20 mininute thesis

Write your thesis in just 20 Minutes with these tips!

Anna Stein - SoSe 23 - Kolloquium

Index

What thesis?

Component 1: Method

Component 2: Writing

Final take-aways

Probabilistic reduction

What was my thesis about?

More predictable words become shorter(e.g., Tucker 2019)
- time is shorter than thyme
- air is shorter than heir

Naive Discriminative Learning

What was my thesis about?

What is the relative contribution of a word’s segment and syllable domain and its adjacent context to word duration (reduction)?

syllable

word duration

context

segment

The segment domain has the least contribution
The syllable and context domain are mixed
- Both are stronger than the segment domain

Component 1: Method

Why should you care?

Document your code!

Python
R

Component 1: COding

Documentation - Why should you care?

Document where your files are!

Component 1: COding

Documentation - Why should you care?

Document you progress

What did you to today?
Everything counts!

Component 1: Code

Documentation - Why should you care?

1. What is the linguistic issue/phenomenon of interest?

Affixation in English, Maltese plural nouns

Component 1: COding

Papers- Why should you care?

2. What's the method called?

Random forest, NDL, LDL ......

3. What is the input and output of the model?

(How) Is it linguistically motivated?

Words, segments, some mapping of both...

Component 1: COding

Be a cool researcher and upload your data & code to GitHub or OSF (licencing info)

London Writers Saloon
Write on different mediums
Coding time vs. writing time

Component 2: Writing

Why should you care?

references

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references

Tucker, B. V., Sims, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2019). Opposing forces on acoustic duration.