Speech Acquisition Lab at the University of Utah

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming Marcela Suarez, Olivia Guest and I co-organise a Summer School Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming, June 22-26, 2026, at Radboud University, in The Netherlands. The Summer School is…

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

When a Slur Is Involuntary, Is It Racist? What the BAFTA Incident Reveals About Language, Race and Disability

The BAFTA incident has been framed as either “he couldn’t control it” or “he shouldn’t be allowed in public.”

Harm clearly occurred. The challenge is responding without defaulting to ableist exclusion.

Check out my new piece exploring these issues in more depth:
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I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts.

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LINGUIST List 36.2759 TOC: Arabic Linguistics 1 / 1 (2025) The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Table of contents: Arabic Linguistics 1 / 1 (2025)
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Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Researchers have generally assumed that listeners perceive speech compositionally, based on the combined processing of local acoustic–phonetic cues associated with individual linguistic units. Yet, th...

Officially out! "Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech" S.E Kim, B. R. Chernyak, @keshet.bsky.social, me, & A. Bradlow link.springer.com/article/10.3.... BONUS: free online similarity calculator so you can join in the fun! 1/

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Click here for the study materials, data & analysis code.
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The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception Building on previous observations of variability in speech research, we examine variability in speech perception study materials associated with the specific ta

Lab Publication! - Hayes-Harb & Barrios (2024)

Hayes-Harb, R., & Barrios, S. 2024. The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception. JASA Express Letters, 4(8), 085201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0028277.

I finally have physical copies of my book!

If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.

30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:

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Arabic Linguistics 1:1 Issue of Arabic Linguistics

The table of contents for Issue 1:1 of the journal Arabic Linguistics is now online. We expect the full issue to be published in September 2025. benjamins.com/catalog/arli...

Linguistics Careercast: AI Con
August 16 | 10:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
Join host Laurel Sutton and guests for a live discussion of The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna.

Details + Register: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
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Catch up on Part 1 via podcast or YouTube! #Linguistics

My very first book is available for pre-order!

Workable Accents explores how international teaching assistants conceptualize accent in relation to academic labor.

Please ask your (university) library to order a copy: shorturl.at/KUC4R

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Attention undergrads: 💰Paid💰 summer internship at Planet Word in DC! See linked doc for details #linguistics

v excited for the Gender Inclusive Language Instruction Conference tomorrow!! dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l...

Great opportunity for language scientists!

Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Please share with your networks that the 2nd ROLE Symposium will be held online on May 19th. More information is coming soon www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r...

You can submit your abstracts by April 14th through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yes, everyone has an accent. But you have to ask yourself why some accents are more perceptible than others.

CEDL is excited to announce Alexis Davis as one of five winners of the 2025 CEDL Travel Grants to attend the LSA Annual Meeting in Philly. Alexis is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, focusing on African American Language, sociolinguistic methods, AI, and Black speech and communities.

SLRF 2025 - Call for Proposals Call for Proposals is open from January 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025.

#SLRF is back! To be hosted at Northern Arizona University later this year. Call for proposals open:

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“data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity”

Highly recommend this article ⬇️

You can also study computational, mathematical, corpus, and experimental approaches to theoretical phonology and (morpho)phonological acquisition yangwangthelinguist.github.io!

Or sentence processing and computational cognitive modelling with our colleague @anids.bsky.social!

In addition to laboratory approaches to multilingual phonology, at the University of Utah you can study computational, corpus, and laboratory approaches to phonology and morphology acquisition and linguistic theory with our colleague @cbelth.bsky.social!

Thinking about graduate study in multilingual phonology? Join us for a virtual info session on graduate study in psycholinguistics at the University of Utah on October 18 at 3pm mountain time! For more info and to register: utah.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception Building on previous observations of variability in speech research, we examine variability in speech perception study materials associated with the specific ta

Just out in JASA Express Letters: The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception by Rachel Hayes-Harb & Shannon Barrios. doi.org/10.1121/10.0... Open study materials, data and analysis code osf.io/ut6zn/

The effects of exposure and explicit stereotypes on veracity judgments of Polish-accented English speech: A replication and extension of Boduch-Grabka & Lev-Ari (2021) We are a group of students at the University of Utah completing this replication for our capstone class in Linguistics. Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Undergraduate Research Team Replication on Accentism is a project where twenty undergraduate students conducted a preregistered psycholinguistics replication study on accentism and speech processing. osf.io/etgc4/ doi.org/10.1017/S027...

Congratulations to the 20 @universityofutah.bsky.social *undergraduate student coauthors* on this replication study, published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition! @uofuhumanities.bsky.social @kmcmanus.bsky.social

Our student conference in Linguistics is coming up next Friday. Register to listen to talks and attend the poster sessions! signup.e2ma.net/signup/19992...