Lancaster University Phonetics Lab

Research group in phonetics at @LancasterUni @LAEL_LU

[Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @PhoneticsLab]

Koala scales the Ashton Memorial for a better view of Lancaster! #Interspeech2026 #Interspeech2026KoalaCompetition

[Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @PhoneticsLab]

Koala hugs an ultrasound probe and a tongue appears on screen! #Interspeech2026 #Interspeech2026KoalaCompetition

[JASA Express Letters @ASA_JASAEL]

This study proposes new scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of speech, allowing us to develop more realistic models of articulatory control in speech. https://t.co/LkWdfXycAY

#acoustics

@samkirkham @phoneticslab

[CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt]

Huge congratulations to @RhiannonMogrid1 on passing her #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Massive thanks to her supervisor Dr Anton Ragni; her viva examiners @rogerkmoore (University of Sheffield) and @samkirkham (Lancaster University); and her sponsors @toshiba Europe Ltd!

[Zhāng, Miǎo 张淼 @Miao_Zhang_dr]

Our VoxCommunis corpus is on Huggingface now! https://t.co/vfvKq6vQ8J The documentation can be found here: https://t.co/cQkoO9RiWi

[Lucy Jackson @lucejackson]

On the train back up to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 after a great time presenting my research at @PhoneticsLab at Lancaster.

Thank you so much to @clairelnance & folk for such a lovely welcome and really helpful feedback. And hopefully see you all again soon when I have the 👀 data!

[Dr. Cong Zhang @congprosody]

Finally out!
Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures https://t.co/O5mdIanwNB

[UKLVC2025 @UKLVC2025]

We are also delighted to announce the following plenary speakers:

- Gabrielle Hodge @gab_hodge
- Christian Ilbury @Christianilbury
- Sophie Meekings @sophiemeekings

Very excited to hear about so much interesting research! The call for papers is coming soon!

[UKLVC2025 @UKLVC2025]

‼️ ANNOUNCEMENT ‼️

The 15th UK Language Variation and Change conference will take place on 2-4 September 2025, co-organised by Lancaster University & The University of Central Lancashire. @PhoneticsLab @LAEL_LU @UCLan

More information on our website!
https://t.co/cowbTnGh56

[Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @LAEL_LU]

We're delighted to announce the next three @LAEL_LU 50th Anniversary Public lectures!

Register here: https://t.co/z6qKawk7gI

[Christopher Carignan @carignan_c]

Out now in JASA! Using EMA to track head motion, we find evidence that co-speech head nod gestures are used in French as a way of enhancing and magnifying different levels of prosodic prominence.

https://t.co/zrSR066mAw

[Speech Dynamics Lab @SpeeDy_Lab]

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
Lena Pagel, Simon Roessig and Doris Mücke just published a paper in @LabPhon on articulatory signatures of prosodic prominence in habitual and loud speech. Check it out here: https://t.co/uKfbZTnTQt!

[Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @RPuggaardRode]

Phonology postdoc in the very far north!
https://t.co/pBOr5Wmnxs

[Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @RPuggaardRode]

This paper is now accepted in Journal of Phonetics 🥳

A thread 🧵 1/7

[@AndreaRavignani @AndreaRavignani]

Funding alert! Applied for a Marie Curie but got rejected with *Seal of Excellence* < 2 years ago? MUR is offering 150 very generous positions for 3-years senior postdocs! If interested in any of my research areas & want to join my lab @SapienzaRoma - Italy, send me an email!

[Prof Tamara Rathcke (tamarathcke.bsky.social) @tamarathcke]

My #charisma project @EXCInequality found its way into the German media!

We talked to the renowned Spiegel about political charisma across languages and cultures: https://t.co/GwKFtnP1fY

[Marcia Ponce de León @MarcitaPdL]

Morpho-phonetics: our new approach to studying the biological evolution of speech sounds.
Take a look at our manuscript:
https://t.co/m9zZx4PLbU

[Axel Ekström @Freudian__Slap]

We did a paper on why people everwhere seem to agree that cats say "meow". Interestingly, it seems to be due to the jaw and small stature of cats.

@ResearchGate: https://t.co/3aavRsx5kk

[Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @PhoneticsLab]

Graduation day with @phoneticslab @LAEL_LU!

[Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @PhoneticsLab]

Graduation day with @phoneticslab @LAEL_LU!