Category Archives: linguistics

More on LaTeX multimedia presentations

Posted on March 10, 2007 by robfelty

Yesterday I gave a talk in the Linguistics department colloquium series. I like to cover all my bases, so I had a handout and a slide presentation, which were both made from the same LaTeX code. In an earlier post, … Continue reading →

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syllable-based confusions

Posted on February 16, 2007 by robfelty

So my current research focuses heavily on confusion, specifically phonetic confusions. For my disseration, I play people words mixed with noise, and ask them to type what they hear. Then I look at the types of mistakes they make. For … Continue reading →

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a new LaTeX class file for U-M dissertations

Posted on February 6, 2007 by robfelty

I have been working on a new LaTeX class file for University of Michigan dissertations for awhile now. I finally got tired of the limitations of umdiss.cls. The main goals (which I believe I have achieved) of the new class … Continue reading →

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speech perception, therapeutic ultrasound and detecting land mines

Posted on December 3, 2006 by

Today was the last day of my first meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. It was actually the 155th meeting of the society, and the 4th joint meeting with the Acoustical Society of Japan. Oh, and it was in … Continue reading →

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