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Joshua Wilson Black

@joshwilsonblack.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary researcher working with text and audio corpora at NZILBB. Interested in reproducible research and methods sharing in linguistics and digital humanities. "Wilson Black" is a surname.

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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Pronunciation of New Zealand English monophthongs varies across speakers, distinguishing ‘leaders’ from ‘laggers’ of ongoing sound changes. But do listeners make social judgements based on these vowels? Yes! doi.org/10.16995/lab... @jbhay.bsky.social @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess
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Exploring the social meaning of the ‘leader-lagger’ vowels in New Zealand English
Clusters of New Zealand English (NZE) monophthongs systematically covary across speakers (Brand et al., 2021; Hurring et al., 2025), meaning information about how a speaker realises one vowel also giv...
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Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
Checklist of items researchers can do to improve the reproducibility of their code
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Joshua Wilson Black @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm very excited to see this new work led by Gia Hurring is now out. We did a lot to shore up our approach to PCA for investigating vocalic covariation and find striking commonality of patterns across multiple corpora of New Zealand English and panel data doi.org/10.1017/S095...
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How stable are patterns of covariation across time? | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
How stable are patterns of covariation across time?
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 07/04/2025
📁 i'm a strong advocate for "project-oriented workflows" when it comes to coding, because it encourages reproducibility and enables easy context-switching. many IDEs support this practice. but what is a project-oriented workflow? here's a great introduction for R users: rstats.wtf/projects
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3  Project-oriented workflow – What They Forgot to Teach You About R
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Joshua Wilson Black @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
nzilbb.vowels: Vowel Covariation Tools (0.3.1) is now on CRAN. The package contains many useful functions for applying Principal Component Analysis to vocalic data and visualising the results. Website and documentation here: nzilbb.github.io/nzilbb_vowels/ #rstats #sociophonetics
Logo of nzilbb.vowels package. NZILBB koru with words 'nzilbb.vowels' above.
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