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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
February, 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]>
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The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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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]> (08/01:01/02)
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
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)
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)
##12 July, 2002. Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Info at http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/
maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html/ (2/02)
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)
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)
##1 - 3 November, 2002. 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna.
john [log in to unmask] http://www.univie.ac.at.linguistics/
conferences/phon02/
##8 - 10 November, 2002. Symposium on Chinese Linguistics (Tone), Institute
of Linguistics, Taiwan. [log in to unmask] (2/02)
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)
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
Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning
Philadelphia, PA
12 July 2002
Sixth Meeting of the
ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology
in cooperation with
ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Learning
Motivation
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Two groups of researchers are converging on the need to
construct morphologies and phonologies of low density
languages.
Natural language engineers hope to develop machine
translation, speech recognition, and other NLP technologies
for these languages. Meanwhile, linguists and native
speakers want to document the languages for scientific or
humanitarian reasons. (This need is often expressed
concerning endangered languages, but is not restricted to
that situation.)
This convergence of interests makes it an opportune time to
meet to discuss ways to analyze the morphology and phonology
of a language (or a group of related languages) more quickly
(and perhaps more accurately) than traditional methods have
allowed.
Techniques for morphology and phonology learning may vary
in the amount of human involvement they require. At one end
of the spectrum are tools intended to help a native speaker
(perhaps with the aid of a linguist) describe his or her own
language. At the other end are tools for unsupervised
machine learning from texts. Intermediate or hybrid
approaches are also possible.
Methodologies to be discussed in this workshop need not be
fully general: for example, a tool might be best suited to
agglutinating, fusional, or polysynthetic languages, or
specialized for compounding or reduplication.
The Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning
will be held July 12 2002, immediately after the ACL-02
meetings at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, USA.
The workshop web site, with further information, is
http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html.
More information about SIGPHON is available at
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon, and about SIGNLL at
http://ilk.kub.nl/~signll/. The ACL-2002 website is
http://www.acl2002.org.
Topics
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* Tools to help a native speaker or linguist visualize and
describe the morphology and/or phonology of a language
* Tools for (semi-)automated discovery of morphology and/or
phonology
* Databases and annotation tools designed for morphological
or phonological information, particularly as these relate
to learning
* Resources for learning (taggers, seed grammars and
lexicons, partially annotated text, bilingual text, etc.)
* Linguistic (knowledge-based) approaches vs. empirical
approaches; hybrid methodologies
* Evaluation/comparison of morphology learning technologies
* Adapting and reusing grammars and lexicons among related
languages
* Application of learned morphologies and phonologies
(proofreading, machine translation, linguistic research,
documentation of endangered languages, speech recognition)
* Theoretical results on learnability or representation
Schedule
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* Submission Deadline: 5 April 2002
* Notification: 25 April 2002
* Camera-ready Copy Due: 21 May 2002
* Workshop: 12 July 2002
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Eighth International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics
(IsCLL VIII)
Second Call for Papers (2001.12.4)
Theme: PHONOLOGY
Special session theme: TONE
Symposium Date: November 8-10, 2002 (Friday - Sunday)
Venue: Center for Academic Activities, Academia Sinica
Organized by: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Linguistic Society of Taiwan
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: April 1, 2002 (Monday)
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2002 (Friday)
Full Paper Due: September 9, 2002 (Monday)
For a decade or so, the biennial International Symposium on Chinese
Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL) has become a major academic event
for the small but lively linguistic community of Taiwan. The upcoming
eighth symposium (IsCLL VIII), scheduled for November 8-10, 2002 and
jointedly hosted by the Institute of Linguistics of Academia Sinica
and the Linguistic Society of Taiwan, will bear PHONOLOGY as its
general theme. The highlights of IsCLL8 will be plenary talks by
three distinguished researchers in the focal area:
Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)
Ian Maddieson (UC Berkeley)
Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University)
and a special session organized by Prof. Lin Yen-hwei and specifically
devoted to issues related to TONE. The following scholars have been
invited as panelists for the TONE session:
Moira Yip
Matthew Chen
Duanmu San
Zhiming Bao
The organizing committee of IsCLL VIII cordially invites abstracts for
theoretical and descriptive studies on the languages of China, with
preference given to all areas of phonology as well as interface
(e.g. phonetic, morpho-syntactic) work addressing phonological
issues. Abstracts (in Chinese or English) should be anonymous, and may
be up to five typewritten pages (including additional charts, data,
and references) long, with a separate page indicating title of paper,
subject area, author's name and affiliation, and mailing/email
addresses. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2002. Each abstract
will be reviewed by at least two scholars commissioned by the
organizing committee. Accepted authors (to be announced by May 31,
2002) should send us their fully completed papers of no longer than
twenty typed camera-ready pages by September 9, 2002 for website
posting and inclusion in the symposium proceedings. Upon acceptance of
their abstracts, authors are committed to present original papers
written exclusively for IsCLL VIII. All final presenters will receive
waiver of conference fee, plus traveling stipends and complimentary
on-campus accommodation for the duration of the symposium.
For inquiries, please contact:
IsCLL VIII Organizing Committee
Institute of Linguistics (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica
Nankang 11529, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel: +886-2-2652-3179
Fax: +886-2-2783-2808
Email: [log in to unmask]
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North American Phonology Conference/Marantz lecture
The preliminary program and registration are now available online for
the second North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC2) at Concordia
University in Montreal, April 26-28, 2002.
http://cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/naphc/index.html
Invited speakers are
John McCarthy (UMass)
David Odden (Ohio)
Carole Paradis (Laval)
Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC)
There will also be a special preconference lecture by Alec Marantz of
MIT, hosted by the Concordia Linguistics Students Association.
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Charles Reiss
Associate Professor
Linguistics Program
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve W.
Montreal H3G 1M8
Canada
514 848-2310 (office)
514 848-8679 (fax)
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Ninth International Phonology Meeting
"Structure and Melody"
First announcement and call for papers
1-3 November 2002, Vienna
The Ninth International Phonology Meeting will be held from
1-3 November 2002 in Vienna, Austria. Like the previous
meeting in 1996, it will have a general theme.
The choice of the theme "Structure and Melody" reflects the
current concern of many phonologists about the relationship
between prosody and syllable / foot / word structure on the
one hand and the melodic content of segmental skeletal
positions within those structures.
Topics
Under the general theme of "Structure and Melody" there will
be 3 topics:
1. Syllable structure and melody
2. Prosody and melody
3. Acoustic, cognitive and computational issues
The invited speakers are (alphabetically):
Monik Charette, Grzegorz Dogil, Larry Hyman
Nancy Ritter, Grazyna Rowicka, Péter Szigetvári
Papers
There will be 6 main papers by invited speakers (45 min.
presentation and 15 min. discussion) and up to 30 section
papers (20 min. presentation and 10 min. discussion), for
which we invite the submission of abstracts. All papers will
be plenary.
Abstracts
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Please submit one
non-anonymous max. one-page camera-ready original of your
abstract for a 20-minute paper to the snailmail or email
address given at the end of this announcement, and indicate
which topic you are submitting for. Abstracts should be in
Times (New) (Roman) 12pt, paper size A4, with all margins
set to 1" (2.54 cm). Preferred electronic formats: MS Word
(.doc or .rtf), PostScript or PDF. Please either use
SILIPA93 phonetic fonts or save your document with the fonts
embedded.
Deadline for abstracts: 30th April 2002
The abstracts will be available via
http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/conferences/phon02/ and in
printed form at registration.
Workshops
We encourage afternoon / evening workshops or discussion
groups on any phonological topic to be held on Sat. 2nd Nov.
(only!). Workshops will be in complementary distribution.
Please write or e-mail if you wish to organise one.
Currently one workshop is planned, on The Phonology of
African Languages (organised by Rose-Juliet Anyanwu & John
Rennison).
Fee
The conference fee is 50 Euros (ca. U.S.$45), payable in cash,
in Euros at registration (EUR 25 for students). The fee
includes the abstracts volume, tea, (real) coffee & biscuits
during breaks, drinks at registration on 31 Oct. and an
evening reception with buffet on 1st or 2nd November. There
is no pre-payment because of the horrendous banking charges.
Address
The address for pre-registration (to receive further
circulars) and for abstracts is:
Phonology Meeting (John Rennison)
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Berggasse 11
A-1090 Wien
Austria / Europe
Tel. +43 1 4277-41714
Fax: +43 1 4277-9417
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/conferences/phon02/
Organisers:
Friedrich Neubarth, Markus A. Pöchtrager, John Rennison
(Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna)
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JOBS,FELLOWSHIPS
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Phonology (Assistant Professor) and TESL (Lecturer) positions
Linguistics Department
Simon Fraser University
Position Announcement
Phonologist
Applications are being accepted for a tenure-track position in Linguistics
starting September 1, 2002. This position is subject to budgetary approval.
The appointment will be made at the assistant professor rank. The successful
applicant will bring a specialization in theoretical phonology, particularly
in optimality theory. The individual will teach phonology at both the
undergraduate and graduate level and will be expected to contribute to other
areas of Department teaching.
Further details about the Department can be found at:
http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/.
Candidates should hold a PhD in linguistics with a specialization in
phonology and be able to demonstrate teaching ablility. Interested applicants
are invited to send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, the names of
at least three referees and sample publications by October 31, 2001 to:
Dr. Z. McRobbie, Chair, Department of Linguistics, 8888 University
Dr., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 Phone: (604)
291-3554, fax (604) 291-5659, email: [log in to unmask]
In accordance with Canada Immigration requirements, this advertisement
is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. SFU offers
equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.
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Lecturer
Applications are being accepted for the position of Lecturer in the
Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University to start September 1,
2002. This is a continuing position with an initial probationary period of
twelve months.
The successful candidate will have teaching duties in the Department's
Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate program and will teach
and manage the Practicum course in this program. The individual may also be
asked to teach general linguistics courses.
Further details about the Department and the Certificate program can be
found at: http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/.
Candidates should hold a PhD in applied linguistics or a related
discipline, have TESL and/or TEFL experience, and demonstrate dedication to
teaching and the mentoring of teachers.
Interested applicants are invited to send a letter of application,
curriculum vitae, the names of at least three referees and a teaching
dossier containing a statement of teaching philosophy and examples of
teaching materials by October 31, 2001 to: Dr. Z. McRobbie, Chair,
Department of Linguistics, 8888 University Dr., Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6
Phone: (604) 291-3554, fax (604) 291-5659, email: [log in to unmask]
In accordance with Canada Immigration requirements, this advertisement is
directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. SFU offers equal
employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. All appointments
are subject to budgetary approval
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Phonology/Phonetics Spanish Linguistics tenure-track at Penn State USA
PENN STATE, DEPT. OF SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE
Spanish linguistics, to begin August 2002. Rank open; tenure-track or
tenured, depending on qualifications. Primary specialization in
phonology/phonetics preferred; sociolinguistics, morphology, and/or
acquisition also desirable. Minimum qualifications include Ph. D. in
hand at time of appointment, native or near-native proficiency in
Spanish and English, evidence of excellence in teaching, and strong
commitment to research scholarship. Responsibilities include
supervising graduate student research and teaching graduate seminars
and undergraduate courses. Possibility of participating in the
interdisciplinary program in Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies. Send complete dossier, including at least 3 letters of
recommendation, to John M. Lipski, Head, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, N352 Burrowes Building, Box A, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802. Applications received by
November 1, 2001 will be assured of consideration. However,
applications will be considered until the position is filled. AA/EOE.
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Graduate Officer
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6203
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Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.
3 Research Positions
Synthetic talking face controlled by speech (2 posts)
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This project, with partners in Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK aims to
provide
hearing-impaired people with lipreading cues derived from acoustic speech.
Posts are available for a Researcher (ref. 1) with skills in speech
perception and a
Research Fellow (ref. 2) with experience in speech recognition.
The Researcher post is 0.8 FTE with a starting salary of GBP 21,620 pro
rata and is
available from 1 November 2001 to 30 September 2004.
The Research Fellow post has a starting salary (GBP) from 21,620 to 26,327 p.a.
depending on qualifications. This full-time post is for between 18 to 24 months
depending on the salary awarded.
Use of auditory-visual speech in 2nd language training
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This EPSRC-funded post (ref. 3) is available for 20 months. The main
responsibility
will be to carry out trials of a computer-based training system for Spanish
learners
of English. A background in speech perception and in phonetics or phonology at
Master's or PhD level is essential. Conversational Spanish is desirable.
Starting salary (GBP) between 21,620 and 26,327 p.a.
Send requests for further information and applications including the names
of two
academic referees and a CV to Dr A Faulkner, Department of Phonetics and
Linguistics,
4 Stephenson Way, LONDON NW1 2HE (or email to [log in to unmask]).
Tel. 020 7679 7408/7401.
Closing dates are 15 October 2001 for post 1 and 31 October 2001 for posts
2 and 3. Salaries are inclusion of London Allowance.(currently 2134 GBP pa)
Further particulars can be found at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/jobs/
Dr Andrew Faulkner
Principal Research Fellow
Dept Phonetics and Linguistics
UCL (University College London)
Wolfson House
4 Stephenson Way
LONDON NW1 2HE
tel 44 (0)20 7679 7408 (direct)
fax 44 (0)20 7383 0752
e-mail [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/andyf/
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General Linguistics: Post Doc at Cornell
The Department of Linguistics welcomes applications from candidates in
any area of linguistics. Ph.D. must have been received after
September, 1996, or by June 30, 2002 (such applicants must include a
letter of confirmation). Stipend: $34,000. Fellowships are limited
to U.S. or Canadian citizens, or those with permanent U.S. residency
cards. For more information and application, contact either the
Dept. of Linguistics ([log in to unmask]) or the Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowships Program ([log in to unmask]) at Cornell. All
application materials (including letters of recommendation) must be
postmarked on or before January 3, 2002. No faxed applications.
Awards will be announced in February, 2002.
Address for Applications:
Attn: Mr. Program Administrator
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cornell Univeristy
A.D. White House
27 East Ave.
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
United States
Position is open until filled.
For more information, contact:
Mr. Society for the Humanities.
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Phonetics, Analysis of speech: AsstProf at Purdue Univ, IN USA
Rank of Job: Assistant Professor
Areas Required: acoustics, acoustic analysis of speech
Other Desired Areas: speech perception
University or Organization: Purdue University
Department: Audiology & Speech Sciences
State or Province: Indiana
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: Dec. 3, 2001 or until filled
Contact: Jackson T. Gandour [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
1353 Heavilon Hall
West Lafayette
Indiana 47907-1353
USA
Assistant Professor position available in Speech Science; Department of
Audiology and Speech Sciences; Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN
47907-1353. This position is a tenure track 10-month position available
Fall 2002. Ph.D. required. Teaching duties include teaching
undergraduate and graduate courses in acoustics, acoustic analysis of
speech, and speech perception. Successful candidate is expected to
pursue an active research program in an area related to normal and/or
disordered speech/hearing processes. To be assured of full
consideration, applications should be received by December 3, 2001.
However, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is
filled. A curriculum vitae, letter of application, selected
publications/papers, and three letters of recommendation that address
the candidate's potential abilities in both teaching and research
should be sent to: Jackson T. Gandour, Ph.D., Chair, Search Committee,
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Heavilon Hall, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1353. E-mail correspondence should
be directed to: [log in to unmask] Purdue is an equal access/equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a
diverse workforce. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/aus/
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Phonology opening at Boston University
Boston University anticipates a tenure-track position in linguistics,
beginning September 2002, for an Assistant or Associate Professor
with a specialization in phonology and the ability to teach courses
in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and semantics.
Applicants should have a strong background in linguistic theory,
a broad range of interests, demonstrated teaching ability, and
commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Ph.D. in hand
required.
Send complete dossier--including letter of application, c.v., three
letters of reference, and sample publications (as well as documentation
of teaching ability, if available)--by mail, to arrive no later than
November 21, 2001, to:
Prof. Carol Neidle
Chair, Linguistics Search Committee
Boston University, Department of Modern Foreign Languages
and Literatures
718 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT SEND any application materials electronically.
However, advance copies of letters of reference may be sent via e-mail
(text, Word, or pdf) or fax, with hard copies to follow.
Further information about this position is available from
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/jobs.html . AA/EOE.
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QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST SCHOOL OF ENGLISH
Ref. 01/F712B: AHRB-Funded Research Assistants
The Sociolinguistics of Standardisation of English in Ireland
£17,451 to £19,488
AHRB-funded Research Assistants
Ref: 01/F712B School of English
Following the award of a substantial AHRB research grant, two posts are
available for two years to assist with an investigation of Standard English
in Ireland, North and South, through the creation of a machine-readable
corpus of spoken and written texts, and through the preparation of related
monographs and CD-ROM for publication, under the joint direction of Dr.
John Kirk and Dr Jeffrey Kallen.
Applicants must have a university degree and the ability to transcribe
spoken English. A relevant postgraduate degree, substantial experience in
transcribing spoken English, fieldwork experience using tape-recorders and
IT experience are desirable.
Commencing salary range: £17,451 - £19,488 per annum. Closing date: 5.00
p.m. Friday 12 October 2001.
Applicants, quoting reference number, may obtain further particulars from
the address below.
The University is committed to equal opportunities and to selection on
merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first
instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent
subject to availability of funding.
Queen's University Belfast Personnel Department Belfast, BT7 1NN. Tel: (028)
90273044 or (028) 90273854 (answering machine) or Fax (028) 90324944 or
e-mail on [log in to unmask] Queen's University Belfast
Background
The International Corpus of English Project has as its primary aim the
facilitation of comparative studies between national varieties of English.
It will also be concerned with reconciling the hypothesis of invariance
which characterises national standard Englishes with national standardised
varieties which are demonstrably inherently different. Ireland, North and
South, is one of these national varieties.
In furtherance of these aims, in some 18 countries worldwide, research
teams are assembling computer corpora consisting of 500 samples of English
for a total of one million words. The national components follow the same
design and protocols. For Ireland, as with many countries, this will be the
first systematic investigation of the national variety across speech and
writing, and within speech of what is predominately educated speech in
private, in public, or in broadcasting.
The data derived from the ICE-Ireland computer corpus will provide the
basis for research into syntax, morphology, vocabulary and discourse, and
for interpretive studies of the processes of standardisation within Ireland
and of popular ideologies about language. In addition, sound recordings
will be linked to transcriptions for the creation of a sampler CD-ROM as a
resource for research into phonetics and phonology. The variation within
and across components will be used.
The job
The successful candidates will be expected to undertake the following
duties under the direction of Dr John Kirk and Dr Jeffrey Kallen (Trinity
College Dublin).
Checking for accuracy all spoken and written corpus texts so far
transcribed, computerized and appropriately marked-up according to ICE
protocols and AHDS guidelines
Recording of uncollected spoken text types ab initio and selection of
appropriate corpus texts required by ICE protocols
Selection of appropriate texts from existing unanalysed audio- and
video-recordings
Orthographic transcription of audio- and video-recordings
Collection of uncollected written texts required by ICE protocols
Selection of appropriate corpus texts from existing unanalysed written texts
Scanning or keyboarding, editing, correcting and marking-up of written
texts according to ICE protocols and AHDS guidelines
Creation of database of header information according to ICE protocols
Checking for accuracy and consistency the entire in-text annotation and mark-up
Administration of copyright clearance
Data processing, analysis and interpretation as required for the project's
main outcomes:
The ICE-Ireland handbook,
a sociolinguistic study of standardization processes,
a study of popular ideologies about Standard English
Day-to-day maintenance of databases, files, backup, and organization.
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The Department of English and the Linguistics Program at the
University of Georgia seek to make a tenure-track Assistant Professor
appointment in the area of Phonetics and Phonology, to begin August
2002. The successful candidate must be able to teach undergraduate and
graduate courses in both theoretical phonology and in phonetics
(acoustical and articulatory/impressionistic). Practical experience
with computer analysis is strongly desired. Candidates must
demonstrate potential as outstanding teachers and scholars, and must
have the PHD in hand before beginning the appointment. Interviews will
be scheduled at LSA, and potentially at MLA as well.
The University of Georgia Department of English has 45 tenured or
tenure track faculty members, many of them specialists in Linguistics
and/or English Language Studies. Linguistics is an interdepartmental
Program, offering degrees at all levels, with 32 affiliated faculty
members whose home departments reach widely across the university.
Please direct a letter of application and cv to William Provost,
Director, Linguistics Program, Gilbert Hall, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA 30602. Applications must be postmarked by November 5, 2001
to receive full consideration. Letters of recommendation and writing
samples will be requested later from selected applicants. We encourage
applications from women and minorities. The University of Georgia is
an AA/EEO institution.
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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, CYPRUS
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Linguistics for the programme of
English Studies:
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures announces the
opening of a tenure-track position in Linguistics at the rank of
Lecturer or Assistant Professor. The post is on the
phonetics/phonology of English; candidates will teach Phonetics and
Phonology as well as other courses in the context of the Department's
programme in English Language and Literature. Scholarly potential and
publications required. Teaching Load: Two courses a semester.
Deadline for submission of applications: April 19, 2002. Gross
monthly salary: Lecturer: CY1,495; Assistant Professor: CY1,771.
Please send: Letter of application mentioning the rank you are
applying for, photocopies of credentials, c.v., representative
publications, and summary of current and future research (2-3 pp).
Applicants must request three academic referees to send letters of
recommendation directly to the University. The names and addresses of
these referees must be submitted with the application. Send to: The
Registrar, University of Cyprus, POB 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Information. Tel: 00357 22892000, Fax: 00357 22892100.
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Material for the March, 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by
26 February, 2002.
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