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clrnance.bsky.social
Professor of Phonetics at Lancaster University. Gàidhlig, Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Bilingualism, Articulation, Sociolinguistics. Otherwise in the mountains. She/her https://clairenance.github.io/
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained @phoneticslab.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

It was my great privilege to give a talk yesterday at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, hosted by the Language Documentation Centre, Department of General and Indo-European Linguistics. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social

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Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control ➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements. 🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0... @asa-news.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

The call for papers for UKLVC15 is open! Deadline: 21st March. Join us in Lancaster 2nd-4th September 2025 for sociolinguistic research on any language. Hosted by @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and University of Central Lancashire. More information and keynote presenters: wp.lancs.ac.uk/uklvc15/

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UPCOMING DEADLINE - CfP ➡️ Trondheim Young Researchers Symposium on Multilingualism (TYRSM) (May 26-27, 2025, in Trondheim, Norway) See the full CfP: iam.wildapricot.org/TYRSM-2025 ✅Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2025. Feel free to share and spread the word.

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JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

What a lovely and moving account of how #Irish is not confined to rural & Gaeltacht areas, and how it matters in an urban space like Dublin. #langsky #minoritizedlanguages

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

We are delighted to welcome Dr Anton Malmi, who has started a 3-year postdoc in @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social funded by the Estonian Research Council! Anton will be investigating the acquisition of palatalisation in Estonian children using ultrasound tongue imaging.

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New paper out with colleagues from @phoneticslab.bsky.social 'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection' doi.org/10.1515/ling... @samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social @justinjhlo.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

New speakers - people learning and reclaiming a language - are key to any language revitalization movement. 🌱 Understanding what motivates people to reclaim and learn their languages is an important part of revitalization work. A new book explores these issues in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic):

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social student Emily Gorman who passed her viva today!

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We've been hosting Simona Montanari, California State University, @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social for the past couple of days. Great to hear about Simona's research on Spanish-English bilingual pre-schoolers and celebrate at our lab Christmas party!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Come and work with us in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Really helpful training course on carrying out oral history interviews with the Oral History Society at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social yesterday. Lovely to meet up with Jane and Takayuki afterwards too! 😀 @NWCDTP @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Stuart Dunmore on his brilliant new book! @edinburghup.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

submitted 86 days ago • 16 comments

Congratulations to Pàdraig MacAoidh [Peter Mackay] on his appointment as Scotland's new Makar (National Poet). Pàdraig is the first Scottish Gaelic poet in the role. He recorded his poem Crann-cuinnse [Quince Tree] to promote the announcement. The English translation appears in the thread below.

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

Happy #LancashireDay! In an eventful hour, I teamed up with a passing electrician to herd and wrestle the sheep back into a field. Then saw a kingfisher fishing in the river as the sun set.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The world hasn’t gone upside down yet, so it should be real — I’m #PhDone having defended my thesis on Monday! The past four years have been so much fun with my great supervisors @clrnance.bsky.social @samkirkham.bsky.social and amazing colleagues all over the world! Thank you everyone!

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to Lancaster Phonetics Lab student Takayuki Nagamine who passed his PhD viva with no corrections yesterday! Sam Kirkham and I supervised Takayuki's research. Thanks to examiners Alexei Kochetov and Danielle Turton, and Chair @justinjhlo.bsky.social. Photo from the after party 🥳

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I am so so honored and grateful that this paper has been selected for the JPhon ECR Article of the Year award!

submitted 103 days ago • 5 comments

Very happy to be rediscovering my network and meeting new people here! Please enjoy Lancaster University campus ducks from earlier this week.

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

Congratulations to my PhD student Takayuki Nagamine on his first first-authored journal article out now in JASA 🥳! Please enjoy formant dynamics in L2 speech. Ultrasound analysis coming soon! doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

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Some days I complain about my job, but some days I get to meet inspiring teachers doing incredible things for Gaelic with lovely children in a beautiful place. Today was a good day!

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Had a fun time wearing giant headphones to record this for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking with @robdrummond.bsky.social Andrea Smith, Shane O'Mara and John Gallagher. Great to chat about accents and ultrasound www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Had a great time on Tuesday recording an episode of Free Thinking for BBC Radio 3, talking all things voice with @clrnance.bsky.social and others. Podcast available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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A brilliant evening with Phonetics Lab colleagues at Light Up Lancaster, a light festival in our city. Public engagement is wonderful but also so completely exhausting 😅

submitted 483 days ago • 1 comment

My first time being covered in the Mail, but it could have been worse. Happy to identify as a 'mouth scanning scientist' 😅

submitted 497 days ago • 2 comments

I got project stickers printed and it's possibly the best professional decision I've ever made ever. (Design by Emily Gorman).

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Monday morning* praatpicture feature drop 🍾 - Multiple channels (any number in theory) can now be plotted! - There's now support for special font types like bold, small caps etc in TextGrids using Praat's conventions! (1/)

submitted 501 days ago • 1 comment

New on here but happy to (re)connect with everyone! Enjoy this amazing and massive tongue our PhD student Emily Gorman is painting as a commission for a light festival in Lancaster.

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