Greg Kochanski

Things that people have asked me and the answers (or good answers that someone might plausibly ask).

• Why some fields of science progress faster than others.
• How do we know that humans are the major contributors to atmospheric carbon dioxide changes?
• What's this field of Digital Humanities?
• How do we really know about ancient languages?
• Is sociology science?
• Do Schneider and Lintfert prove that intonation contours are percieved as distinct categories? (The answer is no.)
• What is the impact of DRM (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management) technology on science? What is the impact on scholarship in the Humanities?
• Did you know that many languages use higher fundamental frequency near the end of a sentence to indicate a question?
• What's the difference between a speech synthesizer, a Text-to-Speech system, and a Concept-to-Speech system?
• How do I compute z-scores for small experiments?
• How much of language is wired in, and how much is culturally determined?
• What is a distance metric?