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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
April 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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7 - 13 April 2002. GLOW 2002/Utrecht Biannual Phonology Workshop.
Amsterdam/Utrecht, Netherlands. 9-11 April: Main Session, Meertens
Institute, Amsterdam; 7-8 April and 12-13 April: Workshops: OTS, Utrecht
University.
http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/glow2002/ (03/02)
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)
26 - 28 April, 2002. North American Phonology Conference, Montreal.
http://cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/naphe/index.html (02/02)
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)
## 13-17 May 2002. IEEE International Conference on Audio,Speech and
Signal Processing (ICASSP2002). Orlando, FL, USA.
http://www.icassp2002.com/ (04/02)
## 23 - 25 May 2002. Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/10mfm.htm (04/02) (see
further details below)
## 27 May - 2 June 2002. Lrec2002. Third International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002;
Workshops: 27-28 May and 1-2 June 2002 (see next entry). Las Palmas,
Spain. http://www.lrec-conf.org/ (04/02)
1 June 2002. LREC 2002 Workshop on Portability Issues in Human Language
Technologies. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ (03/02)
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)
6 - 8 June 2002. 4th International Phonology Meeting of the GDR 1954.
Grenoble, France. <[log in to unmask]> (03/02)
20 - 22 June 2002. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET
XIII). Montreal, Canada. http://www.uqam.ca/tennet; <[log in to unmask]>
(12/01)
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)
## 24 June - 24 July 2002. Summer 2002. Spoken Language: Synthesis and
Intonation. Ohio State University.
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/events/SU2002 (see further details below)
(04/02)
27 - 28 June 2002. Conference on English Phonology. Toulouse, France.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm (12/01)
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)
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)
## 11-14 September 2002. The Fourth UK Linguistic Variation and Change
conference. University of Sheffield, England. [log in to unmask] (04/02)
(see further details below)
## 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) (see 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 entry]
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)
1 - 3 November, 2002. 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna. john
[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 - 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)
21 - 24 January 2003. 8th International Symposium on Social
Communication. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
<[log in to unmask]> (03/02)
3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01)
## September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference.
University of Sheffield, UK. (see further details below) (03/02)
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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CALL FOR PAPERS
Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
23-25 MAY 2002
University of Manchester, UK
Deadline for abstracts: Tuesday 2 April 2002
Special session: 'Phonological acquisition: endowments and paths'
BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Tenth Manchester Phonology Meeting (10MFM).
For the past nine years, this meeting has been one of the important venues
for phonologists from all corners of the world. In an informal atmosphere,
we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological description
of languages, phonological theory, phonological acquisition and
phonological change. We, therefore, invite abstracts for full papers or
poster presentations from phonologists, phoneticians, psychologists,
sociolinguists, computational linguists - in short, anyone interested in
exploring current models of phonological theory and the (cognitive,
phonetic, sociological, computational...) implications of such work.
Presentations on a variety of languages are welcome. Full papers will last
30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions, and the poster session is a key
part of the MFM, lasting one and a half hours.
SPECIAL SESSION
There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything,
but, following the success of such sessions in previous years, a special
themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon. This will feature
five invited speakers and will conclude in an open discussion when
contributions will be welcome from the audience.
Title: 'Phonological acquisition: endowments and paths'
Child acquisition of phonology poses some intriguing questions, such as:
How does the child get started? Assuming that the child begins without a
phonological system, how the child come to possess one? With the aid of
principles and parameters, or constraints, given by universal grammar? Or
by means of focussing in on specific patterns in the ambient language,
using general cognitive capacities? How can we best account for the widely
attested variation in individual pathways towards the acquisition of a
phonological system? These are some of the questions that will be
addressed in the session, along with the discussion of our speakers'
acquisition data.
Speakers:
*Gerry Docherty (University of Newcastle) & Paul Foulkes (University of
York)
*Paula Fikkert (University of Nijmegen)
*Jim Scobbie (Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh)
*Marilyn Vihman (University of Wales Bangor)
*Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines (University of Nantes)
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts for the MFM should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email
([log in to unmask]) by **Tuesday 2 April 2002**. Abstracts should be
no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or one inch margins,
single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12 and with normal
character spacing. All examples and references in the abstract should be
included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to
previous work, to cite "Author (Date)" without giving full bibliographical
details. Please send two copies of your abstract - one of these should be
anonymous and one should include your name, affiliation and email. Use one
of these formats: rtf, Word, pdf, or plain text. If you need to use a
phonetic font in your abstract, please use an SILdoulos font, which can be
downloaded for free from this site:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html.
**Further details on abstract submission and organisation are available at
the MFM's website**
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/10mfm.htm
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
This is the MFM organising committee. The first named is the main contact
- if you would like to attend or if you have any queries please feel free
to get in touch ([log in to unmask], or phone on +44 (0)1695
584244).
*Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College of Higher Education)
*Ricardo Berm=FAdez-Otero (University of Newcastle)
*Wiebke Brockhaus (University of Manchester)
*Jacques Durand (Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail)
*Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
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Summer 2002 at Ohio State University
Spoken Language: Synthesis and Intonation
During 24 June through 24 July, 2002, the Department of Linguistics at the
Ohio State University will be offering a unique combination of short
courses aimed at exploring spoken language, with a particular focus on
speech synthesis and intonation. Scholars, researchers (industry or
academic), and students are invited to join us for an intense and
rewarding summer session.
Course offerings:
1. Practicum in English Intonation - Julia McGory
2. Building Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems - Chris Brew
3. The Speech Science of Speech Synthesis - Mary Beckman
For more information see the website:
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/events/SU2002
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The Fourth UK Linguistic Variation and Change conference will take place
at the University of Sheffield, England, September 11-14, 2002. A formal
call for papers will be sent after Easter, but offers of papers are
welcome any time from now. Please address to:
Joan Beal,
NATCECT,
University of Sheffield,
9, Shearwood Rd.
Sheffield S10 2TN
or email [log in to unmask]
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Advance Notice and Call for Participation
** NOTE REVISED SUBMISSION DATES**
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language
Technology
www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002
Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA
September 14-15, 2002
An ISCA ITR-Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation will
be held prior to ICSLP 2002, in the Denver, Colorado area. The purpose of
the workshop is to present the state of the art in pronunciation modeling
for Automatic Speech Recognition and explore new applications in speech
synthesis and accented speech.
Papers are solicited concerning all aspects of pronunciation modeling and
lexicon adaptation for speech processing, synthesis, and recognition. Of
particular interest are papers describing work in the following four
topics:
* Novel algorithms for pronunciation modeling in ASR
* Applications of pronunciation modeling to speech synthesis
* Corpus-based analysis of pronunciation variation and/or its effect on
speech technology applications
* Applications of pronunciation modeling to accented speech and computer
aided language learning
The workshop will present invited lectures, poster sessions, and panel
discussions on these topics. Registration will be limited to ensure ample
opportunity for discussion.
Four-page extended abstracts are invited on the above topics. Authors may
not submit the same paper for the workshop and ICSLP, although papers
describing related work but with a different focus are permitted. All
accepted technical papers will be presented as a combination short lecture
and poster; final papers may be expanded in length up to six pages for
inclusion in the workshop proceedings. The extended abstracts and final
papers must follow the workshop style
guide. The language of the conference is English.
WORKSHOP DATES AND DEADLINES
Four-Page Submissions Due May 1, 2002
Notification of Acceptance June 15, 2002
Registration Deadline for Authors July 1, 2002
Six-Page Final Papers Due August 15, 2002
Late Registration After September 1, 2002
Workshop September 14-15, 2002
For more information about the workshop, submissions, and registration,
see http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002.
Invited speakers:
James Flege, University of Alabama, USA
Paul Taylor, Rhetorical Systems, UK
Organizing committee: [log in to unmask]
William Byrne, Johns Hopkins University, USA
J. Eric Fosler-Lussier, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, USA
Scientific committee
Martine Adda-Decker
Jared Bernstein
Rolf Carlson
Jack Godfrey
Steven Greenberg
Lin-Shan Lee
Helen Meng
Chilin Shih
Elizabeth Shriberg
Helmer Strik
Fang Zheng
The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Speech Communication Science and Technology
internationally. For membership and other information, please contact the
ISCA secretariat at:
Email: [log in to unmask] URL: www.isca-speech.org
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Dear colleague,
We would like to remind you that the deadline for abstracts for the 15th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences is September 15, 2002. The
call for papers and the guidelines for abstract submission can be found at
our website: http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/.
Online abstract submissions will be available shortly. Please visit our
website and update your information in our mailing list to receive last
minute news on the Congress.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Barcelona
The 15th ICPhS Organizing Committee
Daniel Recasens, UAB
Maria Josep Sole, UAB
Joaquin Romero, URV
http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
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JOBS / POSITIONS VACANT
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Chair in Phonetics & Phonology
The University of Manchester invites applications for a Chair in Phonetics
& Phonology in the Department of Linguistics. Applications will be
considered from those specializing in any area of phonetics and/or
phonology. A strong research and publications record is essential. The
successful candidate will be expected to provide research leadership in
the whole area of phonetics and phonology and to enhance the department's
research income in this field.
Salary by negotiation. Closing date for applications: 10 May 2002.
Requests for application forms (citing reference number 209/02) and
completed applications should be submitted to:
Office of the Director of Personnel
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
Tel: ++44 (0)161 275 2028
Fax: ++44 (0)161 275 2221
Minicom (for the hearing impaired): ++44 (0)161 275 7889.
Interested individuals are invited to contact Nigel Vincent
([log in to unmask]) or Kersti Borjars ([log in to unmask]) for
further information.
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NEW JOURNAL
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The International Journal of English Studies has just been launched. Its
first issue is devoted to Perspectives on Interlanguage Phonetics and
Phonology, and will certainly be of interest to many on the Supras list.
That issue is available as a stand-alone at 10 Euros (It contains 12
articles); for all details, contact [log in to unmask]
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Material for the May 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 29 April
2002.
Lisa Lim
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Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore tel +65 68746037
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 67732981
Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask]
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