TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is back after a summer break. We have the great pleasure of presenting a season of interesting talks with varied topics related to speech. You are warmly welcome to join the events via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Our season launches with a special guest talk on September 16, 2026, at 16:00–17:00 EEST (Helsinki, UCT+3):
Listener training on L2 accents for non-academic university staff
Alice Henderson, Grenoble University
Presentations coming up later this season:
* • Oct 20, at 11:00–12:00 Signe Tonér (Stockholm University): Dual language learners in vulnerable and segregated areas
* • Nov 20, at 12:00–13:00 Ida-Lotta Myllylä (University of Helsinki): Prosody in Finnish speakers on the autism spectrum: acoustic, multimodal, and interactional perspectives
* • Dec 8, at 14:00–15:00 Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark): Robots that speak
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).
Information regarding upcoming webinars are available at https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Looking forward to seeing you online,
Riikka Ullakonoja and Elina Vasu
Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
