PAMLab at CityU

A fascinating plenary talk on perception-production link by Prof. Chang at the 5th international conference on heritage/community languages at UCLA @cbchang.bsky.social

CorpusPhon 2 A one-day satellite workshop at LabPhon 20 to bring together researchers using corpus phonetic tools

📣 Phoneticians/phonologists: CorpusPhon is happening again this year on June 29th at LabPhon in Montreal! Submissions due Friday, March 13th. Hope to see you there!

sites.google.com/view/corpusp...

Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages Our quadrennial two-day conference will focus on heritage/ community language studies as a multi-disciplinary field. Papers, posters, and panels relevant to heritage language research, pedagogy, and p...

Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is giving a plenary address at this week’s 5th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages: “Implications of heritage language sound systems for understanding perception–production links” ✨

nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/...

#phonetics #phonology 🐦🐦 #langsky

Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.

This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!

App deadline is March 15!

How Talker Variability Affects Cantonese Lexical Tone Perception: Testing Models of Talker Adaptation in a Tone Language Purpose: Adapting to talker variability typically incurs a cost to speech perception. However, it remains unclear whether the underlying mechanis...

This study tests accounts in Cantonese lexical tone perception, where lexical tone categories and talker identity are both represented in fundamental frequency.

https://on.asha.org/3O2Y5N3 #Speech #bskySPEECHIES

Bad Bunny and America's bilingual roots The singer's Spanish-language halftime show triggered MAGA — even though we were once a nation of many languages

Bad Bunny reminded America of its bilingual roots
The singer's Spanish-language halftime show triggered MAGA — even though we were once a nation of many languages

Social associations between voices and words affect learning Author(s): Zellou, Georgia; Rácz, Péter; Barreda, Santiago | Abstract: The present study investigates whether the relationship between voice gender (female and male voices) and gender-associated meani...

and next up is "Social associations between voices and words affect learning" by Zellou, Rácz, and Barreda:

escholarship.org/uc/item/46d7...

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/...

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

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