiCanio

@cdicanio
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Phonetician, linguist-fieldworker who does fieldwork in Mexico. Fonetista y lingüista que hace trabajo de campo en México. Idiomas indígenas de México / Indigenous languages of Mexico . He/él/il/អ្នក់/sij³. 🏳️‍🌈
Websitehttps://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdicanio/
AffiliationsUniversity at Buffalo/Haskins Labs
Interests#Phonetics, #Cooking, #Fantasy, #Piano, #Hiking, #Cats
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 21, 2022
@annedrewhu I believe that was phonological information rate, not semantic content, if I recall.
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
@faytak me too!
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
@wurstsemmel https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/109376773057497444
Jonah Aragon (@[email protected])

Content warning: looking for opinions on silencing vs. suspending servers

Mastodon
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
@wurstsemmel There have been threads suggesting it.
Christian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
Since alternative mastodon instances are closed to those of us who might be interested in joining them (lingo.lol, fediscience.org. tech.lgbt), I'm kindly asking those people on those servers to please please please NOT block/defederate servers like mastodon.social yet. Some of us want to transfer servers.
Christian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
Acoustical Society of AmericaNov 20, 2022

This study compares 16 vowel-normalization methods for purposes of sociophonetic research, with focus on dynamic formant trajectories. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015025

#acoustics #linguistics #speech

Normalization of nonlinearly time-dynamic vowels

This study compares 16 vowel-normalization methods for purposes of sociophonetic research. Most of the previous work in this domain has focused on the performance of normalization methods on steady...

Scitation: Acoustical Society of America
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
@666k9s People use content warnings not just to hide sensitive content, but also to (a) avoid loading lots of images on mastodon and (b) surprise people with fun things when they click.
Christian DiCanioNov 20, 2022

Half my mastodon is cats and queer posts (with substantial overlap!), but the rest is linguistics and science stuff. So, I think we need a gay sciencecat instance now. Rainbow.sciencecat?

#lgbt #linguistics #catsofmastodon

Christian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
Caturday vibes. #catsofmastodon
Show threadChristian DiCanioNov 20, 2022
Alt text: the beautiful black and white, triangular face of my tuxedo cat, Carmen, peering out of a deep blue alpaca fur blanket