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!

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?

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...

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

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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...

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...

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!

Hot take (?): life is too short to use the "correct [g] symbol" when doing phonetic transcription in fonts that distinguish between two g-symbols

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/

The first article based on my dissertation is finally out! In the article, I discuss the problem of the distribution of Danish ‘stød’ in compounds and propose a new approach to the analysis of the phonology of compounds. 🧵(1/3) revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...

Linguistlist being a little too real this morning

Didn't get the grant that inspired this mood. One "significant weakness" of the proposal was that I can't "adequately demonstrate (...) experience with longitudinal corpus studies and real-time analyses of sound change"

Vowel and consonant duration vary inversely in Australian #Yolngu language Djambarrpuyŋu, so what’s contrastive? A pair of #speechproduction and #speechperception studies show that V length is contrastive, though both V & C duration influence perception. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Check out Katie Jepson's cool new LabPhon paper which teases apart the influence of vowel and consonant duration on the perception & production of phonological vowel length!

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

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

✨New year, new job search✨ With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off Thus, I'm looking for a new job - (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP - Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm - industry or research - remote or Leipzig🇩🇪 Happy to send CV Repost = ❤️‍🩹

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

A diachronic account of Present Day Standard Danish stop gradation: Phonological reorganization through prosodically conditioned chain shifts & mergers Rasmus Puggaard-Rode (LMU Munich) Henrik Jørgensen (Aarhus) Camilla Søballe Horslund (Aalborg) benjamins.com/catalog/dia.... #linguistics #langsky

In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrod...

I've received funding from @carlsbergfondet.dk for the Category-shifting Change in Real Time project, where I'll track small incremental sound changes with major linguistic consequences in a large longitudinal corpus! I'm very excited and grateful to be able to pursue this!

Praat: a language and environment for statistical computing

I am so so honored and grateful that this paper has been selected for the JPhon ECR Article of the Year award!

Finally -- SoE/strength of harmonic excitation in Praat!

PSA: R packages on CRAN now have DOIs (fx 10.32614/CRAN.package.ggplot2)! Huge development for people who want to cite R packages in papers but think regular URLs in reference lists are not aesthetically pleasing.

praatpicture 1.3.0 is on CRAN!! HYPE THREAD 💯🔥🧨 (really, it's mostly small things and bug fixes)

Now in print 🍾 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice to know that submitting LaTeX files will *not* keep the Journal of Phonetics typesetters from absolutely massacring phonetic transcriptions. What a beautiful mix of random spaces, random font shifts, misplaced diacritics, and a bit of added italics, just for kicks