Description: Applicants are invited to apply for the postdoctoral research fellow position at the Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia. The position is funded by the Estonian Research Council project Native Language Background and the Brain’s Perception and Learning of a Foreign Language,” led by Dr. Siqi Lyu. The research project adopts both the behavioral and EEG methods to investigate how three groups of native speakers, i.e., Mandarin Chinese speakers, Estonian speaker

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Adler, Richard; Hirsch, Sandy y Mordaunt, Michelle (2012). Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Transsexual Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide. Plural Publishing.

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A tool for processing Articulate Assistant Advanced™ (AAA) ultrasound tongue imaging data and Carstens AG500/1 electro-magnetic articulographic data.

このたびは、Eugenia DIEGOLI（ヴェネツィアのカ・フォスカリ大学、アジア・北アフリカ研究学科、助教授）が実施するアンケート調査にご協力いただきありがとうございます。 質問は全部で17問、回答には10分程度かかります。 アンケート調査は匿名で、回答内容は第三者に提供することはなく、研究目的以外には使用いたしません。 アンケート調査への回答によって、本研究への協力についてご同意いただいたも...

Here’s a brief introduction to the new tidynorm package.

Other Specialties: Gesture Description: The AHRC-DFG-funded QuBiSM project (Questions, Bias, Multimodality: Negotiating Meaning in Interaction) invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position. The project, headed by PIs Dr Johannes Heim (Aberdeen), Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp (Cologne) and Dr Rebecca Woods (Newcastle), will examine the prosody and co-speech gesture associated with negative questions in English and German, as well as their acquisition. The position will

This article outlines a quantitative, between-group comparison of tongue shapes using ultrasound tongue imaging, one of the vocal tract imaging techni …

This article outlines a quantitative, between-group comparison of tongue shapes using ultrasound tongue imaging, one of the vocal tract imaging techni …

We discuss some of the features of the R add-on package GJRM which implements a flexible joint modeling framework for fitting a number of multivariate response regression models under various sampling...

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The analysis of articulatory movements, particularly tongue movements, is a key challenge in speech research. However, traditional methods for extract …

Generalized additive models (GAMs) are incredibly flexible tools that fit penalized regression splines to data. But interpreting nonlinear effects from GAMs is not as easy as interpreting linear model...

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Within the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, and the Univer...

Focus: The Summer School offers 11 multi-day modules on various topics, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods: - Introduction to R - Advanced data analysis with R - Natural Language Processing with Python - PRAAT - ELAN and FLEx - Eye-tracking - Survey design - Linguistic ethnography - Bayesian data analysis - Multivariate data analysis with R - Introduction to statistics with R Each module involves 15 contact hours. Because the modules are partly held in parallel se

Listeners can adapt to noise-vocoded speech under divided attention using a dual task design [Wang, Chen, Yan, McGettigan, Rosen, and Adank, Trends Hear. 27, 23

We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise in cognitive linguistics, computational modeling, corpus linguistics, and/or neurolinguistics. The successful applicant will receive an independent lab space, startup funds, and housing accommodation support for three years.

Speaking in noisy environments entails a multitude of adaptations to speech production. Such modifications are expected to reduce gestural overlap bet…