************************************************ foNETiks A network newsletter for the International Phonetic Association and for the Phonetic Sciences November 2004 ************************************************ 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]> 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 ************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS [new ones marked ++] [date of first appearance follows] ************************************** 15 - 17 November 2004. 3rd International Seminar on Speech Technology. Valencia, Spain. http://www.dsic.upv.es/~3jth; [log in to unmask] (08/04) 8 - 10 December 2004. 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology (SST2004), Macquarie University, Sydney. http://www.assta.org/sst/2004 (05/04) 16 - 18 December 2004. 4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'04). Hong Kong, China. http://www.iscslp2004.com/ (12/03) 20 - 22 January 2005. 2nd Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP2). Tromso, Norway. http://castl.uit.no (08/04) 23 - 25 February 2005. Speech perception within or outside phonology? Workshop as part of the 27th annual meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS). Cologne, Germany. http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/percphon/ (08/04) 25 - 27 February 2005. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. [log in to unmask] http: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC (10/04) 30 March 2005. Synchrony Meets Diachrony in Phonology. A pre-Glow phonology workshop. Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.unige.ch/glow05 (08/04) 19 - 22 April 2005. NOLISP'05: Non-Linear Speech Processing. Barcelona, Spain. http://www.nolisp2005.org/; [log in to unmask] (12/03) 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) 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. 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. http://www.iclave.org/ (05/04) 23 - 25 June 2005. TENNET XVI (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology). Universite 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. http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/iclce/iclce2005.html (09/04) ++ 27 - 30 July 2005. PTLC2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. University College London. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/ptlc2005.htm; [log in to unmask] (11/04) 31 August - 3 September 2005. The 6th Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVoC-6): Mirroring the Voice. The Royal Academy of Music, London, UK. www.pevoc6.com; info@ pevoc6.com (04/04) 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) ++ 25 - 27 October 2005. III Congreso de Fonética Experimental / 3rd Conference on Experimental P honetics. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. http://www.usc.es/iiicfe/index.htm; [log in to unmask] (11/04) 11 - 14 May 2006. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). University of Helsinki, Finland. [log in to unmask] (12/03) **************************************** CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS **************************************** III Congreso de Fonética Experimental / 3rd Conference on Experimental P honetics Short Title: III CFE Date: 25-Oct-2005 - 27-Oct-2005 Location: Santiago de Compostela (Galiza), Spain Contact Person: Elisa Fernandez Meeting Email: [log in to unmask] Web Site: http://www.usc.es/iiicfe/index.htm Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2005 Meeting Description: The 3rd Conference on Experimental Phonetics (CEP), organised by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, will be held on the 25th, 26th and 27th of October, 2005. The III CEP aims to gather research on phonetics and related sciences, following the line already initiated by the two previous conferences he ld in Tarragona and Sevilla. Likewise, it pursues the target of being a periodical meeting, as expressed in the two preceding editions. If you want to contribute you should send an abstract (a maximum of 1,5 00 characters in RTF format), before the 15th of January, 2005 to the e- mail of the Conference Secretary ([log in to unmask]) or to the following postal address: Secretaría do III Congreso de Fonética Experimental Facultade de Filoloxía Avda. Castelao, s/n 15782 Santiago de Compostela The abstract - in Galician, Spanish or English - should only include th e title of the paper. The following details must be provided in an indepe ndent sheet of paper: - Title of the paper - Name of the author(s) - Institution - Subject (All those contributions dealing with the subjects proposed o r with any other subject related to Experimental Phonetics will be accept ed). - E-mail, postal address and telephone number The acceptance of the proposals will be known by the 1st of March, 2005 . The whole and definitive version should be handed in just after being presented, so that it can be included in the Conference Proceedings. Presentations will not last more than 20 minutes plus 10 minutes discus sion. **************************************** PTLC2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference Preliminary announcement and call for papers PTLC2005 will take place at University College London from midday Wednesday 27th July until midday Saturday 30th July 2005. These dates are immediately before the UCL Summer Course on English Phonetics http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/scep/), which will begin on Monday 1 August on the same campus. We intend to provide accommodation bridging the two events for participants attending both. The keynote speaker for the conference will be David Crystal. Papers for oral presentation of 20 minutes duration are invited. The areas covered by the conference will include: Teaching and learning in - general phonetics - pronunciation for EFL and other languages - phonetics for clinical purposes, including audiology and speech and language therapy - phonetics for the performing arts - phonetics for speech technology Assessment methods for practical skills and theory in phonetics Papers describing and evaluating the use of IT in any of the above areas will also be welcome. Please note that papers must be relevant to some aspect of the teaching and learning of phonetics. Papers which deal with general phonetic description or phonological analysis, but which do not have pedagogical relevance, will not be accepted. Submission deadlines Abstract: An abstract not exceeding 300 words should be submitted by plain text email ONLY to the following address: [log in to unmask] The deadline for abstract submission is Tuesday 1 February 2005. Abstracts will be reviewed by an international scientific committee and a decision on acceptance will be given by Thursday 31 March 2005. Completed papers: The deadline for submission of completed papers is Thursday 31 May 2005. The conference proceedings will be published on CD-ROM and will be available at registration. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for further announcements, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] The conference website will be online shortly at: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/ptlc2005.htm **************************************** Conference on Manner Alternations in Phonology Date: 23-Jun-2005 - 25-Jun-2005 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact Person: Marzena Zygis Meeting Email: [log in to unmask] Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology Call Deadline: 08-Apr-2005 Meeting Description: The topic of this conference is the category manner in phonology, i.e. (traditional) features such as [nasal], [lateral], [continuant], [stride nt], as well as processes which alter these features. Manner features are necess ary to distinguish classes of sounds such as stops, affricates, fricatives, nas als, laterals, as well as lesser understood sounds such as rhotics. Manner ca tegories are also instrumental in defining what is meant by sonority. The two invited speakers are: Wolfgang Kehrein, Phillips Universitaet Marburg Moira Yip, University College London In addition to these speakers there will be slots for approximately 15 p apers. While abstracts are invited on papers dealing with any aspect dealing wi th manner in phonology, papers dealing with the following topics are of par ticular interest: 1. Phonological processes (synchronic or diachronic) which alter manner features and their phonetic and/or phonological motivation 2. Connection between manner features and other features (e.g. place, laryngeal, major class) 3. Connection between manner changes and prosodic structure (e.g. proces ses motivated by the syllable contact law, definitions of sonority) 4. Features for rhotics (i.e. central approximants, trills, taps/flaps) 5. Phonetic correlates for manner features Papers will be 30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion. Deadline f or submission of abstracts is 8 April 2005. Notification of acceptance for program by 30 April. There will be no conference fees. Please submit electronica lly an anonymous, two page abstract (pdf, word or rtf) to: [log in to unmask] Please indicate the author's name and affiliation in the email. The CMAP organizers: T. A. Hall (Indiana University) Silke Hamann (ZAS) Marzena Zygis (ZAS) The ZAS homepage (to include the CMAP programme) can be found at http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/ **************************************** POSITIONS VACANT **************************************** University or Organization: Cornell University, USA Department: Linguistics Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Phonology Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. The Department of Linguistics invi tes applications for a tenure- track position in phonological theory, to begin July 1, 2005. Though not required, strength in a secondary area, such as computational linguistics, morphology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, or sociolinguistics, will be viewed as an asset. PhD required. It is expec ted that the position will be at the rank of assistant professor, but appointmen t at a higher rank for an exceptional candidate might be possible. To ensure full consideration, candidates should send a letter of applic ation, CV, representative published or unpublished scholarly work, and at leas t three letters of recommendation by December 1, 2004 to Phonology Search Commi ttee, Department of Linguistics, Morrill Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 -4701. Any inquiries may be addressed to Abby Cohn ([log in to unmask]), Draga Zec ([log in to unmask]), or Mats Rooth ([log in to unmask]). Cornell is an AA/ EO Employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Address for Applications: Professor John Bowers Dept. of Linguistics, 203 Morrill Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-4701 United States of America Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2004 Contact Information: Professor Abby Cohn Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 607-255-1747 Fax: 607-255-2044 Website: http://ling.cornell.edu **************************************** University or Organization: New York University, USA Department: Department of Linguistics Job Rank: Associate Professor Specialty Areas: Phonology The Department of Linguistics at New York University will be adding a p osition in Phonology, beginning September 1, 2005, pending administrative and b udgetary approval. The hiring will be either at the Assistant Professor (tenure track) or the Associate Professor (tenured) level; in the latter case, we are loo king for applicants at the beginning of their tenured career. Responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate lev els. Applicants should have a strong research record and a demonstrated abil ity to teach. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommen dation, a statement of research interests, and a sample of work, by December 3, 2 004 to the address below. For information about the department, please visit : http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Address for Applications: Phonology Search Committee Department of Linguistics New York University Faculty of Arts and Science 719 Broadway, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003 United States of America Application Deadline: 03-Dec-2004 Contact Information: Adamantios Gafos, Search Committee Chair Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/ **************************************** University or Organization: San Diego State University, USA Department: School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Job Rank: Rank Open Specialty Areas: Speech science Speech Scientist (Rank Open): San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure- track faculty position. A Ph.D., excellence in teaching, a commitment to working in a multi-cultural environment with students from diverse backgrounds, and strong research abilities are required. Clinical experience and certification (CCC-SLP) are highly desirable, though not mandatory. Primary responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate (MA and Ph.D.) levels in the area of speech sciences, supervising theses/ dissertations, and pursuing a research program in the area of personal scholarly interests. Looking f or a person to develop and direct a speech science laboratory, and to buil d collaborations with key faculty at SDSU, UCSD, and nationally. Salary and rank dependent on candidate's qualifications and budget considerations. Join 18 other full-time faculty and over 200 students in a stimulating work environment, excellent lab/ clinical facilities, and a beautiful place to live (see more information at http://chhs.sdsu.edu/ slhs/). Position closes January 30, 2005, with employment to begin August, 2005. Send letter of interest, description of research program, evidence of teachi ng excellence, vita, reprints, and 3 letters of recommendation to: Dr. Beverly Wulfeck, Interim Chair, School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, San Diego State University, [log in to unmask] with copie s to Dr. Donna Thal, search committee chair, [log in to unmask] San Di ego State University is a Title IX, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, religion, nation al origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, disability, or veteran status, including veterans of the Vietnam era. Address for Applications: Dr. Beverly Wulfeck School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr. San Diego, CA 92182-1518 United States of America Application Deadline: 30-Jan-2005 Contact Information: Dr. Donna Thal Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 619-594-7110 Fax: 619-594-4570 Website: http://chhs.sdsu.edu/slhs/ **************************************** University or Organization: Korea University Department: English Language Education Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Phonology Required Language: English The Department of English Language Education at Korea University, one o f the most prestigious universities in Korea, invites applications for a tenu re-track position in English Phonology (acquisition or applied). Requirements: Native speaker of English and Ph.D in linguistics or applied linguistic s with one year of postdoctoral teaching or research experience. Compensation: Competitive and negotiable. Attractive benefits package. Responsibilities: Teaching English phonology and linguistics to undergraduate and graduat e students (6 lecture hours per week) Application package (sent by post or e-mail) should include: 1) a cover letter expressing research and teaching interests 2) curriculum vitae 3) a copy of representative work 4) three letters of recommendation 5) transcripts from graduate school and 6) evidence of teaching or research (course evaluation or letter). Deadline: November 30, 2004 (postmarked) Address for Applications: Prof. Taegoo Chung, Chair Dept. of English Language Education Korea University, 5-ga, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-gu Seoul 136-701 Republic of Korea Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2004 Contact Information: Prof. Taegoo Chung Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 822-3290-2356 Fax: 822-928-5331 Website: http://www.korea.ac.kr **************************************** University or Organization: University of Arizona, USA Department: Linguistics Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics/Speech Technology Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, in the Department of Linguistics beginning employment August, 2005. Candidates must hold a doctorate at the time of apppointment in linguistics or related field, have a commitment to excellence in teaching, and a demonstrated strong potential for excellence in research. The department is seeking an individual who is able to work with diverse students and colleagues, and who has experience with a variety of teaching methods and curricular perspectives. Primary consideration will be given to specialists in human language technology: in particular, speech technology, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The individual hired will be expected to complement and augment our current strengths and contribute to the various programs in the department and to the cognitive science program, but especially to the development of our MS program in Human Language Technology. Applicants should send a statement of interest, a curriculum vitae and the names of at least three references to https://www.uacareertrack.com/: We will start the review of applications on October 15, 2004, and will continue to consider applicants until the position is filled, contingent on the availability of funding. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer -M/W/D/V. Department of Linguistics The University of Arizona http://linguistics.arizona.edu/ **************************************** University or Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Department: Department of English Language and Linguistics Job Rank: Instructor Specialty Areas: Phonetics and Phonology Teaching Fellow in Phonetics and Phonology (Fixed-term) Salary from £22,500 pa, pro rata The successful applicant will be required to provide undergraduate teac hing in phonology and practical phonetics, and to contribute to an MA Applied Linguistics module in Phonetics and Phonology. Duties will involve lec tures, small- group teaching and assessment. There will be opportunities to give specialist classes where appropriate. Applicants should have a good ho nours degree in an appropriate subject, sound knowledge of aspects of phoneti cs and phonology, and experience of teaching at undergraduate level. This pos t is available for five months, from February to June 2005. For full post details/application pack visit: (http:// www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs), email: [log in to unmask] or telephone: 0114 222 1631 (24hr). Please quote reference PR2060 in all enquiries. Address for Applications Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 0114 222 1631 Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs Application Deadline: 10-Nov-2004 Contact Information: Professor Andrew Linn Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 0114 222 1631 Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs **************************************** University or Organization: University of Chicago, USA Department: Linguistics Job Rank: Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Phonology The Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, seeks to fill a tenure- track position at the Assistant Professor level with specialization in phonology beginning Fall 2005. Strength in a secondary area, such as ph onetics, laboratory phonology, speech technology, sociolinguistics, or computati onal phonology will be viewed as an asset. Responsibilities include teachin g graduate and undergraduate courses, student advising, supervision of st udent research, and the pursuit of a vigorous research program. Candidates ar e expected to hold a Ph.D. by the start date. Applicants should submit a CV, contact information including an email a ddress through January 6, 2005, a detailed statement of their research agenda over the next few years, samples of their scholarly writing, and at least three letters of recommendation. Letters should be sent directly to us by the referen ces. Any inquiries may be addressed to John Goldsmith ([log in to unmask]), o r Alan Yu ([log in to unmask]), All materials should be submitted by December 1, 2004 to the address below or [log in to unmask] The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity employer. Address for Applications Phonology Search Committee Department of Linguistics University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 United States of America Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2004 Contact Information: Professor John Goldsmith Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: (773) 702-8522 Website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/linguistics/ **************************************** University or Organization: University of Edinburgh, UK Department: Centre for Speech Technology Research Job Rank: Researcher Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Speech Technology Research Fellow in Speech Synthesis The Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburg h is seeking a research fellow to work on the leading text-to- speech research toolkit, Festival (www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/ festival) through the ongoing project 'Expressive Prosody for Unit- selection Speech Synthesis'. The project's aims are to add explicit control of prosody to unit- selection speech synthesis, generate prosody appropriate for communicating specific meanings and in formation structures and to realise this prosody with sequences of appropriately- sized pitch accents, arranged into valid intonation tunes. This project is jo intly lead by Simon King, Mark Steedman and Rob Clark (Edinburgh) and Dan Jur afsky (Stanford, USA). Full details can be found at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities Address for Applications: Dr. Simon King http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2004 Contact Information: Dr. Simon King Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: +44-131-651-1725 Website: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities ************************************************************************ *** Items for December's foNETiks should reach us by November 30 ************************************************************************ ***** ______________________________________ Paul Foulkes Department of Language and Linguistic Science University of York York YO10 5DD tel: 01904 432653 fax: 01904 432673