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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (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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