Stefano Coretta
@scoretta.bsky.social
Lecturer/Assistant Prof at UoE — Linguistics, Phonetology, ResMethods, QuantMethods — #neurodiverse #lgbtq #chronicillness
stefanocoretta.github.io
stefanocoretta.github.io
🎉 "Normalising formant values for plotting and modelling"
New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...
New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🎉 "Normalising formant values for plotting and modelling"
New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...
New blog post: stefanocoretta.github.io/posts/2025-1...
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So much statistics discourse orbits around Bayes verses frequentist debates, but in practice Bayes verses frequentist is often a false dichotomy. Just as important as the inferential strategy is the underlying model, and how that model is specified. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
So much statistics discourse orbits around Bayes verses frequentist debates, but in practice Bayes verses frequentist is often a false dichotomy. Just as important as the inferential strategy is the underlying model, and how that model is specified. 🧵
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In 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!
PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis
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December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In 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!
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Over 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
How useful are retro-definitions for (typological) linguistics? (Maybe not very.)
Like all sciences, linguistics needs technical terms, and we generally treat the grammatical terms that we inherited from our ancestors (such as syllable, affix, compound, dative, imperative, subordin...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Over 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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Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks
🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica.
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🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica.
greatergood.com/blogs/news/s...
Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks | GreaterGood
Scientists may have just unlocked one of the ocean’s biggest mysteries. New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after s...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks
🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica.
greatergood.com/blogs/news/s...
🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica.
greatergood.com/blogs/news/s...
"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"
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www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
The importance of engaging with ontology and epistemology as an ECR | BPS
Yalda Natasha Tomlinson reflects on ontology and epistemology, two key philosophical ideas underpinning methodology in psychological research.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"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...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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🚨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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨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...
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.
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.
Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R
stefanocoretta.github.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.
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...
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A lot of interesting things to think about!
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
📖 "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...
a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner
ALT: a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 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...
📖 "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...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲
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And if this article is right, this is the perfect example of the underspecification of the theory. If people double-downed on the cult, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance. Now it may turn out that people disbanded the cult. Well, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance 😃
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
And if this article is right, this is the perfect example of the underspecification of the theory. If people double-downed on the cult, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance. Now it may turn out that people disbanded the cult. Well, it's because they reduced cognitive dissonance 😃
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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.
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Exciting 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!
Home | AsCollected
ascollected.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Exciting 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.)
“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.)
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.)
“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.)
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It’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
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’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.
📔 - 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.
Registered Reports in Linguistics
journals.ed.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🎉 - 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.
📔 - 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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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
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. 😢
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. 😢
a statue of a lizard wearing a hat and holding a cane is dancing .
ALT: a statue of a lizard wearing a hat and holding a cane is dancing .
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August 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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. 😢
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...
a man in a striped shirt is pointing at the camera and making a face .
ALT: a man in a striped shirt is pointing at the camera and making a face .
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August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If I were a Bayesian model, I would end up with 100% divergent transitions...
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The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang