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Charles B. Chang

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Linguist & cognitive scientist at CityU of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 PI @pamlab.bsky.social. Phonetics, phonology, speech, bilingualism, multilingualism, DEI. he/him 🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈⛸🤸 Views my own ✌️ More: linktr.ee/charlesbchang

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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social will represent the lab at @interspeech.bsky.social in Sydney 🇦🇺 next week! He'll give the talk "A corpus-based study of creaky voice production in English and Mandarin" (coauthored w/ Meixian Li & Prof. Yao Yao) in the Tues session "Voice Quality Aspects of Speech" 🗣️ 🐦🐦
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Recruiting new PhD students for @pamlab.bsky.social! 😅 Prospectives should email me directly to discuss research interests & fit. I'd be happy to nominate someone for HKPFS (HK's NSF GRFP): cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.... As LT's PhD Coordinator, I can also answer general ?'s re: admissions.
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Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme | Research Grants Council
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ICPhS 2027 @icphs2027.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
✈️ Planning to present at #ICPhS2027? Papers are due Oct 1. We set the deadline early so anyone needing a Canadian entry visa, which can take time to process, has room to prepare before the Congress in Victoria. Questions? icphs-2027@globalplanning.ca ➡️ icphs2027.ca/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers – ICPHS 2027
The organizing committee is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 21st International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, which will take place on August 9–13, 2027, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has launched.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Jobs: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan; Hindi; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Typology: Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages, Duolingo
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Jobs: Dravidian, Indo-Aryan; Hindi; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Typology: Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages, Duolingo
Description: About the Role: We are looking for a senior language educator and curriculum designer with linguistics training, deep expertise in Hindi, and strong knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity in India and the whole South Asian region. You will help shape Duolingo’s learning experiences for Indian languages by using your pedagogical expertise, cultural insight, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and design partners to s
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ICPhS 2027 @icphs2027.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
📣This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting papers for ICPhS 2027 is October 1st. Please feel free to reach out to icphs-2027@globalplanning.ca if you have any questions! ➡️ icphs2027.ca/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers – ICPHS 2027
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢 Applications now open for the Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2027. Open to researchers in #Linguistics, #SpeechScience, #Developmental & #Experimental Psychology, #Psycholinguistics, #ComputationalLinguistics, & #CommunicationEngineering. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5fy6bmt2
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Jobs: General Linguistics: Director of the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Jobs: General Linguistics: Director of the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Description: Director of the Center for Language Education Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: School of Humanities and Social Science Job Functions: The Director provides leadership and vision to achieve excellence in language education at HKUST. With responsibility for a Center at the cutting edge, this role offers a great opportunity to shape the future of language education particularly in Human-AI interaction for language learning at scale. Reporting to the Dean of t
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Calls: International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2027
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Calls: International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2027
Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust
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Mauro Silva Júnior @maurosilvajunior.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Analysis of **110,303 submissions** to two elite journals over 5 years found that institutional prestige, team size, topic, and country strongly influenced editorial decisions. Most biases emerged in editorial review. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #metasci #science
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next January for #IWoLP2027! Abstract deadline: 30 Sep 2026 Web: lt.cityu.edu.hk/iwolp2027/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is part of a great line-up of speakers spanning all aspects of language production 🤩 🐦🐦 #langsky #languageproduction #psycholinguistics #multilingualism
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International Workshop on Language Production 2027 (IWoLP 2027)
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A feature on "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese" in ClearSkyScience: www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1057/s... 🐦🐦 #langsky #sociolinguistics #Mandarin #Chinese #voicequality #creakyvoice
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Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters · Clear Sky Science
Study of how Mandarin speakers perceive creaky voice, showing gender specific effects on perceived age, gender, and warmth.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Confs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027
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Confs: International Workshop on Language Production 2027
We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6–8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields. Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: HK Research Professor, Chosun University
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Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics: HK Research Professor, Chosun University
Description: The Center for Data Science in Humanities at Chosun University is building a set of multimodal datasets spanning the lifespan. Over the past year, we have been collecting infant-perspective head-mounted video (BabyView Korea) and bilingual daylong audio recordings (LENA) from families in Korea, both still actively growing. We have also completed a dataset of daylong speech recordings from older adults, linked to PET imaging and cognitive test data. Alongside these, the center has
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ICPhS 2027 @icphs2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 ICPhS 2027: Victoria, Aug 9–13, 2027! Theme: Shifting Currents 🌊 Researchers, educators, clinicians, and industry professionals worldwide, sharing discoveries and exploring the future of phonetic sciences. 📝 Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2026 icphs2027.ca/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers – ICPHS 2027
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Deadline 9/1: Two (!) Asst Prof (tenure track), Cognitive Science, Pomona College academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32240
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027! Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026 Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16
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NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Prof. Bob McMurray delivers the sixth and final invited talk of #LabPhon20: “The dynamic, gradient, idiosyncratic and messy and (in)consistent nature of speech categorization”
Bob McMurray gives the 6th invited talk of LabPhon 20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Prof. Naomi Feldman delivers the fifth invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Beyond long-term statistics: A mismatch in feature weighting between models and humans” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Naomi Feldman gives the 5th invited talk at LabPhon 20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Prof. Kathryn Franich @kfran.bsky.social delivers the fourth invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Co-Speech Gesture as Evidence for Prosodic Planning and as a Resource for Fieldworkers” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Kathryn Franich gives the 4th invited talk at LabPhon 20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Prof. Mark Amengual delivers the third invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Cue weighting and the acoustic realization of stress in Heritage Tagalog (and how it relates to bilingual co-activation)” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Mark Amengual gives the 3rd invited talk at LabPhon 20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Prof. Susanne Fuchs delivers the second invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Rethinking the source-filter theory” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Susanne Fuchs gives the 2nd invited talk at LabPhon 20
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Dimensions: looking back, looking forward” by Kie Zuraw (June ’26) #LabPhon20
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“From Universals to Variation: Phonetic Grammar through Prosody” by Taehong Cho (June ’26) #LabPhon20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Prof. Kie Zuraw (UCLA) delivers the first invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Dimensions: Looking back and looking forward” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Kie Zuraw delivers the 1st invited talk at LabPhon 20
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Prof. Taehong Cho (Hanyang U.) kicks off #LabPhon20 with a pre-conference lecture going “From Universals to Variation: Phonetic Grammar through Prosody” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Prof. Taehong Cho giving the pre-conference lecture at LabPhon 20
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
See you LabPhon folks soon! 👋👋 🇨🇦 #labphon20 @labphon.bsky.social 🐦🐦
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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · 19/06/2026
Apply until 2 August! 👋 Together with the @britishacademy.bsky.social, we invite early & mid-career researchers based in Germany to participate in the UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium! #FrontiersOfResearch 📅 21-23 April 2027 in Bonn www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...
Sharepic with the text "Call for applications. UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium in Bonn, Germany. Deadline: 2 August. Logo of the Frontiers of Research Symposia.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social
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at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
FYI: Online Talk: Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – Same Phenomena, Different Names?
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FYI: Online Talk: Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – Same Phenomena, Different Names?
The Language Attrition Network meets once a month (from October to June) in a 1-hour online session to discuss projects, papers, and chapters related to Language Attrition. You can see our past and next meetings here: https://languageattrition.org/language-attrition-network/ We would like to invite you to our next session, the last one of this academic year: Friday 12th, June, at 14:00 CET (13:00 UK), entitled "Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – same phenomena, different names?" by Erdin
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Jobs: General Linguistics: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong
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Jobs: General Linguistics: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong
Description: Founded in 1994 and awarded the University title in 2016, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) is a publicly funded university, dedicated to the advancement of teacher education and related disciplines through a diverse offering of academic, professional and research programmes.  The University aspires to become a leading university in the Asia Pacific region and beyond, with a focus on educational and multidisciplinary research, development and innovation. We are commit
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter
A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Deadline June 19: 2 positions, Asst., Assoc/Full (tenure track/tenured), Speech and Hearing Sciences, Arizona State apply.interfolio.com/185788
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Deadline Nov 1: Asst. prof (tenure track), open area, but encouraging corpus ling [syntax, morph, lexicon] or experimental sociolx or psycholx; Linguistics, NC State Univ Dept. of English. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/230...
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sigh @wulatum.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
congrats! Felix is doing very interesting work on language acquisition in languages of Ghana. here's to more of that.
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Kpogo to Wayne State! 🎉 Lab alum Felix Kpogo (PhD 2024, currently at Brown) has accepted a new job at Wayne State U., starting as a Pre-Faculty Fellow and then moving to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship. Congrats to Felix! 👏👏 www.felixkpogo.com #langsky 🐦🐦 @bulinguistics.bsky.social
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 New paper alert: congratulations to Prof. Yao Yao, PhD student Meixian Li & Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social on publishing "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters" in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications! 👏👏👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #langsky 🐦🐦
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Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: everyone’s gender matters
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congrats to PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, who'll present a talk titled "Gender effects in creaky voice production in English and Mandarin: Men are creakier" (coauthored w/ Profs. Yao & @cbchang.bsky.social) at this week's HISPhonCog! 👏👏 site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog #phonetics 🐦🐦 #langsky
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HISPhonCog 2026 | HIPCS, Hanyang University | Official Website
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congrats to Jupitara Ray (@jupitararay.bsky.social) on successfully defending her PhD, "Phonetic plasticity in Indian English bilinguals: How L2 accommodation alters L1 production and perception"! Well-done, Jupitara! 👏👏 Read more: jupitararay.github.io @bulinguistics.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦
Jupitara Ray post-defense with her dissertation committee: Drs. Kate Lindsey, Charles B. Chang, & Esther de Leeuw (not pictured).
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New paper alert: lab alum Dr. Felix Kpogo and Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social just published "Age, gender, and locality effects on innovation in the Twi vowel harmony system" in Language Variation and Change! 🤩 👏👏 doi.org/10.1017/S095... #OpenAccess 🐦🐦 #Langsky #Phonetics #Phonology #Sociolinguistics
Figure 2 from Kpogo & Chang (2026): Scatterplot showing individual Pillai scores by year of birth, locality, and gender. Each point represents one speaker’s degree of phonetic overlap between allophonic [æ] and phonemic /e/. The smooths are locally estimated scatterplot smooths by locality showing a 95% confidence interval around the curve.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang. www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Deadline 15 July: Assoc or full, tenured prof., open area, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Singapore apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Call for Symposia — ISB 16 (International Symposium on Bilingualism), 14–18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Submit proposals by June 30, 2026: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82055...
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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate. Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists. #TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities
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Alexandria Library @alexlibraryva.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Dr. Tseng, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at American University, will discuss the history of Latin American immigration to the DC Metro Area and how its shaped a unique regional language. RSVP to attend: alexlibraryva.org/event/15710620
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“In memoriam Ian Maddieson (1942–2025)” by Patricia Keating (Apr. ’26) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Honored to be a recipient of this year’s Chao Prize 😅 I regularly teach about the Chao ‘tone letters’ in my phonetics courses so kind of wild to be receiving an award named after him!
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