foNETiks
a Network Newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
May 2000
Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Paul Foulkes, Leeds University, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]>
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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10 - 12 May 2000. SNLP 2000: The Fourth Symposium on Natural Language
Processing 2000. Chiangmai, Thailand.
www.nectec.or.th//sll//snlp2000; www.cpe.eng.kmutt.ac.th/~snlp
(12/99)
11 - 12 May 2000. VOTS 2000. Voice Operated Telecom Services: Do They
Have A Bright Future? Gent, Belgium.
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop (01/00)
18 - 20 May 2000. 8th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of
Manchester, UK. http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/8mfm/call.htm
(03/00)
29 - 31 May 2000. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP). Jonkerbosch
Conference Centre. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/swap (08/99)
29 May 2000. LREC2000 workshop: From spoken dialogue to full
natural interactive dialogue. Theory, empirical analysis and
evaluation. Athens, Greece. http://www.nis.sdu.dk/lrec2000workshop
(04/00)
29 May 2000. XLDB - 1st. Int'l Workshop on Very Large Telephone
Speech Databases (satellite of LREC 2000). Athens, Greece.
http://www.speechdat.org/XLDB.html (04/00)
30 May 2000. Development of Language Resources for Minority Languages
(satellite of LREC 2000). Athens, Greece. [log in to unmask];
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/SALTMIL/lrec00.html (02/00)
30 May - 3 June 2000. 139th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Atlanta, Georgia. http://asa.aip.org/atlanta/atlanta.html
(04/00)
31 May - 2 June 2000. LREC2000: The 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece.
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html (08/99)
8 - 10 June 2000. 2nd Round Table in Phonology of the GDR 1954,
Templatic and concatenative aspects in phonology, The Phonology of
French: usage, variety and structure. Bordeaux, France.
http://www6.50megs.com/phono/ (04/00)
12 - 16 June 2000. First International Natural Language Generation
Conference (INLG'2000). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/main.html (12/99)
15 - 17 June 2000. TENNET (Theoretical and Experimental
Neuropsychology) meeting, Montreal, Canada. [log in to unmask];
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet (09/99)
22 - 23 June 2000. Utrecht Biannial Phonology Workshop: Typology in
Phonology. [log in to unmask] (02/00)
27 - 30 June 2000. EIS'2000: Second International ICSC Symposium on
Engineering of Intelligent Systems. University of Paisley,
Scotland, U.K. http://www.icsc.ab.ca/eis2000.htm (12/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. LabPhon7. Max Planck Institute/University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [log in to unmask];
http://www.let.kun.nl/labphon7/ (02/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. ICLaVE 1 (Barcelona 2000): First International
Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(08/99)
3 - 5 July 2000. Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.
Bellagio, Italy. [log in to unmask];
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/
(12/99)
** 3 - 7 July 2000. WORKSHOP "THE NATURE OF SPEECH PERCEPTION"
Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2000 (5/00)
http://www.let.uu.nl/~bert.schouten/personal/workshop.htm
10 July - 18 August 2000. Summer workshop on Language Technology.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/proposal.html (12/99)
15 - 30 July 2000. 8th European Summer School on Language and
Speech Communication - Text and Speech Triggered Information Access
(TeSTIA). Chios Island, Greece.
http://www.ilsp.gr/testia/testia2000.html (04/00)
23 - 27 July 2000. TISLR7: 7th Conference on Theoretical Issues in
Sign Language Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sign-lang/tislr7/ (12/99)
July 2000. Summer 2000 at Ohio State University. Spoken Language in
Context: Methods and Models. http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000
(04/00)
6 August 2000. Finite-State Phonology : SIGPHON 2000. Fifth Meeting
of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology. A
full-day workshop held at COLING 2000. Luxembourg.
[log in to unmask]; http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon.
(04/00)
16 - 19 August 2000. VIIIth meeting of the International Clinical
Phonetics and Linguistics Asociation. John MacIntyre Centre,
Edinburgh, Scotland. http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/ICPLA2000/index.htm
(07/99)
21 - 25 August 2000. LP2000: Item order. Charles University, Prague.
[log in to unmask] (02/00)
22 - 26 August 2000. Linguistic theory, Speech and Language
pathology, Speech therapy. Padova, Italy. [log in to unmask]
(04/00)
29 - 30 August 2000. InSTIL 2000 Symposium: Integrating Speech
Technology in (Language) Learning. University of Abertay Dundee,
Scotland, UK. http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil2000/ (03/00)
5 - 7 September 2000. ISCA Workshop on Speech and Emotion. Northern
Ireland (venue tba). http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/isca/index.htm
(11/99)
5 - 8 September 2000. X European Signal Processing Conference.
Tampere, Finland. http://eusipco2000/cs.tut.fi (04/00)
13 - 16 September 2000. The Third International Workshop on Text,
Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2000). Brno, Czech Republic.
[log in to unmask]; http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ (12/99)
14 - 16 September, 2000. VIEW 2000: Variation Is EveryWhere.
University of Essex, Colchester, England.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ (03/00)
18 - 20 September 2000. ASR2000 - International Workshop on
Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges for the Next Millennium.
Paris, France. http://www-tlp.limsi.fr/asr2000 (04/00)
25 - 28 September 2000. SPECOM 2000 - International Workshop
Speech and Computer. St. Petersburg, Russia.
http://www.spiira.nw.ru/speech/specom00.html (04/00)
2 - 5 October 2000. Prosody 2000: speech recognition and synthesis
workshop. Krakow, Poland. http://ptfon.wmid.amu.edu.pl (01/00)
8 - 11 October 2000. Patterns of speech sounds in unscripted
communication: production - perception - phonology. Institute of
Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, Kiel. [log in to unmask]
(04/00)
11 - 13 October 2000. Multi-lingual Speech Communication. Kyoto,
Japan.
http://www.msc2000.atr.co.jp/MSC/ (04/00)
16 - 20 October 2000. ICSLP2000: 6th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Beijing, China. http://www.icslp2000.org
(04/00)
9 - 12 November 2000. Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction
Division of the National Communication Association. Seattle, WA.
[log in to unmask];
http://www.natcom.org/convention/2000/call2000.html (12/99)
4 - 7 December 2000. 8th Australian International Conference on
Speech Science and Technology. Canberra, Australia.
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000/ (04/00)
4 - 8 December 2000. 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Newport Beach, Califoria.
http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html (04/00)
3 - 6 (7) September 2001. EUROSPEECH'2001 - 7th European Conference on
Speech Communication and Technology. Aalborg, Denmark.
http://cpk.auc.dk/eusp2001/ (04/00)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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CALL FOR PAPERS
8th Australian International Conference
on Speech Science and Technology
SST-2000
Canberra, Australia, 4-7 December, 2000
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000
---> Paper submission deadline: 21 July 2000 <---
The Australian International Conference on Speech Science &
Technology (SST) is the biennial conference of the Australian Speech
Science and Technology Association Incorporated (ASSTA Inc.).
The conference covers fundamental spoken language research in the
areas of linguistics, phonetics, language acquisition etc.; together
with technologically motivated research such as speech and speaker
recognition, speech synthesis and speech understanding systems, plus
the use of these technologies in such domains as business, health
care, and education. Since the inception of SST in 1986 the
integration and balance between these two aspects of spoken language
research has been the strong, recurring and unifying theme.
SST-2000 sees the conference return to Canberra, the city of the 1st
SST, after having `toured' most of the capital cities of Australia.
After several decades of quality speech research in Australia and
abroad, a secondary theme of the conference is the contrast of where
we have come from, and where we are going in speech research.
SST-2000 will return to the low-cost format of earlier years while
incorporating features that will ensure a high-quality scientific
programme. The registration fee for early registrations (before 13
October 2000) is AUD390, with a discount of AUD50 for ASSTA members.
ASSTA student members will receive a further discount of AUD100. Late
registrations will incur an additional charge of AUD50 in any case.
See the conference web page http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 for full
details. Like previous SST conferences, SST-2000 will provide an
excellent opportunity for Australian and international researchers to
report on the latest developments in speech science and technology and
to liaise with the speech technology industry which is experiencing a
period of strong and consistent growth.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Speech Recognition
* Speaker Recognition
* Acoustic & Phonetic Feature Analysis
* Phonetics
* Multimodal Speech
* Speech Understanding
* Forensic Linguistics
* Speaker Characteristics
* Speech Coding
* Speech Synthesis
* Speech Disorders
* Language Acquisition and Development
* Speech Aids
* Speech Language Data Corpora
* Signal Processing
* Speech Physiology
* Prosody
* Spoken Dialog Systems
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SST-2000 will feature two internationally reknowned keynote speakers
representing both the technological and scientific domains of speech
research.
Professor Sadaoki Furui of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; and
Professor Mary Beckman of the Ohio State University, USA are the two
keynote speakers.
VENUE & INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
SST-2000 will be held at the Australian National University in
Canberra, 4-7 December this year. Canberra is the capital of Australia
being a planned city of approximately 300,000 citizens. It is located
approximately 300km south and inland from Sydney with excellent
linkage to all parts of Australia and to international airports. Full
details on Canberra's tourist attractions can be found at the Canberra
Tourism web site: http://www.canberratourism.com.au
The SST conferences have a long history of international involvement
and attendance, with up to 30% of attendees being from overseas on
previous occasions.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: 21 July 2000
* Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2000
* Camera-ready copy and early registration deadline: 13 October
2000 * Conference: 4-7 December 2000
PAPERS
Papers are welcome in all of the above areas and on any other topic
related to speech science and technology. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed by Australian and international reviewers. Submissions
can take the form of either a full paper, fulfilling the requirements
for research output accounting of the Australian Department of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA), or an abstract. Full
paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages (see conference web
page for required layout), while abstract submissions are limited to
500 words.
All submissions must be in English. They will be submitted
electronically through the conference web page
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 where the instructions-to-authors
and other related information can also be found. The submission
deadline is the 21 July 2000.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Papers judged to be outstanding by the SST-2000 reviewers will be
recommended to the editor of the journal "Speech Communication".
Selected papers will also be published in a special issue of
"Acoustics Australia" (April 2001).
SST-2000 will see the return of ASSTA's New Researcher Award for the
most promising projects presented at the SST conference by new
researchers working in speech science and technology in Australia. The
award is open to those enrolled in postgraduate study at an Australian
University or who are not more than five years beyond their highest
degree. It provides full travel and conference expenses. See the web
page http://csl.anu.edu.au/assta/assta_nra.html for full details.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The conference chair is:
* Spike Barlow, University of NSW
The conference committee comprises:
* Frantz Clermont, University of NSW
* Roland Goecke, Australian National University
* Shunichi Ishihara, Australian National University
* Bruce Millar, Australian National University
* Tuan Pham, University of Canberra
* Michael Wagner, University of Canberra
ENQUIRIES
For further details concerning the conference visit the web
site http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000 or contact the conference
secretary via email: [log in to unmask]
or snail-mail:
Spike Barlow
Secretary, SST-2000
School of Computer Science
Australian Defence Force Academy
Northcott Drive
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
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WORKSHOP "THE NATURE OF SPEECH PERCEPTION"
- The psychophysics of speech perception III -
Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2000
Organizer: Bert Schouten (Utrecht)
Organizing committee: Bertrand Delgutte (EPL, Boston), Alan Palmer
(MRC, Nottingham)
Participation is by invitation only, but anyone who feels that he or
she may have an important contribution to make, may get in touch with
the organizers. The programme can be viewed at:
http://www.let.uu.nl/~bert.schouten/personal/workshop.htm
The organizers can be contacted at:
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POSITIONS VACANT
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The following vacancies have been announced recently by Lernout &
Hauspie Speech Products:
(a) Linguist Danish Speech and Language Technology
(b) Computational Linguist Italian Speech and Language
Technology
(c) Computational Linguist Taiwanese Min Nan Speech and
Language Technology
(d) Computational Linguist Bahasa Indonesian Speech and
Language Technology
(e) Computational Linguist Cantonese Chinese Speech and
Language Technology
(f) (Computational) Linguist Mexican Spanish Speech and
Language Technology
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:[log in to unmask]
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89
L&H Homepage: http://www.lhsl.com
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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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EPSRC STUDENTSHIP: SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK
Applications are invited for an EPSRC quota award research studentship
leading to a Ph.D., to start in October 2000. The award can be held
full-time over 3 years. The research studentship can be held in any
area of speech or language processing that falls within the remit of
EPSRC funding and is related to our current research activities.
The Department is currently completing work on an EPSRC grant: Timing
and rhythm for natural speech synthesis (more details of this work can
be found by consulting the Prosynth web site:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang19/york/).
Our current research includes knowledge- and data-driven approaches to
metrical structure, timing and rhythm in speech; modelling the
spectro-temporal detail of grammatical (function) words English;
modelling the phonetic detail of spontaneous conversational speech.
The department has links with researchers working on speech and
language in the departments of Electronics and Computing Science.
Applicants should have a good degree (first or 2;1) degree in a
relevant area (normally including phonetics, psychology, or
computational linguistics), or a Masters degree with relevant research
experience.
Full studentships include a basic maintenance award and are available
to British applicants and those with 3 years qualifying residence in
the UK (excluding full time education). Tuition fees are paid direct
to the university. The maintenance award is paid to the student. It is
currently of £6,620 p.a., and will probably increase by about 2.5%
before October. Additional maintenance allowances are available to
students above 26 years of age, or if you have sole financial
responsibility for children (single parents). A Tuition fee
studentship without a maintenance allowance would be available to EU
residents.
You may wish to consult our Departmental Web site
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/department. The EPSRC studentship
handbook online
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO
/INTRO.asp?Ma in.htm gives full details of eligibility conditions and
maintenance allowances.
Applications should be made on the standard form, available from the
Board of Graduate Studies at the address below. Include a brief
statement of the research areas that interest you, and if possible a
specific research proposal. The closing date for applications is June
9 2000.
Further informal information can be obtained from Prof. John Local
([log in to unmask]) Please mark correspondence "EPSRC studentship".
John Local
Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
Tel 01904 432658
Fax 01904 432673
E-mail [log in to unmask]
URL http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang4
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Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh PhD Studentships -
Starting September 2000
The University College is allocating funded PhD studentships of
£6,555 p.a (plus a discretionary allowance of up to £2000 p.a and
assistance with additional research expenses).
For further information please contact the named person or for an
application form : Human Resources, Queen Margaret University College,
Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 8TS (0131 317 3219 - 24 hours) to
whom the completed application forms should be returned by 10 May
2000.
Reference:SLS/1
Title: Neuropsychology of speech and language disorders in adults with
acquired brain trauma. Contact: Dr Carmel Lum Telephone
No. 0131-317-3686 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference:SLS/2
Title: Instrumental analysis of stuttering.
Contact: Dr Alan Wrench
Telephone No. 0131-317-3692
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference:SLS/3
Title: Non-verbal communication following right hemisphere stroke:
clinical assessment and evaluation of social impact.
Contact:Dr Janet Beck
Telephone No. 0131-317-3164
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference:SLS/4
Title: The phonetics/phonology interface: instrumental analysis of
categorical and continuous aspects of connected speech. Contact: Dr
James Scobbie Telephone No. 0131-317-3692
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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PhD IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS
The University of East Anglia, School of Information Systems, has
recently been awarded an EPSRC grant to undertake research into
improving the naturalness of computer generated speech. This grant
includes funds to support a full-time PhD.
Formed in 1985, UEA's School of Information Systems represents a
seamless integration of the two major constituent disciplines of
Information Technology - Computing Science and Electronics. This
synthesis has allowed close collaboration in teaching and research,
and the establishment of a positive environment in which we can
explore common problems in information and systems engineering. The
School currently has a membership of approximately 500, comprising
undergraduates, more than 100 postgraduates registered for MSc, MPhil
and PhD degrees, 20 research associates, 34 academic staff, and a
similar number of administrative and technical support staff. The
School has a vibrant and developing research culture, which draws on
the strengths of classical computer science, electronics and related
disciplines to create new ways of making information technology useful
to society. The schools is currently enjoying a period of expansion,
with an number of large industrial and government awards being granted
(See
http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/projects/ViSiCAST/NewProjects.html
for more details on new projects) in the areas of virtual reality and
AI.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The ability to generated synthetic speech from a machine has
fascinated researchers for centuries, the growth in the home
entertainment, computer and telecommunication industries has further
encouraged researchers to develop ways of making computers speak. In
addition, the explosion of multi-media applications, many of which
include life like computer generated characters, means that the
interest in speech synthesis is still growing. While tremendous
strides have been made over the past few years in the quality of
synthetic speech, there is still a great deal of work that needs to be
done. The aims of this research are to investigate novel ways of
improving the naturalness of the speech produced by computers, while
at the same time simplifying the process of generating completely new
voices. The successful candidate will have access to one of the best
synthesis systems in the world, and will be part of a growing
community of researchers all investigating various ways of generating
realistic computer characters within immersive virtual environments.
The start date of the project is AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
The studentship will start at GBP6620.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates should have an interest in spoken language and VR, good
mathematical and coding skills (in particularly C/C++, experience with
VC++ would also be useful) and a desire to understand and build truly
natural speaking machines. Candidates should hold or expect to hold at
least a 2(i) Honours degree in a relevant subject.
CONTACT DETAILS
For further information or to apply for this opportunity, please send
a CV to:
Dr. Andrew Breen
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 01603 592960
Application forms and further details of this studentship and other
projects in the school are available from the Graduate Studies Office,
School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4
7TJ, UK, Telephone: +44 (0) 1603 592303, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Admissions/postgrad.html
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Research Position in Speech Synthesis
The Division of Experimental Phonetics at the Institute of Natural
Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, is
seeking applications for postdoctoral and predoctoral positions to
work on aspects of speech synthesis within the framework of the
project SmartKom.
The SmartKom project focuses on intuitive human-machine interaction
using various input and output modalities (speech, gestures, mimic).
It is founded by the German government and involves twelve partners
from universities and industry.
Within the project, the IMS is responsible for the speech output
component which will be realized as a concept-to-speech component
(interfacing with an external natural language generation module). The
group is coordinated by Prof. Grzegorz Dogil. Successful applicants
will work on various aspects of this component including speaker
selection, speech database construction and synthesis unit selection.
Duration of the project will be until September 2003. The positions
are according to the BAT II scale (approx. 35000-40000 Euro p.a.,
depending on age and marital status). Starting date is as soon as
possible.
Desired qualifications:
- Ph.D., "Diplom", M.S. in a computation-oriented speech
processing area (e.g. speech synthesis, coding, recognition,
computational linguistics)
- experience with corpus-based approaches in speech technology -
experience with speech database construction - basic knowledge of
phonetics - programming skills in C/C++, Perl, Scheme - good
proficiency in German
Applicants with all or a subset of these qualifications are encouraged
to apply. Please send the following information by e-mail, preferably
in plain ASCII text format:
- name and affiliation
- a brief description of your qualifications
- list of publications
- pointers to (e.g.) web sites pertinent to your previous work.
Please send applications to
Dr. Gregor Möhler
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Azenbergstr. 12
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Relevant links
IMS: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik
Speech Synthesis at the IMS:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/synthesis
SmartKom project: http://www.smartkom.org
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PHD STUDENTSHIP AVAILABLE
"THE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY OF SCOUSE LENITION"
The department of English Language and Literature at Edge Hill
College, Lancashire (UK) would like to announce that a full-time
three-year research studentship is available in the above area. The
successful candidates will register for a research degree in the
department; study at Edge Hill is recognised by degrees awarded by the
University of Lancaster. The award of a studentship carries with it
payment of EU postgraduate tuition fees (worth £2,740) and a
maintenance grant at ESRC rates (currently at least £6,620 per year).
It may also be possible for successful candidates to undertake some
paid teaching in the department. Application forms will shortly be
available from: The Personnel Department, Edge Hill, Ormskirk,
Lancashire, L39 4QP. The closing date for applications is Friday 2nd
June 2000.
STUDENTSHIP DETAILS.
The 'Scouse' accent of English, centred around Liverpool and
Merseyside, is known to involve a range of phonetic and phonological
features which are of inherent interest in themselves and are also
central to major phonological debates. Some of the best known of these
features are the patterns of 'lenition' in which stops, such as /p, t,
k/, are realised as affricates or fricatives. Despite some important
work on the accent, the exact nature and patterning of these types of
lenitions are not known. Applications are invited for a research
project which will involve the original collection of data in the
nearby city of Liverpool and detailed analysis of the findings.
Interested parties who wish to specialise in phonology, phonetics or
socio-phonetics are encouraged to apply, as there will be space for
the successful candidate to develop their own approach. It is
envisaged that there will be a certain degree of collaboration with
the supervisors and that the project will help to provide a new corpus
of data which will enable the investigation of other Scouse phenomena.
Informal enquiries are welcome - feel free to contact Patrick
Honeybone (email: [log in to unmask], phone: 01695 584244).
The English department's website is at:
www.edgehill.ac.uk/study/schsubj/human/english/engpage.htm
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