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
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