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Joey Stanley

Simulating Candyland

Side Projects
Simulations
About six years ago, I did a blog post about how I simulated Chutes and Ladders after playing it countless times with my child. Recently, I’ve been playing tons of Candyland…
Mar 21, 2025
Joey Stanley

Automated Transcription in R using Whisper

How-to Guides
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to use OpenAI’s Whisper model to automatically transcribe your audio completely within R. We’ll do so using the audio.whisper paca…
Mar 11, 2025
Joey Stanley

Y Magazine’s Video on my Missionary Voice research

Mormonese
Research
Publications
Students
A couple years ago, Wendy Smemoe, Josh Stevenson, and I did some research on “Missionary Voice”, or the speech register used by missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of…
Mar 7, 2025
Joey Stanley

A tutorial on using DARLA

How-to Guides
This tutorial focuses on DARLA, an online tool to facilitate automatic processing phonetic data, specifically for English vowels.1 I’ll walk you through the most common use…
Feb 12, 2025
Joey Stanley

A new publication in Linguistics Vanguard!

Methods
Phonetics
Research
Publications
Together with my co-authors, Lisa Morgan Johnson and Earl Kjar Brown, I’m happy to announce a new publication in Linguistics Vanguard!
Jan 29, 2025
Joey Stanley

 

LSA and ADS 2025

Conferences
Kohler Tapes
Methods
Presentations
Research
Students
Utah
This week I’m in Philadelphia at annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. I gave three talks, which you can download here, I…
Jan 9, 2025
Joey Stanley

 

Synthesis Days

Teaching
I don’t often post just about teaching, but I thought I’d report on something I tried this past semester. I had some issues with how I taught sociolinguistics in the past…
Jan 3, 2025
Joey Stanley

 

Bill Labov

Personal
This is edited from an email that I sent out this morning to the students in my undergraduate sociolinguistics course that just finished teaching. There is so much more I…
Dec 18, 2024
Joey Stanley

A new volume in the Publications of the American Dialect Society series!

Research
Publications
I am thrilled to announce the publication of the 109th volume of the Publications of the American Dialect Society (PADS) series. This one is called “Movement, Economy…
Dec 11, 2024
Joey Stanley

 

NWAV52

Conferences
Presentations
Research
This weekend, I’m at the 52nd New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in Miami Beach, Florida. See below for summaries and files from my two presentations.
Oct 13, 2024
Joey Stanley

AACL 2024

Conferences
Presentations
Research
Today, some collaborative work between Brett Hashimoto, me, and Jack Grieve is being presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference at the…
Sep 12, 2024
Joey Stanley

New publication on Missionary Voice in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Mormonese
Research
Publications
Students
I’m happy to announce that a new paper by me, Josh Stevenson, and Wendy Baker-Smemoe called “The Missionary Voice: Perceptions of an Emerging Register” has been published in …
May 16, 2024
Joey Stanley

Kohler Tapes (Update #2)

Kohler Tapes
Research
Utah
In 2021, I acquired a huge collection of cassette tapes I’ve called the Kohler tapes. In my first blog post about it, I geeked out about how much data I had collected. A few…
Apr 26, 2024
Joey Stanley

BYU Students’ Evaluations of Swear Words

Side Projects
This year, I’ve been participating in Chris Rogers’ Langauge Science and Exploration Group. This month, we talked about slang, taboo, and subversive language. For my…
Mar 8, 2024
Joey Stanley

Research Pipeline

As of this week, I am now halfway through my fourth year of working at Brigham Young University. I successfully passed my third-year review earlier this year, and I’m…
Jan 6, 2024
Joey Stanley

LSA and ADS 2024

Conferences
Presentations
Research
Students
Utah
This week I’m in New York City at annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. I gave three talks, which you can download here.
Jan 4, 2024
Joey Stanley

Visualizing Jonathan Dowse’s Vowels

Phonetics
Side Projects
I’ve seen interactive IPA charts where a single person produces all the sounds. But a couple years ago, I was teaching a Phonetics & Phonology course, and I stumbled upon Jon…
Dec 10, 2023
Joey Stanley

Website Version 3

Meta
After exactly seven years with my old website, I’ve decided to change it to what you are seeing now. This page serves as a bit of a summary of what I did and why. It’s not…
Dec 2, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

NWAV51

Conferences
Presentations
Research
This weekend, some students that I advise in different capacities presented their research at NWAV51 in New York! I am co-author on them, but it’s about 95% their work. For…
Oct 13, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

The stories behind the languages I’ve studied

Personal
There’s a trend on linguistics Twitter right now where people are sharing the ages that they started studying/learning whatever languages they know. As I thought about the…
May 27, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

My cot-caught distribution

Dissertation
Lexical Sets
Personal
In appendix C of my dissertation, I listed 838 words that contain low vowels, classified as /ɑ/ or /ɔ/ according to my idiolect. I think it may be a useful resource for…
May 23, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

SoSy

Conferences
Presentations
Research
Students
Today, I’m in Champaign, Illinois at the 5th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I’m with a student of mine, Katya Kravchenko…
Mar 2, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

10 Years of wanting to be an academic

Personal
Last week, I was at the LSA/ADS conferences in Denver, and it occurred to me that ten years ago this week is when I decided I wanted to be an academic.
Jan 12, 2023
Joey Stanley

 

LSA and ADS 2023

Conferences
Presentations
Research
Students
Utah
West
This week I’m in Denver at annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. I gave two talks, which you can download here:
Jan 6, 2023
Joey Stanley

New publication in Linguistics Vanguard

Methods
Research
Publications
Vowel Overlap
I’m happy to announce that a paper of mine has been published in Linguistics Vanguard. It’s called “Interpreting the order of operations in sociophonetic analysis” and it’s…
Dec 14, 2022
Joey Stanley

Prevelar raising paper published in American Speech

Publications
Research
I’m thrilled to announce that a paper of mine has been published in American Speech! It’s called “Regional patterns in prevelar raising.” This one has been in the works for…
Nov 2, 2022
Joey Stanley

 

NWAV50

Conferences
Methods
Phonetics
Presentations
Research
Simulations
Statistics
Vowel Overlap
Today I gave a talk that Betsy Sneller and I have been working on called “How Sample Size Impacts Pillai Scores – and What Sociophoneticians Should Do About It” at the 50th…
Oct 13, 2022
Joey Stanley

Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah English Survey Results

For the public
Research
Utah
West
Between April and July, I distributed a survey to people in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah, asking them to record themselves reading a bunch of words and answering some…
Sep 21, 2022
Joey Stanley

 

New publication in the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics

Methods
Research
Publications
Vowel Overlap
I’ve just been informed that a manuscript I submitted to the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics has been published! It’s called “Order of Operations in Sociophonetic…
Sep 19, 2022
Joey Stanley

 

Sandbox

Now that we have the simulation done, let’s take a look at the results!
Sep 4, 2022
Joey Stanley

 

Using Phonic for Collecting Sociophonetic Data

How-to Guides
Skills
A few months ago, I was looking for ways to collect audio within a Qualtrics survey and I stumbled upon this answer which lead me to Phonic.ai. It looked good, so I decided…
Jul 19, 2022
Joey Stanley

Animating Formant Trajectories

Animations
Data Viz
How-to Guides
R
Skills
Vowel Overlap
Last week, I presented some work that Lisa Johnson and I have been working on. We discussed ways that vowel formant trajectories can help us learn more about vowel mergers.…
Jan 13, 2022
Joey Stanley

ADS and LSA 2022

Animations
Conferences
Data Viz
MTurk
Phonetics
Presentations
R
Research
South
Students
Utah
Vowel Overlap
West
I’m attending the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society and I’ve got three presentations to tell you about! Please find links…
Jan 2, 2022
Joey Stanley

Curved Text in ggplot2 with geomtextpath

Data Viz
How-to Guides
Side Projects
Skills
I recently saw a tweet by @timelyportfolio that mentions an R package, geomtextpath, by Allan Cameron. The function overlays text over curved lines, giving you the…
Dec 17, 2021
Joey Stanley

ASA181

Conferences
Dissertation
Methods
Pacific Northwest
Phonetics
Presentations
R
Research
Simulations
Statistics
Vowel Overlap
I’m in Seattle at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America right now! This is my first in-person conference since October 2019, so it’s great to be here. I…
Nov 28, 2021
Joey Stanley

 

NWAV49

Conferences
Methods
Presentations
Research
Simulations
South
I’m at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49 online right now! Other than an quick online satellite session of LabPhon last summer, I haven’t attended a conference since…
Oct 18, 2021
Joey Stanley

365 Papers (Update)

Personal
At the beginning of 2018, I set the ambitious goal of reading 365 papers during that year. I tweeted about it and blogged about it, but ultimately didn’t achieve my goal.…
Aug 31, 2021
Joey Stanley

Kohler Tapes (Update)

Kohler Tapes
Research
Utah
In February, I acquired a goldmine of data that I can use for linguistic analysis. Here’s an update on that project, now that I have some more solid numbers.
Jun 16, 2021
Joey Stanley

Kohler Tapes

Kohler Tapes
Research
Utah
So, I just acquired a goldmine of data that I can use for linguistic analysis. Sitting in my office are 452 cassette tapes, each containing at least 30 minutes of recorded…
Feb 13, 2021
Joey Stanley

Pillai scores don’t change after normalization

How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Vowel Overlap
I was playing around with some data the other day and I discovered that if you calculate the pillai score on raw data you get the same result as if you calculated it on…
Feb 6, 2021
Joey Stanley

10 Years of Linguistics

Personal
On this day, ten years ago, I decided to major in linguistics. Today, I’m an assistant professor. To celebrate this decade of linguistics, I thought I’d write a little bit…
Jan 9, 2021
Joey Stanley

“Boustrophedonically”

Data Viz
Earlier this week, I tweeted about a data visualization that I made. It’s a new kind of plot, so interpretation isn’t super straightforward, but it’s funny, silly, surprising, intersting, and memorable, which is why I think it’s a good one.
Dec 18, 2020
Joey Stanley

New publication in the latest PADS volume

Pacific Northwest
Publications
Research
West
This week I finally got to lay my hands on a physical copy of my latest publication! It’s called “The Absence of a Religiolect among Latter-day Saints in Southwest Washington”…
Dec 4, 2020
Joey Stanley

generations: Convert birth years to generation names

Github
R
R Packages
I’m happy to announce the release of another R package, generations! I’ve apparently caught the creating-R-packages bug because this is my fourth one this year (futurevisions…
Oct 18, 2020
Joey Stanley

joeysvowels: An R package of vowel data

Github
Methods
Phonetics
R
R Packages
Side Projects
Teaching
West
I’ve just released my third R package, joeysvowels. It provides a handful of datasets, some subsets of others, that contain formant measurements and other information about…
Sep 30, 2020
Joey Stanley

 

A big list of Mary-merry-marry words

Lexical Sets
Side Projects
Teaching
Most Americans, including me, have this thing called the Mary-merry-marry merger. We pronounce all three words—and the vowels in similarly patterning words—the same.…
Sep 28, 2020
Joey Stanley

 

Data Collection in Dialectology using Amazon Mechanical Turk

How-to Guides
MTurk
Methods
Research
Skills
The following is a manuscript I put together around November 2017. It was intended for publication somewhere, but I felt it was too informally written and too specific to a…
Jul 14, 2020
Joey Stanley

barktools: Functions to help when working with Barks

Data Viz
Github
How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
R Packages
Side Projects
Skills
I’m happy to announce that I’ve just released another small R package called barktools. Now that I’ve got one R package out there already, I’ve sort of caught the bug and…
Apr 27, 2020
Joey Stanley

I got a job at BYU!

Personal
I can’t believe I get to say this, but in June I’ll start a new job as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Brigham Young University!
Apr 3, 2020
Joey Stanley

 

Brand Yourself 3

How-to Guides
Presentations
Download the slides here
Mar 3, 2020
Joey Stanley

futurevisions: My first R package!

Data Viz
Github
R
R Packages
Side Projects
Today I released my first complete, functional, R package! It’s called futurevisions and it’s available on my github. It’s just a little one that contains about 20 different…
Feb 11, 2020
Joey Stanley

Full house at my first LaTeX workshop!

Github
LaTeX
Presentations
Today I had the opportunity to teach LaTeX for the first time. Caleb Crumley, an RA for the DigiLab at UGA, has been working on a dissertation template in LaTeX that…
Jan 31, 2020
Joey Stanley

UGA Linguistics Colloquium 2020

Animations
Dissertation
Pacific Northwest
Presentations
Research
For the fourth time in six years, I presented some of my research at the UGA Linguistics Colloquium. I talked about some findings from my dissertation, though I focused on…
Jan 9, 2020
Joey Stanley

LSA and ADS 2020

Animations
Conferences
Linguistic Atlas
Research
South
For the first time in a few years, I did not attend the ADS/LSA annual meetings. It would have been nice to hang out in New Orleans this weekend. However, my research will…
Jan 2, 2020
Joey Stanley

 

Extending Wells’ Lexical Set to Prelateral Vowels

Lexical Sets
Methods
At some point in the past few years, I’ve analyzed pretty much every English vowel before laterals. They’re pretty cool because they’re understudied, they’re somewhat…
Dec 27, 2019
Joey Stanley

 

Thoughts on Allophonic Extensions to Wells’ Lexical Sets

Lexical Sets
Methods
In a previous post called “Why do people use bat instead of trap”, I wrote a little bit about the Wells Lexical sets (fleece, trap, thought, etc.), a competing set (beet, bat…
Dec 18, 2019
Joey Stanley

Dissertation

Dissertation
Pacific Northwest
Research
I’m happy to report that I successfully defended my dissertation today! The defense was held in the DigiLab (300 Main Library). The study itself is called “Vowel Dynamics of…
Dec 4, 2019
Joey Stanley

Reshaping Vowel Formant Data with tidyr 1.0

How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Vowel trajectory data can be tricky to work with in R. Sometimes I need to reshape my data into specific format to make a particular type of visual, run some test, or…
Nov 20, 2019
Joey Stanley

Animating Mergers

Animations
Data Viz
Github
R
Side Projects
Simulations
Teaching
I’ve dabbled with creating animations in R, but since the newest version of gganimate came out, I’ve been trying to find a useful way to use it. (I don’t know if visualizing…
Nov 4, 2019
Joey Stanley

 

Why do people use BAT instead of TRAP?

Lexical Sets
Methods
In English sociolinguistics, you’ll often see vowel phonemes represented by a single word in small caps. For example, trap represents /æ/. However, in a lot of American…
Oct 28, 2019
Joey Stanley

LCUGA6

Animations
Conferences
Linguistic Atlas
Presentations
Research
South
I presented at the 6th annual Linguistics Conference at UGA today! My presentation, which was called “Real Time Vowel Shifts in Georgia English” compared Georgians born…
Oct 3, 2019
Joey Stanley

3D Vowel Plots with Rayshader

Animations
Data Viz
Github
How-to Guides
Phonetics
R
Side Projects
Skills
So Tyler Morgan-Wall has recently come out with the rayshader package and the R and data science Twitter community has been buzzing. I’ve seen people post some absolutely…
Aug 19, 2019
Joey Stanley

Thank You

Data Viz
Meta
Statistics
Some of you may have noticed that at the bottom of a lot of the pages on my website, I’ve got this button:
Aug 18, 2019
Joey Stanley

 

Jealousy List 3

Jealousy Lists
Data Viz
R
Skills
Statistics
This is the third iteration of my Jealousy List, which is a list of articles so good I wish I had been the one to write them. My first two lists were posted about a year ago…
Aug 16, 2019
Joey Stanley

DH 2019

Conferences
Linguistic Atlas
Presentations
Research
South
At the Digital Humanities 2019 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, I presented with Bill Kretzschmar on ways to visualize a lot of phonetic data.
Jul 8, 2019
Joey Stanley

 

You’re a Statistician, Harry!

GIS
R
Statistics
The job hunt was not successful this year. I applied to about two dozen positions, got interviewed for five of them (yay!) but ultimately got zero offers (boo…). I’m…
Jun 24, 2019
Joey Stanley

Simulating Werewolf

Github
Side Projects
Simulations
I really enjoy the party game called Werewolf. When I was an undergrad, I played it many, many times but unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to play it for several years.…
May 4, 2019
Joey Stanley

Simulating Chutes and Ladders

Animations
Github
Side Projects
Simulations
We tried teaching our little almost-three-year-old Chutes and Ladders today. She wasn’t very good at counting tiles. But, as I was sitting there climbing up and sliding down…
Apr 24, 2019
Joey Stanley

Assigning Pseudonyms in R with the babynames package

Github
How-to Guides
Methods
R
Side Projects
Skills
Recently, on RWeekly.org, I saw that Hadley Wickham’s babynames package had been updated. I had never heard of it, but when I saw that it contained Social Security data for…
Apr 9, 2019
Joey Stanley

Vowel overlap in R: More advanced topics

How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Data Viz
Vowel Overlap
This is a continuation of my previous tutorial on how to calculate Pillai scores and Bhattacharyya’s Affinity in R for the purposes of measuring vowel overlap. It occurred…
Feb 7, 2019
Joey Stanley

A tutorial in measuring vowel overlap in R

Data Viz
How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Vowel Overlap
Please be aware that in the 2023 revision to this tutorial, some of the exact numbers changed because I’m using a slightly different dataset. There was also a very slight…
Feb 7, 2019
Joey Stanley

LSA and ADS 2019

Thanks for attending my presentations. At the 2019 annual meetings of the American Dialect Society and the Linguistic Society of America in New York City, I was fortunate to…
Jan 3, 2019
Joey Stanley

Prevelar Raising Survey Results

Side Projects
For the public
In April and May this year, I posted a survey to a bunch of different subreddits that asked people how they pronounced certain words. If you took the survey, THANK YOU! The…
Dec 24, 2018
Joey Stanley

NWAV47

Conferences
Pacific Northwest
Presentations
Research
Today, I gave a poster presentation on prevelar raising. As it turns out, despite beg and bag being relatively small lexical classes, I found phonological, morphological…
Oct 18, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

Jealousy List 2

Jealousy Lists
R
Skills
Data Viz
This is the second post in my occasional series of Jealousy Lists. I’m subscribed to about 50 blogs, most of them Data Science–related, and I’ve see a lot of really cool…
Oct 15, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

LCUGA5

Conferences
Pacific Northwest
Phonetics
Presentations
Research
South
Utah
Today, I was fortunate to give two presentations on very different areas of my research at the 5th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA, one on an obscure consonantal…
Oct 12, 2018
Joey Stanley

Brand Yourself 2

CSS
Github
How-to Guides
Meta
Presentations
Twitter
Today, I was asked to do a professionalization workshop on different ways grad students can boost their online presence through building a personal webpage, utilizing social…
Sep 28, 2018
Joey Stanley

Jealousy List 1

Jealousy Lists
R
Skills
Statistics
GIS
Data Viz
This year, FiveThirtyEight started a monthly Jealousy List, which is essentially a list of really cool articles they saw other people do that they wish they had been the…
Aug 13, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

Transcribing a Sociolinguistic Corpus

Dissertation
Methods
Research
In the summer of 2016, I went to Cowlitz County, Washington to do traditional sociolinguistic interviews. I talked to 54 people and gathered my first audio corpus. It took a…
Aug 6, 2018
Joey Stanley

Making vowel plots in R (Part 2)

How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Data Viz
This post was written in 2018 and used code that was up-to-date at the time. In November 2023, I updated the code to reflect some changes in tidyverse.
Jun 6, 2018
Joey Stanley

Making vowel plots in R (Part 1)

How-to Guides
Methods
Phonetics
R
Skills
Data Viz
This post was written in 2018 and used code that was up-to-date at the time. In November 2023, I updated the code to reflect changes in dplyr.
Mar 18, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

365papers

Research
Side Projects
Twitter
Around the first of the year, I saw that several academics I follow on Twitter made a goal to read 365 papers during 2018. They tweet about their papers and use the hashtag…
Mar 9, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

Recording Equipment for Sociolinguistic Interviews

Methods
Phonetics
Research
As the years pass on this blog post, I’m starting to notice that it is aging. Some links are breaking as certain products are taken off the market and people take YouTube…
Feb 2, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

Randomizing a Wordlist

How-to Guides
Methods
R
Research
Skills
Utah
A few weeks ago I did some fieldwork in Utah and used a wordlist as part of my data collection. I’ve needed to compile wordlists several times in the past and have never…
Jan 23, 2018
Joey Stanley

 

ADS2018

Conferences
Dissertation
Linguistic Atlas
Phonetics
Presentations
Research
Utah
Thanks for attending my presentations. At the 2018 annual meeting of the American Dialect Society in Salt Lake City, Utah, I was fortunate to present on two aspects of my…
Jan 7, 2018
Joey Stanley

A Tutorial on Extracting Formants in Praat

How-to Guides
Phonetics
Praat
Skills
I gave a workshop that covered the contents of this workshop. You can find the handout here, which is slightly modified from this blog post.
Dec 21, 2017
Joey Stanley

NWAV46

Conferences
Dissertation
Pacific Northwest
Presentations
Research
At the 46th New Way of Analyzing Variation conference in Madison, Wisconsin, I presented a poster called Changes in the Timber Industry as a Catalyst for Linguistic Change.
Nov 3, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

LCUGA4

Conferences
Pacific Northwest
Presentations
Research
Utah
This weekend, I had the opportunity to present twice at the 4th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA. One was planned and the other was a last-minute fill-in for someone who…
Oct 7, 2017
Joey Stanley

/ɑr/-Raising

Side Projects
Phonetics
Statistics
I’ve noticed for a while in my own speech that the vowel in star is higher and longer than start. I have American Raising, which, simplifying a bit, is where /aɪ/ is raised…
Sep 26, 2017
Joey Stanley

Testing VOT Durations in A Course in Phonetics

Side Projects
Teaching
Statistics
Phonetics
So I’m teaching phonetics and phonology this semester and we’re using Ladefoged & Johnson’s A Course in Phonetics textbook. As I was preparing to teach about stops, I…
Sep 7, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

General Update

West
Utah
MTurk
Research
Conferences
Linguistic Atlas
Pacific Northwest
Dissertation
Because I know I have such a massive following, I thought I’d give an update on my research since it’s been a few months since the last time I wrote.
Sep 5, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Using MTurk

Research
West
Pacific Northwest
MTurk
A few weeks ago, I wroteabout a grant I was awarded where I’ll use Amazon Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) to collect data from people all across the West. Today, I did a soft…
May 18, 2017
Joey Stanley

Laboratory Research

Research
Recently, I’ve presented on words like pool, pull, and pole and how the difference between them can be really hard to describe, both by me and the non-specialist alike.…
May 17, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Admission to Candidacy

Research
Dissertation
This morning I successfully defended my second qualifying paper, “Near-Mergers in Cowlitz County, Washington,” which means I’m officially a doctoral candidate! (Okay…
May 4, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Lots of Transcribing

Pacific Northwest
Research
Dissertation
Last summer, I collected roughly 40 hours of conversation from people in Washington State last year. Not an enormous corpus, but I’m quite proud of that dataset. Well, my…
Apr 27, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

A Survey of the Western American English using MTurk

Pacific Northwest
Research
West
MTurk
I’m so happy to announce I’ve been selected as a recipient of the UGA Graduate School Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant! This $2,500 grant is part of the…
Apr 21, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Brother Joseph

Side Projects
I had the fun opportunity to be a guest in a podcast today! Faith Promoting Rumors is a new podcast that my brother and dad started that explores Mormon myths and culture.…
Apr 10, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Mount St. Helens and Vowels

Pacific Northwest
Presentations
Research
Today in our Linguistics Colloquium here at UGA, I got to present on some of my ongoing research on English in a smaller town in Washington. For the past few months I’ve…
Apr 8, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

SECOL 2017

Conferences
Linguistic Atlas
Presentations
Research
Skills
I was unable to attend this year, but my colleagues presented two papers I was a part of at the 84th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL84) in Charleston, South…
Mar 9, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Updated mvnorm.etest() function

Statistics
R
Skills
In Levshina’s How to do Linguistics with R, the function mvnorm.etest() from the energy library is used. This runs what’s called the “E-statistic (Energy) Test of…
Feb 28, 2017
Joey Stanley

Website Version 2

CSS
Skills
Meta
Github
How-to Guides
Today I finally rolled out a new version of my website! The previous version was great and was an excellent stepping stone into web design, but it was mostly borrowed code.…
Feb 26, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Excel Workshop

How-to Guides
Presentations
Skills
Today I had the opportunity to give a workshop in the DigiLab in UGA’s main library. It was a packed with librarians and grad students from across campus. In just over an…
Jan 27, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

Tweeting LSA2017

Conferences
Twitter
In addition to the awesome experiences I had overall at the LSA2017 conference (which you can read about here), I made an effort to be active on Twitter during the conference.
Jan 13, 2017
Joey Stanley

 

LSA2017

Pacific Northwest
Conferences
Research
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to present at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, as well as attend the other meetings of the Linguistic Society of…
Jan 10, 2017
Joey Stanley

Custom Themes in ggplot2

How-to Guides
Methods
Skills
R
Data Viz
For additional detail and updated information on creating custom themes, see this handout which accompanies a workshop I gave in September 2019. For examples on everything…
Dec 17, 2016
Joey Stanley

Interactive Guarani Dictionary

CSS
Guarani
Side Projects
The semester is finishing up, and as usual, the most productive week for me is during finals. Not necessarily productive regarding school work or current research projects…
Dec 10, 2016
Joey Stanley

Brand Yourself

CSS
Github
How-to Guides
Meta
Presentations
Twitter
Today Emily McGinn of the Digital Humanities Lab at UGA and I did a professionalization workshop for grad students. We gave a presentation on different ways grad students can boost their online presence through building a personal webpage, utilizing social media, and finding your field’s conversation. We then let the attendees a chance to work on their own to create a new online profile, using what they learned.
Nov 11, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

DiVar

Conferences
Pacific Northwest
Research
I’m excited to announce I’ve been accepted to present at the first iteration of the Diversity and Variation in Language Conference (DiVar1), which will be held at Emory…
Nov 3, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

How I Implemented the Links in this Site

CSS
How-to Guides
Meta
A while ago I stumbled across Butterick’s Practical Typography. I’ve never been that into typography, but I do make sure my documents look good. I’ve yet to implement good…
Nov 1, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

The Importance of Twitter

How-to Guides
Methods
Research
Twitter
I’m preparing a workshop right now for the DigiLab here at UGA on how to increase your web presence. I’ll give a more detailed explanation of that later on, but I just…
Oct 31, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

Making a website is fun!

CSS
Github
How-to Guides
Meta
In the past month or so I’ve been putting a lot of time and effort into increasing my professional web presence. In about a year I’ll be applying for academic positions, and…
Oct 18, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

Reviewer Feedback

Conferences
Research
Yesterday I got the reviewer feedback for the paper I’m going to be presenting at the American Dialect Society in January.
Oct 7, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

JMP

Data Viz
Presentations
Skills
Statistics
As a part of my assistantship this year, I get to work with the DigiLab in the Main Library at UGA. It’s a fun little gig where I get to do presentations, workshops, and…
Oct 4, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

The Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Northwest

Linguistic Atlas
Pacific Northwest
Research
As a part of my research assistantship this year, I work with the Linguistic Atlas Project, under the direction of Dr. William Kretzschmar. It’s an exciting project to be a…
Sep 30, 2016
Joey Stanley

 

ADS Meeting!

Conferences
Pacific Northwest
Research
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been accepted to present a paper at the 2017 annual conference of the American Dialect Society!
Sep 19, 2016
Joey Stanley
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