http://www.discurs.us metalinguistic headings, with bunny trails Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:26:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bayesians, puzzle me this: If you are trying to learn the p parameter of a binomial distribution, the least informative prior is the uniform distribution, i.e. Beta(1,1) If you are fitting the same data using a logistic regression, setting your prior to be a logistic distribution with s=1 (the same scale parameter ... http://www.discurs.us/2010/10/uninformative-priors-paradox/ A couple days ago, as I was wandering the interwebz, I ran across the Academic Productivity blog, and from there, this article about increasing research productivity. It's intended audience appears to be administrators at research institutions, but the advice is fairly applicable to individual researchers too. First on the list ... http://www.discurs.us/2010/08/research-productivity/ In the last few months I've just about finalized the extended version of the tone sandhi paper. Here is the current version of the abstract: This study documents speaker variation and lexical variation in the phonological tone change patterns of Jinhua Wu Chinese, one dialect in a region known for particularly ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/10/buttkicking-oct-28/ Translation of chapter 4 section 6 of 曹志云 (2002) 南部吴语语音研究. The original is at the bottom. 4.6 Semantic tone change In contrast with phonological and grammatical tone change, semantic tone change uses tone change to achieve a particular semantic purpose. In Southern Wu, diminutive tone change is representative of semantic tone change. ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/08/translation-southern-wu-46/ Translation of chapter 4 section 5 of 曹志云 (2002) 南部吴语语音研究. The original is at the bottom. 4.5 Grammatical tone change Grammatical tone changes are related to specific grammatical structures, generally occuring in phrases that have fairly loose composition. The performance of grammatical tone change is fairly delicate. Only by thorough meticulous survey can ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/06/translation-southern-wu-45/ In the last gazillion months: - I labeled a bunch of data - I got much of my analysis method worked out - I did a bunch more reading, have written up much of my lit review In the next week and half: - I need to write up my methodology section - That will require ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/06/buttkicking-june-17/ In the last few weeks: I finished labeling the first speaker, and one clip per stimulus for another speaker. I have contour plots, but they don't include a mechanism to deal with stimuli that don't belong to the category I originally thought. I've decided I need to take research units next quarter to ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/03/buttkicking-march-3/ In the last four weeks: I segmented a bunch of the files, though maybe only half of what I will need. I labeled most of one recording. It takes a long time. I met with my advisor about issues with my recordings. I was embarrassed how bad the recording quality is, but she ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/02/buttkicking-feb-9/ I have never heard this song played in Jinhua, but online this song is semi-internet-famous. It's a rap song about Jinhua sung in Jinhua dialect. It features 老二 (the second son) from the TV show 二十分可乐, being his usual self. The subtitles are a mixture of Jinhua dialect and Standard ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/01/translation-jinhua-dialect-rap-%e5%8d%81%e6%9c%88-october/ 第四节 语音变调 Section 4: Phonological tone changes 一 有关变调的一些基本概念 4.1 Some basic concepts related to tone change 1．三种变调 1. Three kinds of tone change 汉语的变调现象从性质上可以分为下面三类： Chinese tone change phenomena can be divided into the following three kinds based on their characteristics: (1) 语音变调，即一般所谓的连读变调，是因音节之间的语音关系而产生的变调，如北京话"上声+上声"时前字的变调。 (1) Phonological tone change, the commonly mentioned tone sandhi, is tone change produced by the ... http://www.discurs.us/2009/01/translation-%e5%8d%97%e9%83%a8%e5%90%b4%e8%af%ad-chapter-4-section-4/