*** Nordic Prosody XIV · 18–20 August 2026 · Stockholm ***
General information
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All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org
Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH
Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch)
Abstract submission: 21 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026
Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted contribution)
Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). ISCA members pay EUR 180 and 90, respectively.
Full paper submission (optional): November 2026
Templates: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/templates/
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np14
Scope
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We invite submissions for papers on all aspects of prosodic research concerning Nordic languages and languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. We welcome papers on both phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody, including but not limited to: perception and production of prosody, rhythm and intonation, prosody in speech synthesis and speech recognition, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition of prosody, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.
Invited speakers
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** Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University **
Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where she served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and spent the following eighteen years at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs Research, where she worked on prosody for text-to-speech synthesis and created the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She joined Columbia in 2002. Her research spans prosody, spoken dialogue systems, and the automatic detection of emotion, deception and charisma in speech. She served as President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2005 to 2007 and is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, ACM and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and holds honorary doctorates from KTH Stockholm (2007) and Tilburg University (2018). She received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, both in 2011.
** Tomas Riad, Stockholm University **
Tomas Riad is Professor of Nordic Languages at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Academy. Born in Uppsala in 1959, he spent his early childhood in Egypt before returning to Sweden. He completed his doctorate at Stockholm University in 1992 with a dissertation on prosodic change across the Germanic languages, subsequently held a position at Stanford, and has been a guest researcher at universities in Vilnius, Paris and Berlin. His research covers phonology, prosody, verse metrics, historical linguistics and morphology. He is among the foremost authorities on Scandinavian tone accent: its origins, its typological variation across dialects, and its role in regulating Swedish morphology. His monograph The Phonology of Swedish (Oxford University Press, 2014) remains the definitive account of the sound structure of the language. He has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 2011.
Participation
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The conference will be held in person only. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present at the conference venue.
Submissions
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Abstracts may be up to two pages long and must follow the templates that are available on the conference website's submissions page.
Proceedings
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There will be an opportunity to submit a full paper in the conference proceedings volume after the conference. Since 2022, full papers are published with open access (in 2022 with Gruyter/Sciendo). Further information will be provided on the website.
Contact
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npxiv(a)nordicprosody.org
Dea all,
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for sending us your contribution as a paper concerning the anual meeting of researchers in phonetics Fonetik 2026 is approaching!
The deadline is 3rd of May.
And please add your final registration.
Check out the details on the webpage:
https://konferens.ht.lu.se/fonetik2026
We are looking foreward to seeing you in Lund!
For the team in Lund,
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 next Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, April 17th at 12:00 - 13:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
The phonetic construction of good and evil from a whole-larynx perspective
Míša Hejná, Aarhus University
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,
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 convenes on Thu, March 26th at 14:30 - 15:30 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Swedish embodied pronunciation training: Results from a lab study on the second language acquisition of quantity
Federica Rashellà (Linnaeus University), Frida Splendido (Lund University) and Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University)
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.
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
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
