Junfei HU

Together with Prof. Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain) and Prof. Geert Brône (KU Leuven), I am planning to organize a panel at The 2026 International Conference of Conversation Analysis (June 26-29, 2026, Univ. of Alberta, Canada) on the topic "Multimodal Forward-communication."  Researchers interested in contributing to our panel are kindly invited to refer to the Individual Paper submission guidelines on the ICCA 2026 website (icca2026.org/callforsubmiss…). However, please send your abstract—along with your name, contact information, and affiliation—directly to junfei.hu@uclouvain.be by June 15.

'Connectives and Discourse Relations' by Sandrine Zufferey and Liesbeth Degand offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to the meanings and functions of connectives and the discourse relations they communicate. Read more here 📚 cup.org/3JFAznf #openaccess

👉New publication on the topic of #experimentalpragmatics! The role of #intonation in recognizing speaker´s #communicativefunction! Rising vs falling pitch!🎙️ Work led by @CaterinaVillan8 with @isabellaboux.bsky.social and #FPulvermüller shorturl.at/NDXFM @bll_berlin

The submission deadline (June 15) is fast approaching! If you would like to contribute your abstract but require an extension, please contact me directly.

If you’re interested in the topic, we warmly invite you to submit a contribution! Theme📌: Multimodal forward-communication Deadline📅: June 15 2025 Contact📧: junfei.hu@uclouvain.be Location📍: Edmonton, Canada linguistlist.org/issues/36/1207/

My natural Chinese conversation data

In the journal Brain Research we introduce The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Joint work with O. Jubran and T. Lachmann. Open access a sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) cambridge.org/de/universityp…

@hulyald Thanks Hülya!

@JunfeiH Congratulations Dr. Hu! 👏🏻👏🏻

I am now Dr. HU!

@K_Dong96 Thanks Kun!

@JunfeiH Congratulations Junfei!!!

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I will attend #INTERSPEECH2024 to present joint work in collaboration with Mathilde Hutin and Liesbeth Degand on the phonetic alignment of filled pauses in English dialogue. Please feel free to visit our #poster on Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 13:30-15:30. isca-archive.org/interspeech_20…

New article out! Pursuing student response through incomplete syntax, prosody, bodily- and visuo-orthographical resources in #Chinese-as-a-second-#language classrooms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #classroom #discourse #interaction #Mandarin

@astoks Big Congrats Andrew!!!

I’m now Dr Stokols, passed the dissertation defense. Thanks to my committee and everyone who has supported me along the way! 🙏

Calls: the 3rd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia conference: Call for Papers: AMLaP Asia was created as the Asian venue for presenting and discussing research on interdisciplinary psycholinguistic research. It aims to bring… dlvr.it/T4hjvw

🔔📣📣paper alert ‼️Our take on extending Jackendoff’s Parallel Architecture to multimodality many thanks to @giosuebaggio and @visual_linguist as main editors of the paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Do we interpret multimodal utterances in a Gestalt-like way, where the whole is different than the parts? Or do visual signals contribute predictable, separable meaning to speech? @JudithHoller & I experimentally tested this using #Metahuman virtual agents doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Our paper is out, where we looked at breathing and speech (f0) adaptation! Open access of course :)

This is one of the first conferences where I presented my PhD work! I remember I liked its friendly atmosphere very much :)