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:

• n-gram class for Python
• Praat TextGrids etc. in Python
• prime number function for C: sieve.c sieve.h

"Guy Trebay's article about thinner male models ("The Vanishing Point," Thursday Styles, Feb. 7), struck a chord with me, though a different one than I believe he intended. Rather than viewing this trend as the analogue to too-thin female models, I found it liberating as a 6-foot, 150-pound male who has no hope of measuring up to the beefcake standard." Kyle Gorman, Philadelphia. New York Times, letter to the editor, Feb. 10th, 2008.

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

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

Here is some information on multi-level modeling.