The Way You Cheer on Runners Is Objectively Weird (and Beneficial). Science Explains A recent study found that cheering is an incredibly unique form of speech with four main patterns. Which do you prefer?

Are you interested in how people #cheer for long distance runners? There are some specific #prosodic patterns, nicely explained by Marzena Zygis from #ZAS also for laymen. run.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra... If you want to read the paper, it is here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Almost the end of July but CLA doen’t stop! 💥 Florence Baills presented at #ISGS2025 (Gesture Society) her poster "Exploring future Spanish as a foreign #language_teachers' use of #gesture for #prosodic instruction"➡️there’s room for training to boost impact!🚀

🔊 New paper on #pragmatics!
Rising or falling nuclear accentual movement on the sentence-final word is the key #prosodic cue for distinguishing questions from statements in Italian.

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W/@tomasellor.bsky.social @isabellaboux.bsky.social & #FPulvermüller at #FreieUniversitätBerlin.

Same same but different: The graded influence of vowel quality and prosodic prominence on letter detection - Jana Hasenäcker, Frank Domahs, 2024 This study investigates the impact of phonetic realisation and prosodic prominence on visual letter identification, focusing on the letter <e> in German bisylla...

Published recently: Hasenäcker, J. @janahasenacker.bsky.social , & Domahs, F. (2024). Same same but different: The graded influence of #vowel quality and #prosodic prominence on letter detection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental #Psychology, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...