Welcome to FONETIK 2025 – Växjö – May 21–23, 2025!
It’s about time, isn’t it?
Time, as we all know, is a central dimension in spoken language production and perception—and it is also crucial when planning a conference. After careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce the dates for FONETIK 2025: May 21–23, 2025.
This year’s conference will take place earlier than usual, and we hope the timing works well for everyone. So it is high time to announce FONETIK 2025!
It is also time to broaden the geographical scope of phonetic research in Sweden. We are excited to host FONETIK in one of Sweden’s most challenging cities to pronounce: Växjö!
Might it also be time to put Växjö on the phonetic map of Sweden?
At Linnaeus University, phonetic research is based in the Department of Swedish, primarily through LiLa Lab (the Linnaeus University Language Processing Lab), which was founded in 2019. As of late, a vibrant group of phoneticians has started toassemble here, and we are excited to welcome you into this fold.
We, the phoneticians at Linnaeus University, invite you to join us for the 35th annual FONETIK conference, which will be held at the university campus May 21–23, in a lunch-to-lunch format.
As in previous years, including last year’s event in Stockholm, FONETIK 2025 will be an in-person meeting only, with no hybrid option.
More information, including a conference website and link for (pre-)registration, will be available soon, so stay tuned!
Important dates (tentative):
* Pre-register for the conference: February 14, 2025 (Because our first love will always be phonetics)
* Final registration and submission deadline (abstract or 6-page paper): April 21, 2025 (Easter Monday)
Note: Pre-registration is a FONETIK tradition. Since the deadlines for registration and submission are usually later, optionalpre-registration allows us to estimate attendance early. If you’re likely to attend, with or without a contribution, please consider pre-registering.
We look forward to seeing you in May!
Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Sanna Kraft, Federica Raschellà, Nathan Young
(Preliminary Organizing Committee for FONETIK 2025)
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for possible cross-posting.
We would like to bring to your attention the launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum, a new Nordic webinar series!
The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes online to hear about and discuss interesting ongoing work in the broad area of speech research. Invited speakers mainly represent Nordic scholars at different career stages. In 2024, we will convene once a month on varying weekdays and times to test which meeting time would be optimal. The talks (30-40 mins) will be followed by free discussion in a relaxed atmosphere.
In the launch, we have an amazing opportunity to listen to Professor Kazuya Saito<http://kazuyasaito.net/>, University College London. Please join us and feel free to spread the word!
What? Prof. Kazuya Saito's talk: Having a good ear promotes second language speech learning: Roles of auditory processing at perceptual, cognitive & motoric levels + discussion.
When? Mon, Jan 22 at 13:00-14:00 Finnish time (UTC+2)
Where? Zoom: https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/61656736999
Also, please save the dates for the upcoming talks this winter/spring and follow the forum's website at https://jyu.fi/nsrf for updates.
16.2.2024 at 15:00-16:00 (UTC+2) Professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn<https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/ocke.bohn%40cc.au.dk>: Learning new sounds: Only during a "critical period" or across the whole life span?
19.3.2024 at 13:00-14:00 (UTC+2) Doctoral Researcher Elina Lehtilä<https://www.utu.fi/en/people/elina-lehtila>: Exploring multilingual speakers' fluency across Finnish, Swedish, and English: Perceived, cognitive, and utterance fluency perspectives.
19.4.2024 at 13:00-14:00 (UTC+3) Senior Lecturer Gilbert Ambrazaitis<https://lnu.se/personal/gilbert.ambrazaitis/>: Understanding the multimodal nature of prominence - On the coordination of gestures and pitch accents.
23.5.2024 at 10:00-11:00 (UTC+3) Postdoctoral Researcher Katja Haapanen<https://www.utu.fi/en/people/katja-haapanen>: Speech production studies with multilingual Namibian speakers.
More webinars to be announced. Stay tuned for updates.
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA<https://afinla.fi/>) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P<https://groups.io/g/nnl2p>). The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja and Elina Tergujeff from the JyU Speech Research Lab, University of Jyväskylä. For 2024, the forum has received funding from the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics through its Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group. Thank you AFinLA!
Hoping to meet you at the forum,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Tergujeff
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Sharing:
Invitation to participate in the experiment “Vad säger rösten om talaren? – Ett perceptionstest”
You are being invited to participate in an experiment, part of a study on how listeners perceive a character’s physical, social, and psychological features based on their vocal characteristics.
This is a listening experiment. To participate, you must be a native Swedish speaker, between 20 and 50 years old. The experiment is online, in Swedish, and takes around 20 minutes to complete. You will be asked to give some background information on yourself to help analyse the data we collect. That information will not be shared with outside parties, and all the data collected will be anonymized.
There is no compensation for participating in this study. However, your participation will be a valuable addition to our research on voice and its role in media and social interaction.
If you are interested in taking part in the experiment, you can access it at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/vo_se, where you will find additional information and instructions. Your participation is voluntary, and if you change your mind, you are free to quit the experiment at any point with no penalty.
You are also welcome to share the experiment with family, friends, and anyone you think would be interested in answering it.
If you have any questions, you can reach me at arcrochiquia(a)gmail.com<mailto:arcrochiquia@gmail.com>
Thank you!
Alice Crochiquia
doctorand at LAEL/PUC-SP,
Guest doctorand at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
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Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, MSc, Ph.D.
Nu är det hög tid att informera stort om Nordiska Dyslexikongressen 2024
vid Stockholms universitet, 22-24 augusti. Se bifogad flyer. Mer
Information finns på dyslexikongress.se <http://dyslexikongress.se/>
Undervisar du, så var snäll och sprid till studenter. Lärarstudenter,
inklusive speciallärarstudenter och specialpedagogstudenter, doktorander
(oavsett disciplin) och post-doc kan söka stipendier för resa, logi och
konferenskostnad hos Svenska Dyslexistiftelsen. Om man går in
pådyslexikongress.se <http://dyslexikongress.se/>kan man följa länk där
för vidare information. Stora utsikter att få medel.
Tack på förhand
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Spånga Torgväg 4 163 51 SPÅNGA
info(a)dyslexistiftelsen.se www.dyslexistiftelsen.se
<http://www.dyslexistiftensen.se>
Nu är det hög tid att informera stort om Nordiska Dyslexikongressen 2024
vid Stockholms universitet, 22-24 augusti. Se bifogad flyer. Mer
Information finns på dyslexikongress.se <http://dyslexikongress.se/>
Undervisar du, så var snäll och sprid till studenter. Lärarstudenter,
inklusive speciallärarstudenter och specialpedagogstudenter, doktorander
(oavsett disciplin) och post-doc kan söka stipendier för resa, logi och
konferenskostnad hos Svenska Dyslexistiftelsen. Om man går in
pådyslexikongress.se <http://dyslexikongress.se/>kan man följa länk där
för vidare information. Stora utsikter att få medel.
Tack på förhand
___________________________________________________
Spånga Torgväg 4 163 51 SPÅNGA
info(a)dyslexistiftelsen.se www.dyslexistiftelsen.se
<http://www.dyslexistiftensen.se>
Welcome to Fonetik 2024
The phoneticians at Stockholm University invite you to the 34th edition of the annual phonetics conference Fonetik 2024. The conference will be held at Stockholm University Albano Campus June 3–5, 2024, and include a special seminar to celebrate the 90th birthday of Professor Björn Lindblom.
Fonetik 2024 will be an onsite meeting only, with absolutely no hybrid options. But please remember that Stockholm in early June can be very nice!
Pre-register today!<https://su.powerinit.com/Data/Event/EventTemplates/2602/?EventId=2937>
<https://su.powerinit.com/Data/Event/EventTemplates/2602/?EventId=2930>
Check out the conference website
We look forward to seeing you in June
Mattias Heldner & colleagues
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Themes and submissions
Fonetik 2024 welcomes submissions on any aspect of phonetics and speech science. Scientific areas include, but are not limited to: phonetics, phonology, linguistics, computational linguistics, speech and language pathology, voice research, music and singing, conversation analysis, psychology, cognitive science, speech and language technology, signal processing, machine learning... Submissions by junior researchers, bachelor or master students, and/or researchers that have not yet been introduced to the Fonetik meeting are strongly encouraged!
Seminar to celebrate Björn Lingblom's 90th birthday
As this iteration of the conference coincides with the 90th birthday of Professor emeritus Björn Lindblom, we will also organize a special afternoon seminar to celebrate! Björn is the former head of the Stockholm University Department of Linguistics and founder of the Phonetics Laboratory. He has served as tutor, colleague, advisor, and friend to generations of phonetics students. We encourage presenters to submit contributions toward this special seminar on themes pertinent to central themes of Björn’s research. These topics include speech production, coarticulation, phonological development, evolution of speech, phonetic systems, and phonological universals – and many others. These contributions will be included as part of the general conference proceedings.
Language for presentation
The contributions at Fonetik deal with Swedish, Nordic and other languages, and the meeting is often visited by researchers from neighbouring countries and occasionally by more long-distance participants. The language for presentations and plenary discussions has been English since the mid-10s, which provides better opportunities for both visitors and doctoral students from other language environments to participate.
Social events
Conference participants are invited to a reception on Monday evening, June 3rd, at the conference site, and to a dinner on Tuesday evening, close to the campus area.
Important dates
Preliminary registration: 9th February-15th March 2024<https://su.powerinit.com/Data/Event/EventTemplates/2602/?EventId=2937>
Paper Submission Deadline: 19th May 2024
Registration open: 16th March-19th May 2024
Dear all,
The organisers are pleased to announce that next year’s edition of the annual phonetics conference Fonetik 2024 will take place at Stockholm University. We kindly ask you to mark the dates June 3-5 2024 in your calendars. There will be more substantial information and important dates in due time.
However, we can already now announce that there will also be a Special seminar to commemorate Björn Lindblom’s 90th birthday in connection with Fonetik 2024, and that this event will be organised by Axel Ekström at KTH. The call for this event reads like this:
Special seminar to commemorate Björn Lindblom’s 90th birthday
The 35th iteration of the conference is organized at Stockholm University and coincides with the 90th birthday of Professor emeritus Björn Lindblom. Therefore, in addition to the traditional two-day lunch-to-lunch meeting, we will also be organizing a special afternoon seminar to celebrate.
Björn is the former head of the SU Department of Linguistics and founder of the Stockholm University Phonetics Laboratory. He has served as tutor, colleague, advisor, and friend to generations of phonetics students.
We encourage presenters to submit contributions toward this special seminar on themes pertinent to central themes of Björn’s research. These topics include speech production, coarticulation, phonological development, evolution of speech, phonetic systems, and phonological universals – and many others. These contributions will be included as part of the general conference proceedings.
Axel Ekström <axeleks(a)kth.se>
Best regards,
Mattias Heldner
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Mattias Heldner
Professor, Head of Department, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
Department of Linguistics
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Universitetsvägen 10C, room C265
Phone: +46 (0)8-16 19 88
E-mail: heldner(a)ling.su.se
www.ling.su.se
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Hello,
There is a new special issue in the journal Languages (with me as a guest editor) titled:
"Research on articulation and prosodic structure”
We are looking for new and creative ways to investigate articulation and prosody, with focus on the syllable. For more information please visit the website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/8O12K5BV6U
Submission is open - and if you’re interested - please submit an abstract by April 1, 2024.
Also, if you know of any researchers that might be working on relevant topics, please pass on the web page link.
All the best,
Malin Svensson Lundmark

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Malin Svensson Lundmark
Ph.D. in Phonetics
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/malin-svensson-lundmark
Dear colleague,
On 12-13 October 2023, a new NNL2P conference will take place in Trondheim, Norway. You are most welcome to participate!
The NNL2P Conference brings together researchers and teachers in second and foreign language pronunciation. The Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P) takes a special interest in studies of L2 pronunciation specific to Nordic languages as well as general L2 research topics exemplified with Nordic language materials. We also welcome other contributions that are relevant to the field.
The on-site, in-person conference provides an opportunity to meet other researchers and teachers in an informal setting. We particularly welcome submissions from early researchers. To stimulate discussion, we encourage poster presentations, but it is also possible to indicate a preference for oral presentation.
Invited speakers:
- Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)
From a multilingual perspective: Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 phonetics and phonology
- Ari Huhta (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Fluency and pronunciation in language assessment: How do language testers define them and what do raters pay attention to?
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 August 2023
Please refer to the conference website<https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/nnl2p> for more information.
We hope to see you in Trondheim!
Jacques Koreman and co-organizers
P.S. Please feel free to pass this e-mail on to your direct colleagues if they are not on the NNL2P mailing list. But please do not distribute it to a wider audience to prevent double postings/spam.
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Prof. Dr. Jacques Koreman
Professor of Phonetics
Dept. of Language and Literature (ISL)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
E-mail: jacques.koreman(a)ntnu.no<mailto:jacques.koreman@ntnu.no>
URL: http://folk.ntnu.no/koreman
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