Success for graduate at European linguistics conference
15 July 2025
Congratulations to recent Postgraduate Research student, Damar Hoogland, whose work was recognised at the sixth annual ‘Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE)’ conference.
Damar received a special mention for ‘Best Student Presentation’; an award from the Association for Laboratory Phonology and PaPE’s organising committee. Her presentation, which was based on her PhD research, was titled “Speech timing and pragmatic influences on the production and perception of conversational turn transitions.”
The theme of PaPE 2025 was ‘Phonetics and Phonology in a Multilingual World’ and the conference was held in Palma from 25 – 27 June at the University of the Balearic Islands.
PaPE is an interdisciplinary forum for research on all areas of phonetics and phonology, promoting discussion of speech from multiple perspectives such as neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, experimental phonetics, formal phonology, computational linguistics, and speech technologies.
Damar completed her PhD with us in May 2025 and was supervised by Dr Laurence White and Dr Kai Alter.
Her research interests focus on the factors that influence the timing of conversational turn-taking, and how variation in turn timing affects perceptions of conversational fluency.
Damar is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, where she works in the Knowledge Technologies department on a project that aims to develop computational methods for detecting cognitive decline through speech, specifically for languages with few resources.
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