Hae-Sung Jeon
@haesungjeon.bsky.social
Phonetics/prosody/linguistics/cogpsy academic in UK & amateur classical pianist 🎹 & fountain pen enthusiast 🖋️
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Sperm #whales use vowels like humans, new study finds
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech
www.popsci.com/environment/... #globalmuseum #language
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech
www.popsci.com/environment/... #globalmuseum #language
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Sperm #whales use vowels like humans, new study finds
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech
www.popsci.com/environment/... #globalmuseum #language
Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech
www.popsci.com/environment/... #globalmuseum #language
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🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com
📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians"
Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Repo: github.com/stefanocoret...
Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians"
Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Repo: github.com/stefanocoret...
Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner
ALT: a close up of a rat looking at the camera with the word drunken written in the corner
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com
📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians"
Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Repo: github.com/stefanocoret...
Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians"
Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Repo: github.com/stefanocoret...
Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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The Curriculum and Assessment review final report was published today by the government.
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Curriculum and Assessment review final report was published today by the government.
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
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Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!
Latest papers: Lucas Battich proposes adopting a cognitive-first methodological strategy to joint attention doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!
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🎃 LLMs can do linguistics 👻
Across history, linguists have insisted that language sets humans apart from other species. But a new study demonstrating AI’s startlingly complex “metalinguistic” skills threatens to throw mankind’s exclusivity out the window.
www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-a...
www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-a...
In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
www.quantamagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🎃 LLMs can do linguistics 👻
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Researchers are using AI to decode whale communications.
A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
AI is Decoding Whales’ Language. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News
The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ ...
insideclimatenews.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Researchers are using AI to decode whale communications.
A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
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"The capacity for language exists along a continuum [...]. The idea that language development does not require uniquely human properties becomes increasingly important as legal boundaries expand to include nonhuman species."
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"The capacity for language exists along a continuum [...]. The idea that language development does not require uniquely human properties becomes increasingly important as legal boundaries expand to include nonhuman species."
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Check out this amazing plenary talk by Stephan Meylan, a research scientist in our lab:
Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development
youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...
Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development
youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Check out this amazing plenary talk by Stephan Meylan, a research scientist in our lab:
Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development
youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...
Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development
youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...
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Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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One of the main linguistic conferences on phonology has just started.
It's such a special moment, because who would have thought that a poster on whale phonology would be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology.
@projectceti.bsky.social
It's such a special moment, because who would have thought that a poster on whale phonology would be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology.
@projectceti.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
One of the main linguistic conferences on phonology has just started.
It's such a special moment, because who would have thought that a poster on whale phonology would be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology.
@projectceti.bsky.social
It's such a special moment, because who would have thought that a poster on whale phonology would be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology.
@projectceti.bsky.social
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Professor Stephen Cave was recently on WHYY podcast talking about the mortality paradox: why we struggle with our mortality, and how knowing we will die one day can make life more meaningful.
whyy.org/episodes/do-...
whyy.org/episodes/do-...
Do you want to live forever? The Mortality Paradox - WHYY
Philosopher Stephen Cave on our struggles with our mortality, and how knowing we will die one day can make life precious and even more meaningful.
whyy.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Professor Stephen Cave was recently on WHYY podcast talking about the mortality paradox: why we struggle with our mortality, and how knowing we will die one day can make life more meaningful.
whyy.org/episodes/do-...
whyy.org/episodes/do-...
International Circle of #Korean #Linguistics conference at Sheffield! Abstract deadline 30 Nov
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2026 ICKL – ICKL
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August 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
International Circle of #Korean #Linguistics conference at Sheffield! Abstract deadline 30 Nov
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Oooh finally found a study that I’m so eager to replicate. The abstract says: “…we present a scientifically optimized recipe based on our findings,…”
G. Bartolucci, et al. Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce. Physics of Fluids 1 April 2025; 37 (4): 044122.
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G. Bartolucci, et al. Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce. Physics of Fluids 1 April 2025; 37 (4): 044122.
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Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce
“Pasta alla Cacio e pepe” is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect
pubs.aip.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Oooh finally found a study that I’m so eager to replicate. The abstract says: “…we present a scientifically optimized recipe based on our findings,…”
G. Bartolucci, et al. Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce. Physics of Fluids 1 April 2025; 37 (4): 044122.
pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...
G. Bartolucci, et al. Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce. Physics of Fluids 1 April 2025; 37 (4): 044122.
pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...
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Our class on Deep Language Learning at the LSA Summer Institute now available online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnm...
Deep Language Learning LSA Summer Institute 2025
YouTube video by Gasper Begus
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July 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Our class on Deep Language Learning at the LSA Summer Institute now available online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnm...
New #jasa paper using semi-automatic #intonation analysis to show distributional differences between language varieties
Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#prosody #clustering #randomforest
Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#prosody #clustering #randomforest
Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean
This study analyzed unscripted, conversational speech to investigate differences in question intonation in Korean varieties spoken in Chungcheong (CC) and Gyeon
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New #jasa paper using semi-automatic #intonation analysis to show distributional differences between language varieties
Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#prosody #clustering #randomforest
Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#prosody #clustering #randomforest
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Years in the making and finally out! #amplitude #risetime of #speechsignals is not meaningfully interpretable.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Frontiers | Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm
Modulations of amplitude rise-time are considered fundamental to speech rhythm. However, rise-time is a holistic measure of the waveform shape and, as such, ...
www.frontiersin.org
July 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Years in the making and finally out! #amplitude #risetime of #speechsignals is not meaningfully interpretable.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
New open access. publication ‘The perception of intonational peaks and valleys: The effects of plateaux, declination and experimental task’
doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...
#speechcommunication #prosody #intonation
doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...
#speechcommunication #prosody #intonation
Redirecting
doi.org
June 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New open access. publication ‘The perception of intonational peaks and valleys: The effects of plateaux, declination and experimental task’
doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...
#speechcommunication #prosody #intonation
doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...
#speechcommunication #prosody #intonation
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Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Belia et al. (2025) show dynamic links btwn language, motor skills & sleep patterns, esp during periods of marked devtal change in these domains ➡️ need to study vocab growth as part of a dynamic system involving mind, body and environment #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood
Current research indicates likely developmental connections between the evolution of sleep patterns, motor skills progression, and the expansion of vocabulary. These connections are grounded in the w...
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Belia et al. (2025) show dynamic links btwn language, motor skills & sleep patterns, esp during periods of marked devtal change in these domains ➡️ need to study vocab growth as part of a dynamic system involving mind, body and environment #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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'Language City' by Ross Perlin, winner of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, is the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. All episodes here:
BBC Radio 4 - Language City by Ross Perlin
Linguist Ross Perlin meets speakers of little-known languages across New York.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
'Language City' by Ross Perlin, winner of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, is the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. All episodes here:
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University leaders Professor Dame Sally Mapstone (St Andrews) and Professor Irene Tracy (Oxford) are in conversation with The British Academy's President, Professor Julia Black at the SHAPE Conference. University education can be transformative for the ways we think and act, says Sally Mapstone.
April 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
University leaders Professor Dame Sally Mapstone (St Andrews) and Professor Irene Tracy (Oxford) are in conversation with The British Academy's President, Professor Julia Black at the SHAPE Conference. University education can be transformative for the ways we think and act, says Sally Mapstone.
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Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.
April 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.
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