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News: the BREVIT team will be presenting at BAAP on April 8-10
March 2026 - AGF conference
March 2026 - AGF conference
The Brevit team had two significant forms of participation at the IDS Mannheim this week at the AGF 2026 conference: Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods.
Richard Ogden led a 3-hour workshop on "The phonetics of non-lexical vocalisations" for a diverse and enthusiastic group of participants studying all forms of human-human, human-machine, and human-animal interaction.
Marina Cantarutti represented the team on the first official presentation of the project to a CA audience with a methods input entitled "Enhancing our understanding of breathing behaviours in non-lexical vocalizations in interactions". The talk and the project were really well received, and we are excited to report back on our progress and findings as the project progresses.
March 2026 - York - Saarbrücken meeting
March 2026 - York - Saarbrücken meeting
The full team met face-to-face in Saarland University for two days of planning, getting familiar with the equipment, and sharing the decision-making process for the data collection and analysis. We are excited to see the progress we have made already, and we're looking forward to the next steps together.
March 2026 - Training visit
March 2026 - Training visit
Marina Cantarutti visited the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics to train with Dr Susanne Fuchs, a highly recognised expert in breathing and speech. Over the course of two days, Marina learned to use the RespTrack equipment, made practice recordings, and shared inspiring conversations about respiratory dynamics and speech. The team is really grateful for the very warm welcome and generous support offered by Susanne and her team.
March 2026 - AGF 2026 presentation and workshop
March 2026 - AGF 2026 presentation and workshop
The team will be presenting an introduction to the project with some methodological questions at the 25. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung (AGF) / 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis: Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods on 25-27 March 2026 at Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim.
The talk will be part of a session on methods, and is called: "Enhancing our understanding of breathing behaviours in non-lexical vocalizations in interactions". Book of abstracts.
Richard Ogden will be delivering a special workshop on the phonetics of non-lexical vocalisations". Description.
January 2026 - BAAP 2026 paper acceptance
January 2026 - BAAP 2026 paper acceptance
Two contributions from our team were accepted for the meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP 2026) at the University of Warwick!
- "Breathing Behaviour and Non-Lexical Vocalisations in Talk-in-Interaction"
- "Phonetic features in the interactional management of song-like laughter"
January 2026 - Project launch
January 2026 - Project launch
We have now officially launched the AHRC/DFG-funded BREVIT project!
News on funding success have been shared by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at York in the following accounts:
Information on the project is also available on UKRI's Gateway to Research
[Picture shows the team at LingCologne in April 2025]
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