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foNETiks
A network newsletter for
the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
May 2005
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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, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands <[log in to unmask]>
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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26 - 28 May 2005. 13th Manchester Phonology Conference, Manchester, UK. <http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html>; [log in to unmask] (03/05)
2 - 4 June 2005. 7th Annual Meeting of the French Network of Phonology (REP2005). Mediterranean Centre for Social Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~rfp2005/; [log in to unmask] (08/04)
11 June 2005. IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group: Pronunciation in Practice. http:// www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/iatefl_event.htm <http://www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/iatefl_event.htm>; [log in to unmask] (04/05)
15 - 17 June 2005. Plasticity in Speech Perception (PSP2005). ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Senate House, London, UK. http://www.psp2005.org.uk/ (08/04)
16 - 18 June 2005. Between Stress and Tone (BeST). Leiden, The Netherlands. http://www.iias.nl/iias/agenda/best/ (04/04)
20 - 21 June 2005. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI 2005), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. http://seneca.uab.es/papi; [log in to unmask] (06/04)
23 - 25 June 2005. The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.iclave.org/ (05/04)
23 - 25 June 2005. TENNET XVI (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology). Université de Quebec, Montreal, Canada. http://www.tennet.ca (10/04)
23 - 25 June 2005. Conference on Manner Alternations in Phonology. Berlin, Germany. http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de; [log in to unmask] (11/04).
23 - 26 June 2005. First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/iclce/iclce2005.html (09/04)
24 - 25 June 2005. 3rd international Conference on Phonology and Morphology. Seoul, Korea. <http://society.kisti.re.kr/~pmc/> (04/05)
17 - 22 July 2005. Phonology in the Cognitive Grammar Worldview. A session of the 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. http://www.iclc2005.org/; [log in to unmask] (12/04)
27 - 30 July 2005. PTLC2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. University College London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/ptlc2005.htm; [log in to unmask] (11/04)
30 - 31 July 2005. The State of the Art in Speech Error Research (WOTSOTAISER), Workshop at the LSA Institute. Cambridge, MA, USA. <http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/events/schutze_ferreira.html> (04/05)
10 - 15 August, 2005. Variation in Speech Production and Perception Summer School, Palmse, Estonia. http://ioc.ee/vispp2005 (02/05)
25 - 27 August 2005. Phonological Variation: The Case of French. Tromsoe, Norway. http://castl.uit.no (04/05)
31 August - 3 September 2005. The 6th Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVoC-6): Mirroring the Voice. The Royal Academy of Music, London, UK. <http://www.pevoc6.com>; [log in to unmask] (04/04)
2 - 4 September 2005. 2nd International Speech Therapy Conference (ISTC-2): 'Aphasia and Autism - Speech and Thinking Disorders'. Wroclaw, Poland. http://www.logopedia.uni.wroc.pl/konferencja2005/konferencja2005en.html (04/05)
4 - 8 September 2005. INTERSPEECH'2005: 9th Eurospeech Conference. Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.interspeech2005.org/; [log in to unmask] (08/04)
8 - 9 September 2005. Discourse Prosody Interface 2005 (idp05). Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~prodige/idp05 (04/05)
10 - 12 September 2005. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS). An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/Diss05; [log in to unmask] (12/04)
12 - 14 September 2005. UK Language Variation & Change conference (UKLVC5). University of Aberdeen, Scotland.. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/langling/uklvc5/ [log in to unmask] (01/05)
++ 19 - 23 September 2005. SPEECH ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION: Applications of Phonetic Research, Kraków, POLAND. http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~fonetyka/call2005.html (05/05) [Further details below]
29 - 30 September 2005. 4th International EPG Symposium: New Developments in Electropalatography. Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/ssrc/conf/epg4_2005/; [log in to unmask] (02/05)
++ 13 - 15 October 2005. Conference on Turbulences, Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/turbulences (05/05) [Further details below]
19 - 22 October 2005. Sounds of Silence: Empty Elements in Syntax and Phonology (SOS). Tilburg, Netherlands. http://let.uvt.nl/sos (04/05)
25 - 27 October 2005. III Congresso de Fonetica Experimental/ 3rd Conference on Experimental Phonetics. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. http://www.usc.es/iiicfe/index.htm; [log in to unmask] (11/04)
++ 5 - 6 November 2005. First International Congress of Phoneticians of English (ICPE2005), Kochi University.
http://www.kochi-u.ac.jp/~tamasaki/10thEPSJNationalFirstInt'l.htm
Contact Masaki Taniguchi at [log in to unmask] (5/05) [Further details below]
++ 20 - 22 April. 1st Slovene International Phonetic Conference -- SloFon 1, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si E-mail:[log in to unmask] (05/05) [Further details below]
10 - 14 May 2006. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). University of Helsinki, Finland. http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/skl/icca/; [log in to unmask] (12/03)
++ 7 - 9 September 2006 International Conference on the Typology of Tone and Intonation (TTI), Berlin, Germany. Contact: Laura Downing (downingzas.gwz-berlin.de). (05/05) [Further details below]
17 - 22 September 2006. INTERSPEECH'2006 -- ICSLP. 7th INTERSPEECH event. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.interspeech2006.org/ (12/04)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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This is a call for papers for the First International Congress of Phoneticians of English (ICPE2005),which is scheduled to take place in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the English Phonetic Society of Japan (EPSJ 10th National Conference) at Kochi University on 5-6 November 2005. For details, please see
http://www.kochi-u.ac.jp/~tamasaki/10thEPSJNationalFirstInt'l.htm or
contact Masaki Taniguchi at [log in to unmask]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON TURBULENCES
13-15 OCTOBER 2005
ZENTRUM FÜR ALLGEMEINE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT, BERLIN
The conference is aimed at bringing together phoneticians, phonologists
and speech engineers and all those who are currently working
on ‘turbulent’ sounds such as fricatives and affricates as well as stops
and clicks. By considering these sounds from different perspectives we
hope to gain new insights into their phonetic nature and the adequacy of
their phonological representation.
Papers which relate to the following issues are particularly welcome:
- articulation, aerodynamics, acoustics, and perception of turbulent
sounds
- speaker normalization and quantification in articulatory and
acoustic description of turbulent sounds
- signal processing specific to turbulent sounds
- the role of phonetics for explaining phonological patterns and
processes
- articulatory and/or perceptual basis for postulating phonological
features
- the adequacy of (new) phonological theories for application of
phonetic facts
Invited speakers are:
Seiji Adachi (ATR, Kyoto, Japan)
Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University, Korea)
Jaye Padgett (University of Santa Cruz, USA)
Christine Shadle (Haskins Labs, New Haven, USA)
Submissions are solicited for the general session and for poster
presentations. Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes
discussion.
The abstract should be anonymous, maximally two pages long. The author’s
name and affiliation should be indicated in the email. Deadline for
submission of abstracts is 1 July. Notification of acceptance for program
by 31 July.
Please submit your abstract as a pdf file to [log in to unmask]
For more information see http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/turbulences
The organisers:
Susanne Fuchs (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Martine Toda (Laboratoire Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Paris III)
Marzena Zygis (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
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International Conference on the Typology of Tone and Intonation (TTI)
7 - 9 September 2006
Berlin, Germany
An International conference on the Typology of Tone and Intonation (TTI) will be
held at the ZAS, Berlin, Germany, from 7-9 September 2006 organized by the ZAS
(Project P7) and SFB 632 (Project D2; University of Potsdam)
The aim of the conference is to continue the tradition of the TIE network in
stimulating and coordinating cross-linguistic research on the grammatical role
of tone and intonation.
The conference welcomes papers on the following topics:
- Typology of tone systems and of intonation
- The interaction between intonation and lexical tone
- The interaction between segments and tone or intonation
- Tonogenesis and other issues in the history of tonal systems
- The interaction of tone and intonation with information structure
- Experimental phonetic or psycholinguistic studies of tone and intonation
Papers will be chosen by the organizing committee on the basis of abstracts
submitted. The final program is intended to represent a broad range of languages
and also a broad range of approaches to this topic: phonetics, phonology,
semantics, psycholinguistics, historical and comparative linguistics.
Invited speakers (confirmed): Dan Everett, Martine Grice, Carlos Gussenhoven,
Pilar Prieto, Annie Rialland, Yi Xu
Organizing and Abstract Review Committee:
Project 07 ''Expression of Focus in Southern Bantu Languages'', ZAS:
Laura Downing, Sabine Zerbian
SFB 632 (Project D2) ''Information Structure'', University of Potsdam:
Caroline Féry, Frank Kügler
Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2006
Program finalized: 1 June 2006
Contact: Laura Downing
Contact Email: downingzas.gwz-berlin.de
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SPEECH ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION:
Applications of Phonetic Research
Kraków, POLAND
19-23 September, 2005
Organized by
Polish Phonetic Association
AGH University of Science and Technology
Supported by
Acoustics Committee of the Polish Academy of Science
Institute of Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University
The conference, organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the
Polish Phonetic Association (PTFon), is of interest to several
scientific communities, including Human Language and Speech Technology,
Linguistics, Phonetics, Phoniatrics and Musicology. Its scientific
program covers a wide variety of topics related to the contemporary
applications of phonetics. While the meeting will be focused mainly on
the fields of speech analysis, processing, synthesis and recognition,
contributions from many other areas of speech and language studies are
warmly invited. We intend to create an open forum for speech
communication science thought exchange to take the advantage of the
variety of research perspectives and approaches.
The Call for Papers is addressed to researchers engaged in either
academic or industrial research. In order to support the
multi-disciplinary goal of the conference, the Scientific and Organizing
Committees include representatives of various scientific communities.
PROGRAM
The scientific program will include invited talks, presentations of
accepted papers in oral and poster sessions, referenced demonstrations
of innovative applications and products, and panel sessions. The mode of
presentation (oral versus poster) will be based on the appropriateness
of the paper to that mode of communication.
Main scientific areas:
# applications of phonetics in speech synthesis and recognition;
#prosody in speech synthesis, recognition and analysis;
# pitch perception in music and speech
# corpus-based methods in speech synthesis and recognition;
# natural and synthetic expressive speech;
# voice quality in natural and synthetic speech;
# evaluation of speech synthesis and recognition systems;
# applications of phonetics in audiology and phoniatrics: speech signal
analysis based medical diagnostics;
# pragmaphonetics in discourse and dialogue analysis;
# text and speech machine processing and translation.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Chair: Grazyna Demenko (President of Polish Phonetic Association; Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Co-chairs: Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH University of Science and
Technology) and Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University)
Members:
Tunda Adegbda
Nick Campbell
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk
Stefan Grocholewski
Wolfgang Hess
Keikichi Hirose
Andrzej Izworski
Wojciech Majewski
Philipe Martine
Hansjoerg Mixdorff
Bernd Moebius
Andrzej Obrebowski
Antoni Pruszewicz
Andrzej Rakowski
Maria Steffen-Batogowa
Zygmunt Vetulani
Wieslaw Wszolek
Please note that the list of the Committee members is not closed yet.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Grazyna Demenko ([log in to unmask])
Wiktor Gonet ([log in to unmask])
Maciej Karpinski ([log in to unmask])
Mariusz Owsianny ([log in to unmask])
SECRETARY
Agnieszka Wagner
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Rafal Szydlowski
Daniel Sledzinski
Further details can be found on the Conference Web Page:
http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~fonetyka/call2005.html
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1st Slovene International Phonetic Conference -- SloFon 1
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20--22 April 2006
Internet address: http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
General Information
The SloFon 1 conference is the first scientific meeting of phoneticians in Slovenia and will take place from 20th to 22nd April 2006 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is organized by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Fran Ramovs Institute of Slovenian Language. We welcome both Slovene and foreign phoneticians, language technologists, and other linguists to participate in this event. The main goal of the conference is to promote research in phonetics and related disciplines in Slovenia and in the wider region. Although the primary focus of the conference is the phonetics of Slovenian, more general discussions are also welcome. The names of the invited speakers will be announced in the course of 2005.
Themes
SloFon 1 covers an extensive field of phonetics and related sciences:
1. phonetics of Slovene - experimental phonetic research in Standard Slovene, acoustic, articulatory and auditory phonetics, experimental phonetic research in dialects and non-standard speech
2. phonetic and phonological contrastive studies - Slovene vs. foreign language contrastive analyses (phonetic, phonological, morphonological etc.), standard vs. non-standard contrastive analysis (phonetic, phonological, morphonological etc.), Slovene as L2
3. contemporary trends in phonetics/phonology - generative phonology, postgenerative phonological schools, natural phonology, metrical stress theory, autosegmental phonology, optimality theory, speech perception, psychophonetics, sociophonetics, speech and text analysis, voice analysis
4. phonetics and language technologies - speech corpora, linguistic corpora and phonetics/phonology, speech recognition and synthesis
5. interdisciplinary studies - logopedics, phoniatrics, rhetoric and speech techniques, forensic phonetics
6. other areas of phonetics and phonology
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts should be submitted in both English and Slovene, or at least in one of the two languages, and should be from 1000 to 1500 characters long, including spaces. (For technical information see conference webpage at http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si). Submitted and accepted abstract will be published in the book of abstracts. Oral presentation will be of the standard format of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Abstracts should be sent by 15th November 2005 via email ([log in to unmask]) or via regular mail to the following address (please, submit electronic version as well):
SloFon1
ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša
Novi trg 2
P. p. 306
SI-1001 Ljubljana
Slovenija, EU
Important Dates
15. 11. 2005 - abstracts submission
1. 2. 2006 - abstracts acceptance/rejection
10. 2. 2006 - early registration (reduced fee)
1. 3. 2006 - submission of final versions of abstracts
15. 3. 2006 - registration
20. 4. 2006 - the conference
Registration Fee
The registration fee is 80 EUR (or 20,000 SIT). The reduced fee (payable by 20th February 2006 at the latest) is 60 EUR (or 15,000 SIT). The student fee is 20 EUR (or 5,000 SIT), and a written certificate of student status by the mentor or the faculty is required.
Organizers
Organizing Committee
Peter Jurgec (SRC SAZU, Ljubljana), Hotimir Tivadar, M. A. (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Primoz Vitez (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Melita Zemljak Jontes (Faculty of Education, Maribor), Dr. Andreja Zele (SRC SASA, Ljubljana), Dr. Jerneja Zganec Gros (Alpineon)
International Scientific Committee
Dr. Simon Dobrisek (Faculty of Computer and Education Science, Ljubljana), Peter Jurgec (SRC SASA, Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Zdravko Kacic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor), Prof. Dr. Smiljana Komar (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Simona Kranjc (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Vesna Mildner (Faculty of Arts, Zagreb), Dr. Vladimir Nartnik (SRC SAZU, Ljubljana) Prof. Dr. Zdena Palkova (Insitute of Phonetics, Prague), Prof. Dr. Irena Sawicka (Institute of Slavic Languages, Torun) Prof. Dr. Rastislav Sustarsic (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Hotimir Tivadar, M. A. (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Primoz Vitez (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Melita Zemljak Jontes (Faculty of Education, Maribor), Dr. Jerneja Zganec Gros (Alpineon)
Further information is available on SloFon 1 webpage: http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si, or by conference e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Thirteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting
26-28 MAY 2005
Special session: 'What is a phonological fact?' (featuring Juliette Blevins,
Bruce Hayes, Charles Reiss)
The programme for the 13mfm and information about booking for the conference is
now available on the conference website. Normal registration prices hold up
until the 9th May, after which there's a late fee to pay.
Conference website: http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html
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POSITIONS VACANT
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UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track Assistant Professor in Acoustic Phonetics, effective 1 July 2006. Applicants should have a solid background in acoustic speech analysis, phonetic theory, and phonological theory. Duties will involve MA and PhD student supervision and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in phonetics and general linguistics, including acoustic and experimental phonetics, auditory and perceptual phonetics, and phonology. Participation in the activities of the Phonetics Laboratory and the development of new research programs are components of this new position. Collaborative, interdisciplinary research and teaching and graduate program development are also encouraged. By the time of appointment, candidates are expected to have a PhD with a specialization in Phonetics, a demonstrated record of scholarly achievement, and a strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching.
Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of teaching evaluations, publication samples, and the names and e-mail addresses of three referees in hard copy to:
Dr. Leslie Saxon, Chair
Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria,
P.O. Box 3045, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P4, Canada
Phone: (250) 721 7422, Fax: (250) 721 7423
Web site: http://www.uvic.ca/ling/
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 December 2005. Please send electronic versions of your cover letter and curriculum vitae to [log in to unmask] Information about the Department of Linguistics and its programs can be found on the Department's web site at http://web.uvic.ca/ling/.
The University of Victoria is one of Canada's most vigorous comprehensive universities. The Department has an outstanding research reputation in languages of the Pacific Rim and western North America, which we wish to build on with this appointment. Our web site gives some indication of the Department's strengths in theoretical linguistics, phonetics, and L2 research and teaching, highlighting our long-standing ties to several other disciplines at the University of Victoria and to organizations outside the University.
The University of Victoria is an equity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, people of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the University.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.
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University of Cincinnati
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The University of Cincinnati Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
invites applications for a two-year research associate/postdoctoral position.
The major goal of the project is to develop models of speech production for
articulatorily complex sounds, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
ultrasound and acoustical data. A secondary goal is to translate findings into
clinically useful strategies for teaching speech production. The primary
responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to participate as a member
of the research team in the development of acoustical and articulatory modeling
strategies, plus the development of a public data-sharing website.
The successful candidate should have completed a higher degree in Linguistics,
Speech Pathology, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, or a related
field, and have an interest in phonetics. The candidate should also have
demonstrated interests and experience in phonetic/phonological theory, speech
motor control, acoustical analysis, computer modeling, or speech science.
The NIH-funded project is a cooperative effort among researchers at University
of Cincinnati, Haskins Laboratories, and the University of Maryland. The
University of Cincinnati is a major research university and part of the public
university system of the state of Ohio. Its location in Cincinnati, Ohio
provides a large selection of cultural, intellectual, and athletic activities
together with a convenient lifestyle and a low cost of living.
The two-year position carries a starting salary range of $40,000-$45,000, with
fringe benefits. The final salary will be arranged based on experience and
qualifications. There is some flexibility in starting time for this position,
but ideally we would expect employment to begin in fall of 2005. Applications
will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled. To apply,
please send the following documents:
(1) a curriculum vitae.
(2) the names and email addresses of 2-4 people who know your work well and
will be available as references. Do not ask for letters to be sent at this time.
The University of Cincinnati is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
and encourages applications from women and minorities.
Address for Applications:
Dr. Suzanne Boyce
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
3202 Eden Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0379
United States of America
Application Deadline: Open until filled.
Contact:
Dr. Nancy Creaghead
Email: boyceseemail.uc.edu
Phone: 513-558-8501
Fax: 513-558-8500
Website: http://www.uc.edu/csd
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University of Essex
Department Health & Human Sciences
Lectureship
This post has been established to support the development of the new MSc in
Speech and Language Therapy that will provide a two-year 'fast-track' Speech and
Language Therapy qualification for graduates. The post will be based in the
Department of Health and Human Sciences and will involve extensive liaison with
the Department of Language and Linguistics. The post will also help to develop
the University's research and teaching profile in Speech and Language Therapy.
While existing expertise in clinical applications is not required, it is
essential that the appointee is prepared to become involved in these areas.
The successful candidate will
- have a research record in phonetics, phonology or their clinical applications
AND/OR
- be a registered Speech and Language Therapist with the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists and have membership of the Health Professions Council.
Application details may be obtained by telephoning Colchester (01206) 872462
(24 hours), quoting reference number L/841, by writing to the address below or
by visiting our website.
Address for Applications -
Personnel Section L/841
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Deadline: 6 June 2005
Contact -
Harald Clahsen
Email: haraldessex.ac.uk
Phone: 0044-1206-87-2228
Website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs
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University of Cardiff
Positions in Forensic Linguistics
Dear Colleagues
I am writing to publicise 3 vacancies which have just been confirmed in
forensic linguistics/language and law at Cardiff University, UK. The ads
are in today's UK Guardian newspaper (links below) and will also appear in
the Times Higher Education Supplement www.thes.co.uk on Friday.
We have 1 Senior Lectureship (equivalent to Associate Professor) available
and 2 Lecturer posts (equivalent to Assistant Professor).
I have pasted below the basic details for each vacancy - if you also follow
the links provided, particularly for the .pdf files, further details are
available there.
General queries should be directed to Professor Nikolas Coupland
([log in to unmask]) as indicated in the ads, but if anyone has specific
queries relating to forensic linguistics/language and law, please feel free
to contact me informally.
Further details on the department and its undergraduate, MA and PhD
programmes in FL/Language and Law are available at: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/clcr
Details of the IAFL conference, to be held at Cardiff in July 2005 are
available at: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/clcr/iaflconference
best wishes and good luck to anyone to decides to apply
Janet Cotteril ([log in to unmask])
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Lecturers in Language and Communication
Cardiff University
£23643 - £27116
Closing date: 20 May 05
The Centre for Language and Communication Research in the School of English,
Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
Salary: Lecturer: £23643 - £27116 (Lecturer A) per annum (vacancy no. 296)
You should demonstrate expertise in teaching and research at an appropriate
level in one or preferably more than one of the following areas:
- Forensic linguistics, language and law
- Applied linguistics, language education
- Multimodal (including visual) communication, semiotics
- Phonetics/phonology and intonation
The Centre has a strong international profile for its work in social,
applied and critical fields of language/linguistics and human/media/global
communication, in one of Britain's leading and fastest growing universities.
You will be expected to make a strong contribution to the RAE and to the
Centre's and the School's research mission. Teaching duties will include
contributions to all years of our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees as
well as PhD supervision, where appropriate.
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/education/academic/vacancy-926482-1.html
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/pdf/926482-1.pdf
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University College Dublin
*** [1] Postdoc *****
The Department of Computer Science at University College Dublin has a
vacancy for one postdoctoral research fellow within a new research
project funded by Science Foundation Ireland. The project seeks to
identify speaker-specific attributes to speech which remain invariant
despite wholesale changes to speech by intentionally switching
speaking styles. Text-independent, dynamic signatures will be
particularly sought, so a background in dynamic systems as well as
solid experimental phonetics experience are both required. The
candidate will have primary responsibility for the collection of
three recorded corpora in which speakers intentionally modify their
speech towards a known target. The corpora will support both basic
and applied research into speaker identification.
Interested candidates should forward a full currriculum vitae and any
appropriate accompanying material, as well as the names and contact
details of three academic referees to
Dr Fred Cummins ([log in to unmask]).
The position is initially open for one year with the possiblilty of
extension pending funding continuation and performance review. It will
pay a taxable salary of EUR 41,000 p.a. The position is to be filled
as soon as possible.
University College Dublin is committed to promoting the continued
development of academic, employment and other policies, procedures and
practices which do not discriminate unfairly on the grounds of gender,
marital status, age, disability, race, colour, religious belief,
ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
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A funded postgraduate scholarship is currently available within the
Department of Computer Science for a PhD track student. The student
will work within the CHAINS project (CHaracterising INdividual
Speakers). This project involves the search for dynamic indices of
speaker identity which remain invariant despite substantial changes to
the speaker's style of speech. Speech corpora featuring unaltered and
altered speech will be recorded, and text-independent indices of
speaker identity sought therein.
The student must be familiar with basic digital signal processing and
capable of independenly developing speech analysis programs. A
background in phonetics is also desirable.
Interested candidates should forward a full currriculum vitae and any
appropriate accompanying material, as well as the names and contact
details of two academic referees to
Dr Fred Cummins ([log in to unmask]).
The position will pay a competitive tax-free scholarship and
fees. Applications will be accepted immediately and until the 15th of
May. No late applications will be entertained.
University College Dublin is committed to promoting the continued
development of academic, employment and other policies, procedures and
practices which do not discriminate unfairly on the grounds of gender,
marital status, age, disability, race, colour, religious belief,
ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
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Swiss Centre for Research in the Affective Sciences
We invite applications for research positions and fellowships in a new
National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) financed by the Swiss
National Science Foundation and the University of Geneva
Affective Sciences:
Emotions in individual behaviour and social processes
This NCCR, starting on September 1, 2005 for a total period of 10 years, is
directed by Prof. Klaus Scherer and centred at the University of Geneva.
Members represent the fields of anthropology, economics, history, law,
neurology, philosophy, and psychology at five different universities (Bern,
Fribourg, Geneva, Neuchâtel, Zurich). In 12 individual projects researchers
will study how emotions are produced and perceived, how they are
controlled, and what social functions they serve, jointly developing and
applying advanced methods. Researchers will synthesize their findings along
three transversal axes cutting across all projects: Pro- and anti-social
behaviour, gender differences, and emotional development across the life
span. In collaboration with partner institutions in politics, business, and
health care, the NCCR emphasizes knowledge transfer and practical
applications of research findings.
Positions for postdoctoral researchers and fellowships for doctoral
students are available for applicants from the disciplines mentioned above
in the three transversal modules (Geneva Centre) and 12 individual projects
at different universities (project leaders - Bern: Semmer; Fribourg:
Perrez, Reicherts; Geneva: Borgeaud, Eid, Flueckiger, Gendolla, Kaiser,
Landis, Mulligan, Robert, Roth, Scherer, Van der Linden, Vuilleumier,
Zentner; Neuchâtel: Tschan; Zurich: Ehlert, Fehr). The positions will be
filled on the basis of a competitive application procedure. Given equal
qualification, female applicants will be preferred.
For details concerning the positions available, the qualifications
required, and the procedure for submitting applications, researchers at
both the pre- and postdoctoral level who are interested in joining this
exciting interdisciplinary effort are invited to visit the following
website:
http://www.unige.ch/cisa/nccr_affsci
While the NCCR website is being constructed, scientists interested in the
NCCR Affective Sciences in general can find further information at the
following site:
http://www.unige.ch/cisa/nccr_information
Prof. Klaus R. Scherer, Ph.D. * University of Geneva
Dept. of Psychology * 40. Bd. du Pont d'Arve * CH-1205 Geneva
Tel +41/22/379-9211 or 9215 * Fax +41/22/379-9219 (new)
EMail [log in to unmask]
Web page of the Geneva Emotion Research Group:
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/emotion/welcome.html
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Geneva Emotion Research Group
Fellowship offer for a Ph.D. Candidate
in the area of Multimodal organization of facial and vocal expression
The Geneva Emotion Research Group (see http://www.unige.ch/fapse/emotion ) offers a fellowship for a Ph.D. candidate to collaborate in a project on emotional expression with a focus on multimodal integration. The dynamic co-organization of facial and vocal expressions is to be investigated. The project involves analyses of facial expressions (FACS coding of video recordings) and vocal expressions (acoustic analyses) of a new set of emotion portrayals by professional actors. The main topic of the research and the thesis is the synchronization of vocal and facial features for a large number of different emotions. This project is currently funded by the Swiss National Research Foundation for a period of 2 years. A prolongation for another 2 years is expected. This research will become part of the new Swiss National Center of Competence for Research in the Affective Sciences (see http://www.unige.ch/cisa/nccr_information ).
Requirements: Candidates must
- hold an undergraduate degree in psychology,
- have a strong interest for empirical research,
- have good knowledge of statistical data analysis packages (such as SPSS or S-PLUS),
- be at ease with new multimedia technologies
- have an excellent knowledge of English (some French is to be acquired, if absent),
- have a strong interest for and previous experience with the analysis of facial and/or vocal emotional expressions.
Possibilities: This position is intended to lead to the completion of a PhD in Psychology under the direction of Prof. Klaus Scherer, and/or Prof. Susanne Kaiser, and Dr. Tanja Bänziger.
Fellowship: approx. 40'000 CHF ("candidat au doctorat FNRS")
Duration: 2 years (with the possibility of a prolongation for 2 years)
Application deadline: Candidates must send their applications (letter of interest, CV and letter of recommendation) by post or, preferably, email before May 15th 2005 to: Dr. Tanja Bänziger, FAPSE, Université de Genève, 40, blvd du Pont d'Arve, CH-1205 Genève (Switzerland)
Contact: For more information please contact Dr. T. Bänziger. Email: [log in to unmask] or phone: +41 22 379 92 07
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dep. of Language and Communication Studies
Associate Professor
The Department of Language and Communication Studies at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim) offers a vacant
associate professorship in phonetics for applicants with specialisations in
acoustic phonetics/digital signal processing
and/or
physiological phonetics
Though native competence in Norwegian is not strictly required, knowledge
of Norwegian or one of the other Scandinavian languages is considered
desirable.
The full text of the announcement (in Norwegian) can be found at
http://innsida.ntnu.no/nettopp_lesmer.php?kategori=nyheter&dokid=426de6079304b8.64723864
Reference nr. HF-262
Address for Applications:
Anne Beate Svarva
Faculty of Arts
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim N-7491
Norway
Deadline: 25th May 2005
Contact:
Prof. Wim van Dommelen
Email: wim.van.dommelenhf.ntnu.no
Phone: +47 73596527
Fax: +47 73596119
Website: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/hf/isk
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE, CARDIFF ATHROFA PRIFYSGOL CYMRU,CAERDYDD
SCHOOL OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SCIENCES
CENTRE FOR SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY
LECTURER IN LINGUISTICS
POST NO: A185
Based at the Llandaff Campus, the School of Health & Social Sciences delivers a wide range of courses at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. You will be expected to contribute primarily to the teaching of linguistics (including phonology) on the BSc (Hons) Speech & Language Therapy course and supervision of student projects. You will have a good level of knowledge of linguistics, and an interest in its clinical application.
You will be expected to undertake research and/or consultancy within the subject area and contribute fully to developments in the Centre.
You will posses a good honours degree and a higher degree in a relevant subject area.
The successful candidate will be expected to commence duties on 1st September 2005.
Informal enquiries to Dr. Siân Munro (Head of Centre for Speech & Language Therapy) Tel 02920 416881: Email [log in to unmask]
Salary: £23,643 - £29,479 pa
Closing date for receipt of applications: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Interview date: Wednesday 1st June 2005
UWIC warmly welcomes applications from black, ethnic and other minority groups. All applicants must hold a valid UK work permit.
Application forms and further particulars are available from:-
www.uwic.ac.uk/jobs
Or:- Human Resources, UWIC,
Central Administration, Llandaff Campus, PO Box 377,
Western Avenue, Cardiff, CF5 2SG
Telephone: (029) 2041 7026
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Acapela Group, a company situated in Mons (Belgium), is active in the domains of text-to-speech and speech recognition.
We are looking for a linguist with a good knowledge of european portuguese phonetics, preferably a native speaker, for the validation of our portuguese text-to-speech system.
Job description: validation of a large lexicon, corpus gathering, supervision of the recording of a portuguese voice, validation of our text-to-speech system in portuguese
Period concerned: the job contract would be for a period of 3 to 4 months, beginning as
soon as possible.
Required profile: linguist with a good knowledge of the european portuguese language and namely phonetics, preferably a native speaker. A good knowledge of french or english is also required.
Your presence in Mons would be required for at least 50% of the work period.
For further information, please contact us at:
00 32 65 37 42 78
or send a mail at [log in to unmask]
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University of Edinburgh
College of Humanities and Social Science
School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Research Associate (full-time, fixed term)
Salary Scale: £19,460 - £25,699 Grade AR1A
Closing Date: 5 May 2005
Vacancy Reference: 3004389
The School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) is seeking to hire a Research Associate to work on a 36 month (extendable to 3 years) US National Science Foundation funded project.
For further particulars, see:
https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.furtherdetails&vacancy_ref=3004389
THE PROJECT
IMAP"Tracking Multi-modal communication in Humans and Agents", The project is funded under a US National Science Foundation (Division of Information and Intelligent Systems), grant to Max Louwerse, Art Graesser, and Xiangen Hu of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis in collaboration with Ellen Gurman Bard and Mark Steedman of the University of Edinburgh. The goal of the project is to improve the linguistic and psychological validity of automatically generated speech intonation and facial gesture within the context of instructional dialogues. The work will combine expertise at human-machine and human-human dialogue with expertise at automatic generation of intonation and gesture. At Edinburgh, the project is housed in HCRC and TAAL.
The project addresses the problem of automatically generating speech with intonation and facial animation appropriate to its linguistic and discourse content. Working within a multi-disciplinary team, the successful candidate will participate in the design and analysis of multi-modal communication experiments that will provide basic data on the use of different communicative modalities within the same dialogue structures and information states, and will help to develop tests of the efficacy of simulated versions of human modality use.
We now seek a post-doctoral researcher for the IMAP project. Candidates must have a PhD in psycholinguistics, laboratory phonetics, computational linguistics, cognitive science or a related field of linguistics or by June, 2005, or equivalent research experience. Applicants should have a good grasp of statistics used in psycholinguistic research. The ideal candidate will have experience with analysis of prosody, of facial expression, or of discourse structure, preferably within experimental or studies of dialogue, and/or the design of dialogue annotation systems. Some UNIX-based programming skills are necessary. A willingness to develop such skills further in a computationally rich environment would be a distinct advantage. Candidates should demonstrate an interest in modelling language behaviour, good organizational skills, and an ability to manage assistants and to work to deadlines in an interdisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the design of dialogue experiments, to organize the systematic coding of the behaviour of human interlocutors, and to analyze the relationships holding among coding levels in various experimentally induced conditions. The post is funded for 27 months (extendable to three years) to start as soon as possible.
Teaching. This is not a teaching post. Nonetheless, there are opportunities to develop teaching skills by contributing up to several hours a week to tutoring, laboratory demonstration, or lecturing in the candidate's speciality.
Duties and main responsibilities of the post: - · Helping to plan and design experimental paradigms for multimodal data collection · Helping to develop and apply coding and annotation systems in collaboration with the principal investigators · Managing student coders and arranging quality control for coded results. · Analysing experimental results · Working with the entire JAST team to report, review, and plan portions of the project · Participating in preparation and delivery of project reports, journal articles and conference presentations.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Essential Minimum Qualifications 1. A PhD in a relevant area or equivalent research experience 2. Active research expertise in human language behaviour 3. Basic Unix programming skills
Desirable Experience/Qualifications 1. Experience in research on spoken dialogue, speech prosody, facial expression, or information structure, particularly research using eye-tracking techniques. 2. Experience with statistical techniques for psycholinguistics 3. Familiarity with dialogue or discourse coding and annotation systems 4. Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team
Nature of Appointment Salary Scale: AR1A £19,460 - £25,699 p.a. The post is tenable from any date after the completion of the interviews.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Postal Application forms and details of Further Particulars can be obtained from Human Resources, University of Edinburgh, Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HS, or Tel 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering service).
Applications should include: · a curriculum vitae, · the application form · an example of your published work or failing that, a short thesis chapter · letters of reference from two named referees, these may arrive by email in the first instance and should be forwarded to: Ms Shirley Cairns Appointments Secretary School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences 7 George Square Edinburgh EH9 9JZ [log in to unmask] by the closing date listed of May 5th 2005. We cannot guarantee to consider late applications. Please complete the equal opportunities form and return in the separate prepaid envelope.
For those who wish to apply on-line, please follow the on-line application procedure at http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk
TIMETABLE
The closing date for receipt of applications is 5 May 2005.
Please ensure that two academic references are sent to the address above to arrive no later than 5 May 2004. The curriculum vitae will be held in strict confidence by the Selection Committee.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a presentation on their current research during May 2005.
Interviews will be held on 27th May 2005.
Please quote reference no: 3004389
Footnote
These particulars are issued by Human Resources, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh. They are intended to represent an accurate description of the duties at the time of writing, although this accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The University reserves the right to vary these particulars or make no appointment at all. Neither in part nor in whole do these particulars form any contract between the University and any individual.
DISCLOSURE
This post will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure check.
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LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Ref: FH/LING1/phonet
Faculty of Health
School of Allied Health Professions
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics (Full Time or Fractional - Temporary to
cover maternity leave)
Up to £36,428 (pro rata for fractional posts)
Individuals with a relevant first degree or postgraduate qualification in
Linguistics are invited to apply to this temporary post to work in the
Speech and Language Therapy team, which consists of linguists and speech
and language therapists. Applications to proportions of this full time post
will be considered.
The post involves specialist teaching and assessment in practical and
theoretical phonetics, phonology, acoustic phonetics and linguistics and a
commitment to the undergraduate qualifying course in Speech and Language
Therapy, administrative support and tutorials. Previous teaching related
to speech and language therapy is not essential.
Applications are encouraged from black and ethnic minority groups and
people with disabilities, as they are under represented in this area of
work. Selection will be on the basis of merit.
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure.
For informal discussion, please contact Alison Ross, Head of Speech and
Language Therapy, 0113 2832600 ext. 3267, email [log in to unmask] or Dr
Nicole Whitworth, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, tel: 0113 2832600 ext.
3318, email [log in to unmask]
Application forms and further details can be downloaded from
http://jobs.leedsmet.ac.uk Alternatively please tel: 0113 2832600 ext 4353
or email [log in to unmask]
Closing Date: Noon, Wednesday 1 June 2005
It is anticipated that interviews for this post will take place on Thursday
30 June 2005
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
RESEARCHER (three-year full-time position)
A three-year Wellcome Trust-funded post is available for a Researcher with
a background in speech sciences and speech perception. The postholder will
assist in a study of the speech perceptual abilities of children with
dyslexia. The responsibilities will include recording and analyzing speech
stimuli, developing test materials, carrying out extensive speech
perceptual testing with children with dyslexia and controls, and data
analysis. The
postholder will be working closely with the two investigators on this
project: Dr Valerie Hazan and Prof. Stuart Rosen. Experience with acoustic
analysis of speech and human subject testing is essential.
For more details see:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/jobs/index.html
Dr Valerie Hazan
Reader in Speech Sciences and Head of Department
Secretary, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: + 44 20 7679 7069 (Internal tel: 37069)
Fax: + 44 20 7383 4108
email: [log in to unmask]
Home page: www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/val/home.html
Personal page:
http://www.breakthroughweekend.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1000&px=1099239
Co-chair of:
ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception
15-17 June 2005; London, UK
http://www.psp2005.org.uk
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