********************************************** foNETiks A network newsletter for the International Phonetic Association and for the Phonetic Sciences December 2001 ********************************************** 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: [log in to unmask] The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/fonetiks.html Visit the IPA web page at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html *************************************************************************** THE EDITORS WISH ALL READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! *************************************************************************** ************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS [new ones marked ##] [date of first appearance follows] ************************************** 3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; <[log in to unmask]> (12/00) 9 - 13 December 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding. Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy. http://asru01.itc.it/ (08/01) 11 - 13 December 2001. IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ (05/01) 13 - 15 December 2001. XII Giornate GFS-AIA (Gruppo di Fonetica Sperimentale - Associazione Italiana di Acustica): La fonetica acustica come strumento di analisi della variazione linguistica in Italia (Acoustic phonetics as a tool for the analysis of linguistic variation in Italy). Macerata, Italy. http://www.unimc.it/gfs2001/; <[log in to unmask]> (07/01) 27 February - 1 March 2002. Phonological Acquisition in a Multilingual Context Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics Association). http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html (09/01) 27 February - 1 March 2002. Prosody - Regional Variation, Social Variation, and Multilingualism. Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics Association). Mannheim, Germany. http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html (08/01) 21 - 23 March 2002. IIIieme Journees D'etudes Linguistiques/ 3rd Linguistic Studies Workshop: Universaux Sonores / Sound Universals. Nantes, France. <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> (09/01) 25 - 27 March 2002. 2002 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. <[log in to unmask]> (08/01) 8 - 10 April 2002. Temporal Integration of Speech, ISCA Workshop. Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips/; <[log in to unmask]> (06/01, 10/01) 11 - 13 April 2002. Speech Prosody 2002. Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02/sp2002.htm; <[log in to unmask]> (08/01) ## 27 - 29 April 2002. Second North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC2). Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html (12/01) 3 - 5 May 2002. The Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology. University of Toronto. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~contrast/; <[log in to unmask]> (10/01) 3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; <[log in to unmask]> (12/00) ## 20 - 22 June 2002. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET XIII). Montreal, Canada. http://www.uqam.ca/tennet; <[log in to unmask]> (12/01) [Further details below] 23 June - 6 July 2002. NATO International Scientific Exchange Programme: Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception. Il Ciocco, Italy. http://www.ebire.org/earlab/asi2002.html (11/01) ## 27 - 28 June 2002. Conference on English Phonology. Toulouse, France. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm (12/01) [Further details below] ## 27 - 30 June 2002. LabPhon 8. Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence. New Haven, CT, USA. http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8; <[log in to unmask]> (12/01) [Further details below] ## 2 - 6 September 2002. Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai University, Urayasu, Japan. <[log in to unmask]> (12/01) [Further details below] ## 14 - 16 September 2002. The 3rd Biennial ICVPB: International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Denver, USA. [Held in conjunction with the 7th ICSLP, also in Denver -- see next announcement] http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (12/01) 17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA. http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/ (08/01) 2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Acoustics and 9th Mexican Congress on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico. http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00) 3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01) 1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (actual website under construction) (08/01) *************************** CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS *************************** CALL FOR PAPERS THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET XIII) Montreal, Canada, 20 - 22 June 2002 The 13th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XIII, will be held in June 2002 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Universite du Qubec, Montreal. The basic conference structure is (a) two invited thematic symposia of 3 hours, each day, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. The conference is APA approved for 24 hours CPE. Participants may submit papers for consideration. Because these are refereed submissions, accepted poster papers will be published as refereed articles in Brain and Cognition. We have recently negotiated with Academic Press to handle TENNET submissions as individual submissions, which means that, as of next year, it will also be possible to access individual authors and their papers on the web. The deadline for refereed submissions, via e-mail only, is January 4, 2002. Information for refereed submissions Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in any domain of experimental, clinical or theoretical neuropsychology, including neurolinguistics, development and history. The title of the presentation, the full name(s) of author(s) (and complete mailing address, with institutional affiliation, if any, telephone number and e-mail) and acknowledgments should appear on the first page of the submission. This information is needed to properly prepare the program if your paper is accepted. A 100- to 150-word abstract is on the second page, followed by a detailed description of the paper. If applicable, the description should include an Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Full references (APA style) sections. Up to two (2) tables or graphs can also be added. It is also possible to submit an abstract only (up to 200 words) for consideration. In this latter case, only the abstract will appear in Brain and Cognition. Your submission should be sent by e-mail to arrive by the January 4 deadline to the chair of the program committee. Submissions received early will be sent for review as soon as they come in. IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with an updated general-purpose antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Attached files should be in MS Word or RTF. Submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask] Further information about accommodation, registration, preliminary program and past conferences can be found at the following web site: http://www.uqam.ca/tennet ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on English Phonology 27 - 28 June 2002 Universite de Toulouse, France A Conference on English Phonology will take place at the Universite de Toulouse, on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June, 2002. The conference is to be held under the aegis of the Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Semantique (Director: Marc Plenat; the ERSS, despite its name, it includes a substantial phonology team) with the support of the Groupe de Recheche en Phonologie 1954 (Director: Bernard Laks). The venue will be the social sciences university in the heart of Toulouse, surrounded by cheap bars, restaurants and cafes. The conference will feature three invited speakers: John Harris (UCL) Michael Kenstowicz (MIT) April McMahon (Sheffield) The conference organisers are Phil Carr (Universite Montpellier III, & ERSS, Toulouse) and Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College, UK). Phil Carr can be contacted at [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask], and Patrick Honeybone can be contacted at [log in to unmask] We invite papers on any aspect of the (synchronic or diachronic) phonetics/phonology of any variety of English, or on issues relevant to the acquisition of English. We are keen to have papers from a range of different approaches, including (but not limited to) the traditions of Laboratory Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Generative Phonology (of both OT and non-OT varieties), and Cognitive Linguistics. Papers will last 30 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be sent to either Phil Carr or Patrick Honeybone by Friday 25 January 2002. Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4, single-spaced and with a font size no smaller than 12, using 2.5cm or one inch margins. Abstracts should be submitted by email in one of these formats: Rich Text Format, Word, pdf, or plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, please use SIL doulos, which can be downloaded for free from this site: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html. Abstracts will be read by the abstracts committee: Jacques Durand, John Harris, Michael Kenstowicz, April McMahon. There will be a small registration fee (15 Euros, payable on arrival) to cover the cost of photocopying and other expenses. Lunches and dinners will take place in local restaurants and brasseries, at a small cost. A conference dinner will be held at a restaurant in Toulouse on the evening of Thursday 27 June (details to be announced later). Further details, including information on accommodation, travel and sight-seeing possibilities in the vicinity of Toulouse are available at the conference's website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm ********************* LabPhon 8 Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence New Haven, CT, USA, 27 - 30 June 2002 Yale University and Haskins Laboratories LabPhon 8, "Varieties of Phonological Competence," will continue the tradition of this biennial series of conferences by presenting research showing the interrelationships of phonological theory and data collected in the laboratory. LabPhon 8 will expand on previous areas to include the phonology of signed languages, issues in acquisition, and a focus on endangered languages. Invited speakers : * Diane Brentari, Purdue University * David Corina, University of Washington * Fred Cummins, University College, Dublin * D. Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh * Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania * Maire Ni-Chiosain ,University College, Dublin * Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, MIT * Marilyn Vihman, University of Bangor, Wales Invited discussants: * Dani Byrd, University of Southern California * Diamandis Gafos, New York University * John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts * David Perlmutter, University of California, San Diego * Donca Steriade, MIT * Shelley Velleman, University of Massachusetts We invite submission of abstracts relating to the use of laboratory examinations of speech or sign language to the construction of phonological theories. Please send a single copy of your abstract by e-mail, to: [log in to unmask] Abstracts must arrive at this address by 14 January 2002. Receipt will be acknowledged by return email. Abstracts should be submitted as the main body of your e-mail message or as a PDF attachment. Faxed abstracts will not be accepted. Abstracts may contain up to 800 words (including references, examples, etc.). Abstracts in the main text body should contain ASCII text only; for phonetic symbols, please use the SAMPA symbols described at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm. Abstracts should be anonymous. PDF files should not list the authors, but the accompanying message should. At the bottom of your message, list your name, mailing address, email address, affiliation, and preference for poster or oral presentation. Authors will be notified as to whether their abstract has been accepted for oral or poster presentation, and whether the paper will be considered for publication. Authors will be required to submit draft papers by April 28, 2002, and to bring nearly final versions of their papers (to be sent out for review) to the conference. The deadline for absolutely final versions (after the review process) will be December 1, 2002. For information about the conference, and for updates, please see our web page at http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8 where you can also sign up for the LabPhon8 mailing list. Questions can be addressed to [log in to unmask] Organizing Committee: * Stephen Anderson, Yale University * Catherine Best, Wesleyan University and Haskins Laboratories * Louis Goldstein, Yale University and Haskins Laboratories * D. H. Whalen, Haskins Laboratories ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002) Meikai University, Urayasu, Japan 2 - 6 September 2002 We are happy to announce that this year's Linguistics and Phonetics conference (LP2002) will be hosted by Meikai University in Urayasu, Japan (Urayasu is located in Chiba Prefecture, 20 minutes from Tokyo by train). LP2002 will be organized around the following three general topics: (1) Typology and Linguistic Theory, (2) the Lexicon, and (3) Prosody and Phonetics. The conference will consist of a main session, with 45-, 30-, and 20-minute talks, and a poster session. We invite anonymous abstracts for posters and talks (where you may indicate a preference for 45, 30, or 20 minutes) on aspects of linguistics or phonetics that are related to the topic categories indicated above. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts should be at most one A4 page, with one-inch margins, typed in at least 11-point font; a second A4 page, with the same margins and type-size, is permitted for data and references. Submissions are restricted to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author. ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY VIA E-MAIL, using the LP2002 E-mail address <[log in to unmask]>. Please use the subject header "abstract", and include the abstract in the body of your message in plain text format (no file attachments please) followed by the following information: name of author(s), affiliation of author(s), title of abstract, topic category (choose from 1-3 above), poster or main session, preferred length of talk if submitting an abstract for the main session (45, 30, or 20 minutes), mailing & E-mail addresses. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2002 Shosuke Haraguchi Head Organizing Committee of LP2002 ******************** POSITIONS VACANT ******************** RESEARCH POSITION IN PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY AT IKP BONN, GERMANY The "Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik" at University of Bonn/Germany invites applicants for a research position (wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter/in BAT IIa/2, possibly BAT IIa) in an initially two-year project on the empirical validation of German stress patterns based on phonological hypotheses. The aim of the project is to investigate the empirical adequacy of phonological predictions concerning stress patterns. The researcher would be expected to experimentally test the production and perception of German stress patterns in controlled conditions. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and could begin immediately. The project will be integrated into the active phonetic research group at the IKP interested in fields such diverse as speech synthesis, automatic segmentation, pronunciation of proper names, speaking styles, prosody and meaning (in collaboration with the computational linguistics department) and phonetics teaching in multimedial environments. The following qualifications are expected: - degree in phonetics, linguistics, computational linguistics, German linguistics or similar - interest in prosody, experimental phonetics and (computational) phonology - very good knowledge of German - programming skills are desired but not a must Candidates are expected to become part of a co-operative research group and are welcome to work towards a doctoral degree. Please submit email applications asap to: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess [log in to unmask], or Petra Wagner [log in to unmask] For further information about the IKP, visit http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de ******************** The Department of linguistics at the University of Oregon seeks applicants for an Assistant Professor position in phonology, beginning September 15, 2002. The successful candidate will fit with the department's focus on functional/historical/cognitive linguistics and commitment to working with primary (especially fieldwork derived) and empirical data. Applications from specialists in laboratory or historical phonology are especially welcome. The ideal candidate should also be fluent in current formal models of phonology. An additional specialization in discourse, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition or first language acquisition is also sought. Evidence of excellence in teaching will weigh heavily in consideration of applicants for the position. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning December 1, 2001. Preliminary interviews will be held at the LSA meeting in January. A complete application requires a letter of application, Curriculum Vitae, sample publications, evidence of teaching, and three letters of recommendation. Materials should be sent to: Spike Gildea, Chair Department of Linguistics 1290 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1290 USA The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution, committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the American Disabilities Act. ******************** Department of Computer Science and Information Systems Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Limerick, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------ RESEARCH ASSOCIATE and RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS & BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION The University of Limerick is looking for a Post Doctoral Research Student to work on a project to investigate the combination of CASA and BSS techniques in sound source separation. The application is polyphonic music transcription. The project, funded by Enterprise Ireland will start in January 2002. The posts are for 24 months. The overall aim of the project will be to investigate the viability of combining CASA and BSS techniques in the separation of multiple sources. Candidates for the Post Doc. should hold a PhD (or be close to completion) and have experience in either CASA or BSS or related area. Candidates for the studentship should hold a BSc/BE/BEng/BSEE and preferably have experience of signal processing/DSP. The student will be registered for an MSc/MEng in the first instance. The main deliverable of the project will be a prototype system demonstrating the combined model applied to mixtures and music fragments. The successful candidate will take up the post as soon as possible and will be based in the Departments of the Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. The Post Doc. will have a unique opportunity to help develop a research group involving these two departments and will be able to contribute actively to the shaping of this group. The group has a number of collaborations with European partners and the Fellow will be encouraged to develop these and develop new ones. To learn more about the research, please email or phone Email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Phone: +353 (0)61 202780, +353 (0)61 213439, +353 (0)61 202785 Appointment will be made as follows Post Doctoral Researcher salary in the range 20-22,000 Euro. Post Graduate Researcher salary in the range 14-16,000 Euro. Applicants should send in plain text format 1) A cv, 2) A 1-page statement of research interests 3) The names and addresses of two referees to [log in to unmask] The closing date for applications is Friday 1st December 2001. The University of Limerick is a rapidly developing location that offers a wide range of jobs with excellent career development opportunities. We actively promote equal opportunities in education and employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Dr Jacqueline Walker Dr Peter Murphy Dr Niall Griffith Dept of ECE Dept of ECE Dept of CSIS University of Limerick Limerick Ireland ******************** Computational phonology/phonetics: Nuance Communications, Cambrige UK Areas Required: Research Engineer - Computational phonologist/phonetician University or Organization: Nuance Communications Department: Engineering State or Province: Cambrige Country: UK Final Date of Application: 01/01/2002 Contact: Seiji Kawanabe [log in to unmask] Address for Applications: 1005 Hamilton Court Menlo Park CA 94025 USA TITLE: Research Engineer - Computational phonologist/phonetician SUMMARY: As a computational phonologist/phonetician in Nuance's languages group, you will work closely with R&D teams developing state-of-the-art text-to-speech and speech recognition systems. Your job will be to develop lexica supplying high quality pronunciations in several languages for TTS and ASR. The job will also involve the development of systems to automatically generate words that are not in the lexical. You will work on text processing front ends to TTS systems that account for the specific requirements of each language. In order to make highly realistic synthetic voices, you will work on prosodic and phonological models that capture human speech variation. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop and maintain pronunciation lexica for text-to-speech and speech recognition systems Develop and maintain automatic pronunciation generation systems Develop text processing algorithms Develop prosodic and phonological models for text-to-speech systems REQUIRED SKILLS: Experience with generating pronunciations for TTS Native or near-native competency in a minimum of 2/3 : French, German, Spanish Strong coding skills - C++, Java, Perl Knowledge of syntax and morphology IDEAL SKILLS: Experience with generating pronunciations for ASR Experience in developing product software Project management EDUCATION: Masters or Doctoral degree in linguistics or computational linguistics with specialization in phonetics or phonology ************************ RESOURCES ON THE WEB ************************ Compiled by Adam Brown <[log in to unmask]>: References to works on English pronunciation teaching (up-to-date until a couple of years ago): http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/AdamB/Personal/iatefl/index.htm Singapore English pronunciation (up-to-date until about a year ago): http://www.arts.nie.edu.sg/ell/AdamB/Personal/sgepronbiblio/index.htm Compiled by Karen Steffen Chung <[log in to unmask]>: Phonetics-related URLs links: http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1812.html#1 http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1869.html#1 http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1964.html#2 Being incorporated, together with additional links and some original material, into: http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung Updates, corrections, suggestions and more relevant URLs may be directed to the authors. ******************** Material for the January 2002 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 26 December 2001. Lisa Lim ************************************************************************* Assistant Professor Department of English Language & Literature National University of Singapore tel +65 8746037 Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 7732981 Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask] *************************************************************************