Stefano Coretta
Lecturer/Assistant Prof at UoE — Linguistics, Phonetology, ResMethods, QuantMethods — #neurodiverse #lgbtq #chronicillness
stefanocoretta.github.io
- So Old Chinese *ɲ becomes Middle Chinese *ɻ (still /ɻ/ today in Mandarin). Does anybody know of a parallel change in other (non-Sino-Tibetan) languages?
- My wish for 2026 is that I want to go back to my home planet. Take me back!!! Thank youuuuuu
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaWe're delighted to welcome TWO new diamond-OA PCI RR-friendly journals Registered Reports in Linguistics, ed. by @scoretta.bsky.social ky.social & @jess-hampton.bsky.social + Replication Research @r2journal.bsky.social ed. by @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & team rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaIn 2019, IPBES #GlobalAssessment est. 1 million species of plants & animals are threatened with extinction.🥀 The figure is probably even higher, but what's important is the urgent need for #biodiversity preservation! ipbes.net/global-assessment
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- Reposted by Stefano CorettaI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- 🎉 "Normalising formant values for plotting and modelling" New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...
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- Reposted by Stefano CorettaIn case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaOver the last 5 years, I proposed more and more retro-definitions of traditional terms. But why am I doing this? Are these definitions driven by their "usefulness"? This new blogpost gives an answer. dlc.hypotheses.org/3975
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- "Koch 1981 argued that historically, research has favoured epistemology and the knowledge gathering process, whilst ignoring ontology. A potential reason for this is the complexity of ontology as an area of study, which in turn can act as a deterrent for researchers" www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
- Reposted by Stefano Coretta🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
- Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
- A lot of interesting things to think about!
- Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
- I do not like when academics assume that if you teach statistics then you must be a positivist. Further from the truth, I rejected positivism a couple decades ago.
- 🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaStill think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- A lot of the criticism against Avi Loeb are based on straw-man arguments. Most of the characterisation from media does not reflect Avi Loeb and his team’s work in any way.
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaExciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!
- The dreaded question students ask me: “Can you show us a published example of outstanding use of quantitative methodology in topic X within linguistics?” My answer: “There is none, sorry!” (Yes that applies to my research and yours too, sorry to burst bubbles. We need to step our game up.)
- Reposted by Stefano CorettaIt’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
- 🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal 📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.
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- Alien Earth is not good. Plagued with contemporary narrative over-redundancy: everything is over explained in the dialogue, there are 10 parallel narratives that you don't really need for the story to move on. When did flashforwards become a thing? For me, this is the worst in the Alien universe. 😢
- If I were a Bayesian model, I would end up with 100% divergent transitions...
