💥Tengo un orgullo de amiga demasiado grande y tengo que decir esto: ¡enhorabuenísima, Dra. María de la Aurora Troncoso Ruiz! No lo digo yo, que soy público comprado, lo ha dicho el tribunal: "Hoy es un día importante para Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz y para la ciencia".

People often adapt the way they speak to their interlocutor: whether human or computer. How do we do this? Linguist Aurora Troncoso Ruiz studied this topic. She defended her thesis today: bit.ly/3tzJvPY.

People often start speaking differently when in a noisy environment: the so-called Lombard effect. Linguist Katherine Marcoux conducted research into Lombard speech of native Dutch speakers when speaking English. Marcoux will defend her thesis on 30 June: bit.ly/3u73YM6

All materials for "Programming in R: Applications for Speech Data Processing" are now available! Use numbers in the range [01-10] for respective weeks: Lecture: phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/pals00… Tutorial: phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/pals00… Answer key (except weeks 5 and 8): phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/pals00…

Job alert! The BSI is looking for 7 (!) PhDs. The most interesting position is, of course, in my department (Learning and Plasticity)😊 The topic is 'Learning and individual differences in science and technology education'. ru.nl/en/working-at/…

We're hiring! Please share! 7 PhD positions Radboud University (BSI) Looking for an enthousiastic and skilled candidate for our project on 'Learning and Individual Differences in Reading and Math Education' (department: Learning & Plasticity) ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Got my signed copy of my postdoc's PhD thesis 🥰 There's even a matching bookmark with details of her defence! Can't believe how boring UK theses look in comparison.

(maybe a little niche but) do you like the look of Praat Pictures but have been annoyed with fiddling with them and having to make them in Praat before importing them into Rmd's or slide decks in R? OH BOY have I got something exciting for you! github.com/rpuggaardrode/…

🇳🇱 Nederlandse moedertaalsprekers gezocht voor ons experiment! 🗓️ Maak een afspraak: calendly.com/s-cipitria/exp…

28F, Feliz día de Andalucía. Óleos sobre lino

TBH, the North East BrE accents all sound the same to me; but I've been *repeatedly* told that people can tell which borough (!) a person is from just from their accent. Play a game and let's find out! Also win vouchers if you *score high*/ u r *lucky*! tinyurl.com/NE-accent

⭐️We are #hiring!⭐️ During next semester our Digital Reading lab will open some positions (2 postdoc, 1 PhD) to start in 2025. Ed Psychology or related areas. Valued experience on reading research, eye-tracking, school interventions... DM for informal queries 📍Valencia, Spain.

Finally out! Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures doi.org/10.16995/labph…

Contrato predoctoral de 4 años vinculado a proyecto: "Corpus Oral de Referencia del Español en Contacto". 📍Dpto. de Filologías Hispánica y Clásica (Universidad de La Rioja). 🔗 sede.unirioja.es/publicaciones/…

Our department is looking for a tenure-track faculty member in Language Learning & English Linguistics! apply.interfolio.com/158799 I'll be happy to answer any questions re: my experience at UPF, the department, Barcelona, etc. All help spreading the word will be appreciated😁

Student assistant position in the NWO XS project "What the hands can tell us: the effect of gesture on speaker evaluation". Need to be a student at Radboud University. Application deadline December 9. Spread the word! ru.nl/campusdetacher…

📄Nueva publicación en acceso abierto, en Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística.: “La percepción de la neología: un análisis cuantitativo con atención a la transgresión”. Muy contenta de la colaboración con S. Torner, Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz y el equipo de Neómetro y Lexical. revistasignos.cl/index.php/sign…

🍿¿Cómo se entretiene cada generación? Aquí van 10 gráficos fascinantes sobre la digitalización de nuestro. La televisión ha perdido un dominio de décadas. En 2024 el primer entretenimiento son las redes, Netflix compite con la radio y los juegos con los libros👇

🗨️New publication with Anna Matamala: "How easy are audio descriptions? Exploring the viability of hybrid access services across English, Spanish and Catalan" in Translation & Interpreting. trans-int.org/index.php/tran…