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Revolutionizing Phonetic Research with Gamification: A New Approach to Accent Studies
Introduction: In the dynamic field of phonetic research, finding innovative ways to collect data can be both a challenge and an opportunity. At our P&P group, Cong, Yanyu, and Damar are taking a leap forward with their latest study, “Gamifying … Continue reading
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Domain-Initial Strengthening: Insights from Dr. Ricardo Napoleão de Souza’s Latest Research
For this week’s Prosody Interest Group (PIG), we are excited to invite Dr. Ricardo Napoleão de Souza from the University of Edinburgh to talk about his recent research. Focusing on “Domain-Initial Strengthening from an Acoustic Perspective,” Dr. de Souza presented … Continue reading
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A Resounding Success: Our Journey at ICPHS 2023
From August 7th to 11th, our research group embarked on an illuminating expedition to the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS) 2023. As one of the most significant congresses in the field of phonetics, the ICPHS is a … Continue reading
PoLaR Workshop with Byron Ahn: A Dive into Prosodic Analysis
On Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome Dr. Byron Ahn for an in-depth workshop on the use of PoLaR in analyzing prosodic features of speech. The three-hour session delved deep into the intricate layers of intonation. The workshop began by … Continue reading
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Recent Workshop Recap
We are delighted to update our community on the successful completion of our recent workshop this Monday, titled “Training Your First ASR Model: An Introduction to ASR in Linguistic Research“. Workshop Overview:The workshop was designed to delve deep into the … Continue reading
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ICPhS 2023 Attendance
We are pleased to announce that the research of seven of our group members has been accepted for presentation at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023 in Prague. This is a great achievement for our research team and … Continue reading
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Effects of vowel and syllable position on laterals in bilingual speakers of English and Spanish
Date: 23/11/2022 Being interested in sound systems from the perspective of both production and perception, Niamh Kelly ran a project examining the production of /l/ sounds by bilingual speakers of English and Spanish from the El Paso region, to investigate … Continue reading
Nonword Learning Project
Date: 14/11/2022 Rory Turnbull gave us a talk on his research on what influences the phonological structure of the words in a language. The train of thoughts: The talk started with narrowing down the research questions: from the big question … Continue reading
Kaleidoscopic boundary tones
Date: 24/10/2022 Cong Zhang gave us a talk on boundary tones in Mandarin. Background information: Intonational tunes are generally made up of pitch accents and edge/boundary tones. The intonation in a tonal language is difficult to phonologise as F0 can … Continue reading
Phonetic discrimination ability of an English vowel contrast by German infants
Today, we have Hiromasa Kotera to present the preliminary work of his PhD study, which is about the retainability and sustainability of phonetic discrimination ability of infants. Rationale: The perceptual attunement effect has been hotly discussed in linguistics and child … Continue reading
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