Meetings

Our most recent (and first!) meeting was on Wednesday 22nd October 2025.
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. 

Our next meetings will be:

Weds **19th** Nov, 3pm CET: host Svenja Krieger (Konstanz), on Guidelines for the annotation of intonation data in multi- and bilingual populations 

The annotation of intonation is inherently language-specific, and no unified framework has been developed that can be applied across languages. While the Tone and Break Indices (ToBI) system was originally designed for English (e.g., Pierrrehumbert, 1980), numerous adaptations exist for other languages (e.g., GToBI for German, Grice & Baumann, 2002; ToBIt for Italian, Gili Fivela et al., 2015). However, these annotation systems are typically based on ‘monolingual’ speech samples and pose challenges for the annotation of speech from multi- or bilingual populations. This talk addresses the challenges that arise when annotating intonation in such speaker groups and discusses potential solutions. The presentation will conclude with an open discussion on how existing frameworks might be adapted or extended to better account for multilingual speech patterns.

Weds 10th Dec, 3pm CET: host Maria Francesca Ferin (Siena), topic TBC

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

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).