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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
December 2015
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HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM THE STAFF AT FONETIKS:
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Rachel Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
Radek Święciński, University of Amsterdam
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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18-19 December 2015. 3rd St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language. St Petersburg, Russia. https://nightwhites2015.wordpress.com (09/15)
7-8 January 2016. Workshop on Tone and Intonation 3. Guwahati, Assam, India. http://www.iitg.ernet.in/wti3 (06/15)
9 January 2016. Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (SPIRE). Groningen, The Netherlands. http://spin2016.nl and http://inspire-itn.eu/index.php/inspire-events/workshop-spin2016 (09/15)
13 January 2016. Workshop on Variation in Phonology. Workshop of OCP13 (see item below). Budapest, Hungary. http://seas3.elte.hu/ocp13/variation.html (05/15)
13-16 January 2016. 13th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP13). Budapest, Hungary. http://seas3.elte.hu/ocp13 (05/15)
4 March 2016. Third Workshop on Sound Change. Salamanca, Spain. http://diarium.usal.es/fsmiret/3rd-workshop-on-sound-change-salamanca-march-4th-2016/ (03/15)
22-23 March 2016. Prosody and Information Structure in Stuttgart (PINS). Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS.html (09/15)
##25-28 March 2016. 1st International Symposium on Applied Phonetics. Nagoya, Japan. https://goo.gl/Wd1Pnj (12/15)
31 March - 2 April 2016. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing (SVALP). Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.cpe.vt.edu/svalp/ (04/15)
1-2 April 2016. Sound to Word in Bilingual and Second Language Speech Perception. Iowa City, Iowa, USA. http://www.soundtoword16.org/ (09/15)
1-2 April 2016. 18th Conference on Spoken English at Villetaneuse. Paris 13 University: pierre.fournier AT univ-paris13.fr
(pre-conference workshop at Paris Diderot on March 31 http://pre-conf-aloes-2016.clillac-arp.univ-paris-diderot.fr) (11/9)
8 April 2016. Workshop on Syntactic and Phonological Representation of Speech Acts. Göttingen, Germany. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/glow-2016---39th-generative-linguistics-in-the-old-world/510338.html
15-17 April 2016. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP 2016). Columbus, Ohio, USA. http://u.osu.edu/caspslaposu2016/ (06/15)
18-20 May 2016. 'r-atics 5, The Fifth International Workshop on Phonetic, Phonological, Acquisitional, Sociolinguistic and Dialect-Geographic Aspects of Rhotics. Leeuwarden / Ljouwert, Netherlands: r-atics5 AT fryske-akademy.nl http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/r-atics5 (11/15)
24-27 May 2016. 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2016). Buffalo, NY, USA. https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/tal2016/ (09/15)
24-28 May 2016. International Colloquium Amazonicas VI: Phonology & Syntax, Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Leticia: valenzuela AT chapman.edu (11/15)
##25 May 2016. Manchester Phonololgy Meeting FRINGE Workshop. Manchester, United Kingdom. heinz<AT>udel.edu (12/15)
31 May – 3 June 2016. Speech Prosody 2016. Boston, MA, USA. http://www.speechprosody2016.org, speechprosody2016 AT gmail.com (09/15)
Special Sessions URL: http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/: (11/15)
10-12 June 2016. New Sounds 2016: 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Aarhus, Denmark. http://conferences.au.dk/newsounds2016/ (09/15)
15-18 June 2016. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference. Halifax, Canada. http://icpla2016.ca (07/15)
13-16 July 2016. 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. http://labphon.org/labphon15 (03/15)
18-23 July 2016. International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology Rome, Italy. http://www.CILFR2016Roma.it (07/15)
1-3 September 2016. 7th Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE2016). Canterbury, Kent.http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/tie-conference/ (10/15)
21-24 September 2016. Experimental Approaches to the Perception and Production of Language Variation, Vienna. https://exapp2016.univie.ac.at/ (07/15).
##29 September – 1 October 2016. 12th Conference on the Phonology of Contemporary English: ENGLISH MELODIES. Aix-en-Provence, France. (12/15)
28-30 October 2016. Phonetics Today. Moscow, Russia. phoneticstoday AT yandex.ru (09/15)
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CONFERENCES
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12th Conference on the Phonology of Contemporary English: ENGLISH MELODIES
29 September 2016 – 01 October 2016, Aix-en-Provence, France
Call for Papers:
Several sessions will be organised, following the development of a variety of thematic research groups with dedicated interests within the PAC program:
- PAC-Research with a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi and Daniel Hirst will present the latest functions of SPPAS, a tool producing automatic phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its transcription, including Momel and Intsint which are now implemented.
- PAC-Prosody
- ICE-PAC (interphonologies of contemporary English)
- LVTI (Langue Ville Travail Identité), the study of English in urban contexts and its link with the concept of identity
Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English. A special emphasis will be given this year to English melodies, in the broadest sense, from intonation to segmental primes. We will welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets as well, in connection with the workshop.
The deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is February 29, 2016. Please send your proposal in 2 pdf files, one with name and affiliation, the other anonymous to both:
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Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March.
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1st International Symposium on Applied Phonetics
Nagoya, Japan, 25-28 March 2016
Call for Papers:
Phonetic educators or those who are responsible for phonetic teaching are most welcome.
Topics:
- Teaching general phonetics to major students
- Teaching general phonetics to non-major students
- Teaching phonetics of a specific language
- Teaching pronunciation in monolingual classes
- Teaching pronunciation in multilingual classes
- Teaching L2 pronunciation in L1/L2
- Teaching pronunciation to adults
- Teaching pronunciation to young students
- Phonetics in teacher training
- Immersion class
- L2 pronunciation acquisition
- Teaching prosody
- Socio-phonetic factors in the classroom
- Pronunciation training tools
- Phonetics for learners
- Others, if any
Please sign up to participate and/or present an abstract: https://goo.gl/Wd1Pnj by December 20, 2015, or send your name and affiliation to [log in to unmask] with the subject title ''participation.''
Important dates:
Sign up to participate and/or present an abstract: by December 20, 2015
Sending abstract & registration: December 21, 2015
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2016
Notice of acceptance: by February 20, 2016
Camera-ready pdf abstract: February 28, 2016
Conference dates: March 25-28, 2016
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Manchester Phonology Meeting FRINGE Workshop
Manchester, UK, 24 May 2016
The topic of the 2016 MFM FRINGE workshop is Computation and Learnability in Phonology.
We invite 45 minute presentations that review some computational or learnability technique, approach, paradigm, or coherent set of results relevant to the phonological community. The goal of the meeting is to provide computational tutorials rather than to present original research results.
Practicalities:
- One page abstract
- Submission deadline on February 12, 2016
- Author notifications by early March
Organizers: Jeffrey Heinz (heinz<AT>udel.edu) and Giorgio Magri
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POSITIONS VACANT
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Postdoctoral associate researchers – The Phonetics Lab at Institute of Applied Linguistics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
The Phonetics Lab at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Jinan University, is seeking postdoctoral researchers for a period of up to three years. Researchers with experience in experimental phonetics, prosody and fieldwork are particularly welcome.
Jinan University is located in Guangzhou, China. The postdoctoral associate will participate fully in and contribute to the intellectual life of the institute. (S)he will interact with faculty and students on research.
Contact Information:
Professor Maolin Wang
Email: wangmaolin <at> hwy.jnu.edu.cn
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Assistant/Associate Prof - Communication Sciences & Disorders, The College of Saint Rose, United States, Albany, NY
Job description
The College of Saint Rose Thelma P. Lally School of Education Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders invites applicants for a full-time, tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor faculty position in a department which emphasizes scholarship and effective clinical practice, beginning in the fall of 2016.
The department values and practices innovation and collaboration resulting in extraordinary opportunities to participate in and develop a wide range of creative and cutting-edge clinical and/or research programs in a work environment that is warm, collegial, supportive, and mentoring. Teaching may focus on childhood communication disorders, speech sound disorders, childhood dysphagia and/or adult/medical speech-language pathology. Additional responsibilities include clinical supervision and student advisement.
Faculty are encouraged to engage in research in their area of interest. Opportunities are available for research and thesis direction. As a member of the Saint Rose faculty, the applicant is expected to teach graduate and/or undergraduate courses, produce scholarly work as evidence of professional advancement or accomplishment and serve the College's communities through participation in School and College-wide committees and events.
Desired skills and experience
To qualify as an Assistant Professor: The successful candidate will have an earned doctorate in speech-language pathology or closely related field (or foreign language equivalent), eligibility for ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence - Speech Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), and eligibility for New York State licensure. Candidates must have expertise and clinical experience in at least one of the following areas: childhood communication disorders, speech sound disorders, childhood dysphagia and/or adult/medical speech-language pathology.
To qualify as an Associate Professor: In addition to the above, the successful candidate will also possess an earned rank of associate professor at a previous institution.
Candidate reviews will begin immediately. The search will remain open until a qualified candidate is selected.
About the employer
The College of Saint Rose is a dynamic, comprehensive college of about 4,500 students. Located in the city of Albany, the heart of New York State's Capital District, the College is a private, independent, coeducational institution, sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. Through a strong liberal education curriculum and progressive academic programs, Saint Rose serves traditional students and working professionals in undergraduate, graduate degree and certificate programs. The College also has an ongoing focus on international education initiatives and collaboration.
The College of Saint Rose is an award winning employer. We are a 7 time recipient of the Chronicle of Higher Education's prestigious "Great Colleges to Work For" award, and have been recognized by the Capital District Business Review and the Times Union as a top workplace. Our employees enjoy a close-knit community based on the values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, responsibility and the free exchange of ideas.
The College of Saint Rose values diversity and abides by federal, state and local law in admissions, employment and all services and programs provided. It does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion/creed, disability, age, national/ethnic origin, sexual orientation or any other condition established by law.
Web address for applications: https://strose.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp?JOBID=62707#pageTop
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Researcher Linguist - Text-to-Speech Developer, Nuance Communications, Turin, Italy
To strengthen our Research and Development team we are looking for a junior linguist specialized in phonetics. The ideal candidate has an outstanding academic record, experience with language technologies, and enjoys product oriented work. You will develop language and voice data for Nuance’s flagship text-to-speech system, Vocalizer. The technology you will work on is deployed in the majority of cars and speech-enabled mobile devices on the market today, and is used by global enterprises and healthcare providers. We offer a dynamic and international work environment based in Turin, Italy.
Core duties:
- Build text-to-speech voices from recordings and annotations using the Nuance voice building toolkit
- Improve text-to-speech voices by analyzing data, listening to results, and learning new tools
- Supervise native contractors in the annotation of speech databases
- Create recording scripts and coach voice talents
- Follow test and release processes with an ear for final product quality and customer satisfaction
Number of Years of Work Experience: Recent graduates are encouraged to apply
Required Skills:
- Strong sense of precision and quality in your daily job
- Good problem solving, analytic skills and troubleshooting skills
- Working in Windows environment
- Some knowledge in scripting in either Python or perl
- Ability to write high quality documentation
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Must have good English and German oral and written skills
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with acoustic phonetics and spectrogram reading
- Experience in text-to-speech development
- Additional languages is advantageous
Education: Master level knowledge of phonetics or phonology or Computational Linguistics or other relevant skills
Application deadline: 31 December 2015
Contact information:
emeajobs<AT>nuance.com
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Post Doc Language Engineer (12 month contract), Nuance Communications, Zurich, Switzerland
To strengthen our Research and Development team we are looking for a junior computational linguist. The ideal candidate has an outstanding academic record, experience with language technologies, and enjoys product oriented work. You will develop language and voice data for Nuance’s flagship text-to-speech system, Vocalizer. The technology you will work on is deployed in the majority of cars and speech-enabled mobile devices on the market today, and is used by global enterprises and healthcare providers. The position will be initially for 12 months and can be in Ghent (Belgium) or as a student internship in Zürich (Switzerland).
Core Duties
- Development of linguistic components for various languages and tasks, including text normalization, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, and prosody prediction
- Adoption of data-driven techniques and NLU approaches to refine or replace rule-based approaches
- Improvement of processes for testing and evaluation of linguistic components
- Responding to reported issues reported from deployed systems, analyzing, fixing and releasing
- Managing improvement and customization projects of various scope and team sizes
Number of Years of Work Experience: Recent MSc graduates are encouraged to apply
Required Skills:
- The successful candidate is a team player and a fast learner with an analytical mindset and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Computational linguistics
- Phonetics and phonology
- Ability to work in distributed teams
- High proficiency in written and spoken English
- Must be native German or native North American
Preferred Skills:
- Mathematical background and understanding of statistical learning techniques
- Experience with text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), statistical machine learning techniques
- Experience with version control systems (e.g. hg, svn)
- Scripting and programming skills in Python
- Near-native proficiency in several languages
Education:
MSc in linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, or equivalent
Contact information:
Nicki Myddleton-Jones
Nicki.mj<AT>nuance.com
Application e-mail: emeajobs<AT>nuance.com
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics, CUNY-College of Staten Island, New York, USA
The Linguistics Program at the College of Staten Island of The City University of New York (CUNY) invites applicants for an anticipated tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the English Department, beginning August 2016.
A Ph.D. in Linguistics is required by the time of appointment. Preference will be given to candidates who specialize in the sub-area of speech science, and who are able to teach courses related to (and have a research interest in) the study of acquired phonetic and phonological disorders.
The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant and growing undergraduate program in linguistics, which also houses an active research laboratory (the CSI-CUNY Speech Laboratory).
Applicants for the position will need to demonstrate a record of (or evidence for the promise of) scholarly productivity that will advance the program’s research profile. Other expectations for the position include: applying for extramural funding; teaching courses in the Linguistics Program; mentoring undergraduate students; developing undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of specialization; participating actively in the life of the College; performing departmental and college service.
The Search Committee and the College are strongly committed to the diversity of the academic community, one that reflects the multicultural makeup of our student body. Women and members of other traditionally underrepresented populations are therefore strongly encouraged to
apply. EO/AA Employer.
Review of applications will begin immediately. The deadline for all applications is 20 January 2016.
Applications must be submitted online at the application website below. To apply, visit the application website, navigate to “Employment,” then “Job postings.” Find Job ID #14058. Applicants should submit as a single PDF attachment the following: letter of application, curriculum vitae, and up to three writing samples. Additionally, applicants should arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent directly from referees to [log in to unmask] .
Questions regarding the position can be sent to the Linguistics Search Committee at [log in to unmask] If you have difficulty with uploading multiple documents to the website, please send them to [log in to unmask] However, please note that you must still create a log on at the application website; applicants who do not create an application there cannot be considered.
About the College of Staten Island / CUNY:
The College of Staten Island (CSI) is one of 11 senior (i.e., four-year) colleges of The City University of New York, and the only public college on Staten Island. CSI offers over 80 undergraduate programs, 24 graduate programs and, through the CUNY Graduate Center, participates in 7 doctoral programs. The College enrolls approximately 14,000 students and employs over 2,000 faculty and staff. Located on a 204-acre park-like campus that is minutes away from the cultural treasures of Manhattan, the CSI campus is the largest collegiate site in NYC.
Application deadline: 20 January 2016
Contact information:
Search Committee
Email: facultyrecruithss<AT>csi.cuny.edu
Web address for applications: http://www.cuny.edu
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