We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year. Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld #BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe. Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

#ResearchTuesday! Language exposure at home and school contribute differently to bilingual language development. This article in #JSLHR shows the importance of exposure to both languages. Read more: https://at.asha.org/MG @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social#ResearchTuesday#JSLHR#SLPeeps

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.

🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator! Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review. Job details: 💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters 🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh

Deadline 19 Oct: PhD position on accented speech processing with S. Brouwer at Radboud University : www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Does anyone know of good resources for conlanging? For a v. creative HS student that I'd like to help work through the process a little more methodically. I'm thinking smthg that introduces the ideas of phono inventory, typology of possible morph and syntax systems, etc. Thx! #linguistics #conlang

Q: How does tonal coarticulation in disyllabic words of #Cantonese contribute to tone merging and inform research on #soundchange? A: The two interact dynamically, with carryover effects in extreme tonal contexts emerging as an important source of change. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Look who's talking: our own @jupitararay.bsky.social will speak about "L2 change and L1 stability in early sequential bilinguals of Indian English" in Northeastern Linguistics' Speaker Series next week! @bulinguistics.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦 #bilingualism #phonetics #phonology

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Kudos to PhD student @jupitararay.bsky.social & Prof @cbchang.bsky.social on their acceptance to #LSA2026, the upcoming @lingsocam.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Their talk is titled "L2 accommodation-led drift: Asymmetries between L1 production and perception" 🙌 @bulinguistics.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦

Come help us celebrate 50 years of BUCLD!

We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the BUCLD50, taking place November 6 - 9, 2025! Click here to register and secure your spot: www.bu.edu/bucld/attend... Early bird pricing is available until October 25, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS, #LabPhon20: Deadline to submit abstracts is Dec 1, 2025. Abstract guidelines and submission link available in Oct 2025. CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: Deadline for satellite workshop proposals is Nov 1, 2025. Events' date is June 25, 2026. labphon.org/labphon20/ca...

Convening for #LabPhon20 in Montreal is an opportunity to celebrate 40 years of #LabPhon. We invite the ALP community to gather videos, pictures, memories, & artifacts from the last 4 decades, for presentation in Montreal. To help curate and organize materials, please contact [email protected].

Take a short SURVEY to help #LabPhon20 organizers understand what might constrain in-person conference attendance, given issues of immigration, funding, and accessibility. We strive to make a realistic and equitable conference plan, including for students. ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Haverford College is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of #Linguistics, with a primary specialization in #Sociolinguistics, secondary specialization(s) open -> www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

PR for a new book by an excellent team of colleagues! Preorders available under the link global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages? 1/10 W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

Congrats to Profs. Amelia Tseng, @cbchang.bsky.social, Tania Leal, Jin Sook Lee, & Belem G. López on the publication of their book 📕 "Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs" w/ @tandfresearch.bsky.social! 🤩🤩 #langsky 🐦🐦 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students. international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

The Fellows program honors members for their outstanding research and emerging global reputation in the psychological sciences. Learn more and apply by September 1: bit.ly/3IFMBw0

Check out lab alum Felix Kpogo's dissertation, just announced on @linguistlist.bsky.social! "Investigating Sound Change in Twi Vowel Harmony: A Sociophonetic Study of Age, Gender, and Locality Effects" linguistlist.org/issues/36/22... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology

A researcher-friendly resource for studying phonological social networks. Spread the word to your networks! #psynomBRM paper by Alderete and colleagues #Psycholinguistics #NetworkAnalysis #OpenAccess post by Caballero

Congrats to PhD student Meixian (Vicky) Li, whose abstract w/ Profs. Yao and @cbchang.bsky.social was accepted to #ICPEAL2025 in Guangzhou! 🙌 The title of their poster is “Cross-linguistic social perception of creaky voice by Mandarin-English bilinguals”. icpeal2025.scnu.edu.cn 🐦🐦 #langsky

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)

We are excited to announce our #LabPhon Association's 2025 off-season programming, a series of three events on #prosody and #suprasegmentals. All events are scheduled during July and August, and they're FREE for ALP members. 😎 🌞 Info and registration are available here: labphon.org/content/summ...

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

Learning a second language as an adult can be hard — but it's not impossible #NPR www.npr.org/2025/05/...

Today we would like to introduce our first #keynote speaker. 🗣️Janet van Hell will deliver a talk on the neurocognitive signatures of accented speech processing. 🗓️ June 9th 9:00 🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

Our #ECR series begins with a powerful keynote—be sure to save the date! 🗣️: Ander Beristain (@aberistain.bsky.social) will give a lecture on diversifying articulatory phonetics through a bilingual and migrant lens. 🗓️ June 9th 14:45 🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

Please share widely: The dates for New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 have changed to November 5-7, 2025, due to a late-breaking university calendar change. Abstracts due June 15. Visit us at nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu (also accessible via nwavconference dot org but BlueSky doesn't like redirects)

Check out @jupitararay.bsky.social's work at this week's ASA Meeting! Her poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social is "Testing the role of L1 influence in phonetic accommodation by Indian English bilinguals" in session 4aSC14 (Thurs): acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/ @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

One of the most influential voices in applied #linguistics: Ingrid Piller will be awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 5 May! ✨ #AvHProfessor @languageonthemove.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de 🎬 Full portrait on her research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ik...

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌 github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

And there is another paper in our special issue in JASA which has a slightly different, but not excluisve angle: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Hot off the press! My tutorial on ultrasound data collection & analysis is now out. Open Access. Part of a special issue in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, with lots of other cool studies. Articulatory phonetics is going strong in Japan! www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...

In this video, Guest Editors Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Sharon Armon-Lotem discuss their recently published #JSLHR Special Issue, "Arabic Typical and Atypical Acquisition: The Role of Linguistic Structure and Sociolinguistic Context." Give it a watch! on.asha.org/434PCxH @sigperspectives.bsky.social

The AI Con release date is right around the corner! We have TWO online events coming up: #1 the virtual launch, with @dairinstitute.bsky.social -- @vauhinivara.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for a discussion of AI hype, the AI con, and THE AI CON. Thursday May 8, 2pm PT.

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is seeking a new co-editor! Learn more and how to apply: ✍️ cup.org/4ji1WAt #linguistics #bilingualism

❗️❗️ We are organising the first edition of the “Bayes in Bayonne: Methods Workshop for Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences” on the 17th June, at the Iker lab of the CNRS in Bayonne!!! All the relevant information and link to registration can be found here: bayes-bayonne-workshop.gitlab.io

Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social has been busy talking! 😅 In Mar-Apr, he gave talks at UC Irvine 🇺🇸 & @uni-konstanz.de 🇩🇪. In May, he'll give a talk at UZH 🇨🇭 & a keynote at #ASeFoLA2025 🇨🇾. In June, he'll be on a panel at the Heritage Language Research Institute in Madison 🇺🇸! nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/...

We're inviting proposals for the ✨Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science initiative✨, with grants of up to $5,000 to support events or projects that increase accessibility and inclusion in #CogSci Deadline: June 13 🗓️ Learn more and apply at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/ It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests! (It takes 1-2 minutes to load)

SLRF 2025 is looking for reviewers! Volunteers will be asked to review ~3-5 abstracts by April 30. Sign up by Thursday, April 10 at forms.gle/eEWontcNiNA3....