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foNETiks
A network newsletter for
the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
May 2006
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK
Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK
Lisa Lim, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[date of first appearance follows]
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8-10 May 2006. 6th FLT-phonetics-in-Poland conference, Mikorzyn, Poland. <http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/Miko06-cyrk1.htm> [in Polish] (03/06)
10-14 May 2006. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). University of Helsinki, Finland. <http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/skl/icca/> (12/03)
11-12 May 2006. MMUA 2006. ISCA Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication. (A satellite workshop of ICASSP 2006; see below) Toulouse, France. <http://mmua.cs.ucsb.edu/Intro.htm> (04/06)
14-19 May 2006. 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Centre des Congrès Pierre Baudis, Toulouse, France. <http://www.icassp2006.org/default.asp> (12/05)
20 May 2006. Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation Workshop. (A satellite workshop of ICASSP2006; see above). Toulouse, France. <http://www.icassp2006.org/default.asp>
21-25 May 2006. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference: Frontiers. Fremantle, Western Australia. <http://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/Content.aspx?p=62> (08/05)
23 May 2006. International Workshop on Emotion: Corpora For Research On Emotion And Affect (In association with the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Genoa, Italy. <http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/>; (01/06)
25-27 May 2006. 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK. <www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html> (01/06)
27 May 2006. Workshop on Quality assurance and quality measurement for language and speech resources (In conjunction with LREC 2006, The 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Genoa, Italy. <http://utrecht.elsnet.org/lrec2006qa> (01/06)
31 May - 3 June 2006. 11th Symposium International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA11). Dubrovnik, Croatia. <http://icpla.ffzg.hr/> (07/05)
7-10 June 2006. 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. <http://www.slp-nijmegen.nl/smc2006/> (11/05)
8 June 2006. SIGPHON 2006. 8th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology, at HLT-NAACL (Human Language Technology conference-North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting). New York City, NY, USA. <http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/sigphon06/> (04/06)
9-13 June 2006. 2nd Biannual Russian Conference on Cognitive Science. St. Petersburg, Russia. <http://www.cogsci.ru/cogsci06/firstcallen.htm> (06/05)
19-29 June 2006. Phonology Fest 2006. Bloomington, Indiana, USA. <http://www.indiana.edu/~phono/> (12/05)
25-29 June 2006. SPECOM. 11th International Conference on Speech and Computer. St. Petersburg, Russia. <http://www.specom.nw.ru/> (10/05)
28-30 June 2006. IEEE Odyssey 2006: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. San Juan, Puerto Rico. <http://www.speakerodyssey.com/> (04/06)
29 June - 1 July 2006. 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon10). Paris, France. <http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~labphon/> (07/05)
3 July 2006. Colloquium on the Phonetic Bases of Distinctive Features. Paris, France. <http://ed268.univ-paris3.fr/lpp/phonetic_bases/index.html> (02/05) [URL corrected, 03/06]
6-8 July 2006. Approches Phonologiques et Prosodiques de la Variation Sociolinguistique: le Cas du Francais (PFC 2006). <http://pfc2006.fltr.ucl.ac.be/> (09/05)
15-16 July 2006. 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. Sydney, Australia. <http://sigdial06.dfki.de/> (04/06)
++ 23 - 26 July 2006. IAFPA 2006 -- Conference of the International
++ Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics. Goteborg, Sweden.
++ http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/iafpa2006/ (05/06)
28-30 August 2006. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. Athens, Greece. <http://www.phil.uoa.gr/~abotinis> (12/05)
31 August - September 1, 2006. Symposium Mathematics and Phonology (MathPhonI), Orleans, France. <http://www.univ-orleans.fr/mapmo/membres/maitine/matphono.html> (02/06)
5-6 September 2006. Workshop: Strength Relations in Phonology. Sendai, Japan. <http://www.tscc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp/~rprg> (04/06)
7-9 September 2006. 2nd TIE Conference on the Typology of Tone and Intonation (TTI). Berlin, Germany. <http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1263.html>; http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?
events_tie2> (05/05)
8-10 September 2006. Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology. Toronto, Canada. <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/phonology/> (11/05)
16 September 2006. SAPA 2006. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition. (A satellite workshop of Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP.) Pittsburgh, PA, USA. <http://www.sapa2006.org/> (12/05)
17-22 September 2006. Interspeech'2006 - ICSLP (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. <http://www.interspeech2006.org/> (12/04)
27-29 September 2006. Conference on Forensic Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Law: Law, Language and Society. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. <www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl> (03/06)
8-10 November 2006. IV JTH2006. IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla/ 4th Workshop on Speech Technology. Zaragoza, Spain. <http://jth2006.unizar.es>; jth2006.unizar.es (04/06)
9-12 November 2006. 48th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois, USA. <http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/call_2006.html> (03/06)
30 Nov - 1 Dec 2006. IWSLT: 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation. Kyoto, Japan. <http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2006/> (04/06)
++ 6 - 8 December 2006. 11th Australasian International Conference on
++ Speech Science and Technology (SST2006), Auckland, New Zealand.
++ http://www.assta.org/ (05/06) [Further details below]
++ 9 - 11 December 2006. 9th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop on Speech
++ Databases and Assessment. Penang, Malaysia.
++ http://www.usm.my/cocosda2006/ (05/06) [Further details below]
13-15 December 2006. 7th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP). Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. <http://cefala.org/issp2006 > (03/06)
13-16 December 2006. ISCSLP 2006: 5th International symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing. Singapore. <http://www.iscslp2006.org/> (12/05)
22-25 May 2007. NOLISP 2007. An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on NOn LInear Speech Processing. The Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France. <http://www.congres.upmc.fr/nolisp2007/>;
<http://www.congres.upmc.fr/nolisp2007/Call%20NOLISP%2007.pdf> (04/06)
6-10 August 2007. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2007). Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. <http://www.icphs2007.de> (04/06)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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SST2006
11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
8 - 10 December 2006.
This conference will be held at the University of Auckland, NZ.
Keynote speakers are Pat Keating, Professor of Linguistics, UCLA; Joseph Perkell, Senior Research Scientist, MIT; Michael Corballis, Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland.
Submissions should describe original contributions to spoken language research, speech science and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other professionals.
Submissions for oral and poster presentations are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly:
- Speech production
- Acoustic phonetics
- Acoustics of accent change
- Music and speech processing
- Emotional speech, voice, intonation and prosody
- Applications of speech science and technology
- Speech Processing for Forensic Applications
- Speech recognition and understanding
- Speaker recognition and classification
- Speech enhancement and noise cancellation
- Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing
- Corpus management and speech tools
- Audiology & speech language therapy
For more information about the paper submission process, please see the ASSTA web site at: http://www.assta.org/.
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CALL FOR PAPERS : Oriental COCOSDA 2006
9 - 11 December
Penang, Malaysia
The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 9th Oriental COCOSDA Workshop will be held on Dec. 9-11, in Penang, Malaysia hosted by the Universiti Sains Malaysia. Oriental COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past seven workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India and Indonesia.
Oriental COCOSDA workshop in Malaysia will help in boosting the research and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in Southeast Asia. Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including, but not limited to:
Topics
Speech Databases and Text Corpora
Assessment of Speech Input and Output Technologies Phonetic/Phonological Systems for Oriental Languages Romanization of Non-Roman Characters Segmentation and Labeling Speech Prosody and Labeling Speech Processing Models and Systems Multilingual Speech Corpora Speech Corpus Annotation Tools Others
Paper Submission
Papers should describe original work. The paper should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. A paper accepted for presentation at Oriental COCOSDA 2006 cannot be presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. The format and other details of paper submission can be downloaded from the website.
Submission Process
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. The abstracts for proposed papers of no more than 400 words (one page) should be submitted for review. All submissions should include the following information: the title, names and affiliations of the authors, the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, e-mail, and URL, and 3 to 5 key words.
For the purposes of partially automated routing of papers to reviewers only, submit one (1) electronic version of the abstract. Acceptable file formats are PostScript (.ps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text.
An acknowledgement of your submission will be e-mailed soon after receipt.
Once your paper has been accepted, submit your camera-ready copy along with a signed Copyright Release Statement by the final manuscript deadline. Download camera ready copy.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
Further details from http://www.usm.my/cocosda2006/
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE
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University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Applications are invited for a Chair in Bilingualism to be held in the Department of Linguistics and English Language. The successful candidate will have an international profile in the area of bilingualism, research output which is internationally excellent, and a track record of grant capture. An additional research or teaching specialisation in phonetics and phonology would also be an advantage, as would an interest in sociolinguistics. We aim to appoint a highly motivated academic with skills in research leadership and the ability to secure funding for new research projects.
The successful candidate will commence 1st September 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, University of Wales, Bangor; tel: (01248) 382926/388132;
e-mail: [log in to unmask]; web: http://www.bangor.ac.uk
Further particulars and an application form can also be downloaded from the following web-site:
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/jobs/jobdetails.php.en?jobdetails=1&category2=Academic&reference=06-5/139&college=Arts%20and%20Humanities
Please quote reference number 06-5/139 when applying.
Application deadline: 16/06/2006
Committed To Equal Opportunities
Application Address: Bethan Hughes
Human Resources
University of Wales, Bangor
Bryn Afon, College Road
Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2DG
United Kingdom
Contact Information: Human Resources
Phone: +44 (0)1248 382926
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University of Michigan
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan invites applications for a one semester visiting position in Spanish Linguistics Winter term, 1/1/07-4/30/07. Area of specialization is open, but we will be especially interested in candidates who can teach in one or more of the following areas of Spanish Linguistics:
phonetics-phonology; sociolinguistics; dialectology, language variation and change; language contact. The position involves teaching 2 or 3 undergraduate courses during the Winter semester. The successful candidate must have PhD in hand.
Applicants should send letter of interest, CV, one or two sample publications, contact information of three references and if available, teaching evaluations. For full consideration, materials should arrive by August 15, 2006.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Application Address: Ms. Elizabeth Humpert
812 E. Washington St.
4108 MLB
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1275
USA
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City University, London.
Research Associate
Department of Language & Communication Science School of Allied Health Sciences Institute of Health Sciences
£22K - £25.5K pa inc.
Fixed term for 1 year
By combining academic excellence with professional relevance, City University London prepares 11,000 students for the world of work - 40 per cent at postgraduate level, and 50 per cent from outside the UK. A strong research culture enriches the learning experience and accounts for our growing influence on the markets we serve.
We are looking for a Research Associate to work on an ESRC funded project entitled 'The acquisition of standard British English rhotics: production and perception data'. You will be involved in designing, setting up and conducting production and perception experiments for young children. You will have a strong background in phonetics including acoustic analysis, and strong abilities in statistical analysis of data. You will have an undergraduate degree in linguistics or related subject and experience of speech synthesis and working with young children is desirable.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Rachael-Anne Knight, Lecturer in Phonetics, Tel. 020 7040 8081 or Email [log in to unmask]
In return, we offer a comprehensive package of in-house staff training and development, and benefits that include a final-salary pension scheme.
Actively working to promote equal opportunities and diversity.
For more information and an application form, visit http://www.city.ac.uk/hr/jobs or write to the Recruitment Team, HR Department, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, quoting job reference number RH/10433.
Closing date: 12 May 2006
Interview Date: 23 May 2006
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The deadline for the June issue of foNETiks is 27 May 2006.
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