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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Why are there so many cues to #focus across languages, and how do listeners make sense of them? Focus can be viewed as an attentional tool, linked to prominence, whose cues differ between languages, speakers and by the discourse context. www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1... #openaccess #LabPhon

Linking prominence, and other cues, to the processing of focus across languages

A key function of focus is to highlight what is said in relation to what could be said, or alternatives to the focus. This plays a crucial role in conveying implied meaning in discourse. Psycholinguis...

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“Rethinking the source-filter theory” by Susanne Fuchs (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon20

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

Kudos to @ucalgaryling.bsky.social PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu and his co-supervisor @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social on organizing the satellite workshop “Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection” at #LabPhon20 labphon.org/labphon20/pi...

Pitch at the crossroads | Labphon

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“Co-speech gesture as evidence for prosodic planning and as a resource for fieldworkers,” invited talk by @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich (@kfran.bsky.social) at labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon20 ‎ Read Franich & Nwosu (2026) in the latest issue of @labphon.bsky.social — link below!

Abstract of invited talk Prof. Katie Franich at LabPhon20

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

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · last mo.

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

Someone suggested today at @labphon.bsky.social that academic posters need a QR code going to an email signup for "please send me the official version of this paper once it's done and citable" And all I could say was YES PLEASE CAN I HELP TWEET THIS INTO EXISTENCE

“The role of dialect variation in Scottish and American English speakers’ production and perception of non-native /y-u/ contrast” by Jonathan Havenhill, Jane Stuart-Smith and Madeleine Oakley (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social V. interesting thru redeployment lens #LabPhon20

Cool: “The functional status of f0 shapes the neural encoding of English stop voicing contrasts: Evidence from Korean and English listeners” by Chao Han, Yoonjung Kang, Juhyung Cho, Tae-Won Lim, Say Young Kim and Philip J. Monahan (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social #LabPhon20

“God be with ye, frequency effects: A 1,000 years of reductive sound change in English” by Márton Sóskuthy (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social #LabPhon20 ‎‎ (Good) bye < ... < God be with ye ‎‎ Data and code: osf.io/nw87j/overvi...

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

Prof. Susanne Fuchs delivers the second invited talk at #LabPhon20: “Rethinking the source-filter theory” 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social

“Does opacity allow recoverability? A processing view of Canadian Raising” by Ashley Farris-Trimble, Anne-Michelle Tessier and Danica Reid (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social Cool study/results. Betteridge’s law holds for nonce words. #LabPhon20

PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Using PCA to examine cue variation in stress production: a case study of te reo Māori” by Kirsten Culhane, Forrest Panther and Jennifer Ha (June ’26) labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social “This study represents the first significant study of stress production in Māori.” #LabPhon20

PhD students @jupitararay.bsky.social & Meixian Li will both give posters at #LabPhon20 🇨🇦! 🤩 - "Perception and production change out of sync" (Ray, @cbchang.bsky.social) - "Cross-language variation in sociophonetic perception reflects language effects" (Li, Yao, Chang) 🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social

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“From Universals to Variation: Phonetic Grammar through Prosody” by Taehong Cho (June ’26) #LabPhon20

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

“Dimensions: looking back, looking forward” by Kie Zuraw (June ’26) #LabPhon20

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

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · last mo.

“Articulatory evidence for ambisyllabicity: a modern approach to an old question” by Sam Tilsen (June ’26) #LabPhon20

Thank you to everyone who came to my zine workshop at #labphon @labphon.bsky.social #labphon20! Look at these great zines that people made!! Workshop slides: bit.ly/lingcommzines

Eight minizines on a table, with the following titles:
1. How do *you* say it? plus a drawing of an armadillo
2. [a string of coloured shapes followed by a question mark]
3. untangle- -ing with a ball of yarn
4. What is linguistic discrimination? with some stick figures of various shapes and colours
5. A quel point do you speak Canadian? plus a maple leaf
6. Why does my voice sound so WEIRD in recordings?
7. The Wonderful World of the Ontario French Immersion system plus a drawing of an official-looking building
8. Language Documentation and the value of Archiving with LDTC

Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · last mo.

Dear #LabPhon20 attendees, help our faraway colleagues enjoy the event by sharing updates -- bonus reposts will come if you tag @labphon.bsky.social!

Timo B. Roettger@timoroettger.bsky.social · last mo.

So bummed that I cannot be at #LabPhon20 this year. Please share updates, folks (like in the good old pre-Elon days on Twitter).

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · last mo.

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

I love that thing in any linguistics talk where the speaker says something about phonetics and immediately everyone in the audience starts trying to produce whatever it is ALMOST subtly (this is definitely not me and my #labphon #labphon20 neighbour catching each other going /p/ /t/ /k/)