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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
December 2001
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]>
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THE EDITORS WISH ALL READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[date of first appearance follows]
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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)
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. IIIieme Journees D'etudes Linguistiques/ 3rd
Linguistic Studies Workshop: Universaux Sonores / Sound Universals.
Nantes, France. <[log in to unmask]>;
<[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> (09/01)
25 - 27 March 2002. 2002 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic
Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. <[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, 10/01)
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)
## 27 - 29 April 2002. Second North American Phonology Conference
(NAPhC2). Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html (12/01)
3 - 5 May 2002. The Second International Conference on Contrast in
Phonology. University of Toronto. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~contrast/;
<[log in to unmask]> (10/01)
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)
## 20 - 22 June 2002. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET
XIII). Montreal, Canada. http://www.uqam.ca/tennet; <[log in to unmask]>
(12/01) [Further details below]
23 June - 6 July 2002. NATO International Scientific Exchange Programme:
Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception. Il Ciocco, Italy.
http://www.ebire.org/earlab/asi2002.html (11/01)
## 27 - 28 June 2002. Conference on English Phonology. Toulouse, France.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm (12/01)
[Further details below]
## 27 - 30 June 2002. LabPhon 8. Eighth Conference on Laboratory
Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence. New Haven, CT, USA.
http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8; <[log in to unmask]> (12/01)
[Further details below]
## 2 - 6 September 2002. Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai
University, Urayasu, Japan. <[log in to unmask]> (12/01) [Further
details below]
## 14 - 16 September 2002. The 3rd Biennial ICVPB: International
Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Denver, USA. [Held in
conjunction with the 7th ICSLP, also in Denver -- see next announcement]
http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (12/01)
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 Congress 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
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET XIII)
Montreal, Canada, 20 - 22 June 2002
The 13th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental
Neuropsychology, TENNET XIII, will be held in June 2002 in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada at Universite du Qubec, Montreal.
The basic conference structure is (a) two invited thematic symposia of 3
hours, each day, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers
are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon.
The conference is APA approved for 24 hours CPE.
Participants may submit papers for consideration. Because these are
refereed submissions, accepted poster papers will be published as refereed
articles in Brain and Cognition. We have recently negotiated with Academic
Press to handle TENNET submissions as individual submissions, which means
that, as of next year, it will also be possible to access individual
authors and their papers on the web.
The deadline for refereed submissions, via e-mail only, is January 4,
2002.
Information for refereed submissions
Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in
any domain of experimental, clinical or theoretical neuropsychology,
including neurolinguistics, development and history. The title of the
presentation, the full name(s) of author(s) (and complete mailing address,
with institutional affiliation, if any, telephone number and e-mail) and
acknowledgments should appear on the first page of the submission. This
information is needed to properly prepare the program if your paper is
accepted. A 100- to 150-word abstract is on the second page, followed by a
detailed description of the paper. If applicable, the description should
include an Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Full references
(APA style) sections. Up to two (2) tables or graphs can also be added. It
is also possible to submit an abstract only (up to 200 words) for
consideration. In this latter case, only the abstract will appear in Brain
and Cognition.
Your submission should be sent by e-mail to arrive by the January 4
deadline to the chair of the program committee. Submissions received early
will be sent for review as soon as they come in.
IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with an updated general-purpose
antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Attached files should
be in MS Word or RTF.
Submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
Further information about accommodation, registration, preliminary program
and past conferences can be found at the following web site:
http://www.uqam.ca/tennet
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on English Phonology
27 - 28 June 2002
Universite de Toulouse, France
A Conference on English Phonology will take place at the Universite de
Toulouse, on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June, 2002. The conference is to be
held under the aegis of the Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Semantique
(Director: Marc Plenat; the ERSS, despite its name, it includes a
substantial phonology team) with the support of the Groupe de Recheche en
Phonologie 1954 (Director: Bernard Laks). The venue will be the social
sciences university in the heart of Toulouse, surrounded by cheap bars,
restaurants and cafes.
The conference will feature three invited speakers:
John Harris (UCL)
Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)
April McMahon (Sheffield)
The conference organisers are Phil Carr (Universite Montpellier III, &
ERSS, Toulouse) and Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College, UK). Phil Carr
can be contacted at [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask],
and Patrick Honeybone can be contacted at [log in to unmask]
We invite papers on any aspect of the (synchronic or diachronic)
phonetics/phonology of any variety of English, or on issues relevant to
the acquisition of English. We are keen to have papers from a range of
different approaches, including (but not limited to) the traditions of
Laboratory Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Generative Phonology (of both OT
and non-OT varieties), and Cognitive Linguistics. Papers will last 30
minutes, with 10 minutes for questions.
Abstracts should be sent to either Phil Carr or Patrick Honeybone by
Friday 25 January 2002. Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4,
single-spaced and with a font size no smaller than 12, using 2.5cm or one
inch margins. Abstracts should be submitted by email in one of these
formats: Rich Text Format, Word, pdf, or plain text. If you need to use a
phonetic font in your abstract, please use SIL doulos, which can be
downloaded for free from this site:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html.
Abstracts will be read by the abstracts committee: Jacques Durand, John
Harris, Michael Kenstowicz, April McMahon.
There will be a small registration fee (15 Euros, payable on arrival) to
cover the cost of photocopying and other expenses. Lunches and dinners
will take place in local restaurants and brasseries, at a small cost. A
conference dinner will be held at a restaurant in Toulouse on the evening
of Thursday 27 June (details to be announced later).
Further details, including information on accommodation, travel and
sight-seeing possibilities in the vicinity of Toulouse are available at
the conference's website:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm
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LabPhon 8
Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology:
Varieties of Phonological Competence
New Haven, CT, USA, 27 - 30 June 2002
Yale University and Haskins Laboratories
LabPhon 8, "Varieties of Phonological Competence," will continue the
tradition of this biennial series of conferences by presenting research
showing the interrelationships of phonological theory and data collected
in the laboratory. LabPhon 8 will expand on previous areas to include the
phonology of signed languages, issues in acquisition, and a focus on
endangered languages.
Invited speakers :
* Diane Brentari, Purdue University
* David Corina, University of Washington
* Fred Cummins, University College, Dublin
* D. Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh
* Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
* Maire Ni-Chiosain ,University College, Dublin
* Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, MIT
* Marilyn Vihman, University of Bangor, Wales
Invited discussants:
* Dani Byrd, University of Southern California
* Diamandis Gafos, New York University
* John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts
* David Perlmutter, University of California, San Diego
* Donca Steriade, MIT
* Shelley Velleman, University of Massachusetts
We invite submission of abstracts relating to the use of laboratory
examinations of speech or sign language to the construction of
phonological theories.
Please send a single copy of your abstract by e-mail, to:
[log in to unmask]
Abstracts must arrive at this address by 14 January 2002. Receipt will be
acknowledged by return email.
Abstracts should be submitted as the main body of your e-mail message or
as a PDF attachment. Faxed abstracts will not be accepted.
Abstracts may contain up to 800 words (including references, examples,
etc.). Abstracts in the main text body should contain ASCII text only;
for phonetic symbols, please use the SAMPA symbols described at
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm.
Abstracts should be anonymous. PDF files should not list the authors, but
the accompanying message should. At the bottom of your message, list your
name, mailing address, email address, affiliation, and preference for
poster or oral presentation. Authors will be notified as to whether their
abstract has been accepted for oral or poster presentation, and whether
the paper will be considered for publication.
Authors will be required to submit draft papers by April 28, 2002, and to
bring nearly final versions of their papers (to be sent out for review) to
the conference. The deadline for absolutely final versions (after the
review process) will be December 1, 2002.
For information about the conference, and for updates, please see our web
page at
http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8
where you can also sign up for the LabPhon8 mailing list.
Questions can be addressed to [log in to unmask]
Organizing Committee:
* Stephen Anderson, Yale University
* Catherine Best, Wesleyan University and Haskins Laboratories
* Louis Goldstein, Yale University and Haskins Laboratories
* D. H. Whalen, Haskins Laboratories
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002)
Meikai University, Urayasu, Japan
2 - 6 September 2002
We are happy to announce that this year's Linguistics and Phonetics
conference (LP2002) will be hosted by Meikai University in Urayasu, Japan
(Urayasu is located in Chiba Prefecture, 20 minutes from Tokyo by train).
LP2002 will be organized around the following three general topics: (1)
Typology and Linguistic Theory, (2) the Lexicon, and (3) Prosody and
Phonetics. The conference will consist of a main session, with 45-, 30-,
and 20-minute talks, and a poster session. We invite anonymous abstracts
for posters and talks (where you may indicate a preference for 45, 30, or
20 minutes) on aspects of linguistics or phonetics that are related to the
topic categories indicated above. The language of the conference is
English.
Abstracts should be at most one A4 page, with one-inch margins, typed in
at least 11-point font; a second A4 page, with the same margins and
type-size, is permitted for data and references. Submissions are
restricted to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author.
ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY VIA E-MAIL, using the LP2002
E-mail address <[log in to unmask]>.
Please use the subject header "abstract", and include the abstract in the
body of your message in plain text format (no file attachments please)
followed by the following information: name of author(s), affiliation of
author(s), title of abstract, topic category (choose from 1-3 above),
poster or main session, preferred length of talk if submitting an abstract
for the main session (45, 30, or 20 minutes), mailing & E-mail addresses.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2002
Shosuke Haraguchi
Head
Organizing Committee of LP2002
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POSITIONS VACANT
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RESEARCH POSITION IN PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY AT IKP BONN, GERMANY
The "Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik" at University of
Bonn/Germany invites applicants for a research position
(wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter/in BAT IIa/2, possibly BAT IIa) in an
initially two-year project on the empirical validation of German stress
patterns based on phonological hypotheses. The aim of the project is to
investigate the empirical adequacy of phonological predictions concerning
stress patterns. The researcher would be expected to experimentally test
the production and perception of German stress patterns in controlled
conditions. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and
could begin immediately.
The project will be integrated into the active phonetic research group at
the IKP interested in fields such diverse as speech synthesis, automatic
segmentation, pronunciation of proper names, speaking styles, prosody and
meaning (in collaboration with the computational linguistics department)
and phonetics teaching in multimedial environments.
The following qualifications are expected:
- degree in phonetics, linguistics, computational linguistics, German
linguistics or similar
- interest in prosody, experimental phonetics and (computational)
phonology
- very good knowledge of German
- programming skills are desired but not a must
Candidates are expected to become part of a co-operative research group
and are welcome to work towards a doctoral degree.
Please submit email applications asap to:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess [log in to unmask], or
Petra Wagner [log in to unmask]
For further information about the IKP, visit http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de
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The Department of linguistics at the University of Oregon seeks applicants
for an Assistant Professor position in phonology, beginning September 15,
2002.
The successful candidate will fit with the department's focus on
functional/historical/cognitive linguistics and commitment to working with
primary (especially fieldwork derived) and empirical data. Applications
from specialists in laboratory or historical phonology are especially
welcome. The ideal candidate should also be fluent in current formal
models of phonology. An additional specialization in discourse, cognitive
linguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition or first
language acquisition is also sought. Evidence of excellence in teaching
will weigh heavily in consideration of applicants for the position.
Completed applications will be reviewed beginning December 1, 2001.
Preliminary interviews will be held at the LSA meeting in January. A
complete application requires a letter of application, Curriculum Vitae,
sample publications, evidence of teaching, and three letters of
recommendation. Materials should be sent to:
Spike Gildea, Chair
Department of Linguistics
1290 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1290
USA
The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
institution, committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the
American Disabilities Act.
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Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Limerick, Ireland
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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE and RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN COMPUTATIONAL
AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS & BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION
The University of Limerick is looking for a Post Doctoral Research Student
to work on a project to investigate the combination of CASA and BSS
techniques in sound source separation. The application is polyphonic music
transcription.
The project, funded by Enterprise Ireland will start in January 2002. The
posts are for 24 months.
The overall aim of the project will be to investigate the viability of
combining CASA and BSS techniques in the separation of multiple sources.
Candidates for the Post Doc. should hold a PhD (or be close to completion)
and have experience in either CASA or BSS or related area. Candidates for
the studentship should hold a BSc/BE/BEng/BSEE and preferably have
experience of signal processing/DSP. The student will be registered for an
MSc/MEng in the first instance.
The main deliverable of the project will be a prototype system
demonstrating the combined model applied to mixtures and music fragments.
The successful candidate will take up the post as soon as possible and
will be based in the Departments of the Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering. The Post Doc. will have a unique opportunity to help develop
a research group involving these two departments and will be able to
contribute actively to the shaping of this group. The group has a number
of collaborations with European partners and the Fellow will be encouraged
to develop these and develop new ones.
To learn more about the research, please email or phone
Email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
Phone: +353 (0)61 202780, +353 (0)61 213439, +353 (0)61
202785
Appointment will be made as follows
Post Doctoral Researcher salary in the range 20-22,000 Euro.
Post Graduate Researcher salary in the range 14-16,000 Euro.
Applicants should send in plain text format
1) A cv,
2) A 1-page statement of research interests
3) The names and addresses of two referees
to [log in to unmask]
The closing date for applications is Friday 1st December 2001.
The University of Limerick is a rapidly developing location that offers a
wide range of jobs with excellent career development opportunities. We
actively promote equal opportunities in education and employment and
welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Dr Jacqueline Walker Dr Peter Murphy Dr Niall Griffith
Dept of ECE Dept of ECE Dept of CSIS
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
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Computational phonology/phonetics: Nuance Communications, Cambrige UK
Areas Required: Research Engineer - Computational phonologist/phonetician
University or Organization: Nuance Communications
Department: Engineering
State or Province: Cambrige
Country: UK
Final Date of Application: 01/01/2002
Contact: Seiji Kawanabe [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
1005 Hamilton Court
Menlo Park
CA 94025
USA
TITLE: Research Engineer - Computational phonologist/phonetician
SUMMARY: As a computational phonologist/phonetician in Nuance's languages
group, you will work closely with R&D teams developing state-of-the-art
text-to-speech and speech recognition systems. Your job will be to develop
lexica supplying high quality pronunciations in several languages for TTS
and ASR. The job will also involve the development of systems to
automatically generate words that are not in the lexical. You will work on
text processing front ends to TTS systems that account for the specific
requirements of each language. In order to make highly realistic synthetic
voices, you will work on prosodic and phonological models that capture
human speech variation.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop and maintain pronunciation lexica for text-to-speech and
speech recognition systems
Develop and maintain automatic pronunciation generation systems
Develop text processing algorithms
Develop prosodic and phonological models for text-to-speech
systems
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Experience with generating pronunciations for TTS
Native or near-native competency in a minimum of 2/3 : French,
German, Spanish
Strong coding skills - C++, Java, Perl
Knowledge of syntax and morphology
IDEAL SKILLS:
Experience with generating pronunciations for ASR
Experience in developing product software
Project management
EDUCATION:
Masters or Doctoral degree in linguistics or computational
linguistics with specialization in phonetics or phonology
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RESOURCES ON THE WEB
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Compiled by Adam Brown <[log in to unmask]>:
References to works on English pronunciation teaching (up-to-date until a
couple of years ago):
http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/AdamB/Personal/iatefl/index.htm
Singapore English pronunciation (up-to-date until about a year ago):
http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/AdamB/Personal/sgepronbiblio/index.htm
Compiled by Karen Steffen Chung <[log in to unmask]>:
Phonetics-related URLs links:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1812.html#1
http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1869.html#1
http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1964.html#2
Being incorporated, together with additional links and some original
material, into:
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung
Updates, corrections, suggestions and more relevant URLs may be directed
to the authors.
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Material for the January 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 26
December 2001.
Lisa Lim
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Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore tel +65 8746037
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 7732981
Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask]
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