Indranil Dutta

#phoneticians, could we please have a moratorium on studies reporting on #VOT? Pretty, please with sugar on top! Just because #VOT is easy to measure doesn't mean we should measure it...

Mermelstein (1967); Schroeder (1967) provided ways of estimating the vocal tract transfer transfer function from tube models by looking into the anti-symmetric Fourier coefficients of the formants for open-close tubes. 50 years hence, our most important contribution is everyone measuring #VOT 🤦

It's time for a new season!🥳🥳 For E1, we are joined by friend-of-the-pod Prof Indranil Dutta @academicmargin.bsky.social and Prof Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social for a fantastic discussion on language science fundamentals, ling data, and much more! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wqH...

New episode alert! Co-hosted by Indranil @academicmargin.bsky.social and feat. Remo and Charlie, we discuss the impact of India on our linguistics careers,the field's glories and controversies, the Sapir Worf Hypothesis, Chomsky,the Bouba/Kiki effect, and much more! open.spotify.com/episode/1zHu...

Coming soon: Big Team Science in the Language Science, our take on BTS in a field that, at its core, theoretically cares for cross-cultural differences. We at @manylanguagesc.bsky.social are working on a few BTS projects and yes, BTS in linguistics is really difficult. zenodo.org/records/2214...

Never understood the logic of prevoicing.Only makes sense if our perspective on voicing comes from languages with 2-way contrasts. Arguably, the burst is the vantage point for laryngeal contrasts. This could easily be amended if 4-way laryngeal contrasts provided the perspective. #phonetics #voicing

I know there is a 2015 study by Fort etal that shows that consonants are more important than vowels in the #kikibouba effect but are there any recent studies that show some interaction? Or gradience @timoroettger.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social

#Phonetician friends, if I had to get rugged, field oriented digital recorders, head-mounted microphones and headphones - what should I be looking at? If these could easily function in a lab setting that would be a plus...

The difficulty of measuring #intensity and the ease of measuring #duration perhaps is the reason why so many contrasts rely heavily on #duration, despite its infeasibility as a stable cue across contexts #unpopularopinion

It would be so much easier if our brains didn’t evolve to spin narratives out of unrelated events and just do matrix algebra #machinelearning #neuralnetworks

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Come listen to my collaborator, the amazing - @chenzi.bsky.social at the bigteamscienceconference.github.io #BTScon2025 talk about our @manylanguagesc.bsky.social project on #ManyTones, starting in 10 minutes!

Sign up for this pre-conference workshop - Fundamentals in Informed Elicitation and Language Documentation to be held before the 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India. Date: 11th November. Last date for registration: 30th September 2025. Details: icolsi47.github.io/field/

#phonetician friends, what's the phenomenon when a speaker is not expected to speak a language and despite close to native pronunciation, native speakers mishear them? Or ask them to repeat themselves.

The unfounded fear that #AI would replace us, should be replaced by the grounded fear that #AI would toy with us...

Was the Canadian Prime Minister just accommodating to the perceived interlocutor being the US President? His 'out' was not what I would have expected youtu.be/l8gWyt4wZjc?...

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#Linguistics friends, just two more days to send us your expression of interests. We are super excited to read 'em, so keep 'em coming!

🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN! We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️ 👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html

In the midst of a mountain of work and commitments, exhibiting infinite stupidity, I have decided to update my #texlive to 2025. 🤦Wish me luck!

Come to Glasgow on May 28 for Phon-UP 3 (Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy)! Attendance is free. Please repost for reach! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phon-up/

The 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI47) will be held at #Jadavpur, 12th-14th Nov 2025. Please submit your abstracts. Kolkata is one of the most culturally and socially vibrant cities of India. Look forward to welcoming #linguistics friends. icolsi47.github.io

#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.

Four weeks left to apply! 🚨🚨🚨

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

The Swedish Research Council is offering funding for an international researcher to spend a year in Sweden. Let me know if you're in NLP or linguistics and interested in visiting Gothenburg and/or CLASP www.vr.se/english/appl...

I’m embarrassed that it has come to this but after 5 1/2 months of unemployment and underemployment I am struggling to pay my bills that will come due in April. If you are able and so inclined, I’d really appreciate any support you can send my way. ko-fi.com/rebekkap

#phonetics #speech #perception friends, are you aware of studies showing #ganong effect across lexicons among #bilinguals and #multilinguals?

All of this is largely possible due to the tenacious spirit of @timoroettger.bsky.social. Please join us in solving a long standing problem in #phonetics, #phonology and #speech #perception #bts #manylanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

So excited to be working under the leadership of @chenzi.bsky.social and amazing team leads @xinbingluo.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social @congzhang.bsky.social on the #ManyTones project chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/ #bts @manylanguagesc.bsky.social #diversity #replication #generalizable #science

This is the kind of opportunity that makes me wanna roll back the clock so I could apply for this amazing position. Please apply!

HEY SO I TO GET TO SHARE THIS NOW. REALLY EXCITED

Is it just me? Or do we all hate out-of-office (ooo) mails? Emails are impersonal, ooo mails are the epitome of that. It is saying, "I don't care who you are but hey, I am not here. I will be. At some point of time. But not now." Academics, be mindful that your ooo mail lands in students inbox also.

Or anywhere for that matter...

Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊 Stay tuned for more details!

ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.

Friends in #Paris: I need a place to stay between Nov 1 and 15th. If any of you know anyone that can accommodate me, I would be very grateful. I will offer my cooking skills in return for a place to crash.

The most high tech solution to #MacBook Pro #M3 not connecting to #5G when connected to an external monitor with #hdmi. Yes, you saw it right. Aluminium foil. #Shitbook #apple

#phonetics friends, does anyone have a template for praatbook? I am writing a lab manual and felt it might be appropriate to use this method instead of .Rmd or any GitHub flavored markdown.

#phonetics folks, is there a web-based version of #praat that I can suggest to students? A majority of our students do not have access to computers/laptops and our labs have no more than 1 or 2 working machines which too are very old.

#Speech people: 📢 Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the #Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to Greece Details will follow. Keep an 👁️ on interspeech2024.org

@ BigTeamScience organizations: What do you think are your unique selling points? What do researchers gain from your organization (e.g. why do they need you)? @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social