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A great post! Articles like this are often a bit dodgy, but Drs Turton and Lennon are doing fantastic, solid work, so it is great to see this news report about it in non-technical language.
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What's not to like? Noch bis zum 10.04. bewerben 
#phonetik #phonetics #linguistics #jobs
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4202/research-position?page_lang=en
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.orgResearch Position<span style=";">The working group Phonetics has a vacancy for a PostDoc position within the DFG-funded project "Laughter in Conve...
I got invited to write an encyclopedia entry with the broadest topic I can imagine, "Phonetics (an overview)." I wound up really enjoying how writing it made me think about the field. I'm very honored to get to write this, since my own advisor, John Ohala, wrote the corresponding article for the previous editions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323955041002489 #linguistics #phonetics
#Phonetics #Speech #Science #Linguistics
Appel à manifestation d'intérêt pour Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) 2025
5-6-7 Novembre 2025
Paris, France
jcparole@gmail.com
Les Rencontres de Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole ont été créées en 1995. Cette manifestation, parrainée notamment par l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), donnait aux futurs et actuels doctorants ou jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole. La 10e édition qui s'est tenue à Grenoble aura marqué le grand retour de ces rencontres.
Aujourd'hui, nous lançons un appel à manifestation d'intérêt pour une participation aux prochaines RJCP. Nous nous retrouverons cette fois-ci à Paris, du 5 au 7 novembre 2025. Indiquez-nous, via ce formulaire, si vous souhaitez y participer, et nous tâcherons de vous organiser un événement aux petits oignons ;)
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the stability of Notepad++? I installed it on my new PC (for work) today, and it looks IDENTICAL to how it looked when I started using it in gradschool, back in 2011 or so.
I even put a user-defined Praat syntax colouring on it, last updated in 2014, and it still fucking works.
Software people, this is what we want!
#Phonetics #Linguistics #Music
Hi Fedi 
I'm giving a talk on the phonetics of beatboxing at my lab this friday (14h, Paris). I'll focus on ejectives and implosives in beatboxing! The seminar is hybrid so do not hesitate to DM me for the Zoom Link 
The abstract
https://lpp.cnrs.fr/evenement/srpp-dalexis-dehais-underdown/
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For now, you may enjoy the abstract of my chapter trying to handle copulas, reduction phenomena and assessments! https://benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.37.10sor
Ian Maddieson, RIP
We are saddened to learn from Caroline Smith that her husband Ian Maddieson died on Sunday, February 2. Ian was Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading phoneticians, whose ground-breaking books Patterns of Sounds and The Sounds of the World's Languages (with Peter Ladefoged) shaped contemporary linguistic #phonetics.
lx.berkeley.eduPassing of Ian Maddieson | Linguistics
New journal:
#linguistics #speech #phonetics
Journal of Connected Speech | University of Toronto Press
Are you a native speaker of a variety of North American English? Dr Geoff Lindsay is running a pronunciation survey and wants your input. https://www.englishspeechservices.com/survey-north-america/. See his YouTube video for fascin background https://youtu.be/-_wmybw-RL0?si=QeWB6zA0w2SL66d4
#phonetics #linguistics #accents #phonemes
english speech services · Survey of North American English Pronunciation - english speech servicesSurvey of North American English Pronunciation
There's nothing like recording vocals for a song whose chorus is continually repeating plosives to make clear the value of a pop filter. 
In the days when Yiddish speakers were pouring into NYC, many signs had English words written using the Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet. This says "Chicken Market," and since there's no letter for "ch" in Hebrew it's spelled "t-sh-icken." #Phonetics #Yiddish #Hebrew
The University of York offers a course on the #Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction in June this year!
https://www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd/sector-specific-courses/phonetics-talk-in-interaction/
University of YorkPhonetics of Talk-in-InteractionDates: Monday 16th June - Wednesday 18th June 2025
Online
Course Leader: Marina Cantarutti
My co-authors and I got an article published today that I'm really pleased with. Short version: non-native listeners can't use surrounding speech rate to figure out that a messy little bit of sound must have been "we were" instead of "we're" given how fast the speech is going, the way that natives can. That is, non-natives did not use surrounding speech rate to help them recover information from reduced speech. We've been working on this project since 2008, although the non-native experiment didn't start quite that early. The delays were entirely due to me, and I'm really glad to have this one done. It's published open access. #linguistics #phonetics https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/1/8
MDPINon-Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual SpeechDuring conversation, speakers produce reduced speech, and this can create homophones: ‘we were’ and ‘we’re’ can both be realized as [ɚ], and ‘he was’ and ‘he’s’ can be realized as [ɨz]. We investigate the types of information non-native listeners (Dutch L1-English L2) use to perceive the tense of such verbs, making comparisons with previous results from native listeners. The Dutch listeners were almost as successful as natives (average percentage correct for ‘is’/’was’ in the most accurate condition: 81% for Dutch, 88% for natives). The two groups showed many of the same patterns, indicating that both make strong use of whatever acoustic information is available in the signal, even if it is heavily reduced. The Dutch listeners showed one crucial difference: a minimal amount of context around the target, just enough to signal speech rate, did not help Dutch listeners to recover the longer forms, i.e., was/were, from reduced pronunciations. Only the full utterance context (containing syntactic/semantic information such as ‘yesterday’ or another tensed verb) helped Dutch listeners to recover from reduction. They were not able to adjust their criteria based on the surrounding speech rate as native listeners were. This study contributes to understanding how L2 learners parse information from spontaneous speech in a World Englishes setting with inputs from multiple dialects.
Hi FediLinguists
#Linguistics #Phonetics
I've been working on sharing my ressources in phonetics on my website : https://alex-under.fr/ressources/
Feel free to ShareAlike and adapt the illustrations/scripts as you want !
Some new content from my own courses :
Phonetic diversity of the world’s languages : https://alex-under.fr/ressources/#phonetic-diversity-of-the-world-s-languages Acoustic phonetics : https://alex-under.fr/ressources/#acoustic-phonetics Spectrogram of french sounds (non-words) : https://alex-under.fr/ressources/#spectrograms-of-french-sounds
I'll be updating the page over the years ;)
Alexis Dehais-Underdown · RessourcesRessources LicenseElegant figures with PraatLaryngeal statesPhonetic instrumentationPhonetic diversity of the world’s languagesAcoustic phoneticsSpectrograms of french sounds License My illus…
If you're looking for a great #linguistics and #neuroscience read before the break, look no further! In our new paper, we show that the prosodic hierarchy (a pillar of theory in #phonology and #phonetics) is actually neurally implemented during the comprehension of speech. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae479
My best part of my PhD thesis is probably the paper on rising 'ja' (yes) and 'nej' (no) in Danish). It shows that these are used for affiliation in contrast to the 'normal' versions with level intonation. But it also shows how the rising pitch often (cor)responds to a wide pitch span in the previous turn, as part of making affiliation relevant.
Now your can get a version of this on ResearchGate (AAM, before layout and proofs)
Motion to add lateral fricatives to the English phonological inventory, please.
I had no idea that, in #French, #DarthVader is called #DarkVador. It makes sense as both /θ/ and syllabic /ɹ/ would be difficult in French, but for a second I sort of took offense to the name change, lol
#StarWars #linguistics #phonetics #phonology #languagecontact
Premiere.fr · Skeleton Crew : "Nos enfants ne savent même pas qui est Dark Vador !"Quand et comment s'insère la série Skeleton Crew dans la saga Star Wars ? Les créateurs nous disent tout.