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Christian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taking a linguistics course improved foreign language grades by about one entire grade (B > A). New publication by UB PhD Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, along with Mandy Simons and Seth Weiner. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning...

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Want to help science about how we understand comics? My graduate student is running an online study now in need of participants! It takes about 10 minutes and runs in a computer browser. Please participate and share! jatos.mindprobe.eu/publix/P4a3Q...

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super excited to share our new article which is *finally* out in Journal of Applied Linguistics, 'Tackling linguistic discrimination in higher education' which is co-authored with former students Grace Mai Clark (93% Club) and Shanley Breese (Scottish Society). academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

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Tackling linguistic discrimination in higher education: a student-staff collaborative approach

Abstract. The field has long been committed to critically exploring the role of language in systemic inequality and social injustice. More recently, a grow

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just published "Multilingualism: Learning and using multiple languages and varieties" by Raphael Berthele #tbls #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Got 3 minutes? 🐦🐦 We're working on building tools to visualise both linguistic and vocal variation and could really use your help! We're looking for people who grew up in the UK and speak English as a main language. Interested? All the details + sign-up: bit.ly/MindViss Please share!

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It feels like a dream that the author reposted the book review I wrote!🥳 I'm not just saying this because he reposted it. As mentioned in the review, 📚"Speaking in Pictures" is truly a wonderful book, so I really hope many people will read it!

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 My 📚 review of @neilcohn.bsky.social (2026) “Speaking in Pictures: a vision of language”, is out now in LINGUIST List 🥳✨

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Jalal Al-Tamimi @beppefusilli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Dear all,, one of my M1 students is recruiting participants for two online listening experiments. We are looking for native speakers of English, aged 18–50, with no reported history of speech, hearing, or neurological disorders. Participation is entirely voluntary and unpaid.

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Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Leaving work on a Friday like 🎉🥳🍻 #paperout With Celia Gorba and Pilar Prieto, we asked whether nonwords really are superior to real words for training L2 sounds, and found that real-word training produces stronger and more generalized gains! doi.org/10.1017/S014...

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Are nonwords really superior to real words to train l2 sounds? Insights from an HVPT study on L2 English front vowels | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core

Are nonwords really superior to real words to train l2 sounds? Insights from an HVPT study on L2 English front vowels - Volume 47

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper out now in JPhon! 🐦🐦 Do listeners make use of coarticulatory information as early as it becomes available in speech? We used eyetracking to test the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in American English, German and French. Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German

The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metrop…

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This study characterises articulatory-kinematic strategies to differentiate the sibilants /s/ and /ʃ/ in individuals before and after tongue cancer surgery. doi.org/10.1121/10.0044235

Scatter plot showing vertical vs. horizontal positions of phoneme sensors /s/ and /ʃ/ with different sensor types marked by color and shape.

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Jalal Al-Tamimi @beppefusilli.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Participants needed from Amman/Zarqa Jordan to participate in a perception experiment by my student Sana (unpaid experiment, sorry!). Please share widely and participate if you fit the criteria (see advert for more details) Direct link: jatos.mindprobe.eu/publix/KufoG4mldME Thanks for your help.

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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New paper out w/ Pat Strycharczuk & @samkirkham.bsky.social! Does the individuality of formant dynamics have a basis in articulatory strategy? Forensic phonetics says yes, we went looking for evidence in English I-diphthongs. Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0... PDF: justinjhlo.github.io/publication/...

Title and abstract page from JASA article "Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics" by Patrycja Strcharczuk, Justin J. H. Lo, and Sam Kirkham. Full text of abstract linked in post.

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Essendo un'apprendente di italiano, sono veramente felice di sentire questa notizia! Grazie mille @sspina.bsky.social e il suo gruppo per aver creato un dizionario delle collocazioni per gli apprendenti di italiano!

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📣Deadline extended📣 Call for Papers: Estudios de Fonética Experimental (Journal of Experimental Phonetics @craiubrcub.bsky.social) Special Issue on “Phonetic applications in clinical and forensic settings” Please submit abstracts (max. 500 words + references) by 10 May 2026 to 📩 aisv2026@gmail.com

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

I just submitted my textbook manuscript to @langscipress! 🎉🎉🎉 I published the initial version of the first few chapters online in April 2024 and this project has been at the centre of my attention for much of these past two years so it's a big day for me! I am incredibly grateful to the many […]

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

📣 Call for Papers Together with Nicholas Nese, Andrea Martocchi & Chiara Meluzzi, we are guest editing a Special Issue on Phonetics research in language acquisition in the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech @uoftpress.bsky.social 📚 More info 👉 utppublishing.com/journals/jmb...

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Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Our chapter in Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing is out! I’m excited to be part of such a strong volume, and hopeful it might help recruit a few more undergraduate minds to the cause😊 benjamins.com/catalog/rmal...

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Chapter 4. Using offline methods to probe the bi/multilingual acquisition of phonological and phonetic domains

This chapter summarizes the methods generally employed to characterize the phonetic behavior — including pronunciation (production) and listening (perception) — and underlying phonological representat...

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Together with Nicholas Nese, Andrea Martocchi, and Chiara Meluzzi, we are guest editing a Special Issue on Phonetic Applications in Clinical and Forensic Settings in the Journal of Experimenal Phonetics/Estudios de Fonética Experimental (a #DiamondOpenAccess journal)! More information👇

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 Call for Papers Together with Nicholas Nese, Andrea Martocchi & Chiara Meluzzi, we are editing an Special Issue on Phonetics research in language acquisition in the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech @uoftpress.bsky.social. More info 👉 utppublishing.com/journals/jmb...

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Call for Papers | Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech | University of Toronto Press

Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech is seeking new insights on special topics to publish in an upcoming issue. See if this CFP is the right fit for your research.

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is the first actual experimental study I've seen that looks at comics reading and dyslexia. The results are a bit mixed, but they conclude overall that the dyslexic readers "benefitted more from reading comics than skilled readers" rdcu.be/e88Kd

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Can pictures in comics improve reading accessibility in university students with dyslexia? An eye-tracking study

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Domani alle 16.30! 🇮🇹Il trattamento di /n/ postonica finale di parola nei dialetti lombardi: teorie fonologiche e percorsi diacronici alla prova dei dati valtellinesi 🧑‍🔬Andrea Martocchi (Università degli Studi di Milano) www.rose.uzh.ch/de/agenda.ht...

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Yu Kanazawa @knzw783.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

音象徴には音が必要？ 🔓 Imai, M., Kita, S., Akita, K., Saji, N., Ohba, M., & Namatame, M. (2025). Does sound symbolism need sound? The role of articulatory movement in detecting iconicity between sound and meaning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(1), 137–148. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

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Does sound symbolism need sound?: The role of articulatory movement in detecting iconicity between sound and meaning

Ever since de Saussure [Course in General Lingustics (Columbia University Press, 1916)], theorists of language have assumed that the relation between form and m

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Claire Timmins @clairetimmins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

@unioflimerick.bsky.social #SLT team are looking for a #phonetics lecturer 👇

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

JASA Researchers from Germany’s Technical University of Berlin found that the color of a concert hall has an impact on the sound perception of a listener. doi.org/10.1121/10.0042275

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Musical ability and emotion recognition in speech prosody: The role of pitch discrimination link.springer.com/article/10.3... "Why does musical expertise predict enhanced emotion recognition in speech prosody? ...music training is an artifactual correlate of prosodic emotion recognition" 😮

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Musical ability and emotion recognition in speech prosody: The role of pitch discrimination - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Why does musical expertise predict enhanced emotion recognition in speech prosody? Evidence for a causal role of music training is weak, and correlations with musical aptitude could reflect basic audi...

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

🎉 NEW PAPER with @gsakr.bsky.social "Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging" 👅📡🩻📉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 My 📚 review of Boer (2024) "Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History", is out now in the Journal of Connected Speech (Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 362–367) 🥰🎉 You can find it here 👇https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/jcspeech.2025.0007

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Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History | Journal of Connected Speech

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

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Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦 it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Stefania Spina @sspina.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I am delighted to share our article "Developing a learner dictionary of #collocations: description and evaluation of a multi-method approach" published in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. @ireneeffe.bsky.social Fabio Zanda #corpora #dictionary #corpuslinguistics doi.org/10.1515/cllt...

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🚨New Publication 🇮🇹 Alert🚨 Martinelli, E., Gagliardi, G., Capellari, S., Meluzzi, C., Naito, Y., Ranù, M. (2025). Il progetto “AKiD – Acoustic and Kinematic characteristics of speech in Dementia”. CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics 9, 2025, pp. 133-146. amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/86... #OpenAccess

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

#ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is is proud to present its fourth season with an exciting programme of guest speakers and topics ranging from reproducible pipelines to data sharing, research integrity in the context of #GenAI and participant consent! 🌟 […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas with an image of a glass teapot and a cup of tea
Come and discuss Open Science practices over a cup of tea and biscuits!
Thursdays 4:00-5.30 p.m.
Room 4.006, USB and via Zoom
Full schedule and mailing list available at the link given in the post

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Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs

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Yuka Naito @yuka-naito.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🎉 Registration for the 22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences 2026—Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation—is now OPEN! 🗓️ 22-24 January 2026 📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹 👩‍💻Program: sites.google.com/view/aisv202... 🔗 Please register now: www.aisv.it/index.php?op...

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Barbara Hemforth @bhemforth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Want to help some of our students with their experiment on understanding simple sentences with and without emojis? We are looking for native speakers of English for a short (about 15 minutes) experiment. If you want to participate, here it is: ibex.llf-paris.fr/ibexexps/Psy...

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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Finally out @johnbenjamins.bsky.social : "Corpora and the learning and teaching of #French and #Spanish" co-authored with somebody I consider a massive inspiration, 👩‍🎓 Prof Angela Chambers @unioflimerick.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics @letrasumu.bsky.social benjamins.com/catalog/scl....

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Screenshot of the OpenMoji project homepage. The text says OpenMoji 16.0.0 Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else! with a Search emoji box below and a lot of random emojis scattered on the page.

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Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA) @cla-udl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📢 Call for Papers open! #Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad 🗓️ May 18–19, 2026 📍Universitat de Lleida 🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard. Submit here⬇️

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Study Abroad Conference Lleida 2026

May 18th and 19th, 2026 - Lleida (Spain)

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #OpenAccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #CogSci, and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Open for submissions!

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