Yuka Naito
@yuka-naito.bsky.social
Linguistics post-doctoral fellow at the University of Milan.
Research interests: SLA, speech perception, acoustic phonetics, clinical phonetics, translation.
yukanaito.org
Research interests: SLA, speech perception, acoustic phonetics, clinical phonetics, translation.
yukanaito.org
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Yuka Naito
@yuka-naito.bsky.social
· Sep 19
📢 Call for papers 📢
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
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In #speechperception, listener expectations, e.g. about how sounds produced by men & women differ, can influence phoneme categorization. Do #L2 listeners use expectations about speaker gender even for contrasts absent from their #L1? #LabPhon #openaccess @isf-oeaw.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Listeners use speaker gender information in non-native phoneme categorization
Speaker gender is known to affect phoneme categorization, and this effect is especially well-established in fricative perception: For example, in /s/-/θ/ categorization tasks, more /θ/ responses are g...
www.journal-labphon.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In #speechperception, listener expectations, e.g. about how sounds produced by men & women differ, can influence phoneme categorization. Do #L2 listeners use expectations about speaker gender even for contrasts absent from their #L1? #LabPhon #openaccess @isf-oeaw.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Finally out @johnbenjamins.bsky.social : "Corpora and the learning and teaching of #French and #Spanish" co-authored with somebody I consider a massive inspiration, 👩🎓 Prof Angela Chambers @unioflimerick.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics @letrasumu.bsky.social benjamins.com/catalog/scl....
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Finally out @johnbenjamins.bsky.social : "Corpora and the learning and teaching of #French and #Spanish" co-authored with somebody I consider a massive inspiration, 👩🎓 Prof Angela Chambers @unioflimerick.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics @letrasumu.bsky.social benjamins.com/catalog/scl....
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I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love.
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI...
Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕
🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design
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📢 Call for Papers open!
#Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad
🗓️ May 18–19, 2026
📍Universitat de Lleida
🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard.
Submit here⬇️
#Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad
🗓️ May 18–19, 2026
📍Universitat de Lleida
🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard.
Submit here⬇️
Study Abroad Conference Lleida 2026
May 18th and 19th, 2026 - Lleida (Spain)
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October 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
📢 Call for Papers open!
#Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad
🗓️ May 18–19, 2026
📍Universitat de Lleida
🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard.
Submit here⬇️
#Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad
🗓️ May 18–19, 2026
📍Universitat de Lleida
🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard.
Submit here⬇️
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We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #openaccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #cogsci, and […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
October 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #openaccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #cogsci, and […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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So happy that our new eye-tracking study on word combinations is out!
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
Producing and processing word combinations in an L2: An eye-tracking study exploring the individual learner experience | Journal of the European Second Language Association
euroslajournal.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So happy that our new eye-tracking study on word combinations is out!
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
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🎉Fresh from the press 📄
New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)
New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)
August 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎉Fresh from the press 📄
New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)
New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)
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Excited to share our new preprint with @mzhang89.bsky.social : “A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration” 🎉
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Excited to share our new preprint with @mzhang89.bsky.social : “A crosslinguistic corpus phonetic analysis of intrinsic vowel duration” 🎉
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.
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NEW FROM 54(3)
"Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa
#Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
"Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa
#Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence - Volume 54 Issue 3
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
NEW FROM 54(3)
"Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa
#Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
"Why language revitalization fails: Revivalist vs. traditional ontologies of language in Provence" by James Costa
#Patois #Occitan #OntologiesOfLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #LinguisticNatures
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
📢 Call for papers 📢
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
September 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
📢 Call for papers 📢
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
22nd Conference Italian Association for Speech Sciences - Fieldwork experimental phonetics for language documentation
🗓️ 22-24 January 2026
📍 University of Milan 🇮🇹
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline:
30 September 2025
🧐 More info: sites.google.com/view/aisv202...
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🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨
Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?
To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?
To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Details | City St George's, University of London
Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨
Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?
To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?
To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
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Officially out! "Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech" S.E Kim, B. R. Chernyak, @keshet.bsky.social, me, & A. Bradlow link.springer.com/article/10.3.... BONUS: free online similarity calculator so you can join in the fun! 1/
Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Researchers have generally assumed that listeners perceive speech compositionally, based on the combined processing of local acoustic–phonetic cues associated with individual linguistic units. Yet, th...
link.springer.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Officially out! "Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech" S.E Kim, B. R. Chernyak, @keshet.bsky.social, me, & A. Bradlow link.springer.com/article/10.3.... BONUS: free online similarity calculator so you can join in the fun! 1/
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Deadline 15 Oct: Postdoc, Multilingualism and Language Learning (w/ Ø. Vangsnes, M. Anderssen), Center for Language, Brain and Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
September 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deadline 15 Oct: Postdoc, Multilingualism and Language Learning (w/ Ø. Vangsnes, M. Anderssen), Center for Language, Brain and Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu
August 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📢 We are now accepting manuscripts for our Fall 2025 issue! Check out the guidelines & make your submission here: tesolal.columbia.edu
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Lab Publication! - Hayes-Harb & Barrios (2024)
Hayes-Harb, R., & Barrios, S. 2024. The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception. JASA Express Letters, 4(8), 085201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0028277.
Hayes-Harb, R., & Barrios, S. 2024. The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception. JASA Express Letters, 4(8), 085201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0028277.
The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception
Building on previous observations of variability in speech research, we examine variability in speech perception study materials associated with the specific ta
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lab Publication! - Hayes-Harb & Barrios (2024)
Hayes-Harb, R., & Barrios, S. 2024. The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception. JASA Express Letters, 4(8), 085201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0028277.
Hayes-Harb, R., & Barrios, S. 2024. The interacting effects of talker, contrast, and listener variability in cross-language speech perception. JASA Express Letters, 4(8), 085201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0028277.
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Just a reminder that my survey is still open 🤗
I’m conducting a survey for my research on emotions! If your 1st language is English or Japanese, please consider taking 10 minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end (not cash, sorry!) 🙇♀️
🇬🇧 forms.gle/5sZu7rcW79yQ...
🇯🇵 forms.gle/U7kCWknfKLMS...
Resharing appreciated!
🇬🇧 forms.gle/5sZu7rcW79yQ...
🇯🇵 forms.gle/U7kCWknfKLMS...
Resharing appreciated!
a man says i 'm having so many mixed feelings while sitting on a couch
ALT: a man says i 'm having so many mixed feelings while sitting on a couch
media.tenor.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just a reminder that my survey is still open 🤗
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🗣️ Ever heard a Brazilian Portuguese speaker say “Tikitoki” for TikTok, or a Japanese speaker say “shoppu” for shop? We know that speakers repair foreign sound structures to fit with native phonotactics, but what do bilinguals with two phonotactic systems do? We aimed to find out: shorturl.at/Hcm5O
Individual variation in epenthetic vowel production by Brazilian Portuguese–Japanese bilinguals | John Benjamins
Abstract
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Japanese have phonological repair strategies that involve vowel epenthesis in
illicit consonant clusters, but whereas BP inserts /i/, Japanese inserts /ɯ/ as a d...
shorturl.at
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🗣️ Ever heard a Brazilian Portuguese speaker say “Tikitoki” for TikTok, or a Japanese speaker say “shoppu” for shop? We know that speakers repair foreign sound structures to fit with native phonotactics, but what do bilinguals with two phonotactic systems do? We aimed to find out: shorturl.at/Hcm5O
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In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)
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Happy to share my paper “A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance” published on the Journal of the Europ. Second Language Association in the collection “Multiple views on #phraseology in second language acquisition”
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance | Journal of the European Second Language Association
euroslajournal.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Happy to share my paper “A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance” published on the Journal of the Europ. Second Language Association in the collection “Multiple views on #phraseology in second language acquisition”
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
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超音波舌断層撮像（ultrasound tongue imaging）におけるデータ収集・分析手法の解説論文が、日本音声学会誌『音声研究』より本日出版されました！特集号「Instrumental Phonetics―非侵襲的ツールを使用して―」の一部として、自身の経験に基づき、典型的なデータ収集・分析のワークフローや、良質なデータを得るためのヒントをまとめています。少しでも参考になれば嬉しいです！
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
April 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
超音波舌断層撮像（ultrasound tongue imaging）におけるデータ収集・分析手法の解説論文が、日本音声学会誌『音声研究』より本日出版されました！特集号「Instrumental Phonetics―非侵襲的ツールを使用して―」の一部として、自身の経験に基づき、典型的なデータ収集・分析のワークフローや、良質なデータを得るためのヒントをまとめています。少しでも参考になれば嬉しいです！
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...