Meetings

Next meetings

Our next meetings will be:

Weds 14th January, 3pm CET: host TBC

Weds 25th February, 3pm CET: Serpil Karabüklü (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), topic TBC

Weds 25th March, 3pm CET: Suzanne Aussems (Warwick), topic TBC 

Weds 22nd April 3pm CET: Amanda Brown (Syracuse) and Maasaki Kamiya (Hamilton), topic TBC

If you would like to host a meeting in 2026, please contact Mariia or Rebecca (email addresses below).

Past meetings

**NB: we will be adding transcripts of the videos shortly!**

December 2025

Our most recent meeting was on Wednesday 10th December 2025. 

Host Maria Francesca Ferin (Siena) on Analysing intonation: comparing perceptual annotations and acoustic measurements.

Check back for the presentation recording (to be published soon) and slides of the presentation. 

Recommended reading:  Jun, Sun-Ah. 2022. The ToBI Transcription System: Conventions, Strengths, and Challenges. In Jonathan Barnes & Stefanie Shattuck- Hufnagel (eds.), Prosodic Theory and Practice, 151–181. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10413.003.0007.

November 2025

Our November meeting was on Wednesday 19th November 2025. 

Host Svenja Krieger (University of Konstanz) on Guidelines for the annotation of intonation data in multi- and bilingual populations 

Check back for the Zoom recording and slides of the presentation. 

October 2025

Our first meeting was on Wednesday 22nd October 2025. 

Hosts Mariia Pronina (University of the Balearic Islands) & Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University) on Ecological validity of elicited prosodic productions in children
Check back for the Zoom recording (the first couple of minutes were not recorded, it starts from the second slide!) and slides of the presentations on our plans for the group and a presentation on elicited production of children's prosody and co-speech gesture. 

Recommended reading:  Vanrell, M. del M., Feldhausen, I., & Astruc, L. (2018). The discourse completion task in Romance prosody research: Status quo and outlook. In I. Feldhausen, J. Fliessbach, & M. del M. Vanrell (Eds.),  Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective*(pp. 191–227). Language Science Press.

General information about meetings

Meetings take place monthly on themes including:

• Methods - e.g. eliciting gesture from children

• Annotation - e.g. applying existing annotation schemes to child data

• Theory 

Meetings will be 55 minutes long. They will feature a short intro and/or presentation from the meeting leader, but are intended to be discursive and interactive for the majority of the meeting time. We believe there's a lot of experience to be shared and inspiration to be gained so let's talk!

We may, with permission, record presentations and post them here. Discussion sessions and any presentation of potentially sensitive data will not be recorded.

If there are any themes you'd like to explore (and maybe lead a session on) please contact Rebecca (rebecca.woods@newcastle.ac.uk) or Mariia (mariia.pronina@uib.cat).