Miquel Llompart

Yesterday I was invited to give a talk at the 6th Jornadas Fonética Open Days organized by #FonoLab at @usaloficial.bsky.social. It was great to meet super nice folks doing phonetics in the area of Romance/Hispanic Linguistics and reconnect with a couple of people in my MA cohort back in 2013 (!!)

YouTube video by HELLO Lab Presents How Does My Baby Learn Words? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 2)

In Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents, we try to distill some of what we know (or think we know) about word learning for parents.

youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM

Adventures in /Ɂ/ The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...

What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess

Found one in the wild! Models of the language network in a published paper in a (presumably) predatory journal.

I think I'd be concerned if a patient had four anterior temporal lobes in their lert hemisphere, it might affect their conprehension

#NeuroSkyence

Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Early Language Skills Purpose: This study aims to address the critical gap in research on real-time language processing in adults with developmental language disorder ...

Do adults with DLD continue to exhibit differences in the dynamics of spoken word recognition observed in childhood or do they resolve by adulthood? This #JSLHR study aims to address a gap in research on real-time language processing.

https://on.asha.org/3MtGgpM #DevLangDis

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th!

Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

#neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

From Nov 18, all articles accepted for publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition will be #OpenAccess, published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online #lingsky #langsky #SLA #linguistics

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🚨 Two AEI calls open soon!

🔹 Ramon y Cajal 2025 (PhD 2015–2023, 5 yrs + funds)
🔹 Juan de la Cierva 2025 (PhD 2024–2025, 2 yrs + funds)

Get in touch if you’d like to explore applying through UPF!

aei.gob.es

“2nd Call for Papers: LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25”
labphon.org/labphon20/home

Moltes gràcies per la difusió, @traduccioupf.bsky.social 😉

CityU's logo with tagline: "Innovating into the Future"

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling!

www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c...

#langsky 🐦🐦

Thanks, Jeff! 😉

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We wrapped up our UVALAL seminars by exploring the exciting projects of two new members of the UVALAL: @maitemg87.bsky.social and Ali Behzadnia. Fascinating topics and great discussions! 👇

Massive win for perceptual learning/recalibration fans: just learned my 2024 paper was named Journal of Phonetics' “Best Early Career Scholar’s Article of the Year.” It asks how sound difficulty + variable input shape perceptual flexibility in L2 listening.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

It's out!! 🕺💃 Link below:

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✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨

From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition.

Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

The second paper of my superstar supervisee, Sara Fernández Santos, is out in Language and Cognition. Love this work because it incorporates acoustic analysis and speech perception tasks to the study of relative-clause processing 🔥⚡️🧐

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Toward an Understanding of Developmental Language Disorder in Adults: Investigating the Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and Linguistic Outcomes Purpose: There is a growing body of research on developmental language disorder (DLD), but very few studies have focused on the role of cognitive...

There is a growing body of research on developmental language disorder, but very few studies have focused on the role of cognitive abilities in adulthood.

on.asha.org/4m3zvHB
@ashleyrblake.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social
#DevLangDis #DLD

Language and cognition in adults with developmental language disorder (DLD) This study explored how different cognitive abilities support language in adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Sixty adults—30 with DLD and 30 without—completed a series of o...

I am also pleased to share the second study of my PhD exploring language and cognition in adults with and without DLD, with Prof. Ewa Dabrowska and Dr
@mllompart.bksy.social - now published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: #DevLangDis link.growkudos.com/1eem1qwc5q8

thanks!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Day 2 at the LSSL (no pic this time)

🧠Spoken word recognition in bilinguals: interaction between languages. What makes bilingual spoken word recognition different from monolingual spoken word recognition? Phonological overlap, cognate words and cross-language activation.

#lisbon #summerschool

Day 1 at the LSSL in the books!

🧠 Spoken word recognition: what is it, what do we know and how did we get here?

Characteristics of spoken language. Models of (L1) spoken word recognition: a historical overview. Useful experimental paradigms and current state-of-the-art

#lisboa #lisbon

You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔

Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper!
osf.io/6zbgt

Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods

I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/

It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests!

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Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2025 - Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2025 PhD Programme Lisboa, June 30 – July 4 2025 Venue NOVA Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Avenida de Berna, 26-C 1069-061 Lisboa – Portugal COURSES OFFERE...

Hiya!! I'll be teaching a course (I very imaginatively) titled "Phonology and L2 Spoken Word Recognition" at the Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2025. Dates, full program, fees, etc in the link below.

As they say: Come for the city, stay for the science 😆

clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/lisbon-su...

Funded PhD at LPL (CNRS & AMU) on Bilingualism & Lexical Stress Processing (ANR FRENCHMELO)
📍Aix-en-Provence
📅 Apply by April 30, 2025 (CV)
✉️ amandine.michelas@univ-amu.fr & sophie.dufour@univ-amu.fr
#PhD #Linguistics

📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are open!

📆Preregistration deadline: March 26th

Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit...

#neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master