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Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang & Eoin O'Reilly: DGfS Tutorial

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang and Eoin O’Reilly will give a tutorial at the DGfS 2023. DGfS Tutorials: Computational Modelling for Linguists: Probing the mental lexicon with spoken corpora This tutorial will introduce participants to the field of corpus phonetics, allowing them to ask and answer non-trival research questions using a large amount of speech and lexical data.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Prosody leaks into the memories of words: evidence from 1,655 speakers and dynamic neural field theory

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang gave an invited talk at the Forschungskolloquium at the Institute of Linguistics in Cologne and at the SFB 1102: Language Science Colloquium Series at Saarland University.

Dr. Chris Geissler: Tone and articulatory timing: evidence from Tibetan

Dr. Chris Geissler gave an invited talk at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. ↗️ Slides

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao wins first prize at HeiCAD Lightning Talks

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao won first prize for his presentation at the HeiCAD Lightning Talks. ↗️ Slides

New Workshop on Free and Open Software

SlamLab conducted a workshop on Free and Open Source Software. ↗️ LibreSlam website

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang gave a talk on Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South at the Information Science Department, HHU. ↗️ View the talk on YouTube

NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant awarded to the lab

NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant awarded to the lab. We will soon have 20 × NVIDIA JetsonTM Nano Developer Kits to foster Digital Humanities and AI with Internet of Things(IoT). ↗️ Nvidia grant info

E-Learning support fund

Won the e-Learning support fund of €9.424, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. ↗️ e-learning grants website

Dr. Chris Geissler: LSA Webinar

Dr. Chris Geissler presents in LSA Webinar: Dr. Christopher Geissler and his coauthors presented at a “Meet the Authors” webinar of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA). The event, “Gender Bias and Stereotypes in Linguistics Research and Teaching” highlighted two papers recently published in the LSA’s flagship journal, Language.

Audrey Zhang, Fjorda Kazazi, Kevin Tang & Peter Howell: hanges in mental wellbeing for gender and ethnicity groups between entry, and 4 weeks after starting, university

Audrey Zhang, Fjorda Kazazi, Kevin Tang & Peter Howell. September, 2022. Changes in mental wellbeing for gender and ethnicity groups between entry, and 4 weeks after starting, university. The third Institute of Mental Health International Conference, London, UK.