Edwin Ko (高明澂)

Independent Scholar. Language documentation, revitalization, & reclamation, digital humanities, discourse analysis.
@[email protected]

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

Huge thanks to LDD Editor-in-Chief Lise Dobrin for her tremendous help in improving our paper! For those seeking a home for their language documentation/description research, I highly recommend the LDD journal! https://t.co/wppgoMJzlG 5/5

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

Just published! Our new paper dives into a key aspect of language documentation—transcription! We argue that transcription is an iterative and interpretive practice, where even a single audio can yield multiple interpretations. 1/5

https://t.co/ysqculdLSx

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

Crucially, involve the original speakers ASAP in the transcription process to maintain their distinct voice—how they themselves wish to be represented. Of course, this is not always possible given the inherent uncertainty when conducting fieldwork! 4/5

[Guillaume Jacques @rgyalrong]

New article, co-authored with Chris Stevens, on the spread of Sino-Tibetan to Tibet and North-Eastern India, and the language family/farming hypothesis:
https://t.co/TzgwLL70h4
Many thanks to @ChurchillCol and @AmbascienceUK for supporting my stay in Cambridge last year !

[Thomas Pellard @ThomasPellard]

Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of pitch-accent systems based on accentual class merger: a new method applied to Japanese dialects https://t.co/PYhrVvpi35

[James V Stone @jgvfwstone]

Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
https://t.co/LzHIR57uSs
Shannon's mathematical theory of communication defines fundamental limits on how much information can be transmitted between the different components of any system. This paper is an introduction to the main ideas in Shannon's theory. An annotated reading list is provided for further reading.

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

Hi people.

I have a newly updated pre-print on ancestral state reconstruction that I'd love for you to check out.

https://t.co/hLBFDS3Tx6

1/5

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

@SamuelJBeer Oh, thanks! I tried that link just two days ago and it was directing me to the umass library website, I thought they had changed it

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

I wasn't able to find/access the Living Languages journal. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

@SamuelJBeer Ooh, know of Dennis Tedlock’s work on discourse but I haven’t read that yet! Thanks for the suggestion!

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

Does anyone happen to know any papers that discuss differing transcriptions and translations of the same field recording? I'm transcribing texts of a highly polysynthetic language and obtaining different interpretations.

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

@sociolinguista If you have any other suggestions, please let me know! Thankssss 🙏🙏🙏

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

@sociolinguista Ooh, yes! I was just thinking about papers in DA, and I included some articles including Bucholtz’s politics of transcription, Duranti’s 2006 article on transcripts, and Och’s seminar paper on transcription as theory, I’ll take a look into Tannen’s work too!

[Edwin Ko (高明澂) @eddersko]

To be more specific, I'm working with multiple people to go over the same field audio recording that features the same story by a single person. Each person has been providing different interpretations of that same story.

[Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @padillaccc]

What a lovely post PhD defense present: Our new paper out in @NatureHumBehav 😍🥳We combine linguistic, cultural and genetic data from Central African hunter-gatherer populations to explore the coevolution of genetic + cultural/linguistic diversity ... https://t.co/Vfc8F5MVXj

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Calls: 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Call for Papers: We invite proposals for workshops on all sub-fields of Historical Linguistics, all languages and approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.).… https://t.co/K2gKcWwBGQ

[Thomas Pellard @ThomasPellard]

[update] You can now read the updated preprint of the chapter "The Family Tree model" written for *The Wiley Blackwell companion to diachronic linguistics* (forthcoming) in collaboration with @rgyalrong and @RobinJRyder https://t.co/rCOSF38e9q

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

I field a lot of questions about ancestral state reconstruction of discrete traits so I posted a new tutorial to my blog that contains a number of useful #Rstats #phytools demos. 😀

Check it out here: https://t.co/BYV7P2z1LE.