Daniel Duran

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The Way You Cheer on Runners Is Objectively Weird (and Beneficial). Science Explains A recent study found that cheering is an incredibly unique form of speech with four main patterns. Which do you prefer?

Are you interested in how people #cheer for long distance runners? There are some specific #prosodic patterns, nicely explained by Marzena Zygis from #ZAS also for laymen. run.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra... If you want to read the paper, it is here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Dankeschön

Was sonst? 😎

Wie zum Beispiel diesen Kurs hier:
Sociophonetics: The Creative Use of the Multiethnolect in German Rap.
😎

There's nothing new under the sun

There's nothing new under the sun

I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think’. The definit

Turing did not agree.
Do you?

»Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain―that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel […] pleasure at its successes […]«

@lingucat.bsky.social
#Tristaben
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‘Mind-blowing’ baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved language Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect

Is the bouba-kiki effect evolutionary so much older than language?

New research with just-hatched chicks “…makes the question of bouba-kiki being a solution to language evolution less interesting because it is prelanguage,” comments Aleksandra Ćwiek. 🤯
@acwiek.bsky.social

Ooh. Thanks for teaching me a word for something I like doing but could not name properly! Until now. 🤓

Challenging Linguistic Determinism in AI Reasoning | Jhonnatan Rangel posted on the topic | LinkedIn “LLMs are so good at reasoning because human reasoning is bottlenecked by language. Reasoning is defined by language.” NO, THEY DON'T. It sounds deep. Almost McLuhan-esque. It’s also conceptually conf...

“…invoking linguistic determinism to explain LLM performance isn’t profound. It’s outdated. If we want serious conversations about AI and reasoning, we need to start from what linguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive science have already clarified over the last half century.”

I totally agree!

Ich frage mich oft, ob die objektive Distanz in den deutschsprachigen / deutschen Hip Hop Studies (wenn ich das mal so nennen darf) fehlt, weil sich meist Fans oder sogar Rapschaffende damit beschäftigen. Schließe mich selbst da nicht aus. 🤔

Source: Silverije, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. (cropped image)

My word of the day: »fašnik«
— /ˈfáʃník/ m noun, short rising accent, Croatian, Kajkavian, from German „Fasching“, meaning carnival.

At first glance, this is an example of relatively simple metathesis. However, -nik is a common masculine noun suffix. The word thus does not feel like a loan.

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) in different fonts

Do you have a favourite letter?
Behold: Latin Capital Letter Sharp S: ẞ

This is my favourite German letter (used in German only ― though not in Switzerland). Its codification fixed some orthographical problems with names, for example.

Cute footnote: (lower case) ß is called ringel-s in Dutch.

Don't tell me you are the infamous reviewer 2!? 😆

Funny 🤓

»fair play must be given to the machine […] if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.«
— Alan M. Turing, 1947.

Turing asked why we should allow for occasional “blunders” from human experts but not from machines.
(cited by A. Hodges, The Enigma, 2012:361)

DGKL2026 - Universität Bielefeld This is the webpage of the DGKL conference 2026

🚨 Reminder 🚨 The call for games for #DGKL2026 is still open until February 25th! Do you have a game you developed for e.g. teaching linguistics, participant engagement in experiments, or else? Let people try your game in Bielefeld!

👉 CfG here: t1p.de/opy89

#linguistics #langsky #BLinguistik

Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg. February 2020.

“If you knew how something ended — would you still begin?”
D. W. Moore's beautiful summary of Ted Chiang’s “Stories of your life”

Just re-read this short story of dread, despair and memories of joy… and linguistics. Highly recommend!

Rosen aus meinem Garten. Juni 2005.

Habt euch lieb!
Nicht nur heute.

It's "approaching" 😂

To the right, a koala sitting on a tree branch and looking at the camera. To the left, dark blue background with white text 'Enter the Koala Competition!', with Interspeech 2026 logo above, and website interspeech.org below.

Don’t forget to enter the Koala Competition for your chance to win a free registration for #Interspeech2026! Competition entries close 26th Feb 2026, with the winner to be announced on 17th March interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

To the right, partial profile of a man sitting at a table and typing on a laptop, which shows a document on the screen. To the left, dark blue background with white text 'Reminder: Submission deadline approaching!', with Interspeech 2026 logo above, and website interspeech2026.org below.

The #Interspeech2026 deadlines are approaching, with the call for papers closing on 25 Feb 2026. Log in to the submission portal early, and check out the welcome message and instructions in advance! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

co-authorship network around members of project A02 | CRC1646

Very proud and happy about all my collaborations so far ― past and present! I learned so much from all of you.
#CRC1646 #LINCC

Very cool way to learn more about spectrograms by having fun with squiggles and blobs. 🤓

Another fascinating video. As always!

#Throwback2016
LabPhon15 at Cornell University. Fond memories of collaborations past. Presented joint work with J. Roux, A. Coetzee, J. Bruni and my late Doktorvater G. Dogil on devoicing in Tswana. With A. Schweitzer and N. Lewandowski we showed that personality affects convergence. What a time!

Als Student kam mir das anders vor 😂

Als Student fand ich solche Prüfungen in der Vorbereitung immer tricky, weil man sich nicht so genau darauf einstellen kann, was genau dran kommt außer eben "alles" 😯