foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
September 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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10 - 13 September 2001. TSD 2001: International Conference on
Text, Speech, Dialogue. Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic.
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 (02/01)
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.
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11 - 14 October 2001. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 30.
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav;
<[log in to unmask]> (03/01)
22 - 24 October 2001. Prosody and Speech Recognition 2001:
Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding. Molly Pitcher
Inn, Red Bank, NJ.
http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/conferences/prosody/ (08/01)
29 - 31 October 2001. SPECOM-2001. Moscow, Russia.
<[log in to unmask]> (06/01)
3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; <[log in to unmask]> (12/00)
9 - 13 December 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Automatic
Speech Recognition and Understanding. Madonna di Campiglio
(Trento), Italy. http://asru01.itc.it/ (08/01)
11 - 13 December 2001. IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ (05/01)
13 - 15 December 2001. XII Giornate GFS-AIA (Gruppo di Fonetica
Sperimentale - Associazione Italiana di Acustica): La fonetica
acustica come strumento di analisi della variazione linguistica in
Italia (Acoustic phonetics as a tool for the analysis of linguistic
variation in Italy). Macerata, Italy. http://www.unimc.it/gfs2001/;
<[log in to unmask]> (07/01)
** 27 February - 1 March 2002. PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION IN
A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT Workshop at the 24th Annual
Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics Association).
http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-
Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html (09/01) (see further
information below)
27 February - 1 March 2002. Prosody - Regional Variation, Social
Variation, and Multilingualism. Workshop at the 24th Annual
Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics Association). Mannheim,
Germany. http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-
Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html (08/01)
** 21 - 23 March 2002, III ieme JOURNEES d'ETUDES
LINGUISTIQUES NANTES (FRANCE), III rd LINGUISTIC STUDIES
WORKSHOP NANTES (FRANCE) "UNIVERSAUX SONORES" /
"SOUND UNIVERSALS" (09/01) (See further information below)
25 - 27 March 2002. 2002 Colloquium of the British Association of
Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
(08/01)
11-13 April 2002. SPEECH PROSODY 2002. Aix-en-Provence,
France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02/sp2002.htm;
<[log in to unmask]> (08/01)
8 - 10 April 2002. Temporal Integration of Speech, ISCA Workshop.
Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips/;
<[log in to unmask]> (06/01)
3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; <[log in to unmask]> (12/00)
17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/ (08/01)
2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Acoustics and
9th Mexican Congress on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico.
http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00)
3-9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Conference of
Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
(08/01)
1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European
Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Geneva,
Switzerland. http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (actual
website under construction) (08/01)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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Call for Papers:
PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT
Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German
Linguistics Association)
February 27 - March 1, 2002 Mannheim, Germany
Invited speakers (preliminary list):
Janet Grijzenhout
Barbara Hoehle
David Ingram
Margaret Kehoe
Zvi Penner
Marilyn Vihman
Irene Vogel
Martha Young-Scholten
The workshop aims to get researchers from different fields
presenting recent work on phonological acquisition both in L2 and a
multilingual L1 context. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* Optimality accounts of phonological acquisition
* prosodic acquisition
* phonology/prosody in language contact
* phonology/prosody in multilinguals
* theoretical implications of research on phonological acquisition
Abstracts should be sent electronically to [log in to unmask] or
on paper to
Conxita Lleo
Universität Hamburg Institut für Romanistik
von Melle-Park 6
D- 20146 Hamburg
E-mail submission, with plain-text abstracts in the body of the
message, is strongly preferred. Presentations are limited to 20
min. (+ 10 min. discussion).
Schedule:
Abstract submissions (1 page): August 24, 2001
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2001
For general information on the Annual Meeting of the DGfS please
take a look at:
http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html
Organization: Conxita Lleo (University of Hamburg) Ulrike Gut
(University of Bielefeld)
Erika Kaltenbacher (University of Heidelberg)
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APPEL A COMMUNICATION / CALL FOR PAPERS
III ieme JOURNEES d'ETUDES LINGUISTIQUES NANTES
(FRANCE)
III rd LINGUISTIC STUDIES WORKSHOP NANTES (FRANCE)
21-22-23 Mars / March 2002
"UNIVERSAUX SONORES" / "SOUND UNIVERSALS"
*THEMES / TOPICS
Comme lors des premières journées, nous avons choisi un objet
central susceptible d'intéresser simultanément plusieurs champs
de recherche, afin de permettre des échanges entre spécialistes
de différents domaines. Le sujet proposé (les universaux), qui a
donné lieu déjà à des colloques et journées de reflexion
récemment en France, concernera ici les objets sonores
(segments, syllabes, prosodie etc) et s'articulera autour des
questions suivantes. Comment peut-on penser actuellement les
rapports entre forme et substance, cette dichotomie est-elle
pertinente aujourd'hui ? Avons-nous besoin d'avoir recours à la
notion d'universaux, et dans l'affirmative, comment la définir, pour
construire une grammaire cognitivement plausible ? Comment
s'articule la question des universaux sonores sur le problème plus
général de l'existence d'universaux cognitifs . En d'autres termes,
si nous avons recours à une telle notion, avec quel degré de
spécificité avons-nous à concevoir les universaux ?
Vous êtes invités à proposer des contributions dans les domaines
suivants
Contributions in the following topics are welcome
* Phonologie / Phonology
* Phonétique expérimentale / Experimental Phonetics
* Acquisition / Speech Acquisition
* Morpho-phonologie / Morpho-phonology
* Psycholinguistique / Psycholinguistics
* Linguistique computationnelle / Computational linguistics
*COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE / SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE *
J-P Angoujard (Université de Nantes) * J. Brandao de Carvalho
(Université Paris 5) G Bohas (ENS, LSH, Lyon) * N. Clements
(ILPGA, CNRS) * B. Flament (Université de Nantes) * U.
Frauenfelder (Université de Genève) * L. Hyman (Berkeley, USA) *
M. Kenstowicz (MIT, USA) * J. Lowenstamm (Université Paris 7) *
A. Mettouchi (Université de Nantes) * A. Rialland (ILPGA, CNRS) *
N. Vallée (ICP, Grenoble) * J. Vaissière (ILPGA, Université Paris 5)
* S. Wauquier (Université de Nantes)
*ORGANISATION
Ces journées sont organisées par l'équipe AAI (Acoustique,
Acquisition et Interprétation) de l'Université de Nantes /
This workshop is organised by the group AAI (Acoustics,
Acquisition and Interpretation) of the University of Nantes
Pour tout renseignement concernant l'organisation de ces
journées, vous pouvez contacter les organisateurs / If you need
more information on details concerning the organisation of this
workshop, you can contact organisers :
Sophie WAUQUIER ou /or Gaëlle FERRE, ou /or Virginie BRAUD
Acoustique, Acquisition et Interprétation UFR des Lettres et
Sciences Humaines, Département de Lettres Modernes, Chemin
de la Censive du Tertre, BP 81227 44312 Nantes Cedex 3
FRANCE
email : [log in to unmask]
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* SOUMMISSION DES COMMUNICATIONS / SUBMISSION OF
COMMUNICATIONS
Une synthèse de l'article final, comportant 3 pages A4 (times 12)
en trois exemplaires, accompagnée de vos coordonnées sur papier
libre, rédigé en français ou en anglais doit être envoyée au
secrétariat par courrier postal ou courrier électronique. L'article final
aura au maximum 8 pages (dessins et bibliographie compris).
Send three copies of the synthesis of your final paper (3 pages A4,
times 12) with your postal adress in a separate page, written in
English or in French, to the organising committee, by post or e-
mail. The final paper should be of 8 pages long (including
references and figures)
* LANGUES / WORKING LANGUAGES
Les langues officielles de ces journées seront l'anglais et le
français
The working languages will be English and French
* FRAIS D'INSCRIPTION / REGISTRATION FEES
Participants: 500 F Communicants: 450 F Étudiants: 200 F
Les frais d'inscription comprennent les actes du colloque et les
pauses café. Une possibilité de prendre les repas de midi sur place
les 21, 22 et 23 sera offerte.
Registration fees include Acts of the workshop and coffee-pauses.
It will be possible to have lunch on the campus on the 21 th, 22th
and 23th.
* DATES A RETENIR / IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Date limite de soumission : 15 /10 /2001
Notification des acceptations: 15 /12 /2001
Réception des articles définitifs : 01 /02 /2002
Programme préliminaire : 01 /03 /2002
Journées d'Etudes : 21-22-23 / 03 /2002
Submission deadline : 15 /10 /2001
Notification of acceptance : 15 /12 /2001
Reception of final papers : 01 /02 / 2001
Preliminary program : 01 /03 / 2002
Workshop : 21-22-23 / 03 / 2002
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POSITIONS VACANT
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Applications are invited for a research position (wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter/in BAT IIa/2) in an initially three-year project on the
development of multimodal lexicons, funded by the German
Research Council (DFG) and beginning on 1st October 2001.
The project is part of a "Forschergruppe" (research group) on
texttechnological information modelling and is led by Dafydd
Gibbon and Ulrike Gut. Research in the project aims to find the
language-independent fundamental structures of multimodal
lexicons and to develop and implement such a lexicon for two
typologically different languages (e.g. English and a West African
tone language).
The following qualifications are expected:
- first degree in linguistics, computational linguistics or similar
- interest in gesturally based approaches in phonology, prosody and
phonetics
- excellent English and some knowledge of German
Candidates are expected to have additional interests in the theory of
gestural communication and in modelling this in cooperation with
computational linguists. Candidates are welcome to work towards
a PhD degree.
For further information:
http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/modelex/index.html
Please submit applications by September 15, 2001 to
Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon
Fakultät für Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 100 131 33501 Bielefeld Germany
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Researcher and Postdoc Positions in Human Interfaces
for Mobile Multimedia Communications
ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien,
Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative
research center involving telecommunications companies,
departments of the Vienna University of Technology, and the
Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More information can be
found at http://www.ftw.at/.
Task
Conduct research and development in the area of voice and
multimodal dialog systems, including combining voice dialog with
mobile data services and multimedia for GPRS/UMTS; noise
cancellation; distributed speech recognition; pronunciation
modeling. The precise topic will be negotiated based on the
applicant's qualifications. The positions provide the opportunity to
work together with leading companies in the fields of
telecommunications and speech technology. These one- and two-
year positions are offered under the Marie Curie Industry Host
Fellowship scheme of the European Commission and will become
available between now and 2003.
Required Qualifications
* Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal
dialog systems
* Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines
(computer science, communications, computational linguistics,
phonetics, mathematics)
* Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication
skills
* Meet eligibility requirements of the Marie Curie scheme - check at
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_grad.htm
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_doct.htm
Additional Qualifications
A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would
be preferred: * Speech signal processing * User interface design
and usability testing * SIP/H.323, JAIN, PARLAY, TCP/IP, WAP,
HTML, XML, VoiceXML * GSM, GPRS, UMTS infrastructures *
Java / C++ experience * Software engineering and project
management skills * Experience working in collaborative
industry/academia projects * Knowledge of German
Applications and inquiries should be directed to
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.)
Dr Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), [log in to unmask], or
DI Georg Niklfeld (Speech Proc. Project Manager), [log in to unmask]
Donau City Str. 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43/699 10389 005
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Material for the October 2001 issue of foNETiks should reach us by
30 September 2001.
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Gerry Docherty
Department of Speech
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
UK - NE1 7RU
Ph. +44.191.222.8526 Fax: +44.191.222.6518
Mob: +44.78.90.44.33.29
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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