We're delighted to report that Bihua Chen and I. Darcy just got a paper accepted in Journal of Phonetics!! Congratulations Bihua! What a great achievement! The paper will be out soon. Its title is "Effects of Sentential Context on Nonnative Recognition of Reduced Speech: Does Meaning Explain It All?"  In that study, we explore the processing mechanisms L2 listeners use to handle reduced speech, which - despite being extremely common in everyday speech - is quite challenging to decode. We'll post here links to the paper and to the data as soon as we can!

In early January, we published a State of the Scholarship paper in SSLA! This is the result of several years of work, which started during a wonderful workshop in Marseilles, in May 2022. We're happy with the results - let us know what you think! 

• Darcy, I., Llompart, M., Hayes-Harb, R., Mora, J. C., Adrian, M., Cook, S. & Ernestus, M. (2024). Phonological processing and the L2 mental lexicon: Looking back and moving forward. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000482
• Click here for an Open Accessible Summary (OASIS).

​In other news, Isabelle will be at the 47th German Linguistics Society Conference, taking place in early March at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz -- her alma mater!! She's very excited about this! :) Her invited talk is entitled: Learning the sounds of words in a second language: Exploring individual differences and modulating factors at the phonology-lexicon interface.

Here's a photo of the campus main entrance: 

2024-09-16: We're really excited to announce that after several years of work, FINALLY, Isabelle's new book is now published! It's called Second Language Speech Processing: A guide to conducting experimental research - published by Routledge. Check it out! 
It's conceived as a hands-on guide to develop and run a perception experiment in L2 speech processing. I review a number of experimental paradigms, but most importantly, I describe how to design, plan and execute a study from start to finish - including how to maximize the quality of your precious data, how to organize your files, and how to realize an archive and share the study following Open Science principles.
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We also submitted several abstracts to the New Sounds conference, which will take place in Toronto (Canada) in April 2025.  Hopefully we'll get to go to this wonderful conference!