Forwarding an early call for papers :)
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From: HIPCS Hanyang <hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 06 November 2025 07:50
Cc: Taehong Cho <tcho(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Sahyang Kim <sahyang(a)gmail.com>; sangimleekim(a)hanyang.ac.kr <sangimleekim(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Say Young Kim <sayyoungkim(a)hanyang.ac.kr>; Holger Mitterer <holger.mitterer(a)um.edu.mt>
Subject: 1st CFP for HISPhonCog 2026 (22-23 May, Seoul): Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026
Dear colleagues and friends,
We hope this message finds you well. We are very pleased to let you know that HISPhonCog will resume on May 22-23, 2026, following last year’s hiatus during our hosting of LabPhon 19. As before, the conference will be entirely free of charge, including the banquet, lunches, coffee breaks, and refreshments. In addition, to encourage international student participation, we will be providing hotel accommodations for student presenters. There will also be a satellite workshop possibility (see below for a proposal guideline).
We very much hope that you, your colleagues, and your students will be able to join us next May in Seoul. We would also be grateful if you could kindly share this call for papers with your students and others who may be interested.
Looking forward to meeting you again next year.
Best regards,
Taehong Cho (Chair),
also on behalf of other committee members
Sahyang Kim, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Say Young Kim, and Holger Mitterer
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Taehong Cho
Baiknam Distinguished Professor (백남석학교수)
Professor of Phonetics & Linguistics
Department of English Language & Literature
Hanyang University, Seoul (04763), Korea
http://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr<http://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr/>
Director of HIPCS: Hanyang Institute for Phonetics & Cognitive Sciences of Language
https://tcho.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hipcs/home
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HISPhonCog 2026: Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, May 22-23, 2026
https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/welcome
HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language) at Hanyang University, together with Departments of English Language and Literature and Chinese Language and Literature, holds its 5th annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language (HISPhonCog) 2026 on May 22-23, 2026.
Theme for HISPhonCog 2026
Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled Interaction
Over the past decades, research on speech has increasingly highlighted the importance of a lifespan perspective. Speech is not a static capacity acquired once in childhood but a continuously developing system shaped by motor growth, social interaction, and cognitive maturation. From the earliest stages of acquisition, children’s developing motor control, perceptual attunement, sensitivity to linguistic regularities, and prosodic patterning intertwine to establish the foundations of linguistic communicative competence. As individuals mature, these skills expand into more complex forms of interaction, supporting nuanced communication, pragmatic adaptation, and stylistic variation. At the same time, speech across the lifespan reveals vulnerabilities: atypical developmental pathways, age-related changes in motor or cognitive systems, the demands of second-language use, and neurocognitive conditions all offer windows into the mechanisms linking phonetics, phonology, and broader communicative functions. Prosody and fine phonetic detail emerge as central, linking speech production and perception with motor skill, linguistic structure, and social cognition.
HISPhonCog 2026 invites contributions that address these interrelated perspectives, especially by providing some empirical (experimental) evidence. We particularly welcome studies examining the linguistic and cognitive functions of fine phonetic detail as they manifest in speech development, skilled interaction in adulthood, and variation across typical and atypical populations. Submissions from articulatory, perceptual, sociolinguistic, and neurocognitive approaches, in both native and non-native contexts, are encouraged.
Invited speakers
* Amalia Arvaniti<https://amaliaarvaniti.wixsite.com/amaliaarvaniti> (Radboud University, Netherlands)
* Cathi Best<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/emeritus/catherine_…> (Western Sydney University, Australia)
* Jason Bishop<https://jbishop.ws.gc.cuny.edu/> (City University of New York, USA)
* Sam Kirkham<https://samkirkham.github.io/> (Lancaster University, UK)
* Benjamin Munson<https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/benjaminmunson/> (University of Minnesota, USA)
* Meghan Sumner<https://profiles.stanford.edu/meghan-sumner> (Stanford University, USA)
* Megha Sundara<https://linguistics.ucla.edu/person/megha-sundara/> (UCLA, USA)
* Patrick Wong<https://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/patrickwong.php> (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A possible Special Issue to be published in a journal
* We are tentatively planning to compile a limited selection of papers, including invited talks, into a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed international journal. The issue will feature selected studies that best align with the conference theme, Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled Interaction.
* The target journals (to be determined): Journal of Phonetics, Linguistics Vanguard, Laboratory Phonology, Language and Speech etc.
* Please note that the special issue plan may be subject to cancellation if an adequate number of papers cannot be compiled or if journal selection does not succeed.
Support for international student participants (*free accommodation*)
* We are pleased to announce that we have secured funding to provide complimentary accommodations for up to three nights in a twin room (two single beds to share) for international student presenters affiliated with institutions abroad. Each room is intended to be shared by two presenters; however, if a co-author is traveling with the presenter and attending the conference in person, they may also be eligible to share the room with the presenter—pending prior approval.
Free registration for all (with a free banquet)
* We are very pleased to inform you that we will be able to make registration free as before.
* Free registration will include a free banquet, free munches for breakfast, free refreshments and two free lunches.
* Pre-registration should be made by no later than April 1, 2026 to be guaranteed for possible accommodation support (for international student presenters) and free registration (for all foreign and domestic participants and audience).
* A pre-registration form that arrives a few days after April 1 may still be considered for free registration, depending on the budget and availability. Please contact us at hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com<mailto:hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com> if you miss the deadline by a few days but still would like to register in advance.
* On-site registration will be possible for small fees, but with no guarantee for lunches and banquet admission.
* For further information about how to register, please check the website later.
Abstract submission instruction
* A PDF file of a two-page abstract (single-spaced with 12 pt font size *without* a list of authors’ names and their affiliations) should be submitted through EasyChair by January 31, 2026, observing the "Anywhere on Earth" deadline (according to Niue time zone). (Submission will open December 1, 2025)
* Abstracts should be written in English and must not exceed one page of text, totaling a maximum of 600 words. References, examples, and figures can be included on a second page.
* The submitted abstracts should be in PDF format, using Times New Roman font with a font size of 12. Margins should be set at 2.54 cm or 1 inch on an A4 page format, and single spacing must be applied with no page numbers.
* The file name of the abstract should adhere to the format: Paper_title.pdf. The file name must match the paper title up to the first 9 words. For instance, “Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled.pdf”
* Do not include author names or affiliations within the filename or the content of the abstract.
* URL for EasyChair: Please check https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2026 for an update.
Call for Satellite Workshop proposals
* We set aside May 21 (Thursday), 2026 (the day before the main conference) for one or two possible satellite workshops.
* We will provide lecture rooms for the workshop free of charge with support of our onsite personnel.
* If you are interested, please contact Taehong Cho with proposal directly at tcho(a)hanyang.ac.kr<mailto:tcho@hanyang.ac.kr>.
* Proposal deadline: January 31, 2026
Timeline
* Deadline of submission of a two-page long abstract: January 31, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: No later than March 1, 2026
* Free Registration with free accommodation: No later than April 1, 2026
* Satellite Workshop (if organized): May 21, 2026
* Main conference dates: May 22-23, 2026
* (Submission of 'full' invited papers to a special issue, if materialized: September 30, 2026)
Local Organizing Institute and Committee
Organizing Bodies of HISPhonCog:
* HIPCS (the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language)
* Department of English Language and Literature; Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hanyang University
Organizing Committee:
* Taehong Cho (Chair, HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Sahyang Kim (HIPCS & Hongik University)
* Sang-Im Lee-Kim (HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Say Young Kim (HIPCS, Hanyang University)
* Holger Mitterer (HIPCS & University of Malta)
Contact
* Contact person: Mr. Eunhwan Lee at hanyang.hipcs(a)gmail.com<mailto:hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com>
* https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2026
Dear all,
This is the final call for abstracts for the 11th Fonologi i Norden (FiNo 2026) conference.
The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, November 9.
Please feel free to forward the message to people who might be interested.
https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/fino-2026-lund-call-for-ab…
Best regards,
FiNo 2026 organizers
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FiNo 2026 (Lund): Call for abstracts
We are delighted to announce that the 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting will be hosted by the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, 12th–13th of February 2026.
We invite submissions on any topic in phonology (including work in progress). Abstracts related to the phonology of languages spoken in the Nordic countries are particularly encouraged.
Please submit your abstract as a PDF document to fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com> by the 9th of November, 2025, 23:59 CET. If you use special characters such as IPA symbols, make sure they are embedded in your PDF.
Submission guidelines:
* One A4 page for the abstract text (references and data visualizations may be placed together on one additional page)
* 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface, single line spacing, and 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins.
* Submission email specifications:
* Email subject should be: fino 2026 abstract
* Please write the name(s) and the affiliation(s) of the author(s) in the email text.
* Also, please indicate the preference for presentation style (oral, poster or either) in the email text.
Important dates:
* November 9th – deadline for abstract submission
* December 5th – notification of acceptance
* February 12th-13th, 2026 – FiNo in Lund (on-site)
Please note that the meeting will be on-site with no online presentations. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
If you have questions regarding the abstract submission, please contact fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com>.
FiNo 2026 Organizers,
Sara Myrberg, Shin Ishihara, Jinhee Kwon and Natsumi Goto
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Tue, Nov 4th at 13:00 - 14:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf>.
Technology-enhanced language learning interventions in children
Sari Ylinen, Tampere University
News:
* The webinar series continues on Dec 11th when Antti Saloranta and Leena Maria Heikkola (The Arctic University of Norway) give a talk about quantity differences in L1 and L2 Kven. You will find the details at www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf>.
* We are preparing for spring season 2026. Please 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 regards,
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 all, (We apologize for cross-posting)
This is the second call for abstracts for the 11th Fonologi i Norden (FiNo 2026) conference.
Please feel free to forward the message to people who might be interested.
https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/fino-2026-lund-call-for-ab…
Best regards,
FiNo 2026 organizers
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FiNo 2026 (Lund): Call for abstracts
We are delighted to announce that the 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting will be hosted by the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, 12th–13th of February 2026.
We invite submissions on any topic in phonology (including work in progress). Abstracts related to the phonology of languages spoken in the Nordic countries are particularly encouraged.
Please submit your abstract as a PDF document to fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com> by the 9th of November, 2025, 23:59 CET. If you use special characters such as IPA symbols, make sure they are embedded in your PDF.
Submission guidelines:
* One A4 page for the abstract text (references and data visualizations may be placed together on one additional page)
* 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface, single line spacing, and 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins.
* Submission email specifications:
* Email subject should be: fino 2026 abstract
* Please write the name(s) and the affiliation(s) of the author(s) in the email text.
* Also, please indicate the preference for presentation style (oral, poster or either) in the email text.
Important dates:
* November 9th – deadline for abstract submission
* December 5th – notification of acceptance
* February 12th-13th, 2026 – FiNo in Lund (on-site)
Please note that the meeting will be on-site with no online presentations. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
If you have questions regarding the abstract submission, please contact fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com>.
FiNo 2026 Organizers,
Sara Myrberg, Shin Ishihara, Jinhee Kwon and Natsumi Goto
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to a Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar taking place on Fri, Oct 10th at 15:00 - 16:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf>.
Human speech and animal speech-like sounds
Axel Ekström, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
News:
* The webinar series continues on Nov 4th when Sari Ylinen (Tampere University) gives a talk about technology-enhanced language learning interventions in children. Please find the details at www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf>.
* Who would you like to hear present their work? 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 regards,
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 all,
We are delighted to announce that the 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting
will be hosted by the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund
University, 12th–13th of February 2026.
We invite submissions on any topic in phonology (including work in
progress). Abstracts related to the phonology of languages spoken in
the Nordic countries are particularly encouraged.
Please submit your abstract as a PDF document to
fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com> by the 9th of November, 2025, 23:59 CET.
If you use special characters such as IPA symbols, make sure they are
embedded in your PDF.
Submission guidelines:
*
One A4 page for the abstract text (references and data
*
visualizations may be placed together on one additional page)
*
12 pt. Times New Roman typeface, single line spacing, and 2.5 cm margins.
*
Submission email specifications:
*
Email subject should be: fino 2026 abstract
*
Please write the name(s) and the affiliation(s) of the author(s) in the email text.
*
Also, please indicate the preference for presentation style (oral, poster or either) in the email text.
Important dates:
*
November 9th – deadline for abstract submission
*
December 5th – notification of acceptance
*
February 12th-13th, 2026 – FiNo in Lund (on-site)
Please note that the meeting will be on-site with no online
presentations. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
If you have questions regarding the abstract submission, please
contact fonologi.i.norden(a)gmail.com<mailto:fonologi.i.norden@gmail.com>.
FiNo 2026 Organizers,
- Sara Myrberg
- Shin Ishihara
- Michael Roll
- Jinhee Kwon
- Natsumi Goto
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Dear all,
We are very happy to announce that we advertised a PhD position in Phonetics at Stockholm University today, and here is the link: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:856045/where:4/. Please forward to suitable candidates! The deadline is October 15, 2025.
Best,
Mattias Heldner
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear colleagues,
You are warmly welcome to attend the season launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar is open to everyone and can be accessed through our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf> which lists all upcoming events on this webinar series. Simply click on the event to join!
Friday, September 12th at 13:00–14:00 Helsinki time (EEST, UCT+3)
L2 Accent in Icelandic: Folk Ideas and Attitudes
Stefanie Bade, University of Iceland
The season is full of interesting webinars with a wide range of topics within speech research. Please find the poster attached and feel free to spread the word.
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; to join, see https://groups.io/g/nnl2p) The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Best regards,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to another webinar offered by the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar takes place on Fri, Oct 11 at 11:00 - 12:00 (Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). Join the webinar at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/61656736999.
Heritage Icelandic and North American English: Cross-linguistic influences in phonology
Associate Professor Christiane Ulbrich, University of Cologne
Professor Nicole Dehé, University of Konstanz
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 (University of Jyväskylä and University of Turku) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Please follow the forum’s website at https://jyu.fi/nsrf for upcoming webinars. Under past events, you will now find Professor Jacques Koreman's presentation materials from our September webinar.
Best regards,
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
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Subject: Nordic Speech Research Forum is back!
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for possible cross-posting.
We would like to bring to your attention that the Nordic Speech Research Forum is back after a summer break.
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 on varying weekdays and times to test which meeting time would be optimal. The talks (30–40 mins) will be followed by discussion in a relaxed atmosphere.
On Tue, Sept 17, we have an opportunity to listen to Professor Jacques Koreman<https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/jacques.koreman> from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Professor Koreman’s talk is about online pronunciation learning. Please join us and feel free to spread the word!
What? Prof. Jacques Koreman’s talk: Developing L2 pronunciation skills: goals and hurdles for online learning + discussion.
When? Tue, Sept 17 at 16:00–17:00 Finnish time (UTC+3)
Where? Zoom: https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/61656736999
Also, please save the dates for the upcoming talks this autumn and follow the forum’s website at https://jyu.fi/nsrf for updates.
11.10.2024 at 11:00–12:00 Christiane Ulbrich, University of Cologne: Heritage Icelandic and North American English: Cross-linguistic influences in phonology.
11.11.2024 at 16:00–17:00 Sébastien Vandenitte, University of Jyväskylä: Setting Stories in Motion: Investigating the kinematics of Finnish Sign Language narratives with motion capture.
12.12.2024 at 14:00–15:00 Anna Persson, Stockholm University: Investigating the role of pre-linguistic formant normalization in vowel perception.
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 (University of Jyväskylä and University of Turku) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Hoping to meet you at the forum,
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
*** Apologies for cross-posting***
Dear all,
Santiago Barreda from UC Davis (https://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/people/santiago-barreda) will be visiting the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism from May 26-29. As part of his visit, we are pleased to invite you to a half-day workshop on Tuesday, May 27, featuring a research talk and a hands-on tutorial on formant tracking, please see schedule below.
Date: Tuesday, May 27
Location: room D365, Södra Huset D, Frescati
13.30-14.30
Tutorial: The ‘problem’ of formant tracking, and how to use fast track.
An overview of key challenges in formant tracking will be presented, followed by an introduction to the Fast Track tool (https://github.com/santiagobarreda/FastTrack) The session includes basic theory, practical examples, and hands-on time for trying out the tool and asking questions.
15.00-16.30
Talk: A Bayesian Model of Joint Vowel and Speaker Perception.
Researchers often employ normalization algorithms to transform formant representations of vowels into more neatly invariant phonetic representations. Although these models are meant to reflect the perceptual transformations carried out by human listeners, they usually rely on parameters estimated 'offline' using substantial information about the speaker. This makes them fundamentally different from speech perception in which listeners must 'guess' the necessary speaker parameters at the same time as they 'guess' the linguistic content in the signal. I will present a Bayesian model of vowel normalization that simultaneously estimates speaker characteristics and vowel quality/category from individual vowels/syllables. By integrating speech perception and the perception of speaker characteristics from limited evidence, this model offers a better approximation of human speech perception than 'traditional' approaches to normalization. A paper providing more detail is available here: https://github.com/santiagobarreda/STM_paper And an R package that can be used to simulate perceptual data is available here: https://github.com/santiagobarreda/STM
If you are interested in attending, please let me know whether you plan to join for one or both sessions. Feel free to forward this information to anyone who might be interested.
Welcome!
Anna
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Anna Persson, FD / PhD
Lecturer
Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: anna.persson(a)su.se<mailto:anna.persson@su.se>
My profile page: Anna Persson<https://www.su.se/english/profiles/anpe7128-1.281692>
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