TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear colleagues,
You are warmly welcome to attend the season launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar is open to everyone and can be accessed through our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf> which lists all upcoming events on this webinar series. Simply click on the event to join!
Friday, September 12th at 13:00–14:00 Helsinki time (EEST, UCT+3)
L2 Accent in Icelandic: Folk Ideas and Attitudes
Stefanie Bade, University of Iceland
The season is full of interesting webinars with a wide range of topics within speech research. Please find the poster attached and feel free to spread the word.
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P; to join, see https://groups.io/g/nnl2p) The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Best regards,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
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Dear colleagues and students,
We are please to invite you to participate in the half-day workshop Stable perception of spectral information across contexts: From normalization to adaptive category representations<https://www.su.se/english/divisions/centre-for-research-on-bilingualism/abo…>, taking place on the morning of June 11th, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden.
The workshop is open to all and free of charge. It serves as a pre-conference workshop to NLS2026. The conference has recently extended its abstract submission deadline to March 2, 2026. We warmly encourage you to consider submitting your work.
About the workshop
This workshop brings together researchers from phonetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and speech technology to explore how listeners achieve stable speech perception despite large differences between talkers and contexts. It focuses on low-level auditory mechanisms involved in formant and spectral normalization, and how these rapid processes interact with higher-level representations of linguistic categories and contexts. Through invited talks and a focused discussion, we aim to connect insights from behavioral studies, neural data, computational modeling, and machine recognition to address open questions about normalization and adaptation in speech perception.
Invited speakers
Kasia Hitczenko (University of Delaware, USA)
Ediz Sohoglu (University of Sussex, UK)
Ondrej Šuch (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Santiago Barreda (University of California, Davis, USA)
T Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester, USA)
We would be very grateful if you could circulate this announcement within your networks. We look forward to welcoming you to Stockholm in June.
Best wishes,
Anna Persson
anna.persson(a)su.se
Dear all,
First of all, a big thank you to everyone who has registered for FONETIK 2025 and/or contributed a submission! We're currently putting together an exciting conference program and proceedings volume, and we’re very much looking forward to seeing everything come to life in just a few weeks.
A quick update:
It is still possible to register for the conference (though submissions are now closed). However, as of today, registration for the conference dinner (Day 2, Thursday) is closed.
We faced some challenges securing a venue for the dinner. Initially, it seemed that our preferred choice – PM & Vänner (yes, the one with the Michelin star!) – was unavailable. But thanks to a slightly lower-than-expected number of participants (which we now view as an opportunity for a cozier yet equally dynamic event), we reached out to the restaurant again with a revised headcount. Good news: it looks like we’ll be able to hold the dinner there after all!
Because of this, we can’t accommodate too many more attendees for the dinner. Therefore, if you register from today onward, you will be placed on a waiting list for the dinner. There’s still a chance we can fit you in, and we’ll contact you directly if a spot becomes available—but no guarantees.
That said, registration still includes access to the following social events:
* Welcome reception with buffet, held at the beautiful Teleborgs Slott – a castle located right on campus! (https://teleborgsslott.com/)
* Lunch on Day 2
If you're still considering joining us, don't wait too long—we'd love to see you there!
Warm regards,
Gilbert, Federica, Nate
We are pleased to announce the 14th edition of the Nordic Prosody
conference.
It takes place at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,
18-20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch).
Abstract submission deadline: 21 May 2026
For more information, please follow the link to the webpage with the
first CFP:
https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/
David on behalf of the organising committee:
Jens Edlund, Christina Tånnander and Eva Liina Asu
Hi everyone!
I am pleased to announce, that the webbpage for our yearly meeting is up and running:
Welcome | Fonetik 2026<https://konferens.ht.lu.se/fonetik2026/welcome/>
Please check out the information on it and let every potentially interested person know about the conference and the webbpage!
The page will be refreshed, whenever necessary!
For additional information please contact us at: fonetik2026(a)ling.lu.se
We are looking foreward to seeing you in Lund in June!
For the Lund-team:
Mechtild
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Mechtild Tronnier, Ph. D.
Senior lecturer, Phonetics
Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature
Lund University
P.O. Box 201
SE-221 00 Lund
Sweden
phone: +46-46-222 8440
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Tue, Feb 10th at 11:00 - 12:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Remember to check how your time zone relates to Helsinki time.
Tensions around the teaching and testing of oral proficiency in English as a lingua franca
Sheryl Cooke (British Council)
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P). The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
The spring season programme is available at https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
