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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
February 2003
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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
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[date of first appearance follows]
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7 - 9 March 2003. Texas Linguistics Society. Theme: The Dynamics of
Coarticulation in Speech Production and Perception. The University of
Texas at Austin, USA. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/ (10/02)
27 - 29 March 2003. International Colloquium on Prosodic Interfaces.
Nantes, France.
http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/infos/ip2003/IP2003GB.html;
<[log in to unmask]> (06/02)
4 - 5 April 2003. ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval.
Macau. (prior to ICASSP2003 in Hong Kong; see next entry)
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/MSDR/ (10/02)
6 - 10 April 2003. The 28th International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Convention & Exhibition Center,
Hong Kong. http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~icassp03/ (12/02)
7 - 11 April 2003. Ecole thmatique de phonologie et de phontique. Ile de
Porquerolles, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~etpp03;
<[log in to unmask]> (10/02)
10 - 12 April 2003. 39th Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/ <[log in to unmask]> (01/03)
[further details below]
14 - 16 April 2003. ISCA/IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing
and Recognition. Tokyo, Japan. (after ICASSP2003 in Hong Kong; see entry
above) http://www.sspr2003.com/index.html (12/02)
18 - 20 April 2003. Phonetics Today: IV International Conference. Moscow,
Russia. <[log in to unmask]> (11/02)
1 -3 May 2003. 34th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (including a special
panel on "Focus on Accents" <[log in to unmask]> (01/03)
[further details below]
20 - 23 May 2003. NOLISP 03: ISCA (International Speech Communication
Association) Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non-Linear Speech
Processing. Le Croisic, France. <[log in to unmask]> (12/02)
++22-24 May, 2003. Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester,
UK. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html (2/03)
11 - 12 June 2003. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia. Lisbon, Portugal
<[log in to unmask]> (03/01)
19 - 21 June 2003. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET
XIV). Universit du Qubec, Montreal, Canada. http://www.tennet.ca;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/02)
++27 June, 2003. Speech Dynamics by Ear, Mouth, and Machine. Kyoto, Japan.
<[log in to unmask]> (2/03)
http://www.ieice.or.jp/iss/jpn/sp-200306workshop.htm
1 - 4 July 2003. Child Phonology Conference. UBC, Vancouver.
<[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> (09/02; 12/02)
7 - 11 July 2003. Headhood, Contrastivity and Specification; and
Representations to Constraints and from Constraints to Representations.
Universit de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France.
<[log in to unmask]> (11/02)
3 August 2003. Intonation in language varieties - AM approaches. Satellite
workshop at ICPhS2003 [see next entry]. Universitat de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/icphs/intonation_in_varieties.html (10/02)
3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS2003: The 15th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. Palau de Congressos, Plaa d'Espanya, Barcelona, Spain.
http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01)
6 - 8 August 2003. 2nd International Conference on Speech, Writing and
Context. Osaka, Japan.
http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/teachers/toyota/ICSWC2.htm;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/02)
11 - 15 August 2003. Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders. Montreal,
Canada. http://www/ifacongress2003.com (05/02)
28 - 31 August 2003. ISCA (International Speech Communication
Association) Tutorial and Research Workshop: Error Handling in Spoken
Dialogue Systems. Hotel Roc et Neige, Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland.
http://www.speech.kth.se/error/; < [log in to unmask]> (12/02)
1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003: 8th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology. Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.symporg.ch/eurospeech/ (08/01)
5 - 8 September 2003. DiSS'03: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech.
Gothenburg, Sweden. http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/diss03/ (12/02)
11 - 14 September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference.
University of Sheffield, UK. <[log in to unmask]> (04/02)
8 - 10 October 2003. 2nd International Workshop on the Phonology and
Morphology of Creole Languages. University of Siegen, Germany.
http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/workshop/ (11/02)
++16 - 18 October, 2003. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, USA. <[log in to unmask]> http://www.unm.edu/~davee/symposium.html
(2/03)
8 - 10 December 2003. 6th International Seminar on Speech Production.
Sydney, Australia. http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/events/2003/issp2003;
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/speechprodconf (10/02)
++11 - 13 March, 2004. Kempelen Memorial Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
<[log in to unmask]> http://www.nytud.hu/kempelen2004 (2/03)
23 - 26 March 2004. Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan.
<[log in to unmask]> (10/02)
29 - 30 March 2004. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of
Languages - with Emphasis on Tone Languages. Institute of Linguistics,
Beijing, China. <[log in to unmask]> (12/02)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting
22-24 MAY 2003
Deadline for abstracts: Sunday 23 February 2003
Special session: 'Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory'
Held at the University of Manchester, UK; organised in collaboration with
Edge Hill College, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Universite
Toulouse-Le Mirail and the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery
Conference website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/
11mfm.html
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BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting (11mfm).
For the past ten years, this meeting has been one of the key conferences 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, phonological change
and the interface between phonology and neighbouring disciplines (phonetics,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, etc.) 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 around 30 minutes with around 10 minutes for questions, and the poster
session is a key part of the mfm, lasting one and a half hours, with a
carefully limited number of posters.
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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 by Ricardo Bermudez-Otero
(Newcastle), Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) and Nigel Vincent (Manchester).
This will feature invited speakers and will conclude in an open discussion
session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome.
SESSION TITLE: 'Historical Phonology And Phonological Theory'
Historical perspectives have long helped to shape phonological theory, and
historical phonologists have long sought to test the validity of theoretical
models using data from phonological change. There is, for example, a long
tradition of enquiry that uses evidence from historical change (e.g. processes
of lenition) to probe the nature and structure of phonological representations. The importance that theoretical phonologists have placed on historical data
has varied over the years, but it is currently proving to be uniquely relevant
to theoretical debates in several phonological fields. Diachronic evidence
has a direct bearing on the nature and status of markedness constraints, which
take on a central role in the phonological grammar in the model of Optimality
Theory; however, several critics of OT have argued that markedness
generalizations are in fact mere epiphenomena of recurrent processes of
diachronic change, and, as these are driven by performance factors, they should be excluded from 'phonology' proper. For other authors, these performance
factors are the direct base of phonology. It is also the case that the rise
of strictly parallel approaches to the morphology-phonology interface, such
as OT, has posed a challenge to long-accepted views of the life cycle of
phonological patterns, according to which rules tend to rise from lower to
higher phonological strata in the course of their historical evolution. These
are some of the issues that will be addressed in the session, along with
the discussion of our speakers' diachronic data.
SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order):
* Mark Hale (Concordia)
* Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
* Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz)
* April McMahon (Sheffield)
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts for the 11mfm should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email
([log in to unmask]) by **23rd February 2003**. 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: Word, pdf, or
plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, use the
SILdoulos93 font, which can be downloaded for free from this site:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html.
*Further details* concerning abstract submission are available on the
conference website - please make sure that you consult these before submitting
an abstract:
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF FARKAS
KEMPELEN PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE March 11-13, 2004 Budapest, Hungary
The International Workshop Dedicated to the Memory of Farkas
Kempelen will be held at the Research Institute for
Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and hosted
by its Kempelen Farkas Speech Research Laboratory. Farkas
Kempelen (or, known by the name of Wolfgang von
Kempelen) died 200 years ago in March, 1804. Although there
was no immediate impact of his scientific activity, after a
certain amount of time his work initiated a wide range of
"phonetic" and "speech technology" research. The 200-year
anniversary of his death provides an opportunity for
present-day researchers to rethink the "bridges" between
past, present, and future. The workshop is a forum for
presentations concerning speech research in the fields
investigated by Kempelen, such as:
- issues in the history of science related to Kempelen's life
and work,
- history of experimental phonetics,
- old speech research devices of the world,
- disorders of speech motor control,
- articulatory synthesis,
- quality testing of synthesized speech,
- articulatory-acoustic relations,
This list of themes is not meant to be exhaustive.
ABSTRACTS (of 200-300 words) are due FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14,
2003. Abstracts should be submitted electronically at:
[log in to unmask]
Authors are also asked to indicate, at the time of abstract
submission, whether they would like to submit a full paper to
be considered for inclusion in the special edited book of the
workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES:
November 14, 2003 Abstracts due
December 10, 2003 Acceptance of abstracts advised by e-mail
January 23, 2004 Deadline for registration
March 11, 2004 Conference opens
FURTHER INFORMATION
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (+361) 321-4830, ext. 172
Fax: (+361) 321 9297
Web: www.nytud.hu/kempelen2004
We look forward to welcoming you in Budapest!
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7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Short Title: Hispanic Ling
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Date: 16-OCT-03 - 18-OCT-03
Web Site: http://www.unm.edu/~davee/symposium.html
Contact Person: David Eddington
Meeting Email: [log in to unmask]
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
This symposium will be held together with 6th Conference on the
Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second
Languages.
Invited Speakers:
Joan Bybee, The University of New Mexico
Concepcion Company, UNAM
Maria Jose Serrano, Universidad de La Laguna
Second Call for Papers:
Papers are invited in any area of Hispanic Linguistics and Language
Acquisition and in any theoretical or quantitative framework, and may
be delivered in either English, Portuguese or Spanish. Special
sessions will be dedicated to Spanish as a Heritage Language, Spanish
in the United States, and quantitative studies of Spanish and
Portuguese.
- Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint.
- Send one copy of a one-page abstract for review. (There may be an
additional page for references.) The abstract must specify which
meeting you wish to present in (Linguistics Symposium or Acquisition
Conference), title of paper, area of research, name, academic
affiliation, current and summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail,
and audiovisual requests.
- Abstracts may only be submitted via e-mail ([log in to unmask]). They may
be included in the body of the e-mail message or as an attachment in
one of three formats: WordPerfect, RTF (Rich Text Format) or PDF
(Adobe Acrobat).
DEADLINE: May 1, 2003.
Conference Website: http://www.unm.edu/~davee/symposium.html
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SPEECH DYNAMICS BY EAR, EYE, MOUTH AND MACHINE
An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Kyoto, Japan
June 27, 2003
Organized by The Institute for Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) and The Acoustical Society of Japan.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
WORKSHOP THEME
Spoken language is a highly dynamic process that relies on the coordination
of articulatory, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms. This one-day workshop
will focus on properties shared in common by speech production and
perception, as well as examine the synergy between complementary
representations, such as those involving concurrent auditory and visual
processing. The objective is to formulate an interdisciplinary perspective
based on empirical and theoretical advances capable of fostering scientific
insight for technical and clinical applications pertaining to spoken
language.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will contain both invited and contributed oral presentations
spanning a broad range of topics germane to speech dynamics. In addition,
there will be a panel discussion focusing on the potential for advancing
our understanding of spoken language based on the perspectives described in
the presentations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop will be of interest to scientists and engineers working in a
broad range of fields involving spoken language research and speech
technology.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Individuals interested in giving an oral presentation should electronically
submit a 300-word abstract no later than March 1, 2003 to
[log in to unmask] The abstracts will be reviewed and a decision
provided by March 14, 2003. A six-page, camera-ready paper is due by April
14, 2003 and should conform to the guidelines described on the workshop^Òs
web site. Papers will be published as part of the IEICE^Òs monthly technical
report.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
300-word abstract March 1, 2003
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 14, 2003
Six-page, camera-ready paper April 14, 2003
Note: The abstract should be sent to [log in to unmask]
along with title and author information
REGISTRATION FEE
There is no registration fee for this workshop. However, it is requested
that individuals interested in attending the workshop notify the
secretariat of their intention to participate by June 1, 2003.
WORKSHOP LOCATION
The workshop will be held at the Advanced Telecommunications Research
Institute (ATR) as part of the June monthly meeting of the IEICE.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop will be English. All abstracts and
papers submitted should be written in English.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Les Atlas (University of Washington, Seattle)
Ken W. Grant (Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.)
Steven Greenberg (The Speech Institute, Oakland, CA)
Joseph Perkell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Takayuki Arai
Ken W. Grant
Steven Greenberg
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
IEICE Workshop Secretariat
Professor Takayuki Arai
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sophia University
[log in to unmask]
Workshop Web Site: http://www.ieice.or.jp/iss/sp/jpn/sp-200306workshop.htm
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POSITIONS/STUDENTSHIPS VACANT
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Dear Colleagues,
If you have any wonderful undergrads who are applying to graduate
school for next year (starting 03-04) and are interested in American
Indian languages, please suggest applying to the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Department of Linguistics (send them to
http://ling.wisc.edu/ and also
http://www.wisc.edu/grad/eapp/index.html). I will have two Project
Assistantships next year, one for 50% support and one for 33% support,
with a possibility of extension on one of them for up to three years.
(Project Assistantships come with a tuition waiver.) These will both
be for work on the Menominee dictionary that Marianne Milligan and I
are undertaking.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to drop me a line at
[log in to unmask] Thank you!
- Monica Macaulay
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THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM AT INDIANA
UNIVERSITY announces two openings for Postdoctoral Trainees. Applicants
interested in further training in infant cognition and perception,
child language, neural net modeling, animal models of language
learning, and embodied cognition are encouraged to apply. Individuals
with training in linguistics who seek further training in experimental
methods and in modeling are specifically encouraged to apply. Indiana
University-Bloomington offers an exciting intellectual atmosphere and
trainees are encouraged to interact broadly with the faculty in a
variety of areas and disciplines.
Applicants should send an up-to-date vita, relevant reprints and
preprints, a personal letter describing their research interests,
background, goals, and career plans, and reference letters from two
individuals. Submission of application materials is due March 15,
2003 for full consideration; however, applications will be considered
after that time until the positions are filled.
Send all materials to: Professor Linda Smith, Department of
Psychology, 1101 E. 10th St., Room 360, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN 47405. Phone: (812)855-8256, fax: (812)855-4691,
email: [log in to unmask] Women, minority group members, and
handicapped individuals are urged to apply. Indiana University is an
Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants must be U.S. Citizen,
national or permanent resident.
Address for Applications:
Attn: Professor Linda Smith
Department of Psychology
1101 E. 10th St., Room 360, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
United States of America
Applications are due by 15-Mar-2003
Contact Information:
Professor Linda Smith.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: (812)855-8256
Fax: (812)855-4691
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The BBC Pronunciation Research Unit is looking for somebody to do some part-
time work on its online pronunciation database. The person would need to be
computer-literate and have a good command of phonetics (especially IPA). The
work would be based in London (at Bush House on the Strand), would be likely
to be at evenings and weekends.
Please contact [log in to unmask] (address and phone below)
ASAP if you might be interested in this job.
--
Catherine Sangster
Pronunciation Research Unit
Tel: 020 755 73399
Room LG40CB Bush House
PO Box 76, Strand,
London WC2B 4PH
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THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS
CHAIR IN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
The University invites applications for a Chair of Speech
Technology, to be held within the School of Informatics. We
seek a candidate who will further develop the strengths of
the School, and in particular the Centre for Speech
Technology Research (CSTR), operated jointly with the School
of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences (PPLS). Example
areas of interest are: Speech Recognition; Speech Signal
Processing; Speech Synthesis; Statistical Models for Speech
and Language Processing; Spoken Information Extraction and Retrieval.
In addition to outstanding strength in research and
scholarship, the successful candidate should provide
leadership and inspiration for fundamental research in CSTR
and the School, encourage the integration of his/her own
research with that of others, and play an active role in
teaching and administration. The appointment is full-time and
the salary will be within the normal professorial salary range.
Edinburgh was the only university in the UK to have achieved
a 5*A rating in Computer Science in the 2001 RAE. With 87
research-active staff submitted for assessment, it has the
UK's biggest research group in this area. With over 1000
research active staff in 5 or 5* units, Edinburgh was also
5*-rated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
(29) and 5-rated in Linguistics (22).
For informal inquiries, contact Professor Mark Steedman (by telephone:
+44 (0)131 650 4631, or e-mail to steedman @ informatics.ed.ac.uk).
Further particulars including details of the application
procedure can be obtained from the World Wide Web at
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/events/vacancies/ or from:
Human Resources
The University of Edinburgh
9 - 16 Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1HT
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
telephone: +44 (0) 131 650 9601
Please quote Ref: 312143
Mark Steedman
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
EDINBURGH, EH8 9LW
Scotland, United Kingdom
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: (0)131 650 4631
Fax: (0)131 650 6626
www: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~steedman/home.html
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~steedman/home.html
home: 12 Hermitage Place, Leith Links, Edinburgh EH6 8AF,
Scotland, UK
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A New Arrival
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We are pleased to announce the release of EUSTACE, the Edinburgh
University Speech Timing Archive and Corpus of English, available at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/eustace
We hope that this resource will be useful for phonetics researchers
and speech technologists working on synthesis and recognition.
The EUSTACE speech corpus comprises 4608 spoken sentences recorded at
the department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Edinburgh
University. These sentences, spoken by six speakers of British
English, were designed to examine a number of durational effects in
speech and are controlled for length and phonetic content.
Subconstituents of key words in each sentence have been identified by
labels in "xlabel" (ESPS) format, which also include notes about the
prosodic realisation of some of the sentences.
Example sentences are available for playback on the website. The
complete archive, available for downloading, includes a structured
list of the sentences, the speech recordings and the label files,
together with full documentation including details of the experimental
design, recording procedure and labelling methodology. Speech waveform
files are available in ".wav" (RIFF) format and ".sd" (ESPS) format.
The downloadable corpus is free, and licensed for non-commercial use
only.
Details of the results of the original research, as described in
Laurence White's PhD dissertation, "English speech timing: a domain
and locus approach", are also included on the website, and the full
text of the dissertation is available for downloading.
Comments and questions are welcome. Please contact Laurence White
([log in to unmask]) or Simon King ([log in to unmask]).
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Deadline for inclusion of items in the next foNETiks: 26 February, 2003.
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