Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements Abstract. Humans typically move and vocalize in a time-synchronized fashion, aligning prominence-lending hand movements to acoustically emphasized syllables. This requires complex coordination. When s...

Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... Pre-registered kinematic-acoustic study tested whether a foreign accent is present in the timing of co-speech manual movements - results demonstrate a ‘kinematic accent’ on cognates

Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech Processing Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning for Speech ProcessingDepartment: Phonetics Laboratory / Linguistics and English LanguageLocation: Bailrigg, Lancaster, UKSalary: £39,906 (pro-rata if part...

I’m hiring an 18-month postdoc to work on physics-informed machine learning for acoustic-articulatory speech inversion at
@phoneticslab.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline: Friday 10 April.

🔗 More info & applications: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

📣 Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!

📢 Call for Participants – Turkish Speakers
The Second Language Acquisition Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center is recruiting Turkish speakers in the U.S. or Germany for an online study on Turkish and bilingualism.
Not eligible? Please share, word of mouth really helps!
More info at the link in bio.

Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th-century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur,...

Fancy some weekend reading on historical sociolinguistics? Check out our latest #earlyview paper by Claire Nance and Malika Mahamdi on accent change and derhoticisation in post-Industrial Revolution Lancashire 🏭!

👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD funding at York in Forensic Speech Science

A PhD scholarship is available as part of the CURLEW project (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales), funded by SNSF. Deadline for applications is 12.00 (GMT), 13.00 (CET) on 20 Feb 2026.

curlew.info/jobs/york-ph...

I’m usually with the dictionary, but also, eventually it turns into whatever we want it to be. Language is blessedly ungovernable ❤️

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD: Accented Speech Processing at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

PhD Position: Accented Speech Processing - Apply now!

Come work with Mirjam Broersma, @davidpeeters.bsky.social, and me at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Application deadline: 19 October 2025

For more information, see
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns.

I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!

Confs: Dynamical Models of Speech A conference exploring new frontiers in dynamical models of speech. Registration: - Free registration before 27 June 2025 - Register at: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MV1PPHZ8izeNUO - More information at: https://samkirkham.github.io/dymos/ The event is co-located at the 2025 LSA Linguistics Institute. This two-day conference will bring together researchers in dynamical models of speech, featuring plenary talks from invited speakers, contributed talks, and open d

Confs: Dynamical Models of Speech

✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨

➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@cogscisociety.bsky.social

Quantifying Between-Speaker Variation in Ultrasound Tongue Imaging Data This article outlines a quantitative, between-group comparison of tongue shapes using ultrasound tongue imaging, one of the vocal tract imaging techni …

Hot off the press! My tutorial on ultrasound data collection & analysis is now out. Open Access. Part of a special issue in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, with lots of other cool studies. Articulatory phonetics is going strong in Japan!

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...

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UKLVC15 deadline extended!
Submit your abstracts by 28th March. Join us in Lancaster 2nd-4th September 2025 for sociolinguistic research on any language. Hosted by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and University of Central Lancashire. More information and keynote presenters: wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/

Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control Dynamical theories of speech use computational models of articulatory control to generate quantitative predictions and advance understanding of speech dynamics.

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/10.1121/10.0...

@asa-news.bsky.social

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The call for papers for UKLVC15 is open! Deadline: 21st March. Join us in Lancaster 2nd-4th September 2025 for sociolinguistic research on any language. Hosted by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and University of Central Lancashire. More information and keynote presenters: wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/

Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University is now on Bluesky. Follow us here: @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Massive congrats Rasmus!🙌🏼

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😁

It is “ördek” in Turkish.

We are still (desperately!!!) looking for participants for this study, Please help me spread the word! #linguistics #bilingualism #heritage #Turkish

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Three people sitting in a recording studio. Two men are on the left (Rob and John) and a woman on the right (me).

Had a fun time wearing giant headphones to record this for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking with @robdrummond.bsky.social Andrea Smith, Shane O'Mara and John Gallagher. Great to chat about accents and ultrasound www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor positions

Lancaster is hiring (again!) multiple open-contract positions at all levels under the (broadly construed) Security and Protection Science initiative.

This includes any relevant work in linguistics, law, etc., so do check us out:

I have 2 available and happy to share :) will try to dm you on twitter

NWAV51 feed!! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Congratulations 🥳 🎉

Utku believe me naming is the last thing we dont like about it😅 we only find patlican kebab or other varieties in Turkish restaurants but doner kebab takeaways are sth different.

They are simply not the thing we call kebab in Turkey (yes,bad)! Best of luck with your new venture and with the visa.

It is more like turkish urge to close down all doner kebab takeaways if it is in the UK