I'm currently advertising a short 10-month post-doc. Suitable for somebody with experience in dynamical modelling, speech dynamics and/or computational neuroscience. The job can be (somewhat) flexible to fit the right candidate's skillset. Deadline 23 Sep! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Out now in JASA! Using EMA to track head motion, we find evidence that co-speech head nod gestures are used in French as a way of enhancing and magnifying different levels of prosodic prominence. pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic…

Our new paper “Towards a dynamical model of English vowels” is out now in Journal of Phonetics! doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn…

Excited to be at the workshop on “How to distinguish oscillations from noise?”, which is taking place (very conveniently for me) at Lancaster Physics this week. Great programme ahead! wp.lancs.ac.uk/tsand24/progra…

I’m presenting a talk on “Discovering dynamics of mind and motion” today at the workshop on “How to distinguish oscillations from noise?” An overview of the current state of my efforts to discover dynamical models of speech movement, plus ongoing work on modelling neural dynamics

We're delighted to announce the next three Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni 50th Anniversary Public lectures! Register here: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50…

Last week’s conference was time-series in physics, this week is phonetics at ISAPh2024 in Tartu, Estonia! @clairelnance and I will be running an Ultrasound methods workshop on Wednesday.

‼️ ANNOUNCEMENT ‼️ The 15th UK Language Variation and Change conference will take place on 2-4 September 2025, co-organised by Lancaster University & The University of Central Lancashire. Lancaster University Phonetics Lab Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @UCLan More information on our website! wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/

We are also delighted to announce the following plenary speakers: - Gabrielle Hodge @gab_hodge - Christian Ilbury Christian Ilbury - Sophie Meekings Dr Sophie Meekings (she/her) Very excited to hear about so much interesting research! The call for papers is coming soon!

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

Loving the fact that our first Lancaster University Phonetics Lab meeting of the year includes lots of photos of our cats! ❤️🐈🐈‍⬛ #Linguisticats Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni

Very proud of my TWO students who both submitted their PhD last week - Takayuki Nagamine Takayuki Nagamine / 長峯貴幸 and Emily Gorman! A few of us went to celebrate with Emily yesterday, while Takayuki has already left to start a great postdoc at UCL! (Emily starts her postdoc in a few weeks!)

New article published today with @clairelnance in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition! ➡️ What happens when a bilingual speaker has a larger sub-system in their L1 than their L2? How are L1 categories mapped to L2 categories? Find out below! doi.org/10.1017/S13667…

On the train back up to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 after a great time presenting my research at Lancaster University Phonetics Lab at Lancaster. Thank you so much to Claire Nance & folk for such a lovely welcome and really helpful feedback. And hopefully see you all again soon when I have the 👀 data!

Huge congratulations to Rhiannon Mogridge on passing her #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Massive thanks to her supervisor Dr Anton Ragni; her viva examiners Roger K Moore (University of Sheffield) and Sam Kirkham (Lancaster University); and her sponsors Toshiba Europe Ltd!

Great to be back here to examine a wonderful PhD thesis by Rhiannon Mogridge on using the MINERVA2 model for speech and language processing!

Our VoxCommunis corpus is on Huggingface now! huggingface.co/datasets/pacsc… The documentation can be found here: osf.io/t957v/

Very proud of my PhD student Emily Gorman for passing her viva today - she wrote a great thesis on “Spatial and temporal variation in speech planning” Many thanks to examiners Marianne Pouplier & Danielle Turton for an interesting and rigorous examination Congratulations Emily!

Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control ➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements. 🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.003… JASA Express Letters

This study proposes new scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of speech, allowing us to develop more realistic models of articulatory control in speech. doi.org/10.1121/10.003… #acoustics Sam Kirkham @phoneticslab