Kyle Gorman
Department of Linguistics
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science

University of Pennsylvania
kgorman@ling.upenn.edu

Research interests:

• phonetics (disfluency, prosody)
• acquisition, variation and change
• NLP, and statistical/computational tools for linguistics

Software/tutorials:

• SWIPE' pitch extractor
• n-gram class for Python
• Praat TextGrids etc. in Python
• signal-correlated additive white Gaussian and Schroeder's equation noise in MATLAB/Octave

Some publications/talks:

• Kyle Gorman (2009). Hierarchical regression for language research. University of Pennsylvania IRCS Technical Report 09-02.
• Kyle Gorman (2009). Random-effect modeling of sociolinguistic stratification. Talk given at NWAV 38, University of Ottawa.
• Kyle Gorman and Laurel MacKenzie (2009). A Boho in SoHo: Emerging Specificity in English Templatic Hypocoristics. Talk given at the LSA 2009 meeting in San Francisco. A manuscript version is now in preparation.
• Chandan Narayan, Kyle Gorman, and Daniel Swingley (2008). The acoustics of [voice] in infant-directed speech and implications for phonological learning. Talk given at BUCLD 33. A manuscript version is now in preparation.
• Chandan Narayan, Kyle Gorman, and Daniel Swingley (2008). The microprosody of [voice] in infant- and adult-directed speech. Talk given at the symposium "Attention to cues and phonological categorization" at the LSA 2008 meeting in Chicago.
• Kyle Gorman, ed. (2008). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 14.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 36.
• Catherine Lai, Kyle Gorman, Jiahong Yuan, and Mark Liberman (2007). Perception of Disfluency: Language Differences and Listener Bias. In Proceedings of Interspeech '07, Antwerp.
• Kyle Gorman (2006). Automatic detection of turn-taking cues in spontaneous speech based on prosodic factors. Undergraduate thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presented at the LSA 2007 meeting in Anaheim as Gorman, Cole, Hasagewa-Johnson and Fleck (2007).

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Tip on making OT tableaux in LaTeX: \usepackage{colortbl} >> \usepackage{arydshln}

Here's how to decipher Rongorongo (you gotta recode it first)

Assign (negative) infinity...or just have a tofu hoagie

Software I didn't write, but love: PyPraat and Carmel

Here's some information on multi-level modeling

I'm from Cincinnati (thanks Josef)