gongcastro / acoustic-distance-measure

Acoustic distance measure for comparing pronunciations

📙 Developmental psycholinguist and cognitive scientist. I post stuff on R, Julia and statistics on my blog.

• Doing my PhD at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
• Interested in language acquisition, bilingualism, and (Bayesian) stats

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🚀 Find me in r-universe!

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📋 Portfolio:

• cognate-beginnings: Our latest work on bilingual lexical acquisition, in which we propose a mechanistic model of the cognateness facilitation effect.
• bvq: R package for downloading and processing vocabulary data from 10-40 month-old children living in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Spain) [website] .
• upfthesis: A Quarto template for thesis dissertations at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
• comidistar: R package containing the scores given to products in the blind taste tests of El Comidista .

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📫 Get in contact at [email protected] or on Twitter (@gongcastro) or Mastodon!

You can also take a look at some code snippets I made at my Gists.