PAMLab at CityU

Cover of "Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism"

Congrats to Profs. Amelia Tseng, @cbchang.bsky.social, Tania Leal, Jin Sook Lee, & Belem G. López on the publication of their book 📕 "Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs" w/ @tandfresearch.bsky.social! 🤩🤩

#langsky 🐦🐦

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

Psychonomic Society logo on a blue background highlighting the September 1 deadline to apply for the Fall Class of Fellows.

The Fellows program honors members for their outstanding research and emerging global reputation in the psychological sciences. Learn more and apply by September 1: bit.ly/3IFMBw0

Check out lab alum Felix Kpogo's dissertation, just announced on @linguistlist.bsky.social!

"Investigating Sound Change in Twi Vowel Harmony: A Sociophonetic Study of Age, Gender, and Locality Effects"
linguistlist.org/issues/36/22...

@bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology

Can a “fish” be friends with a “dish” – a new open-access resource for phonological network research A common trope in high school movies involves the protagonist being given a tour of the various student cliques, where distinctive groups like the rowdy football players, the fashionable mean girls…

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Congrats to PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, whose abstract w/ Profs. Yao and @cbchang.bsky.social was accepted to #ICPEAL2025 in Guangzhou! 🙌

The title of their poster is “Cross-linguistic social perception of creaky voice by Mandarin-English bilinguals”.

icpeal2025.scnu.edu.cn 🐦🐦 #langsky

In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)

We are excited to announce our #LabPhon Association's 2025 off-season programming, a series of three events on #prosody and #suprasegmentals. All events are scheduled during July and August, and they're FREE for ALP members. 😎 🌞 Info and registration are available here: labphon.org/content/summ...

Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...

@bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

Learning a second language as an adult can be hard — but it's not impossible #NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/...

Today we would like to introduce our first #keynote speaker.

🗣️Janet van Hell will deliver a talk on the neurocognitive signatures of accented speech processing.

🗓️ June 9th 9:00

🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

Our #ECR series begins with a powerful keynote—be sure to save the date!

🗣️: Ander Beristain (@aberistain.bsky.social) will give a lecture on diversifying articulatory phonetics through a bilingual and migrant lens.

🗓️ June 9th 14:45

🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change.

Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

New Orleans 2025

Check out @jupitararay.bsky.social's work at this week's ASA Meeting! Her poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social is "Testing the role of L1 influence in phonetic accommodation by Indian English bilinguals" in session 4aSC14 (Thurs): acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/

@bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

One of the most influential voices in applied #linguistics: Ingrid Piller will be awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 5 May! ✨

#AvHProfessor
@languageonthemove.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

🎬 Full portrait on her research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ik...

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

And there is another paper in our special issue in JASA which has a slightly different, but not excluisve angle: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

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...

JSLHR Special Issue: Arabic Typical and Atypical Aquisition This is "JSLHR Special Issue: Arabic Typical and Atypical Aquisition" by ASHA Journals on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…

In this video, Guest Editors Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Sharon Armon-Lotem discuss their recently published #JSLHR Special Issue, "Arabic Typical and Atypical Acquisition: The Role of Linguistic Structure and Sociolinguistic Context." Give it a watch! on.asha.org/434PCxH

@sigperspectives.bsky.social

The AI Con release date is right around the corner! We have TWO online events coming up:

#1 the virtual launch, with @dairinstitute.bsky.social -- @vauhinivara.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for a discussion of AI hype, the AI con, and THE AI CON.

Thursday May 8, 2pm PT.

black image with teal title of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is seeking a new co-editor! Learn more and how to apply:

✍️ cup.org/4ji1WAt

#linguistics #bilingualism

❗️❗️ We are organising the first edition of the “Bayes in Bayonne: Methods Workshop for Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences” on the 17th June, at the Iker lab of the CNRS in Bayonne!!!

All the relevant information and link to registration can be found here:

bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io

Sixteenth Heritage Language Research Institute Sixteenth Heritage Language Research Institute

Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social has been busy talking! 😅 In Mar-Apr, he gave talks at UC Irvine 🇺🇸 & @uni-konstanz.de 🇩🇪. In May, he'll give a talk at UZH 🇨🇭 & a keynote at #ASeFoLA2025 🇨🇾. In June, he'll be on a panel at the Heritage Language Research Institute in Madison 🇺🇸! nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/...

Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science. Apply Today!

We're inviting proposals for the ✨Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science initiative✨, with grants of up to $5,000 to support events or projects that increase accessibility and inclusion in #CogSci

Deadline: June 13 🗓️

Learn more and apply at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

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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SLRF 2025 Reviewer Confirmation Form Thank you for your interest in serving as a reviewer for SLRF 2025! We're currently finalizing our reviewer list and would like to confirm your availability and areas of interest. Please take a moment...

SLRF 2025 is looking for reviewers! Volunteers will be asked to review ~3-5 abstracts by April 30. Sign up by Thursday, April 10 at forms.gle/eEWontcNiNA3....

Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history Trump’s campaign produced campaign materials in Spanish to reach more voters. Now that he’s president, his White House is going English-only.

Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history theconversation.com/...

Phonetica Aims & Scope Phonetica is an international forum for phonetic science that addresses all aspects of the subject matter including phonetic descriptions, articulatory and signal analytic measures of...

Do you do Phonetics? Human-Computer Interaction? Anything sound-y plus computer-y? Submit to our special issue of Phonetica! Just a little one-page abstract due by 4/30, and you get to work with very cool special issue editors!
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

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