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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode

@rpuggaardrode.bsky.social
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Phonetician at Oxford University. Very into stops, Danish/Germanic, Rstats. Also have other hobbies. rpuggaardrode.github.io

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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy news for all the pitch and voicing lovers out there -- reapeR is now on CRAN and can be installed on R with `install.packages("reapeR")`! This library provides easy access to the REAPER (Robust Pitch and Epoch EstimatoR) C++ library 1/6 rpuggaardrode.github.io/reapeR/
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Working with REAPER in R
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Dr. Cong Zhang @congzhang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now on CRAN! 📦✨ rhythm.metrics can now be installed directly from R (install.packages("rhythm.metrics")). cran.r-project.org/web/packages... It is relatively simple (because it was originally built for a small paper), but more useful features will be added in the future. Suggestions welcome!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The OSF is being axed 😔
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just out in JIPA, new goodies for all of the co-intrinsic pitch fans out there! 1/6 doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge Core
Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish - Volume 56
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
PSA Praat has a third author now! Time to reinstall and update those citations!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We're looking for a full-time lab manager for the Oxford phonetics lab for an initial three-year stint! Please apply, please spread the word, and feel free tor each out if you have any questions my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We're looking to hire an Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics in Oxford -- come be my colleague! Spread the word (and apply)! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...
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We are hiring a Sociolinguist!
The University of Oxford, in association with Worcester College, is seeking to make an open-rank appointment in Sociolinguistics, with effect from 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very happy that this has now found a home!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fun fact, the name Ladefoged is Danish. It's notoriously difficult to pronounce in Danish, because the 2nd and 4th syllables are both "soft d's", the bizarre outcome of a historical /d/-vocalization process. 1/2
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂
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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 08/12/2025
The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, has announced a position as Full Professor of Indo-European Studies: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Does anyone have any insights as to why labiodental trills are *not* greyed out in the IPA chart? Henton brings it up as an example of an impossible sound in a 1987 discussion paper that precedes the Greyboi™, but as far as I can tell it's never been greyed out.
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Sightseeing in Barcelona, found the hottest museum in town! I love this so much
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
💥praatpicture 1.6.2 now on CRAN 💥 The main new feature is that there's now a function to draw spectral slices
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Plotting your spectral slices in R will soon be a lot easier!
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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...
jobs.ac.uk
Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow
Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
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Home | Labphon
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Michaela (Micky) Watkins @michaelaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Our paper "Robustness of F0 Ratio as a Diagnostic: Comparing Creaky Voice in Danish and Seoul Korean" has been accepted into Interspeech 2025 #langsky #linguistics
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Very happy to share that I've accepted a position as associate professor of phonetics in Oxford starting September! Excited to be part of this vibrant phonetics and linguistics community for the foreseeable future!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I can't do much to fix ~gestures vaguely at world~, but I *do* have some more tools to share! github.com/rpuggaardrod...
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GitHub - rpuggaardrode/praatutils: Utilities for calling 'Praat' from R
Utilities for calling 'Praat' from R. Contribute to rpuggaardrode/praatutils development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Very exciting news for PraatSauce users! We've just pushed a new version which fully rewrites the code base, making things faster and simpler to use. Instead of settings parameters in a bunch of Praat windows, you now set them in a spreadsheet file that looks like this github.com/kirbyj/praat...
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Pro-tip, if you want to install conda using the reticulate package in R, you should do so in an empty directory!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This year, I have received one review request each month from MDPI's Behavioral Sciences for papers that are at best marginally related to my field of research. How do I get them to STOP? 🥲
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
praatpicture v1.4.2 is now on CRAN 🍾 meaning that these highlighting options are now available at an R package store near you (and in the Shiny app!). No other major updates this time!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hot take (?): life is too short to use the "correct [g] symbol" when doing phonetic transcription in fonts that distinguish between two g-symbols
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025
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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 12/03/2025
I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/
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Automated Transcription in R using Whisper – Joey Stanley
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Yonatan Goldstein @yonatangold.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The first article based on my dissertation is finally out! In the article, I discuss the problem of the distribution of Danish ‘stød’ in compounds and propose a new approach to the analysis of the phonology of compounds. 🧵(1/3) revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
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Danish Stød in Compounds: A Stratal Match Theory Analysis | Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Linguistlist being a little too real this morning
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Didn't get the grant that inspired this mood. One "significant weakness" of the proposal was that I can't "adequately demonstrate (...) experience with longitudinal corpus studies and real-time analyses of sound change"
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Vowel and consonant duration vary inversely in Australian #Yolngu language Djambarrpuyŋu, so what’s contrastive? A pair of #speechproduction and #speechperception studies show that V length is contrastive, though both V & C duration influence perception. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Contrastive vowel length and segment duration in production and perception in Djambarrpuyŋu
This paper deals with segment duration and phonological length in production and perception in the Australian language Djambarrpuyŋu. It provides an acoustic phonetic account of vowel and consonant du...
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Check out Katie Jepson's cool new LabPhon paper which teases apart the influence of vowel and consonant duration on the perception & production of phonological vowel length!
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Contrastive vowel length and segment duration in production and perception in Djambarrpuyŋu
This paper deals with segment duration and phonological length in production and perception in the Australian language Djambarrpuyŋu. It provides an acoustic phonetic account of vowel and consonant du...
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Got carried away, more highlighting options coming soon to an R package store near you!
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Assistant Professor
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Aaricia @aariciah.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
✨New year, new job search✨ With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off Thus, I'm looking for a new job - (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP - Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm - industry or research - remote or Leipzig🇩🇪 Happy to send CV Repost = ❤️‍🩹
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)
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Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A diachronic account of Present Day Standard Danish stop gradation: Phonological reorganization through prosodically conditioned chain shifts & mergers Rasmus Puggaard-Rode (LMU Munich) Henrik Jørgensen (Aarhus) Camilla Søballe Horslund (Aalborg) benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #langsky
In certain contexts, Present Day Standard Danish displays an unusual pattern of alternations between voiceless stops and semivowels often referred to as stop gradation. Stop gradation is traditionally considered a synchronic phonological process, but evidence for this analysis is based almost exclusively on non-productive morphology. Here, we argue that the structural generalization captured by a synchronic analysis is better accounted for with reference to the history of Danish, and to well-understood constraints on articulation and perception which led to prosodically conditioned chain shifts and mergers through gradual, continuous changes in the realization of consonant allophones. Inspired by the change-chance-choice model of sound change in Evolutionary Phonology, we outline the historical trajectory that led to the synchronic stop gradation patterns, and the well-known phonetic pressures underlying them; these pressures pulled the allophone distributions of stops in different prosodic contexts in very different directions.
Keywords: Danish, North Germanic, sound change, lenition, obstruent voicing, laryngeal contrast, Evolutionary Phonology, merger, chain shift
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrod...
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GitHub - rpuggaardrode/reapeR: Robust Epoch and Pitch Estimation in R
Robust Epoch and Pitch Estimation in R. Contribute to rpuggaardrode/reapeR development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I've received funding from @carlsbergfondet.dk for the Category-shifting Change in Real Time project, where I'll track small incremental sound changes with major linguistic consequences in a large longitudinal corpus! I'm very excited and grateful to be able to pursue this!
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Praat: a language and environment for statistical computing
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