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Holger Mitterer

@holmit.bsky.social
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Europe's southernmost psycholinguist Pianist of United Nations of Salsa, Malta's only Salsa orchestra

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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just doing a First-Pass check as an editor on what looks like a paper-mill, citation-ring manuscript. While they report data from an L2 training study, their declaration on data availability says: "No dataset was generated or analyzed in this study" Editing got wild in the last three years.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I was planning to cycle to AMLaP in Saarbrücken from Frankfurt. This means I have to cross the Rhine somewhere, and Komoot suggested a ferry. Now it seems I might just be able to wade through it, given its 65cm depth.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Korean cuisine: How could we season peppers? Maybe with chilli....
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
One for the introductory slides on L2 phonology... The Maltese property market is expensive, but at least the owners are honest about the quality.
Facebook ad for bad rooms
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You know these phrases which somehow never meant literally? Until you run into signs that do exactly that, meaning it literally.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
When are rhotics rough? Maltese offered the perfect opportunity to test that: escholarship.org/uc/item/5924...
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Rhotics in general, but not trills in particular, are associated with roughness: Experimental evidence from Maltese
Author(s): Mitterer, Holger; Arvanitidou, Martha; Balzan, Julia; Borg, Daniela; Demanuele, Ritienne; Engels, Laura-Viviane; Grixti, Nadia; Koczyk, Patrycjusz; Thorsteinsdottir, Anna | Abstract: Recent...
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Can someone explain to me? A review on the rhoticity of the World's Englishes appears in Frontiers of Sociology, written by a sociologist and a physician, reviewed by two physicians (from the same country as the authors) and is accepted in three weeks? www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class: A Narrative Review
Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound...
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 01/03/2026
Baby sagt sein erstes Wort und diskriminiert damit mehrere Minderheiten www.der-postillon.com/2018/02/baby...
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Baby sagt sein erstes Wort und diskriminiert damit mehrere Minderheiten
Nach mehreren Wochen, in denen er nur unzusammenhängende Silben von sich gegeben hatte, hat der kleine Elias Kühne aus Potsdam heute sein erstes Wort gesprochen. Keine gute Entscheidung – denn…
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Searching for reviewers, I just found a recent paper in the journal I'm editing for — on almost exactly my topic. Cool! Less cool: the author has opted out of reviewing for the journal. If you're publishing in a venue, you should be willing to review for it. Or is Kant too much of an old white man?
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess
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Adventures in /Ɂ/
The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
For all those here dreaming of socialism, come to Malta where there's only one functional bank. It takes me an hour to deposit a cheque... that's a reality cheque for what you get without competition.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
So there is this weird pattern of discrimination (definitely explicit, no IAT needed) in the Maltese rental market. Maltese landlords often reject prospective tenants that are .. (drumroll).... Maltese. Never heard that one before.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New paper alert: In my latest paper in BRM, I validate a gamified mouse-tracking task that’s been my go-to for the last years. Perfect for online studies without tricky calibration needed for eye-tracking! rdcu.be/eKsMo
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Client Challenge
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
So, I enjoyed a really nice version of the Magic Flute yesterday in Manoel theatre in Valletta. However, hearing the main Mcguffin being called the Zauberflote took some getting used to. (Ok, this one is for opera loving L2 phonologists, small target audience).
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
There's an advantage to work in a small (really small, bro) country. It's not that difficult to make it into the main national newspaper: timesofmalta.com/article/why-...
timesofmalta.com
Why younger Maltese people are now rolling their Rs less
A study of recordings of 60 Maltese speakers finds signs of a generation divide
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Bike cleaning day. If I bring out the bike stand, let's make that count.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
While everyone is on about how good AI is, Google Scholar suggests to me to add a publication to my profile called "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics". I am honored to have (co-)authored the institue, but I will keep away from automatic profile updates for now.
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I was using forced alignment short utterances from a speech-production experiment. Using recordings that had been noise-reduced, the results were unusuable, so I tried the original, noisy recordings. Those worked very well. Can anyone here explain why noise-reduction makes forced-alignment worse?
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Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...
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I was asked to keep this confidential
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Did I mention that I do triathlon? psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
That piano break from MiTierra
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Most visual-world eye-tracking study need hundreds of images. That's quite a laborious task. Sine openAI can generate images (chatGPT + Dall-E), I managed to batch generate images via an R-script, which I shared via osf (osf.io/apcyb/). I hope this is helpful.
osf.io
Generting images for eye-tracking via API requests
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Fancy a trip to Malta during the best time of the year there? - Submit an abstract to 'r-atics 8, to be held in Valletta 22-23 May. - Extended deadline: 21st of January www.um.edu.mt/research/cog...
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'r-atics 8, Valletta, Malta
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Holger Mitterer @holmit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Question on the ethics of using ChatGPT in science writing. As an L2 speaker of English, I sometimes find a sentence not sounds well. In that case, I ask ChatGPT to reformulate (providing the original sentence). Is that cheating or OK? Do I need to disclose this at submission (Elsevier asks...)?
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