PAMLab at CityU

Join us for the SFU Multilingual Week keynote by Kyra Borland, titled “Many Worlds: Experiences working in Indigenous language revitalization outside academia.” Feb 26, 12:30pm.
Zoom: Email lingcomm@sfu.ca for the link. Register & learn more: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
@sfu.ca

To the right, a microphone resting on a small Pride flag. To the left, dark blue background with white text 'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', with Interspeech 2026 logo above, and website interspeech2026.org below.

'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an #Interspeech2026 Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

Deadline Mar 20: Postdoc, fNIRS+bilingual language development w/ M. Kalashnikova, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, + Language calls.bcbl.eu/index.php?op...

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Who has shaped how we understand the human mind?

Nominations for the David E. Rumelhart Prize are open through Feb 23, 2026 🗓️

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-pr... to learn about past recipients and submit a nomination!

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Join SFU Multilingual Week February 23 to 28, 2026.
Celebrate linguistic diversity in a week-long series of event: a keynote, talks, panels, roundtable discussions, and a language and culture expo. Everyone is welcome—students, faculty members, and staff. And it's free!
www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw.html

New #phonetics & #phonology talk series in 🇭🇰 - CityU Phorum! Our 1st speaker this term: Yao Yao (PolyU), on how "Gender Biases Shape Artificial Word Learning Even with Robot‑Like Voices".

Schedule: thepamlab.github.io/phorum/2526-...

Hong Kong folks: email the lab if you'd like to attend! 🐦🐦

A blast from the past. I wrote about this weird device back in 2010: stancarey.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/u...

Deadline Jan 15: Postdoc, "Bilingualism, Early Intervention, and Speech & Language Processing" w/ S. Surrain, U Nevada Las Vegas drive.google.com/file/d/1Caza...

Deadline 12 January [from email; website says 5 Jan]: Statement of interest for 3 year research position, Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon. www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/news/call...

Perceptual Learning and Predictability of Children's Speech Purpose: According to theoretical models, perceptual learning is modulated by the level of acoustic predictably in the speech signal. This study ...

This study investigated whether the variable speech of children is learnable in a perceptual learning paradigm and examined whether speech variability predicted perceptual learning outcomes.

https://on.asha.org/3NxJ7Ot

LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE / @nccrlanguage.bsky.social The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it! linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...

Deadline 3 Feb: 3 (!) positions, Associate/Full Professor (tenured), compling/NLP, psycholx, language typology, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

hey, did y'all know that the Linguistic Society of America offers FREE registration to K12 teachers, K12 students, and Indigenous scholars of the Americas for the #LSA2026 Annual Meeting? And it's not too late to register for the hybrid/online portion of the conference!

The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award, Mid-Career Award, and Early-Career Award. The nomination deadline is March 31. Learn more: buff.ly/wBFdEFt

Logo for 2026 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA

Check out our own Jupitara Ray at this week’s #LSA2026! Her talk w/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is “L2 accommodation-led drift: Asymmetries between L1 production and perception” & is in the Fri morn “Phonetics: Perception” session 🗣️👂🐦🐦 #langsky @lingsocam.bsky.social @bulinguistics.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium 🥳

This year, the conference will take place over two days, with an in-person workshop (UNAM) on 9 April and an online conference on 10 April.

Call for proposals: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂

How multilingualism can protect against brain ageing A study of 86,000 older adults across Europe shows people who speak multiple languages tend to age more slowly than monolinguals.

How multilingualism can protect against brain ageing

📣 New #Journal 🥳

Seeking a #linguistics journal committed to registered reports, transparency, and high-quality research? Look no further! #RRLing is now open for submissions.
journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

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My paper with Eunjong Kong on Korean "short tongue" pronunciation is finally out 🎉 Recently there has been more discussion of "short tongue" in the context of aegyo, a Korean cute speech register, and "short tongue" is one of its linguistic hallmarks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

YouTube video by Dept. of Linguistics and Translation, CityU HK MPhil & PhD Research Degrees

Just ~10 days left till the application deadline for the '26-'27 PhD student intake at CityU #Linguistics & #Translation! Here's a short video about our PhD program, w/ 🌟 starring roles 🌟 for Profs. Alex Fang, Ashley Lewis, & Jackie Lai 😁

🌲 🧠 🗣️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBj...

#langsky 🐦🐦

Title section of Jupitara Ray & Charles B. Chang's poster at BUCLD 50

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social is presenting at this week's #BUCLD50! Her Fri aft poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social is: "L2 influence, L1 resilience: Change and stability in early bilingual speakers of Indian English"

www.bu.edu/bucld/

@bulinguistics.bsky.social @bucld.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦

Looking for an opportunity to mentor or be mentored at #BUCLD50? PUMP is what you need — you still have one week to register!

All BUCLD 50 attendees are welcome to join! You can register as a mentor or mentee at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#BUCLD #PUMP #LanguageDevelopment #AcademicGrowth

LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency - Behavior Research Methods To facilitate objective measures of proficiency for language users of diverse backgrounds, recent research in second language acquisition and multilingualism has developed short, yet reliable, tests o...

New paper alert: congrats to Profs. @cbchang.bsky.social, Sunyoung Ahn & Youngjoo Kim on the publication of "LexKO: A quick, reliable lexical test of Korean language proficiency"! 🎉🎉

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#OpenAccess #Korean #LanguageProficiency #LanguageAssessment #langsky 🐦🐦

🚨🚨 Linguistics & Translation @ CityU is recruiting PhD students for the '26-27 intake! 🚨🚨

Prospectives should contact potential supervisors well before the Dec 1 deadline. Our faculty: lt.cityu.edu.hk/people/acade...

Happy to answer questions re: our programme & application process! #langsky 🐦🐦

PAMLab is recruiting new PhD students! 🎉🎉

#phonetics #bilingualism #multilingualism #phd #gradschool #langsky 🐦🐦

We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld

#BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

Relationships Between Home and School Language Exposure and Changes in Bilingual Oral Language Performance From Kindergarten to First Grade Purpose: With over one third of students in the United States exposed to languages other than English at home, there is a growing need to examine...

#ResearchTuesday! Language exposure at home and school contribute differently to bilingual language development. This article in #JSLHR shows the importance of exposure to both languages. Read more: https://at.asha.org/MG @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...