{"id":1276,"date":"2025-07-23T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:34:58","slug":"sun-phonetics-and-phonology-in-spain-our-team-at-pape-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/2025\/07\/23\/sun-phonetics-and-phonology-in-spain-our-team-at-pape-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun, Phonetics, and Phonology in Spain: Our Team at PaPE 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458001-1-2048x1532.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457991-2048x1532.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of our research group were delighted to participate in the <strong>6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE)<\/strong> conference, held from <strong>25\u201327 June 2025<\/strong> in in the University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain, Spain. PaPE is designed as an <strong>interdisciplinary forum<\/strong> for phonetics and phonology researchers, bringing together experimentalists, formal linguists, neurolinguists, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and speech technologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1284\" style=\"width:360px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-1149x1536.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-1532x2048.jpg 1532w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458042-scaled.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme this year\u2014<strong>\u201cPhonetics and Phonology in a Multilingual World\u201d<\/strong>\u2014encouraged exploration on speech in multilingual environments, spanning topics such as bilingual acquisition, language contact, variation, and speech technologies. While explicitly foregrounding multilingualism, the conference also welcomed broader contributions across main phonetic and phonological domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our group contributed four presentations\u2014two by doctoral researchers and two by academic staff\u2014alongside a themed workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Damar<\/strong> delivered an oral presentation titled <em>&#8220;Speech timing and pragmatic influences on the production and perception of conversational turn transitions&#8221;<\/em>. Her talk examined how conversational timing cues are used and interpreted during turn-taking, offering insights into the pragmatic and prosodic mechanisms that support smooth dialogue management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1281\" style=\"width:487px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262744867-2048x1532.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Yanyu<\/strong> presented a poster on <em>&#8220;Learning second language lexical tone discrimination: how is incremental cue training modulated by task difficulty?&#8221;<\/em>. Her work investigated the degree to which Incremental cue training is affected by task difficulty, highlighting how perceptual learning of a linguistic feature absent in native language is influenced by cue weighting. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458017-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1280\" style=\"width:284px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458017-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458017.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Staff Posters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dr Niamh<\/strong> presented her research on <em>&#8220;Pitch patterns among female speakers in three dialects of English: Newcastle, London and Dublin&#8221;<\/em>. The study provided a comparative analysis of pitch use across regional varieties, contributing to our understanding of sociophonetic variation in prosody.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dr Laurence<\/strong> showcased his work on <em>&#8220;Mechanisms of temporal prediction for speech segmentation: evidence from nonword detection&#8221;<\/em>. His poster explored how listeners anticipate upcoming speech boundaries, drawing on experimental data to model predictive timing mechanisms in speech processing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1282\" style=\"width:336px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-1149x1536.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-1532x2048.jpg 1532w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262458028-scaled.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, <strong>Dr Cong<\/strong> and <strong>Dr Niamh<\/strong> co-organised a highly attended workshop titled <em>&#8220;Prosody in languages of the Middle East&#8221;<\/em>. The session brought together scholars working on underrepresented languages and dialects in the region, aiming to broaden typological perspectives on prosodic systems and encourage future collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also pleased to share that <strong>Damar was awarded Best Student Presentation<\/strong> for her compelling and well-structured talk\u2014an exciting and well-deserved recognition of her research contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1283\" style=\"width:580px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2025\/07\/1753262457986-2048x1532.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, PaPE 2025 was a highly productive and enriching experience for our group, marked by stimulating discussions, constructive feedback, and valuable networking opportunities. We extend our thanks to the organisers and fellow attendees for a memorable and inspiring conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of our research group were delighted to participate in the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, held from 25\u201327 June 2025 in in the University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain, Spain. PaPE is designed as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/2025\/07\/23\/sun-phonetics-and-phonology-in-spain-our-team-at-pape-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,39,40],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-conference","tag-phonetics","tag-phonology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}