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Taka successfully passed his viva for his thesis titled, "Acoustic and articulatory dynamics in second language speech production: Japanese speakers' production of English liquids"... a pass with very minor corrections, extremely good news. Well done, Taka!

Takayuki Nagime joins DAAPS from Lancaster University. Taka is starting a 3-year postdoc with Patti Adank and Chris Carignan on a Leverhulme Trust project combining EMA and TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) to research the role of motor control in speech learning and production. Welcome, Taka!

Justin is departing from DAAPS after almost two years as (the inaugural) postdoctoral researcher. He will be moving to Lancaster University, where he is taking up a lectureship at the Department of Linguistics and English Language.

Four papers from the DAAPS Lab, including three from the Speakers, listeners, languages project, were presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023 in Prague earlier this month. The conference proceedings are now published.

New publication: Carignan, C., Chen, J., Harvey, M., Stockigt, C., Simpson, J. & Strangways, S. (2023). An investigation of the dynamics of vowel nasalization in Arabana using machine learning of acoustic features, Laboratory Phonology 14(1).

Two papers from the Speakers, listeners, languages project, including a poster and an oral presentation, were presented in Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 18, which was held in Bielefeld.

Over the past two days, Chris gave an online workshop on "Digital Signal Processing in R" in the Methods @ LingLabs series, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Universität Konstanz. The recording and materials of this workshop will soon be made available open access.

Our lab had a poster accepted at the 2022 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). The poster, "Coarticulatory variability and phonological constraints", presented initial findings from the DFG-AHRC funded project Speakers, listeners, languages: Patterns of variability and contrast in spoken language dynamics.

At the conference, Justin also co-led a workshop on "Developing a career involving phonetics in academia and beyond", where a panel of senior and early-career experts in academia and industry shared their experience and advice.

Justin gave a talk on his PhD work at the Philological Society ECR Round Table 2021, along with co-panellists Ben Molineaux (Edinburgh) and Eleanor Chodroff (York), on the theme of "corpus approaches to phonetic~phonological variability and stability". Justin's talk, titled "Comparing /s/ with /s/: Cross-linguistic acoustic (in)stability among English-French bilinguals", can now be found on the PhilSoc YouTube channel.