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
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
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The Nordic Speech Research Forum celebrates its second anniversary with a special guest talk on Mon, Jan 26th at 16:30 - 17:30 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
L2 Intelligibility in the Contexts of AI and Globalization
Okim Kang, Northern Arizona University
Also, our spring programme is full of interesting webinars (see poster below).
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).
Looking forward to seeing you,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
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Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
Dear all,
The conference program of FiNo 2026, which is taking place on 12–13 February, 2026 at Lund University, can be viewed/downloaded from the FiNo website:
https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/blog/
Also, registration (free of charge) is open. Please fill out the registration form below by 25. January, 2026:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/pfdFNkY2t8
Best regards,
FiNo 2026 organizers
Dear all!
Before you go on a certainly well deserved Christmas vacation, the team from Lund wants to give you notice about the date of next year's gathering of phoneticians:
The annual phonetics conference Fonetik 2026 will take place in Lund from (around lunch) 27th of May until 29th of May (around lunch) 2026!
Please inform any potentially interested colleagues!
And please encourage students to present their work, e.g. interesting course papers, BA- or master theses - and of course parts from doctoral students' works.
Fonetik 2026 will only be an onsite meeting.
We will inform you about details early next year.
With the season's greetings we remain,
the phoneticians from Lund.
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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 Thu, Dec 11th at 10:00 - 11:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Taking back Kven – Quantity differences in L1 and L2 speech
Antti Saloranta & Leena Maria Heikkola, The Arctic University of Norway
News:
- The webinars continue on Jan 26, 2026 with a special guest talk by Professor Okim Kang (Northern Arizona University). You will find the details and more future webinars at https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
- Who would you like to hear present their research? You can suggest speakers at https://forms.office.com/e/4DjYzpbxVp.
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).
Best wishes,
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
Forwarding an early call for papers :)
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From: HIPCS Hanyang <hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 06 November 2025 07:50
Cc: Taehong Cho <tcho(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Sahyang Kim <sahyang(a)gmail.com>; sangimleekim(a)hanyang.ac.kr <sangimleekim(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Say Young Kim <sayyoungkim(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Holger Mitterer <holger.mitterer(a)um.edu.mt>
Subject: 1st CFP for HISPhonCog 2026 (22-23 May, Seoul): Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026
Dear colleagues and friends,
We hope this message finds you well. We are very pleased to let you know that HISPhonCog will resume on May 22-23, 2026, following last year’s hiatus during our hosting of LabPhon 19. As before, the conference will be entirely free of charge, including the banquet, lunches, coffee breaks, and refreshments. In addition, to encourage international student participation, we will be providing hotel accommodations for student presenters. There will also be a satellite workshop possibility (see below for a proposal guideline).
We very much hope that you, your colleagues, and your students will be able to join us next May in Seoul. We would also be grateful if you could kindly share this call for papers with your students and others who may be interested.
Looking forward to meeting you again next year.
Best regards,
Taehong Cho (Chair),
also on behalf of other committee members
Sahyang Kim, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Say Young Kim, and Holger Mitterer
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Taehong Cho
Baiknam Distinguished Professor (백남석학교수)
Professor of Phonetics & Linguistics
Department of English Language & Literature
Hanyang University, Seoul (04763), Korea
http://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr<http://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr/>
Director of HIPCS: Hanyang Institute for Phonetics & Cognitive Sciences of Language
https://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hipcs/home
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HISPhonCog 2026: Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, May 22-23, 2026
https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/welcome
HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language) at Hanyang University, together with Departments of English Language and Literature and Chinese Language and Literature, holds its 5th annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language (HISPhonCog) 2026 on May 22-23, 2026.
Theme for HISPhonCog 2026
Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled Interaction
Over the past decades, research on speech has increasingly highlighted the importance of a lifespan perspective. Speech is not a static capacity acquired once in childhood but a continuously developing system shaped by motor growth, social interaction, and cognitive maturation. From the earliest stages of acquisition, children’s developing motor control, perceptual attunement, sensitivity to linguistic regularities, and prosodic patterning intertwine to establish the foundations of linguistic communicative competence. As individuals mature, these skills expand into more complex forms of interaction, supporting nuanced communication, pragmatic adaptation, and stylistic variation. At the same time, speech across the lifespan reveals vulnerabilities: atypical developmental pathways, age-related changes in motor or cognitive systems, the demands of second-language use, and neurocognitive conditions all offer windows into the mechanisms linking phonetics, phonology, and broader communicative functions. Prosody and fine phonetic detail emerge as central, linking speech production and perception with motor skill, linguistic structure, and social cognition.
HISPhonCog 2026 invites contributions that address these interrelated perspectives, especially by providing some empirical (experimental) evidence. We particularly welcome studies examining the linguistic and cognitive functions of fine phonetic detail as they manifest in speech development, skilled interaction in adulthood, and variation across typical and atypical populations. Submissions from articulatory, perceptual, sociolinguistic, and neurocognitive approaches, in both native and non-native contexts, are encouraged.
Invited speakers
* Amalia Arvaniti<https://amaliaarvaniti.wixsite.com/amaliaarvaniti> (Radboud University, Netherlands)
* Cathi Best<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/emeritus/catherine_…> (Western Sydney University, Australia)
* Jason Bishop<https://jbishop.ws.gc.cuny.edu/> (City University of New York, USA)
* Sam Kirkham<https://samkirkham.github.io/> (Lancaster University, UK)
* Benjamin Munson<https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/benjaminmunson/> (University of Minnesota, USA)
* Meghan Sumner<https://profiles.stanford.edu/meghan-sumner> (Stanford University, USA)
* Megha Sundara<https://linguistics.ucla.edu/person/megha-sundara/> (UCLA, USA)
* Patrick Wong<https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/patrickwong.php> (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A possible Special Issue to be published in a journal
* We are tentatively planning to compile a limited selection of papers, including invited talks, into a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed international journal. The issue will feature selected studies that best align with the conference theme, Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled Interaction.
* The target journals (to be determined): Journal of Phonetics, Linguistics Vanguard, Laboratory Phonology, Language and Speech etc.
* Please note that the special issue plan may be subject to cancellation if an adequate number of papers cannot be compiled or if journal selection does not succeed.
Support for international student participants (*free accommodation*)
* We are pleased to announce that we have secured funding to provide complimentary accommodations for up to three nights in a twin room (two single beds to share) for international student presenters affiliated with institutions abroad. Each room is intended to be shared by two presenters; however, if a co-author is traveling with the presenter and attending the conference in person, they may also be eligible to share the room with the presenter—pending prior approval.
Free registration for all (with a free banquet)
* We are very pleased to inform you that we will be able to make registration free as before.
* Free registration will include a free banquet, free munches for breakfast, free refreshments and two free lunches.
* Pre-registration should be made by no later than April 1, 2026 to be guaranteed for possible accommodation support (for international student presenters) and free registration (for all foreign and domestic participants and audience).
* A pre-registration form that arrives a few days after April 1 may still be considered for free registration, depending on the budget and availability. Please contact us at hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com<mailto:hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com> if you miss the deadline by a few days but still would like to register in advance.
* On-site registration will be possible for small fees, but with no guarantee for lunches and banquet admission.
* For further information about how to register, please check the website later.
Abstract submission instruction
* A PDF file of a two-page abstract (single-spaced with 12 pt font size *without* a list of authors’ names and their affiliations) should be submitted through EasyChair by January 31, 2026, observing the "Anywhere on Earth" deadline (according to Niue time zone). (Submission will open December 1, 2025)
* Abstracts should be written in English and must not exceed one page of text, totaling a maximum of 600 words. References, examples, and figures can be included on a second page.
* The submitted abstracts should be in PDF format, using Times New Roman font with a font size of 12. Margins should be set at 2.54 cm or 1 inch on an A4 page format, and single spacing must be applied with no page numbers.
* The file name of the abstract should adhere to the format: Paper_title.pdf. The file name must match the paper title up to the first 9 words. For instance, “Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled.pdf”
* Do not include author names or affiliations within the filename or the content of the abstract.
* URL for EasyChair: Please check https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2026 for an update.
Call for Satellite Workshop proposals
* We set aside May 21 (Thursday), 2026 (the day before the main conference) for one or two possible satellite workshops.
* We will provide lecture rooms for the workshop free of charge with support of our onsite personnel.
* If you are interested, please contact Taehong Cho with proposal directly at tcho(a)hanyang.ac.kr<mailto:tcho@hanyang.ac.kr>.
* Proposal deadline: January 31, 2026
Timeline
* Deadline of submission of a two-page long abstract: January 31, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: No later than March 1, 2026
* Free Registration with free accommodation: No later than April 1, 2026
* Satellite Workshop (if organized): May 21, 2026
* Main conference dates: May 22-23, 2026
* (Submission of 'full' invited papers to a special issue, if materialized: September 30, 2026)
Local Organizing Institute and Committee
Organizing Bodies of HISPhonCog:
* HIPCS (the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language)
* Department of English Language and Literature; Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hanyang University
Organizing Committee:
* Taehong Cho (Chair, HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Sahyang Kim (HIPCS & Hongik University)
* Sang-Im Lee-Kim (HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Say Young Kim (HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Holger Mitterer (HIPCS & University of Malta)
Contact
* Contact person: Mr. Eunhwan Lee at hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com<mailto:hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com>
* https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2026
