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Marina Cantarutti and Sascha Schäfer represented the team at the event organised by the AHRC and DFG for all the projects funded during Round 7.  The team was excited to learn further about this prestigious award and success rates, and we are grateful for the funding and the opportunity

Sascha Schäfer presented at the Phonetics Colloquium at UdS on April 22nd to the Speech Science team at Saarland University.  The presentation discussed forensic applications of the work that the Brevit project will be doing, and explored the role of inhalaiton noises for forensic applications.

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Marina Cantarutti represented the team as keynote speaker at the  "Current trends in phonetic studies" roundtable, organised by the Faculty of Linguistics at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on April 26. We're grateful to Larysa Taranenko for the kind invitation to share our work on laughter with the Ukranian academic community and beyond.

The York part of the team made two presentations at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians at the University of Warwick to present the BREVIT project.

We've received great feedback and suggestions both on the work already done by the team and for the next steps of the project in a really collegial environment. 

• Breathing behaviour and non-lexical vocalisations in talk-in-interaction.  Richard Ogden, Marina Cantarutti, Jürgen Trouvain

• Phonetic features in the interactional management of song-like laughter.  Marina Cantarutti, Richard Ogden, Jürgen Trouvain

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.