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Dr. Cong Zhang @congprosody
Joined June 2009
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Dr. Cong Zhang@congprosody
19 Nov 2024
It looks like a good number of phon-phon/speech people are on blue sky now! So glad we're rebuilding our community!! 🥳 bsky.app/profile/congzhang.b…
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After our successful workshop at @pape2025, we are calling for a special issue on *Prosody in Languages of the Middle East* for the new *Journal of Connected Speech*. Please check the link for details: linguistlist.org/issues/36/2…
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PolyU ENGL@HKPolyUENGL
20 Mar 2025
Join this online seminar by Dr Cong Zhang @congprosody @UniofNewcastle to explore how #prosody shapes language across #English, #Mandarin, & #Persian. Registration👉 polyu.hk/FVxlO #LabPhon @OpenAppLing
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Good news: selected papers will be invited to publish in a special issue of the Journal of Connected Speech (utppublishing.com/journal/jc…)

Journal of Connected Speech Home | University of Toronto Press

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Dr. Cong Zhang@congprosody
6 Dec 2024
Welcome to submit abstract to our workshop **Prosody in Languages of the Middle East**! Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2025 @NeeveK agenda.uib.es/120122/section…
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Welcome to submit abstract to our workshop **Prosody in Languages of the Middle East**! Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2025 @NeeveK agenda.uib.es/120122/section…

6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2025)

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Timo Roettger@TimoRoettger
22 Nov 2024
👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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Oxford Linguistics@oxfordlinguists
15 Nov 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant by the European Research Council. Title: Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2024…
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Hu Chuan-Peng | @hcp4715.bsky.social@hcp4715
15 Oct 2024
wow, the @sortecoevo team is really amazing! My plenary talk on the stories behind @ChineseOpenSci was online now: youtube.com/watch?v=qSCMXoq9…

Hu Chuan-Peng: Promoting Open Science via grassroots network in a...

Plenary given at the 2024 Conference of the Society for Open, Relia...

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Wow! Awesome! Congratulations!!!
Hilary Wynne@Hilary_Wynne
5 Nov 2024
Our big news: Prof Lahiri and the Language & Brain Lab @oxfordlinguists has won a new @ERC_Research grant! Jointly awarded to @Radboud_Uni, @AgderUniversity, and the @UniofOxford, it will focus on the interaction of cognizance with phonology and script. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
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2nd place too!! #weyaye
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More ties on the 2nd place! #weyaye
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The leaderboard keeps updating! New 2nd/3rd place winner! 🥳 #weyaye @toonelmatador
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New article from @ajmurugesu @BBCNews on our #weyaye @ESRC Festival of Social Science event. Join us now! @FarrellCentre @UniofNewcastle bbc.com/news/articles/crezw2…

Newcastle University research on North East accents

Researchers want to find out if people in north-east England can identify variety in local accents.

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High on the leaderboardb @Xinyu_Zhu7 !! 🥳🥳🥳 #weyaye Come join us at Farrell Centre now 🥳
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Currently on top of our leaderboard at our #weyaye event!
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Speak for Yersel Republic of Ireland@SFY_ROI
31 Oct 2024
The big day is finally here! Announcing the launch of Speak for Yersel (ROI), a new citizen science resource for mapping linguistic variation across Ireland! speakforyersel.ac.uk/roi/

Speak For Yersel

Speak for Yersel maps the different words, sounds and sentences used throughout The Republic of Ireland, but we need YOU to do this. Take the survey now.

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Dr Ourooba Shetewi@Rubiesh84
31 Oct 2024
New paper out with @CorriganKaren and @GhadaKhattabSLS. This paper explores Palestinian Children's multilectal repertoires by examining patterns of diglossic style-shifting in their speech. mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/11/341

Children’s Multilectal Repertoires: Diglossic Style-Shifting by Palestinian Children and Adolesce...

Arabic diglossia, whereby Standard Arabic (SA) exists alongside numerous vernaculars, often leads to diglossic style-shifting, based on context or topic changes and marked in the vernacular by...

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Geordie accent to be studied at university in 'celebration of diversity' mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ge…

Geordie accent to be studied at university in 'celebration of diversity'

Newcastle University is holding an open day to identify varieties of the Geordie dialect - made popular by stars like Ant and Dec and Jimmy Nail - and create an audio archive

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Farrell Centre@FarrellCentre
30 Oct 2024
Wey-aye man! This Saturday we're hosting an event as part of Festival of Social Science, exploring local dialects with @UniofNewcastle linguists. Drop in | 10.00-15.00 Find out more: festivalofsocialscience.com/…
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Timo Roettger@TimoRoettger
27 Oct 2024
🚨New preprint🚨 "Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges" osf.io/3pkj6/ Led by @m_faytak, @kadavasar, @ChenziAmy, @_Onurunki & @aggieerin A short summary 🧵1/

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