Indranil Dutta
@academicmargin.bsky.social
Phonetics, phonology, computational linguistics, watches, horology
#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...
September 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
#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 🤦
September 5, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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 🤦
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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...
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...
Linguistics 101 with Chandan and Indranil
Desi Academia Podcast · Episode
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August 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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...
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...
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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...
open.spotify.com/episode/1zHu...
S13E2: Linguistics by way of India with Indranil, Charlie, and Remo
Desi Academia Podcast · Episode
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August 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/1zHu...
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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...
We at @manylanguagesc.bsky.social are working on a few BTS projects and yes, BTS in linguistics is really difficult.
zenodo.org/records/2214...
Big Team Science for language science: opportunities and challenges
Abstract: The present paper advocates for incorporating Big Team Science practices into the language sciences. Big Team Science is a promising mode of collaborative research in which top-down coordination directs efforts by a large number of researchers from different institutions towards a common scientific goal. The redistribution of resources and division of labor enabled by Big Team Science may enable researchers to increase methodological rigor, systematically explore claims across a wider sample of languages, and to diversify both the languages studied and the researchers engaged. However, implementing Big Team Science practices is not without challenges, some of which are unique to the language sciences. We suggest strategies and best practices for adapting to these challenges, including theoretical and methodological pluralism, variation in conditions among data collection sites, and navigating a trade-off between maximizing methodological rigor and ability to engage with the most inclusive, typologically broad language samples.
zenodo.org
September 1, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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...
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
August 18, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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
May 12, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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...
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
#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...
One of the major extrinsic hurdles to increasing outreach for @manylanguagesc.bsky.social has been structural and institutional requirements for potential collaborators to be `first authors' and/or 'last authors' for them to even be considered candidates for positions.
January 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
One of the major extrinsic hurdles to increasing outreach for @manylanguagesc.bsky.social has been structural and institutional requirements for potential collaborators to be `first authors' and/or 'last authors' for them to even be considered candidates for positions.
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
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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!
Big Team Science Conference
The fourth annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom October 6-8, 2025. The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researc...
bigteamscienceconference.github.io
October 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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!
Join me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).
bigteamscience.github.io
October 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Join me at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom on Monday, October 6 from 17:30-18:25 UTC (time converter).
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/
Fundamentals in Informed Elicitation and Language Documentation (FIELD)
47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India
icolsi47.github.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#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.
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?...
Amanpour asks Canadian PM: Is Trump still threatening annexation?
YouTube video by CNN
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June 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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
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
Studies
many-languages.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#Linguistics friends, just two more days to send us your expression of interests. We are super excited to read 'em, so keep 'em coming!
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🚨 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
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
Studies
many-languages.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨 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
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!
May 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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!
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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/
Attendance is free. Please repost for reach!
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phon-up/
Phon-UP | Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy
blogs.ncl.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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/
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
ICOLSI-47
47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India
icolsi47.github.io
May 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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.
🚨 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
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
Studies
many-languages.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#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.