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Rayyan Merchant awarded the Summer Undergraduate International Research Award from the University of Florida

Rayyan Merchant awarded the Summer Undergraduate International Research Award from the University of Florida. The UF Center for Undergraduate Research awarded Rayyan Merchant a $5000 award to conduct research abroad.

The SLaM Lab is currently hiring two student assistants (HiWis) to help with content development and making videos for an e-learning project. Click here for more information

The SLaM Lab invites students to apply for two paid student assistant (“HiWi”) positions to work on the project “Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory”. This project, funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds at HHU, will be making educational materials to support teaching in phonetics.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, Dr. Chris Geissler and Eoin O'Reilly: Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory

The project “Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory” by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, Dr. Chris Geissler and Eoin O’Reilly will be funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Nomination for the Lehrpreis of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang was nominated for the Lehrpreis by SELL at HHU. His tip for successful teaching The teaching award of SELL at Heinrich-Heine-Universität With the teaching awards, HHU recognizes outstanding achievements in teaching.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Poster presented: Language production in Parkinson’s Disease: Measuring Syntactic Complexity

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, Seyedeh Zahra Mirkhaef, Julia Henkel and Katja Biermann-Ruben presented a poster at Parkinson und Bewegungsstörungen - Highlights Digital 2023, Germany. Title of the poster: Language production in Parkinson’s Disease: Measuring Syntactic Complexity.

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