PhD candidate in linguistics (phonetics / phonology) at the University of Amsterdam Looking at Seoul Korean, voice quality analysis, symbolic neural networks. 🇳🇱 🇬🇧https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mimlag63dk25Got into CorpusPhon this year! I will also attend LabPhon to check out the programme 😊 More details on my talk on Korean Corpus analysis to come~ #linguistics03 Apr 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimlag63dk25https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mhsk5y5ack22Busy learning physics for an analysis (help) and the realisation that they also argue a lot about basic definitions comforts but also concerns24 Mar 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsk5y5ack22https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mgmxxph3xc2eAccepted to HisPhonCog 2026 ✨ Hope to see others in Seoul this May! #linguistics09 Mar 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmxxph3xc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mfk42z5iu22jSaw these little guys in Paris, big fan. (Japan, Edo period)23 Feb 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfk42z5iu22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mfcyohcwc22dOK who are these spicy reviewers for labphon and is it appropriate to ask why they think it's ok to dismiss an abstract as "unprofessional" and "careless" just for using "etc."? Uhhh well I won't be seeing anyone in Montreal... #linguistics20 Feb 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcyohcwc22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3mcelvvm6fk2cI still think about this tweet every now and then, reminds me of growing up in rural east Anglia 🫠 #linguistics14 Jan 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcelvvm6fk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lwds3kzcs225Resorting to LinkedIn to find participants, times are tough #linguistics14 Aug 2025 07:13 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwds3kzcs225https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lq5va5bht22tOur paper "Robustness of F0 Ratio as a Diagnostic: Comparing Creaky Voice in Danish and Seoul Korean" has been accepted into Interspeech 2025 #langsky #linguistics27 May 2025 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5va5bht22thttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lo6nylff5s2mI always forget how crazy Amsterdam is during tourist season 😭 the small suitcase army02 May 2025 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo6nylff5s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lni2g7lwl224The interactive kid's dancepad in Utrecht Centraal is playing lacrimosa, and you bet the kids are going wild dancing to it23 Apr 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lni2g7lwl224https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3ljsfh7gnkk22Ugh I'd love to go but it's sooo expensive and our travel grants don't even cover half 😭 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Mar 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljsfh7gnkk22https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lfezzfhgis26If you even feel like Python is difficult I encourage you to spend a day just doing Praat scripting, Python will be a dream afterwards... #linguistics10 Jan 2025 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfezzfhgis26https://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3lbjcwbqdi22e9am phonology class on a Friday, with snow and ice everywhere. I think out of a class of 30 I'll get...12. 🫠 and that's optimistic22 Nov 2024 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbjcwbqdi22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3l7bj4lxl7c2wEven more budget cuts... NWO is especially targeted here 🫠 the future of #linguistics departments here is in serious trouble. #langsky https://nos.nl/artikel/2541939-ministerie-bezuinigt-op-subsidies-voor-cultuur-onderzoek-en-gymnastiekles24 Oct 2024 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7bj4lxl7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3l75tkipvav2fThe UK doesn't have the money to fund their own elections, let alone someone else's 👀 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/trump-complaint-uk-labour-party?CMP=share_btn_url23 Oct 2024 05:44 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3l75tkipvav2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3l6vc7pnsqs2nSo sad about what is happening at Leiden University, a whole heap of unique programs just gone... Not to mention this is before the cuts even really kick in 👀 #langsky #linguistics [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2024 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3l6vc7pnsqs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3l36gygx4rh2aGetting my presentation ready on the beautiful island of Kos for Interspeech 2024, come join me on Wednesday in acesso to talk about pitch jumps! #linguistics02 Sep 2024 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3l36gygx4rh2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3kwhu6gye3g2fIt wouldn't be a Dutch conference if it didn't have music playing that totally doesn't match the vibe04 Jul 2024 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kwhu6gye3g2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelaw.bsky.social/post/3kvc3qagnvz2qIf you're at NAACL2024 come join us for our talk in the 11:00 session on tone encoding in self-supervised language models in Don Alberto 2! #MLSky #Linguistics19 Jun 2024 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:xlymiykfh6aefgjgn5lj37vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kvc3qagnvz2q