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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
July 2002
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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]>
E-mail address:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
[new ones marked **]
[date of first appearance follows]
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11 July 2002. Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Info at
http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html/ [note
new date: 03/02] (02/02)
2 - 6 September 2002. Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai
University, Urayasu, Japan. <[log in to unmask]> (12/01)
6 - 7 September 2002. Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology,
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota. <[log in to unmask]>
(01/02)
7-20 September 2002. ICSLP'2002 - 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.http://www.icslp2002.org/ (04/02)
11-13 September 2002. IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis. A
satellite event of ICSLP 2002 (see entry above). Santa Monica, CA, USA.
http://www.research.att.com/conf/ttsworkshop/ (04/02)
14-15 September 2002. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language
Technology. Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002 (04/02)
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 entry]
http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (12/01)
17 - 19 September 2002. Linguistics Association of Great Britain meeting,
Manchester, UK. [log in to unmask] http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/
LAGB/ (6/02)
17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/
(08/01)
** 26 - 27 September 2002. LANGTECH. Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin.
http://www.lang-tech.org
(07/02) [further details below]
1 - 3 November, 2002. 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna.
[log in to unmask]
http://www.univie.ac.at.linguistics/conferences/phon02/ (02/02)
8 - 10 November, 2002. Symposium on Chinese Linguistics (Tone),
Institute of Linguistics, Taiwan. <[log in to unmask]> (02/02)
** 2 - 5 December 2002. 9th Australian International Conference on
SPEECH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2002. University of Melbourne.
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/SST/
(07/02)
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)
9 - 11 January 2003. Old World Conference in Phonology I (Segmental
Phonology). http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/ocp1/ (6/02)
21 - 24 January 2003. 8th International Symposium on Social
Communication. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
<[log in to unmask]> (03/02)
27 - 29 March 2003. International Colloquium on Prosodic Interfaces,
Nantes, France. [log in to unmask] (6/02)
(*) 3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
(08/01) [further details below, 07/02]
11 - 15 August, 2003. Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders,
Montreal, Canada. http://www/ifacongress2003.com (05/02)
September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference.
University of Sheffield, UK. (04/02)
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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ELRA & ELDA are happy to announce the following event:
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LANGTECH 2002:
NEW INTERNATIONAL EC SUPPORTED CONFERENCE DEDICATED
TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES.
Speech and language technologies, a sector with growing relevance
to the European business marketplace, will be the focus of a comprehensive
industry forum: LangTech 2002, to be held in Berlin on September 26-27, 2002.
The pace of commercial deployment of speech and language technologies
has lead to strong calls for a high-level industry conference to showcase
advancements and bring developers, entrepreneurs and researchers together
with integrators, investors and corporations.
LangTech 2002 will address the state of play from an industrial, R&D and
academic viewpoint and demonstrate the potential to corporations to improve
business processes through the adoption of speech and language technologies.
Examples of contemporary language technologies in action include speech
recognition interfaces, website translation tools, content management
systems and
cross lingual search engines. These technologies have found applicability
in real
world contexts from CRM to e-commerce and software localisation.
LangTech is an EC supported initiative, through the involvement of EUROMAP
Language Technologies.
Bente Maegaard, Central Co-ordinator, EUROMAP, stated,
"we view LangTech as an important development in bringing together the
various parties
comprising the language technologies sector for high level interaction and
discussion.
The conference is particularly useful for smaller concept developers
seeking a valuable
promotional platform."
Agenda topics address the latest technology breakthroughs and are presented by
experienced practitioners in the field. Practical solutions and near-market
research results
are presented during the conference and in the accompanying exhibition, showing
state-of-the-art products and solutions. Special 'pitch' sessions will
enable SME's and
start-up companies to promote their concepts and explore financing
possibilities, and a
funding session will highlight the venture capital community views on
language technology
investment.
Speaking contributions have already been secured from leading industry
players including SAP,
LingTech, DaimlerChrysler and Conexor. Noted technology scientist,
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster,
from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), will
make a keynote address.
Members of the press are cordially invited to apply for press accreditation
for LangTech 2002
via [log in to unmask]
Delegate registration for LangTech 2002 is available via the official
conference website
http://www.lang-tech.org, along with updated information on programme and
speakers.
Registrations received before July 1, 2002 will benefit from a discounted
'early bird' delegate fee.
Companies and institutions wishing to take advantage of the LangTech 2002
exhibition area
should contact: Khalid Choukri, [log in to unmask]
ABOUT LANGTECH:
Date: September 26-27, 2002
Venue: Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin
Description: LangTech 2002 is the international forum for people and
organisations involved in
the development, deployment and exploitation of spoken and written language
technologies in
real world applications. It will feature keynote talks from leading
players, presentations from a
wide range of developers and solution providers, panel discussions of key
issues affecting the
market in Europe and beyond, and an exhibition of applications, products,
services and research
prototypes. Special sessions will enable start-up companies to promote and
pitch their
products and services and explore funding possibilities.
LangTech 2002 will cover a wide range of language technologies with three
focus areas:
VOICE SOLUTIONS: for the control of software and machinery, customer
relationship
management, systems for the handicapped and multimodal communication in an
ambient
intelligence setting.
KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS: for information and knowledge management, content
management, e-learning, document authoring and management.
MULTILINGUAL SOLUTIONS: for software localisation, automatic text
translation, translation
memories, interactive speech translation and crosslingual information
retrieval.
LangTech 2002 is organised by EUROMAP Language Technologies, assisted by
the German
National Competence Center for Language Technology funded by the German
Ministry for
Education and Research, the Investmentbank Berlin, the European Language
and Speech
Network (ELSNET), European Language Resources Association and Evaluation
and Language
resources Distribution Agency (ELRA and ELDA) and several other corporate
sponsors.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Conference website: http://www.lang-tech.org
Press Registration: [log in to unmask]
Contact:
Michael Huch
VDI/VDE-Technology Centre for Information Technologies
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +49 33 28 435 193
http://www.lang-tech.org
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15th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHONETIC SCIENCES
BARCELONA 2003
The 15th ICPhS will be held at the Palau de Congressos, Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona,
between Sunday 3 and Saturday 9 August 2003. The deadline for abstract submission
is September, 15, 2002. Please visit our website http://shylock.uab.es/icphs.
The Barcelona Congress, which is officially sponsored for the first time by the
International Phonetic Association, will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the
exchange of ideas and basic research in the phonetic sciences. The congress will
also
address how phonetic theory, engineering and linguistics can provide answers to
real-world
problems in speech processing and transmission, voice identification, man-machine
communication, speech deficits, and language teaching.
IPA members will have a discount fee. If you are not an IPA member when ICPhS 2003
takes place, your registration will automatically give you a complimentary IPA
membership
for one year.
The scientific program will include 5 plenary lectures, a number of symposia and
oral and poster sessions totaling around 700 papers. There will also be exhibitions,
association meetings, a banquet, day-trip excursions, receptions, social events,
satellite meetings before and after the Congress, and other special features.
Plenary lectures:
- Speaker, community, identity: empirical and theoretical perspectives on
sociophonetic variation
Gerry Docherty (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Interarticulator programming in speech production
Anders Löfqvist (Lund University Hospital)
-Control modeling and perception of temporal characteristics of speech
Yoshinori Sagisaka (GITI Waseda University)
-Acoustic and perceptual evidence for universal phonological features
Kenneth N. Stevens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
-The acquisition of language-specific phonetic categories in infancy
Janet F. Werker (University of British Columbia)
Confirmed symposia:
-Articulatory synthesis. Advances and prospects
Coordinator: Doug Whalen (Haskins Laboratories)
-Models of connected-speech perception and word recognition
Coordinator: Noël Nguyen (Aix-en-Provence)
-Sound change in Romance
Coordinator: Daniel Recasens (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
-Linking behavior and the brain in neurological speech disorders
Coordinator: Ray Kent (Waisman Center, Madison)
-The phonetics-phonology interface
Coordinator: John J. Ohala (University of California, Berkeley)
Accommodation in various price categories, including University dorms,
will be offered. The list will be made available in the near future at
http://shylock.uab.es/icphs.
Barcelona offers a wide range of cultural, scenic and leisure activities.
From sandy beaches to one of the world's largest football stadium (Barcelona FC);
from street musicians, through open-air theatre and concerts, to the Opera
House (el Liceu); from Roman Buildings, through Art Nouveau, to Contemporary Art
museums.
For further information, please write to us at [log in to unmask]
We expect to welcome you in Barcelona!
The Organizing Committee,
Daniel Recasens, Chair [log in to unmask]
Maria Josep Solé, Co-chair [log in to unmask]
Joaquín Romero, Secretary [log in to unmask]
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JOBS / POSITIONS VACANT
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Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, U. of Edinburgh
PhD studentship in Phonetics/Phonology
Edinburgh University is recruiting candidates for an AHRB-funded project
PhD studentship supervised by Dr. Alice Turk. The topic of the
studentship is an investigation of the use of lexical and sub-lexical
prosodic constituents and their phonetic correlates in an under-studied
language. A first degree (undergraduate degree) in Linguistics or a
related area is required, as is knowledge of an under-studied language
and contacts with speakers of this language. Desirable attributes are a
demonstrated interest in prosodic constituent structure and fieldwork
experience.
The appointment would be from 6 January, 2003 and would last for three
years. UK residents will be awarded maintenance fees of approximately
8000 pounds per annum as well as tuition fees. Non-UK residents who are
resident of the EU will be awarded tuition fees only.
Those interested in applying are encouraged to contact Alice Turk
([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible. The closing date for
applications is June 30, 2002.
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University or Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Rank of Job: Lecturer
Specialty Areas Required: Phonetics
Required Language(s):
Description:
Based in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
we are seeking to fill a temporary post of Lecturer in Phonetics. You
should have completed or be about to complete research at doctoral
level. You would be expected to teach modules in general and
experimental phonetics to undergraduate and masters students on a
number of programmes including the School's vocational programmes in
speech and language therapy. An ability to provide teaching in
phonetic and phonological aspects of bilingualism, second language
acquisition or sociolinguistics would be preferred but is not
essential. You will be expected to play a full part in the teaching,
research and administrative functions of the department. Training in
teaching at University level will be provided. The post is tenable
for two years from 1 September 2002 or as soon as possible
thereafter. Job reference: B231A.
Informal enquiries can be addressed to Professor Li Wei (tel: +44 191
222 7451 or email [log in to unmask]) or Dr Gerry Docherty (tel: +44 191
222 8526 or email [log in to unmask]).
For further information, including how to apply, please visit our
website http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/ or telephone +44 191 222 8834
(24 hour answerphone) quoting reference number B231A, or write to
Human Resources Section (Ref: B231A), University of Newcastle, 1 Park
Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU.
Address for Applications:
Attn: Mrs Claire McCormick
School of Education, Communication & Language Sci
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Human Resources Section
1 Park Terrace
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
Applications are due by July 10, 2002
Contact Information:
Dr Gerry Docherty.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0) 191 222 8526
Fax: +44 (0) 191 222 8634
Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/
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Material for the August 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 31 July
2002.
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Paul Foulkes
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
UK
tel: (+44) (0) (1904) 432653
mobile: 07949 324795
fax: (+44) (0) (1904) 432673
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