Martina Wiltschko and Xiaomeng Sun gave talks at the Workshop on Inner Speech held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 21st to 23rd May. Martina gave a talk titled "Can I be you? The view from linguistics," and Xiaomeng gave a talk titled "How Interactional Is Self-talk? Evidence From Mandarin Sentence-final Particles."

Xiaomeng further gave a talk titled "Exploring Sentence-Final Particles in Self-Talk: A Case Study of ne (呢) and ma (嘛) through the Lens of Human and LLM Judgements" at the 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) held at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C, from May 8 to 10, 2026.