Just out in JIPA, new goodies for all of the co-intrinsic pitch fans out there! 1/6 doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish | Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge Core

Obstruent co-intrinsic pitch and other demands on the larynx: Revisiting the mechanisms behind co-intrinsic pitch in Danish - Volume 56

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PSA Praat has a third author now! Time to reinstall and update those citations!

We're looking for a full-time lab manager for the Oxford phonetics lab for an initial three-year stint! Please apply, please spread the word, and feel free tor each out if you have any questions my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We're looking to hire an Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics in Oxford -- come be my colleague! Spread the word (and apply)! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Very happy that this has now found a home!

Josef Fruehwald@jofrhwld.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now on LingMethodsHub, @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social's tutorial on multitaper spectra in R!

praatpicture has a couple new features in the newly released version 1.8.0! You can now embed audio with a moving cursor to your figures (thanks Marina Cantarutti, and thanks to @sorensorensen.bsky.social for donating his voice!) 1/3

Fun fact, the name Ladefoged is Danish. It's notoriously difficult to pronounce in Danish, because the 2nd and 4th syllables are both "soft d's", the bizarre outcome of a historical /d/-vocalization process. 1/2

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

I survived my first teaching term in Oxford! To celebrate, I've made some updates to the praatpicture library! 🥂

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, has announced a position as Full Professor of Indo-European Studies: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

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Deadline 4 Jan: Postdoc, variability and vowel harmony, metaphony (phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches), Potsdam (w/ A. Gafos) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Does anyone have any insights as to why labiodental trills are *not* greyed out in the IPA chart? Henton brings it up as an example of an impossible sound in a 1987 discussion paper that precedes the Greyboi™, but as far as I can tell it's never been greyed out.

Sightseeing in Barcelona, found the hottest museum in town! I love this so much

💥praatpicture 1.6.2 now on CRAN 💥 The main new feature is that there's now a function to draw spectral slices

Plotting your spectral slices in R will soon be a lot easier!

Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...

Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow

Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

hey #LingSky 🐦🐦, we have a great post-bacc summer intern interested in socio-phon types of questions. If anyone knows of RA types of opportunities in these areas of linguistics, plz lmk! tagging ppl at top of mind @jofrhwld.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social @betsysneller.bsky.social

In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)

The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.

Our paper "Robustness of F0 Ratio as a Diagnostic: Comparing Creaky Voice in Danish and Seoul Korean" has been accepted into Interspeech 2025 #langsky #linguistics

Very happy to share that I've accepted a position as associate professor of phonetics in Oxford starting September! Excited to be part of this vibrant phonetics and linguistics community for the foreseeable future!

I can't do much to fix ~gestures vaguely at world~, but I *do* have some more tools to share! github.com/rpuggaardrod...

GitHub - rpuggaardrode/praatutils: Utilities for calling 'Praat' from R

Utilities for calling 'Praat' from R. Contribute to rpuggaardrode/praatutils development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Very exciting news for PraatSauce users! We've just pushed a new version which fully rewrites the code base, making things faster and simpler to use. Instead of settings parameters in a bunch of Praat windows, you now set them in a spreadsheet file that looks like this github.com/kirbyj/praat...

Pro-tip, if you want to install conda using the reticulate package in R, you should do so in an empty directory!

This year, I have received one review request each month from MDPI's Behavioral Sciences for papers that are at best marginally related to my field of research. How do I get them to STOP? 🥲

praatpicture v1.4.2 is now on CRAN 🍾 meaning that these highlighting options are now available at an R package store near you (and in the Shiny app!). No other major updates this time!

Rasmus Puggaard-Rode@rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 2y ago

Got carried away, more highlighting options coming soon to an R package store near you!