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...

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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Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027! Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026 Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · last mo.

Confs: 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation

Very happy to see the last study of Sara Fernández-Santos’s PhD thesis out in SSLA! This is work in collaboration with Lancaster University and NOVA Lisboa, bringing together artificial language learning and speech perception in early L2 learning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For a year and a half, @carorowland.bsky.social, @lehersingh.bsky.social, Marisa Casillas, Shanley Allen, and I have been meeting to discuss whether innateness is still a useful concept to think about in studying language acquisition. Here's our take: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Moltes gràcies! Ha estat una experiència fantàstica i molt enriquidora tant a nivell acadèmic com personal. Molt content i agraït per haver pogut participar en aquesta iniciativa a través d'@upfinternational.bsky.social i per la meravellosa acollida al @pamlab.bsky.social 😄

UPF International@upfinternational.bsky.social · 4mo ago

En el marc de les estades de mobilitat PDI 2025-2026, el prof. Miquel Llompart, ha gaudit de la seva estada al @pamlab.bsky.social #ErasmusPlus 📍Més informació sobre les mobilitats PAS i PDI 👇 🔗 www.upf.edu/web/internat... @mllompart.bsky.social @traduccioupf.bsky.social

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...

Super excited to be in Hong Kong for a short academic stay at City University of Hong Kong. Today I’ll be giving a talk on spoken word recognition under mid-vowel variation in Catalan (see flyer below). Many thanks to Prof. Charles Chang (@pamlab.bsky.social) for being such an awesome host!

Not as excited as I am 😆 Thanks a lot for hosting me and giving me the chance to get involved in so many ways during my stay!

PAMLab at CityU@pamlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The lab is excited to welcome Dr. Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social to CityU this week! During his visit, Dr. Llompart will give lectures, meet with our faculty and students, and learn about teaching and research in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 #phonetics #phonology #bilingualism #psycholinguistics 🐦🐦

Last week we hosted the workshop "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early and Late Bilingual Acquisition Research (IABAR)", bringing together researchers across Europe through the EUTOPIA Alliance to discuss how languages are learned and processed across the lifespan :D www.upf.edu/web/eutopia/...

UPF hosts a workshop on bilingualism and language acquisition with members of EUTOPIA - Eutopia - UPF

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Yesterday I was invited to give a talk at the 6th Jornadas Fonética Open Days organized by #FonoLab at @usaloficial.bsky.social. It was great to meet super nice folks doing phonetics in the area of Romance/Hispanic Linguistics and reconnect with a couple of people in my MA cohort back in 2013 (!!)

In Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents, we try to distill some of what we know (or think we know) about word learning for parents. youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM

How Does My Baby Learn Words? (Early Words & Ideas - Part 2)

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What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess

Adventures in /Ɂ/

The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...

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Found one in the wild! Models of the language network in a published paper in a (presumably) predatory journal. I think I'd be concerned if a patient had four anterior temporal lobes in their lert hemisphere, it might affect their conprehension #NeuroSkyence

Do adults with DLD continue to exhibit differences in the dynamics of spoken word recognition observed in childhood or do they resolve by adulthood? This #JSLHR study aims to address a gap in research on real-time language processing. https://on.asha.org/3MtGgpM #DevLangDis

Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Early Language Skills

Purpose: This study aims to address the critical gap in research on real-time language processing in adults with developmental language disorder ...

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📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) will be open from March 2nd until March 27th! Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture A01 - Introduction to Bayesian Workflow

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

From Nov 18, all articles accepted for publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition will be #OpenAccess, published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online #lingsky #langsky #SLA #linguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Two AEI calls open soon! 🔹 Ramon y Cajal 2025 (PhD 2015–2023, 5 yrs + funds) 🔹 Juan de la Cierva 2025 (PhD 2024–2025, 2 yrs + funds) Get in touch if you’d like to explore applying through UPF! aei.gob.es

“2nd Call for Papers: LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25” labphon.org/labphon20/home

Moltes gràcies per la difusió, @traduccioupf.bsky.social 😉

Facultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge de la UPF@traduccioupf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📰 L’investigador de @traduccioupf.bsky.social Miquel Llompart guanya el premi al millor article d’autors joves de la revista Journal of Phonetics ‼️ www.upf.edu/web/traducci... @mllompart.bsky.social

It's ✨ academic job application season ✨ & I hope you'll consider applying for and/or spreading the word about CityU's ongoing search for faculty in computational linguistics, psycho-/neurolinguistics, & experimental linguistics: open-rank and rolling! www.cityu.edu.hk/hro/en/job/c... #langsky 🐦🐦

We wrapped up our UVALAL seminars by exploring the exciting projects of two new members of the UVALAL: @maitemg87.bsky.social and Ali Behzadnia. Fascinating topics and great discussions! 👇

Massive win for perceptual learning/recalibration fans: just learned my 2024 paper was named Journal of Phonetics' “Best Early Career Scholar’s Article of the Year.” It asks how sound difficulty + variable input shape perceptual flexibility in L2 listening. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

It's out!! 🕺💃 Link below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Miquel Llompart@mllompart.bsky.social · last yr.

You can hear the sounds, but can you distinguish the words? 🤔 Here's the postprint version of our new, soon-to-be SSLA paper! osf.io/6zbgt Celia Gorba, Pilar Prieto and I revisit the tricky link between L2 sound & word recognition—with a fresh look at methods

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨ From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition. Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

The second paper of my superstar supervisee, Sara Fernández Santos, is out in Language and Cognition. Love this work because it incorporates acoustic analysis and speech perception tasks to the study of relative-clause processing 🔥⚡️🧐 www.cambridge.org/core/service...

There is a growing body of research on developmental language disorder, but very few studies have focused on the role of cognitive abilities in adulthood. on.asha.org/4m3zvHB @ashleyrblake.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social #DevLangDis #DLD

Toward an Understanding of Developmental Language Disorder in Adults: Investigating the Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and Linguistic Outcomes

Purpose: There is a growing body of research on developmental language disorder (DLD), but very few studies have focused on the role of cognitive...

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I am also pleased to share the second study of my PhD exploring language and cognition in adults with and without DLD, with Prof. Ewa Dabrowska and Dr @mllompart.bksy.social - now published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: #DevLangDis link.growkudos.com/1eem1qwc5q8

Language and cognition in adults with developmental language disorder (DLD)

This study explored how different cognitive abilities support language in adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Sixty adults—30 with DLD and 30 without—completed a series of o...

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