Had a great time at #ICPhS! Thanks to everyone who came to discuss the Central Pame vowel system with me 💕 If you are interested in Otomanguean languages, vowels, or Typology from a Laboratory Phonology perspective you might enjoy our paper researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you are interested in Oceanic languages and what place of articulation, speaker sex, and language attitudes can tell us about VOT then you might like this short paper researchgate.net/publication/37… #ICPhS #phonetics

Being a scientist does not require lack of emotionality, it requires emotional safety. This is the crucial mistake hundreds of years of science have been making in putting rationality against emotionality.

It’s the the start of the semester and this was my first week teaching Phonetik und Phonologie 🎙👂🗣🔊 (yes in German) at the University of Zurich in this beautiful building. Looking ahead for many more fun sessions with my students #funetics

I'm super excited to be giving a talk at FALCoN Lab this Wednesday! @lingdustin has been kind enough to make it public, so join us at 12:30pm EST if you want to hear about psycholinguistics in Shipibo-Konibo! zoom.us/my/dustinalfon…

Next Thursday 14:00, Dr. Ricardo Napoleao de Souza will talk to our prosody interest group about 'acoustic cues to IP-initial boundaries in unstressed syllables'. We're opening this to anyone who is interested. Scan the code to sign up if you're interested!

How do bilingual children speak to their peers? Do bilingual school programs influence their speech? If this also interests you, check this out. This project has been very dear to me and has now made it into a special issue on Prosody and Immigration 💕 mdpi.com/2662442

Djukun is the latest language to be added to the 50 Words map 🎉 Thank you to speaker Jaala Ozies. Listen 🖱 50words.online/languages/Djuk…

📢 Deadline extension! Abstracts for CorpusPhon are now due Wednesday, March 13 AoE We are also extremely excited to announce Dr. Michael McAuliffe k as our invited speaker Hope you can join us!

We’re organising a satellite workshop on VARIANCE AND INVARIANCE IN PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION: INSIGHTS FROM ARTICULATION at #LabPhon19, South Korea! We welcome any work on articulation & phonological representation Abstracts due by 29 March! Info: labphon.org/labphon19/vari…

Speech Prosody program at a glance is now online universiteitleiden.nl/sp2024/program

Please share: IPA student awards to participate in Speech Prosody 2024 internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202402/ip…

Beethoven’s genome predicts a very low score in musical talent! Interesting article on the pitfalls of GWAS for individual-level predictions. Caution against genetic determinism in behavioural traits sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you interested in the dynamics of vowel acoustics aka VISC? Then this article might interest you. In this study we found that VISC is mostly steady state in Drehu and long and short vowels display striking similar acoustic properties. Duration differs of course! #OpenAccess

The SST 2024 conference will be held in Melbourne in December this year. If you enjoy speech science and technology, consider submitting a 4 page paper! Details (inc. special sessions) here: assta.org/sst-2024/ Tutorial day info here: assta.org/sst-2024/tutor…

job alert to work with Raphael Nuñez at ETH Zurich: Postdoc position in linguistic anthropology — Aboriginal Australian languages/cultures jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

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Prosody fans 🎶〰️🎧 and Otomanguean languages fans 🇲🇽🪅🗺️, Borja Herce and I have a new paper on Word Prosody in Cantral Pame published in JASA. Check it out! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic…