PhD scholarship available @ Linguistics @ Canterbury on passive suffix in te reo Māori & different forms speakers use. If you have a BA(hons) or MA in Māori studies or linguistics, email/DM me.

Hi users of PraatSauce and R! I've written something that allows you to call PraatSauce from R and returns a data frame with measures. Takes all the usual PS arguments but in R format.

“But really it’s not the way people speak that needs adjusting. It’s the way we as a society listen that has to shift.” Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice theguardian.com/global/2023/oc…

🚨 Are you a PhD student who specialises in phonetics and phonology? 🚨 JoULAB are on the lookout for doctoral students, particularly those who specialise in phonetics and phonology, to join our board of reviewers. Get in touch with us at [email protected]!

The 2024 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be hosted by the University of Canterbury in Christchurch from December 9-10, with a post-conference workshop on December 11. Abstract submission deadline is Sunday, 21 July 2024.

New release of LaBB-CAT: sourceforge.net/projects/labbc… Including faster processing with Praat and All Utterances generation, and customizability for annotation labels

New release of nzilbb.labbcat #RStats package 1.4-0 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/n… Including functions for managing media files, a new upload API, and support for within-word segment context matching. #CorpusLinguistics #SocioPhonetics

New release of nzilbb-labbcat #Python package 0.11.0 pypi.org/project/nzilbb… Including a new upload API, and support for accessing non-textual annotation data, e.g. images of automatically annotated video frames. #CorpusLinguistics