Eleanor Chodroff
@echodroff.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, linguist, phonetician at the University of Zurich Dept. of Computational Linguistics
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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...
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The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions:
👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6
Please share ☺️
👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6
Please share ☺️
SPONSORSHIP FOR JUAN DE LA CIERVA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - SPOKEN LANGUAGE GROUP (E.K)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
tinyurl.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The Spoken Language group @bcbl.bsky.social is currently recruiting for these positions:
👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6
Please share ☺️
👉PhD students (expressions of interest are welcome on a rolling basis)
👉Postdoctoral Researcher (start date: Nov '26 - Sep '27) tinyurl.com/3um3bjze
👉Research Assistant tinyurl.com/y5uebra6
Please share ☺️
Friendly PSA: we are currently in the purgatory period of continental daylight savings changes when Central Europe and North America (East Coast) are 5 hours apart instead of the usual 6.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Friendly PSA: we are currently in the purgatory period of continental daylight savings changes when Central Europe and North America (East Coast) are 5 hours apart instead of the usual 6.
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Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship.
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship.
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
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Please join @mariamaly.bsky.social and me October 30th! We'll help you navigate the confusing world of peer review.
You’re ready to submit your first paper. What happens next?
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
Our workshop, Peer Review 101: Responding Effectively to Reviews, will help you understand how peer review works and provide you with concrete tools so you can respond to a reviewer comments.
Join us 12-1:30pm ET 10/30/25. Register here:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
northwestern.zoom.us
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Please join @mariamaly.bsky.social and me October 30th! We'll help you navigate the confusing world of peer review.
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A memorial service, followed by a reception, will take place on Friday, 14 November at 5:00 PM in the Aula (KOL-G-201) of the main building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich).
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A memorial service, followed by a reception, will take place on Friday, 14 November at 5:00 PM in the Aula (KOL-G-201) of the main building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich).
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It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...
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Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Postdoc (flexible start): child language development across different populations and contexts, methods including behavioral studies, large-scale data analysis, and/or computational modeling. M. Cychosz, Linguistics, Stanford Univ. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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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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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📢PhD fellowships
The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships
Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning
ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3
📆Deadline: October 30
The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships
Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning
ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3
📆Deadline: October 30
SPONSORPSHIP for INPHINIT PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - SPOKEN LANGUAGE GROUP
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu
www.bcbl.eu
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📢PhD fellowships
The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships
Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning
ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3
📆Deadline: October 30
The Spoken Language group at #BCBL (Spain) offers sponsorship for the #INPhINIT Predoctoral Fellowships
Potential PhD projects can be related to:
🗣️Speech perception
🧠Language learning
ℹ️Info about the position and application process: tinyurl.com/2kcfsjr3
📆Deadline: October 30
Does anyone have a PDF of Klatt and Cooper (1975) "Perception of segment duration in sentence contexts" that goes beyond the first two pages? (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...)
Perception of Segment Duration in Sentence Contexts
A category judgment technique has been used to quantify the preferred duration for phonetic segments in words placed in different syntactic environments. Sentences containing the stressed vowel /i/ of...
link.springer.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Does anyone have a PDF of Klatt and Cooper (1975) "Perception of segment duration in sentence contexts" that goes beyond the first two pages? (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...)
🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️
Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution
Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution
August 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️
Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution
Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution
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🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
August 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Reposted by Eleanor Chodroff
Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
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Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus.
🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.
#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.
#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
August 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus.
🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.
#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.
#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
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I’m happy to share that my paper with Jeff Heinz on “the blueprint model of production” is finally published online in Phonology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The blueprint model of production | Phonology | Cambridge Core
The blueprint model of production - Volume 42
www.cambridge.org
August 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’m happy to share that my paper with Jeff Heinz on “the blueprint model of production” is finally published online in Phonology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Eleanor Chodroff
Hey, if you know sociolinguistics and phonetics, there's a beer-money temporary part-time job available at Glasgow University:
(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job).
#linguistics #academicChatter.
(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job).
#linguistics #academicChatter.
Tutor / Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS)
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Tutor / Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS)Vacancy Ref: 178252Salary, Grade 6/7, £33,482 - £37,174 / £40,497 - £45,413 per ann...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hey, if you know sociolinguistics and phonetics, there's a beer-money temporary part-time job available at Glasgow University:
(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job).
#linguistics #academicChatter.
(don't be fooled by the salary range -- buried in the fine print is the specifics that it's a 0.4 FTE job).
#linguistics #academicChatter.
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Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...
Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) at University of Glasgow
Discover Tutor/Lecturer in Phonetics and Sociolinguistics (LTS) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Glasgow's looking for a temp phonetician/sociolinguist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...
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The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home
#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
Home | Labphon
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July 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home
#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
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Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were:
1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them.
(1/n)
1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them.
(1/n)
July 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were:
1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them.
(1/n)
1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them.
(1/n)
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📢PhD fellowships in the Basque Country (Spain)
The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call
Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/...
Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi
The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call
Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/...
Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi
Inicio | BCBL
www.bcbl.eu
June 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
📢PhD fellowships in the Basque Country (Spain)
The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call
Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/...
Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi
The Spoken Language group at BCBL (Spain) aims to sponsor a Basque Govt. predoctoral fellow in the upcoming call
Info about the group: www.bcbl.eu/en/research/...
Info about the position and application process: shorturl.at/i3lhi
Reposted by Eleanor Chodroff
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
June 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
Email #5 with 2 admin teams cc'd has just passed through my inbox as a student at not-my university tries to get reimbursed. The latest involves a reprimand for not using the 2 (!) systems to make the booking and the response "can someone plz send instructions because this site is not user friendly"
June 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Email #5 with 2 admin teams cc'd has just passed through my inbox as a student at not-my university tries to get reimbursed. The latest involves a reprimand for not using the 2 (!) systems to make the booking and the response "can someone plz send instructions because this site is not user friendly"
Recently been accumulating some solid evidence that I regularly do not read past the first line of an email. Please be warned, apologies in advance, will try to do better 🤦♀️
June 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Recently been accumulating some solid evidence that I regularly do not read past the first line of an email. Please be warned, apologies in advance, will try to do better 🤦♀️
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my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)