The Role of acoustic cues in idiomatic disambiguation

In this talk I presented preliminary results of a production experiment I conducted with the help of 13 native speakers of Spanish. Using a modified Discourse Completion Task to provide background information, participants produced a set of 20 minimally different pairs of sentences where the key difference was the interpretation the participants had in mind at the time of production.

Writing my dissertation Conducted three experiments combining in-person and online data-gathering techniques with over 600 participants. Collected and analyzed the data produced by these experiments. Incorporated those findings into my dissertation manuscript.

VOT Development of La Residencia students I am collaborating with Rajiv Rao to analyze and visualize the data produced by a longitudinal project studying the pronunciation development of students living in a domestic immersion program called La Residencia.

Data is a weird word. I know that it’s a word of Latin pedigree and that in Latin its singular form was datum. It feels so weird to think of it as plural, as I found it’s the preferred style for journals.

Part 2 - Writing in R Markdown, inline code, code blocks, and LaTeX environments The first thing you need to know is that Markdown is a lightweight markup language for plain text editing.

Part 1 — linguistics examples and glosses. I’m writing my dissertation right now. I feel terrible that it took me longer than a year to get started. I loved the topic, I picked it myself.

One of the things I found most challenging about multisyllabic words in English is that you don’t really pronounce most of the vowels except for the vowel in the stressed syllable; the rest are just unstressed central vocoids or schwas.

So … there is this expression in Japanese ‘ohayou gozaimasu’ that I learned first when I took this introductory class to Japanese culture back during my USB college days in Venezuela.