We investigate the amount of speech and (co-speech) gestures addressed to infants at 1;1 years of age in rural and urban Mozambique, and correlate these amounts with vocabulary size measured at 1;5 and 2;1. We found that urban infants are exposed to more than three times as much speech and cospeech gestures than rural infants. The results show that the amounts of co-speech gestures and speech p...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

This paper examines Voice Onset Time (VOT) of Polish voiceless stops in natural speech of members of the Polish transnational community in the United Kingdom. The results presented here are part of a larger sociophonetic project and suggest that aspirated voiceless plosives in Polish, characterized by longer mean VOTs, are associated with a cosmopolitan transnational identity. In contrast, shor...

The paper describes our work on participatory and community-based resource collection for the Sami language. This includes community events where participants wrote new Sami Wikipedia articles and took part in speech data collection by reading aloud Sami Wikipedia articles and discussing freely in group conversations. The aim was to increase the number of Sami Wikipedia articles and thereby str...

This paper presents preliminary results of an investigation of collectively intelligent behavior in a Native North American speech community. The research reveals several independently initiated strategies organized around the collective problem of language endangerment. Specifically, speakers are engaging in self-organizing efforts to reverse historical language simplification that resulted fr...

This project proposes the development of new deep learning methods for speech and audio processing, exploring new applications and continuing the initial work of the research team and the international community. Research lines include: automatic speech recognition, acoustic event detection, speech synthesis and machine translation.