foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
June 2001
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK
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Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK
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Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK
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Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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3 - 16 June 2001. 4th International Speech Motor Conference.
Nijmegen, Netherlands. http://www.nici.kun.nl/speechmotconf/
(09/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. ORAGE 2001: ORAlity and GEstuality. Aix-en-
Provence, France. [log in to unmask];
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001 (08/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. 2001, A Speaker Odyssey - The Speaker Recognition
Workshop. An ISCA Tutorial Workshop. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, Israel.http://www.odyssey.westhost.com/ (08/00)
21 - 23 June 2001. TENNET XII. Montreal, Canada.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet
30 June - 2 July, 2001, 'Forensic Linguistics Ten years On - What
Future?' University of Malta.
http://home.um.edu.mt/litru/IAFL%20main.htm/ (2/01)
5 - 6 July 2001. Prosody in Processing (PiP). The Utrecht Institute
of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University.
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/pip/ (12/00)
6 - 7 July 2001. Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning
Workshop. Toulouse, France. http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/ (03/01)
9 - 11 July, 2001, The Neurological Basis of Language, Gronigen.
http://www.let.rug.nl/nbl/ [log in to unmask] (2/01)
16 - 27 July, 2001. 9th ELSNET European Summer School on
Language and Speech Communication. TEXT AND SPEECH CORPORA. Prague,
Czech Republic. http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~ess2001/ (05/01)
19 - 21 July 2001. 3rd UK Language Variation Conference. University
of York, UK. (11/00, 2/01)
30 July - 1 August 2001. EUROLAN'01 WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED
ANALYSIS, Iasi, Romania.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html (03/01)
12 - 16 August 2001. 5th International Congress of Voice Teachers
(ICVT): Voice and Identity - Singing the Music of the World.
Helsinki, Finland. http://www.siba.fi/5ICVT/ (12/00)
**22 - 24 August 2001. Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages.
University of Siegen, Germany. [log in to unmask]
(6-01)
23 - 26 August 2001. PEVOC IV: 4th Pan European Voice Conference.
Stockholm, Sweden.http://www.speech.kth.se/vo(12/00)
29 - 30 August 2001. Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech
Recognition. An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Sophia
Antipolis, France. http://www.eurecom.fr/ITRW/ (12/00)
29 - 31 August 2001. DiSS'01: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech.
An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. University of
Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01/ (12/00)
3 - 7 September 2001. EUROSPEECH2001 - 7th European Conference on
Speech Communication and Techno Denmark. http://eurospeech2001.org
(04/00)
**4 - 6 September, 2001. Linguistic Society of Great Britain meeting,
University of Reading, England. [log in to unmask] (6-01)
10 - 13 September, 2001, TSD 2001, International Conference on
Text, Speech, Dialogue, Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic.
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 (2/01)
13 - 15 September 2001. 2nd International Workshop on Models
and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications.
Firenze, Italy. http://www.die.unifi.it/Conferences/maveba2001/home.htm
(12/00)
3 - 5 October 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing. Cannes, France. http://mmsp01.eurecom.fr/
(08/00)
6 - 8 October 2001. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition
Carry-le-Rouet (Marseilles), France.
http://www.lscp.net/persons/peperkamp/workshop.html (05/01)
7 - 10 October 2001. XXVII Deutscher Romanistentag, Muenchen.
[log in to unmask] (10/00)
11 - 14 October 2001. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 30.
Raleigh, North Carolina. http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav
Email: [log in to unmask] (03/01)
**29 - 31 October, 2001. SPECOM-2001, Moscow, Russia.
[log in to unmask] (6/01)
3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
[log in to unmask] (12/00)
11 - 13 December, 2001. IRCS WORKSHOP ON LINGUISTIC DATABASES
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ (05/01)
**8 - 10 April, 2002. Temporal Integration of Speech, ISCA Workshop,
Aix-en-Provence, France. [log in to unmask]
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips/ (6/01)
3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
[log in to unmask] (12/00)
2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144nd Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, 3rd IberoamericanAcoustics and 9th Mexican
Congress on Aoustics, Cancun, Mexico. http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html
(12/00)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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First call for communications
TEMPORAL INTEGRATION IN THE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH (TIPS)
ISCA International Tutorial and Research Workshop
Aix-en-Provence, France, 8-10 April 2002
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http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips
OVERVIEW
The workshop will aim to get researchers from different fields
discussing their views on current issues in speech perception. The
workshop's unifying focus is temporal integration in the perception of
speech. It is well established that many cues associated with
distinctive features are confined to short stretches of
speech. However, in addition to these short-time acoustic landmarks,
long-domain phonetic dependencies can play a significant role in the
recognition of words. The short-domain vs. long-domain distinction is
challenging for current models of speech perception and lexical
access, and raises crucial issues about how auditory representations
are mapped onto lexical representations, as well as about the nature
of these representations. Central questions include: how does the
listener combine short-domain and long-domain acoustic cues to a
phonemic distinction, and what is the nature of the perceptual "glue"
that allows different chunks of acoustic information to hold together?
The workshop will comprise five oral sessions, one each on infant
speech perception (sensitivity to long-domain phonetic cues in word
recognition acquisition), phonetics and phonology (role of fine
phonetic detail in word recognition and its implications for current
trends in phonology), computational models of speech perception,
cognitive and neural underpinnings of speech perception, and pathology
(dyslexia and speech perception). Each session will include two or
three invited papers, followed by commentaries by up to three
designated discussants, and then open discussion. In addition, there
will be three poster sessions for contributed papers. Only one session
will be held at a time (no parallel sessions).
This will be an international workshop with a limited number of active
participants. Priority for places will be given to authors of
presentations.
The workshop is organized by the laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS,
Aix-en-Provence (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr), under the aegis of the
International Speech Communication Association
(http://www.isca-speech.org). It is sponsored by the Groupe
Francophone de la Communication Parlée. It will be held in
conjunction with Speech Prosody 2002
(http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02), an international
conference held at Aix-en-Provence from 11 to 13 April 2002.
CURRENT LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS
Alain de Cheveigny, IRCAM, Paris
John Coleman, Oxford University, UK
Carolyn Drake, LPE, CNRS, Univ. Descartes, Paris, France
Gareth Gaskell, University of York, UK
Stephen Goldinger, Arizona State University, USA
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA
Michel Habib, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France
Peter Jusczyk, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Bjorn Lindblom, Stockholm University, Sweden
John Local, University of York, UK
Brian Moore, University of Cambridge, UK
Robert Remez, Columbia University, New York, USA
Stuart Rosen, University College London, UK
CALL FOR POSTER COMMUNICATIONS
Poster papers are invited on the topics covered by the
workshop. Abstracts not exceeding 400 words must be submitted by
e-mail or in hard copy by 15 October 2001. They will be selected by
the Scientific Committee on the basis of their scientific merit and
relevance to the workshop. A booklet containing the abstracts will be
available at the start of the workshop.
PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
Oxford University Press has expressed an interest in publishing the
invited papers and discussions, together with selected poster
presentations. There will be no other proceedings. In particular,
camera-ready papers need not be produced before the workshop, although
invited papers will be circulated beforehand to the designated
discussants, to give them time to prepare their comments.
REGISTRATION
The cost of the workshop will be finalized shortly. It should be in
the region of around 180 Euros. This includes registration, lunch,
tea/coffee during breaks, and the booklet with abstracts. Reduced
rates will be available for students and ISCA members.
IMPORTANT DATES
15 Oct 2001: Submission of abstracts
01 Dec 2001: Notification of acceptance/rejection
31 Jan 2002: Invited speakers' papers circulated to designated discussants
VENUE
The workshop will be held in the Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences
Humaines (http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr). Facilities include a
conference room and a cafeteria. Accommodation will be in some of the
many attractive hotels in the city of Aix-en-Provence
(http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com). The MMSH is about 15 minutes
away by bus from the center of the city.
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Dear colleague,
We would like to remind you that the 15th International Conference of
Phonetic Sciences will be held in Barcelona, August 3-9, 2003.
For preliminary information, please visit the ICPhS 2003 website at
http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
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The 15th ICPhS Organizing Committee
Daniel Recasens, UAB
Maria Josep Sole, UAB
Joaquin Romero, URV
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2001 International Workshop
SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM-2001)
29-31 October 2001, Moscow, Russia
Organized by Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU)
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The International workshop 'Speech and Computer' - SPECOM-2001 is aimed
to discuss the most important topics of man-computer interaction by
speech and language and more perspective applied areas of
speech-computer interaction.
TOPICS to be covered include, but are not limited to:
Modern speech communication technologies;
Multilingual, multimodal and multimedial systems;
Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems;
New technologies in linguadidactics;
Speech discourse analysis and modeling;
Speech under stress;
Forensic phonetics systems;
Linguistic and paralinguistic communication strategies;
TTS-systems;
Automatic speech translation systems;
Language and Speech systems in industry;
Conceptual models for natural spoken language;
Telephone natural language response generation;
Spontaneous speech perception modeling;
Speech signal databasis;
Perspectives of evolution of speech technologies.
SURVEY LECTURES: Some survey lectures will be presented by leading
scientists at especial sessions.
LANGUAGE: English is the official language of the workshop.
Presentation in Russian will be also allowed.
Simultaneous translation will be provided.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Prospective authors should submit abstracts in English of no more than
400 words by E-mail (in ASCII format). Submissions should include a
title, author's names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers
and e-mail address if any. Abstracts must be received by June 8, 2001.
All abstracts will be reviewed by the International Scientific
Committee. Submission of an abstract implies, that if the paper is
accepted a 4-page version (both in camera-ready printed and electronic
form) of the paper will be submitted by the deadline 1 August, 2001.
Camera-ready full papers in English will be published in the proceedings
distributed at the workshop. The text must be sent to the Organizing
Committee by regular mail with floppy-disks and by e-mail. Instructions
about the form of camera-ready papers will be distributed later.
EXHIBITS:
If you have a product (working model, demo program, electronic devices,
commercial products, etc.), that you would like to demonstrate, please
contact the workshop secretariat by e-mail (see below). Also people from
other interested communities, such as industry, business, science,
defence, education, will be invited for this exhibition.
REGISTRATION:
Registration fees are arranged as following:
Western participants - $ 250; Western students - $ 100;
Central Europe participants - $ 120; Central Europe students - $ 50;
Russian and former SU states participants - $ 15; Russian students
(without workshop Proceedings) - free of charge.
This fee must be paid on-site at the workshop. The fees include the
Reception, a copy of the workshop proceedings, all workshop material,
admission to all sessions and to the exhibition, banquet, and coffee
break refreshments.
Additional Proceedings copy is $ 10.
ACCOMMODATION:
All the participants will be provided with reduced accommodation in
comfortable university hotel (about $ 20 a day for a single room)
situated in the historical cultural city center.
SOCIAL PROGRAMS:
Sightseeing tour in Moscow;
Visiting the world famous Kremlin;
Visiting the Bolshoi Theatre.
Each activity requires extra payment and is not
included in the Registration fee.
SCHEDULE:
Submission of abstracts: June 8, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2001
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 1, 2001
Conference date: October, 29-31 2001
INFORMATION:
Rodmonga Potapova
2001 International Workshop SPEECH and COMPUTER (SPECOM-2001)
Moscow State Linguistic University
Ostozenca, 38, 119992, Moscow, Russia
tel. (095)2015697 (095)2462807 fax (095)2462807
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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POSITIONS VACANT
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Craniofacial Anomalies Register
Speech & Language Therapist
Research Fellow Secondment Opportunity
Full time 6 months or part-time equivalent
Salary 20-25K English pounds sterling pro rata, depending on experience
A very exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a part-time
Speech and Language Therapist to work on a National Project for England
and Wales under the auspices of the Craniofacial Anomalies Register.
The aim of this post is to work with the Project Team on an exciting
project to establish the reliability, reproducibility and validity of a
perceptual speech assessment for use by Specialist Therapists in Cleft Palate/
Velopharyngeal Anomalies, for audit and clinical purposes. This is aimed
at ensuring a reliable and valid method for auditing the outcomes of speech
in the cleft and allied populations.
The base for this post is flexible but sessions will be necessary at
the Institute of Child Health in London and at the National Craniofacial
Anomalies Register in Birmingham, and the postholder should be prepared
to travel for duties in connection with this post.
Excellent support is also available within the Speech and Language
Therapy Department. We would also encourage the applicant, if so desired,
to register for a postgraduate degree.
For more information please contact Mark Hammond 01384 244719, or
Debbie Sell 020 7813 8110.
For application pack please telephone 0121 695 2505.
Closing date for applications 20.6.01.
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Rank of Job: Assistant professor
Areas Required: phonetics/speech
Other Desired Areas: web
University or Organization: University of Groningen
Department: Humanities Computing
State or Province: Groningen
Country: The Netherlands
Final Date of Application: 6 June 2001
Contact: John Nerbonne [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
Afdeling Personnel & Organisatie, P.O.Box 72, U.Groningen
Groningen
G NL 9700 AB
The Netherlands
Groningen (The Netherlands)
University of Groningen
Assistant Prof. Web Technology
w. specialization in graphics and/or sound
Universitaire Docent Informatiekunde (Ass't Prof. Humanities Computing)
The department of Humanities Computing at the University of Groningen
sollicits applications for a tenure track position in Humanities
Computing. We are particularly interested in candidates who will
strengthen the department in Web Technology (HTML and XML), and who
complement the rest of the permanent staff (history and computational
linguistics in text). Applicants with strong records in graphics or
in audio processing are particularly encouraged to apply.
Your proven abilities and interest include a PhD and regular
publication in a relevant field; sleeves-up, hands-on experience with
web technology; succesful teaching experience; good cooperative
skills, but also the ability to work independently; and a vision of
how ICT will improve humanities schoarship.
The university offers a salary of maximally f 9.150 monthly. This
will be an appointment for indefinite period with a tenure decision
after two years. There is a indicative evalutation after one year,
and the university requires pedagogical training of inexperience
staff. Women are particularly encouraged to attend.
Further Information & Procedure
Prof. dr. ir. J. Nerbonne, chair of Humanities Computing, can provide
further information on this position ([log in to unmask]).
Applications, including a cover letter, CV, names and addresses of
three references, and three recent papers, should be sent by June 6 to
the following address:
Afdeling Personnel & Organisatie
P.O.Box 72
University of Groningen
9700 AB Groningen
The Netherlands
Note "Vacaturenummer 201095" on the envelope AND in your letter.
Phoneticians and laboratory phonologists are encouraged to apply.
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BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Post-doctoral Research Associate in PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.
The Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences seeks a full-time
postdoctoral researcher for a newly funded 5-year NIMH grant to
examine children's early phonological and morphological development.
The study will collect and analyze longitudinal and cross-sectional
data from children aged 1-3, examining the prosodic development of
syllable and phonological word structures and exploring statistical
effects of the input on learners' developing grammars in both English
and French. Primary responsibilities will include administering the
laboratory, training and supervising research assistants, overseeing
longitudinal and cross-sectional experimental data collection,
supervising IPA data transcription, coding, conducting phonological
and morphological analysis and preparing research results for
presentation and publication. The ideal candidate should have a
Ph. D. in Linguistics, Psychology or Speech Sciences, demonstrable
prior experience in conducting experimental language research with
young children, good phonological background (including Optimality
Theory), acoustic and statistical analysis skills, familiarity with
databases and computers, and good professional/interpersonal
communication skills.
Anticipated start date is August 1, 2001. Preference will be given to
candidates who can make an initial 2-3-year commitment. Salary and
benefits are competitive and will vary depending on qualifications and
experience. Brown's Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
supports a range of interdisciplinary research activities in the areas
of computational linguistics, language acquisition, infant speech
perception, and psycholinguistics. Brown University is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, CV and three letters
of recommendation to:
Professor Katherine Demuth
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
Box 1978
Providence, RI 02912
or send email to [log in to unmask] for further information.
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Rank of Job: Lecturer, Grade A
Areas Required: Historical Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: History of the English Language
University or Organization: Newcastle University
Department: English Literary and Linguistic Studies
State or Province: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Country: UK
Final Date of Application: 4th June 2001
Contact: Prof.Linda Anderson [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
1, Park Terrace
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
English Literary and Linguistic Studies at Newcastle is a progressive,
research-led Department which is entering an exciting phase of
expansion. It has been graded 'excellent' for its teaching in English
and was awarded a score of 22 out of 24 points for Linguistics.
A lectureship in linguistics will be available in the Linguistics
Section of this Department from September 2001 on the salary scale BP
18731 - 23256. Candidates should already have, or be completing, a
doctorate and should be able to demonstrate evidence of excellent
research potential. An interest in historical linguistics and/or the
history of the English language will be an advantage.
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Rank of Job: Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Areas Required: Phonetic/Orthographic data transcription
Other Desired Areas: Highly Computer-literate
University or Organization: Newcastle University
Department: English Literary and Linguistic Studies
State or Province: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Country: UK
Final Date of Application: 4th June 2001
Contact: Prof.Linda Anderson [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
1, Park Terrace
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
English Literary and Linguistic Studies at Newcastle is a progressive,
research-led Department which is entering an exciting phase of
expansion. The Post-Doctoral Research Associate is required to
contribute to a resource enhancement project funded by the Associated
Humanities Research Board. The P-DRA will have doctoral level training
in Linguistics. Experience in phonetic and orthographic data
transcription and knowledge of English dialects is essential as well
as a good "ear" for discriminating British dialect features. The
applicant should be very familiar with standard IT and should have
experience of: (i) language processing software programmes and (ii)
large text corpora including parsing/tagging procedures (SGML-type
encoding). Cross-over training in the specific software packages in
use by the research team will be provided.
The post is available from 1st October 2001 for three years and the
starting salary is on the scale BP 16775-18731 (depending on
experience). Further details on the project and a fuller job
description are available at the project's website:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/english/research/linguistics/npecte.htm
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STUDENTSHIPS
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Job announcement: 5 graduate positions in Linguistics
The Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS seeks ambitious and
enthusiastic candidates for:
Five (5) resarch assistants in different areas of linguistics
These positions have been announced or will be announced shortly in Dutch
journals, with an application deadline of 11 June 2001. An English
translation of the announcement can be found at our web-site
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/general/vacpos.htm
On the web-site you will also find abstracts of available projects. Note
that you can also formulate your own PhD project.
For more information please contact:
UiL-OTS
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: ++31-30-2536006
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Contacts for these positions are Prof. Dr. Eric Reuland (scientific
director) and/or Dr. Frank Drijkoningen (PhD programme coordinator).
Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
UiL OTS
Voice: #31 (0)30 - 253 6006
Fax : #31 (0)30 - 253 6000
Postal address:
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
NETHERLANDS
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