scholar-ling

scholar-ling is an NLP, speech & audio ML skill for AI agents, published by joshzyj in the open-scholar-skill repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates scholar-ling D (69/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Design and analyze studies in sociolinguistics, language variation, acoustic phonetics, discourse analysis, language contact, and computational linguistics. Covers VARBRUL/Rbrul for variation analysis, mixed-effects models for acoustic data, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, language attitudes (matched guise), corpus linguistics, computational sociolinguistics (conText embedding regression, LLM annotation for linguistic coding, BERT classification, semantic change detection, STM topic models), experimental sociolinguistics (factorial vignette experiments, IAT, reaction time paradigms, priming studies), Biber Multi-Dimensional Analysis (67 features, register comparison), and TTS-based matched guise tests. Produces R/Python code, publication-quality tables and figures, and saves output to disk. Use for Language in Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language, Applied Linguistics, Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, and Nature Computational Science.

Grade
D
Quality
69 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
102

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Architecture
97 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
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