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2026
“Βut still beyond this, immediately under the north, at a
certain point, where the exterior sea terminates, lies a city
called Τhina, not on the coast, but inland, from which both
the raw material..
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In a previous post I showed a simple way to control for
language family and area with categorical variables in a
linear mixed model using Python. In a more recent post I
showed how we can plot languag..
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As part of my series on “Food of the World”, I’ve been writing
up the recipes for food I cook for my “Languages of the World”
course at NTU Singapore. It’s a course that gives an overview
of world..
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When working with actual language data, one major concern is
how to represent that data. Many times as researchers the
things we want to compare are not equivalent, so we must use
the best approximati..
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2023
As you might have observed, I recently updated my website.
Although it’s been on my mind for awhile, I finally got around
to it because I had a good template to follow and I’ve learned
enough about bu..
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2019
Planting rice near Jowai, NE India At the end of last year the
ICAAL 7 proceedings volume was published by University of
Hawai’i Press as a special issue of the Journal of the
South-East Asian Lingui..
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2018
The last post was a bit of a brain dump to make sure I didn’t
forget a few lessons I learned, in part because I knew I was
quitting the job that involved doing ML type things. While I
was working ther..
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2017
Recently, I started to explore using Git to maintain and
organize my data. This includes both the primary data I work
from as a linguist and the various kinds of data I produce in
the form of written ..
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2014
I promised a few updates of my travels, and I’m off to
Indonesia this weekend, so I figured I’d better write a couple
blog posts this week. First up: CEBU! This always reminds me
of the Veggie Tales s..
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