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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
December 2013
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the foNETiks Newsletter.
We wish you all a happy holiday season.
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK.
Gerry Docherty, Griffith University, Australia.
Lisa Lim, The University of Hong Kong.
Rachel Smith, University of Glasgow, UK.
E-mail address: fonetiks-request at jiscmail.ac.uk
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.langsci.ucl.ac.uk
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[date of first appearance follows]
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12-13 Dec 2013. pS – prominences. Viterbo, Italy. http://www.gscp.it/GSCP_official_website/pS-prominenceS.html (04/13)
20-22 December 2013. 3rd International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (3rd ICPP). National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/phonology/InternationalConference/icpp_2013/home/
15-17 January 2014. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on Weight in Phonology and Phonetics. New York City, NY, USA. weight {at} cunyphonologyforum.net (07/13)
22-25 January 2014. 11th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP11). Leiden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (07/13)
30-31 January 2014. International Workshop on Cross-Language Speech Perception. Braga, Portugal. http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/percepworkshop (11/13)
6-7 February 2014. Conference on Contemporary Research in Phonetics and Phonology. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. http://www.lulavi.lv/news/view/61 (08/13)
28 March 2014. 4th Speech, Language, Hearing, Communication Sciences Student Research Day. CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, NY, USA.
3-4 April 2014. Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014). UCL, London, UK. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014 (11/13)
4-6 April 2014. Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA). Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA). http://pantheon.yale.edu/~rtb27/ssmca.html (10/13)
5 April 2014. GLOW Phonology Workshop: Phonological Specification and Interface Interpretation. Brussels, Belgium. http://www.glow37.org/phonology (07/13)
##7-8 April 2014. International Conference on Empirical Methods in Linguistics EMLS 2014, Łódź, Poland. http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/emls (12/13)
8-11 April 2014. International Workshop on Multilinguality in Speech Research: Data, Methods and Models. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Saarland, Germany. http://www.dagstuhl.de/14153,http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/dagstuhl-14 (09/13)
14 April 2014. Workshop on Evolution of Signals, Speech and Signs, Vienna, Austria. http://ai.vub.ac.be/news/workshop-evolution-signals-speech-and-signs (09/13)
4 May 2014. Workshop on Interpersonal Coordination and Phonetic Convergence (Satellite workshop of 10th ISSP 2014), Cologne, Germany http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/?page_id=166 (10/13)
5-8 May 2014. 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2014). Cologne, Germany. http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/ (04/13)
13-16 May 2014. 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL2014). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://www.tal2014.org (07/13)
16-17 May 2014. 4th Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians (BIMEP 2014). Belgrade, Serbia. bimep.conference {at} gmail.com (10/13)
20-23 May 2014. Speech Prosody. Dublin, Ireland. http://www.speechprosody2014.org/ (09/13)
May 21-23, 2015. EPIP4 - 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Prague, Czech Republic, http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/epip4/ (12/13)
28-31 May 2014. Sound Change in Interacting Human Systems - 3rd Biennial Workshop on Sound Change. University of California, Berkeley, USA. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/SCIHS/ (09/13)
##2-3 June 2014. International Symposium on Prosody to Commemorate Gösta Bruce. Lund, Sweden. http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/bruce-2014/ (12/13)
5 June 2014. Speech Acquisition Workshop. Olomouc, Czech Republic. http://olinco.upol.cz/#work1 (11/13)
11-13 June 2014. 15th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.icpla2014.se (09/13)
30 June – 2 July 2014. 12th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (RFP2014). Lille, France. RFP2014.Lille {at} gmail.com (11/13)
1 July 2014. Historical Phonology. Thematic Session of the 12th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (RFP2014). Lille, France. RFP2014.Lille {at} gmail.com (11/13)
25-27 July 2014. 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14). Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/labphon14/ (07/13)
5-6 September 2014. Sixth Annual Conference: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT). Santa Barbara, California, USA. http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/PSLLT2014 (11/13)
10-11 Sept 2014. 3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/actualites/swip2014_en.html (09/13)
11-14 September 2014. The Perception of Non-Native Varieties: Methods and Findings in Perceptual Dialectology. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Acquisition of Third Language Phonology. Poznań, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Phonetic Reduction and Reduction Processes. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Non-Automatic Alternations in Phonology. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
14-18 September 2014. 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014): Celebrating diversity of languages. Singapore. http://www.interspeech2014.org/
(11/13)
18-20 September 2014. (Phonetic) Building Blocks of Speech (PBBS). Victoria, BC, Canada. http://web.uvic.ca/ling/pbbs/ (09/13)
##25-27 September 2014. 22nd Czech German Workshop on Speech Communication. Prague, Czech Republic. http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/workshop2014/ (12/13)
6-8 October 2014. 11th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR-2014). São Carlos, Brazil. http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/ (11/13)
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CONFERENCES
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International Symposium on Prosody to Commemorate Gösta Bruce
Lund, Sweden, 2-3 June 2014
http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/bruce-2014/
Call deadline: 1 March 2014
Call for poster abstracts
The department of linguistics and phonetics, Lund University, will honor the late Gösta Bruce (1947-2010) with a commemorative symposium on June 2-3, 2014.
As professor of phonetics, Gösta Bruce played an internationally very fundamental and influential role in the development of methods and models for current prosody research. The ideas in his seminal doctoral dissertation from 1977, Swedish Word Accents in Sentence Perspective, served as the point of departure for the development of prosody models for tone and intonation systems in many different languages.
Invited speakers at the symposium include:
San Duanmu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Caroline Féry, Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Nina Grønnum, University of Copenhagen
Carlos Gussenhoven, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York
D. Robert Ladd, University of Edinburgh
Tomas Riad, Stockholm University
In addition to marking Gösta Bruce’s importance for research in prosody, the symposium will function as a forum for discussions on current challenging research questions within prosody research.
Abstracts for poster presentations at the symposium are invited. Abstracts can deal with any topic within the area of prosody and should be no more than 250 words long. They should be submitted on the conference home page no later than March 1, 2014.
Participation is free of charge, but registration via the conference home page is necessary.
Conference home page: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/bruce-2014/
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS – EMLS 2014
1st Circular and Call for Papers
The Chair of English Language and General Linguistics, Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland is pleased to announce International Conference on Empirical Methods in Linguistics –EMLS 2014, to be held in Łódź, 7-8 April, 2014.
The conference is intended as a meeting ground for scholars interested in applying empirical research methods in such areas of linguistics as phonology, grammar and syntax, semantics, non-verbal communication, sociolinguistics, evolution of language, and language processing. The following topics will be the subject of discussion,
but the list is not exhaustive:
- categorisation
- construals of meaning
- forensic analyses of language
- gestures and signed communication
- grammaticalisation
- iconicity
- language coding and decoding
- language comprehension and production
- language disorders
- metaphor, metonymy, and interaction of these conceptual processes
- second language acquisition and learning
- social varieties of language
- sound systems of language
- universal and culture-specific elements in language and thought
- usage-based models of language.
Emphasis will be laid on ways of finding, storing, analysing, and interpreting current and historical data: experiment, observation, survey, questionnaire, corpus, and mixed methods.
The language of the conference is English. Papers should be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes for discussion. Please send your proposals to the following address: [log in to unmask] Deadline for the submission of abstracts (300 words) is December 31st, 2013. Participants will be notified of acceptance of their papers by January 31st, 2014.
TIME AND VENUE OF THE CONFERENCE
7 April (Monday), 9.00 am to 8 April (Tuesday), 12. 00 pm at the Training and Conference Centre/TCC, University of Łódź, Kopcińskiego Str. 16/18.
HOW MUCH IT WILL COST
Paid by bank transfer: 100 EUR (410 PLN) for regular participants and 75 EUR (310 PLN) for doctoral students.
Paid on arrival: 110 EUR (450 PLN) for regular participants and 85 EUR (350 PLN) for doctoral students.
The fee covers conference materials, 3 coffee breaks, 2 lunches, gala dinner, social programme, and publication of proceedings. It does not cover accommodation, which can be booked at the TCC on request indicated in the registration form. Please visit the TCC website at http://www.csk.uni.lodz.pl/ for details.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
The conference website at http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/emls
will soon be available for updated information about the meeting.
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EPIP4 - 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices
Prague, Czech Republic, May 21-23, 2015
Conference website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/epip4/
The 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices will take place in Prague (May 21-23, 2015), following previous meetings in Murcia, Spain (2013), Grahamstown, South Africa (2011) and Chambéry, France (2009).
The conference brings together researchers and teachers of English, phonetics, phonology and EFL/ESL interested in the issues relevant to English pronunciation, both native and non-native.
Organizers: Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Contact person: Lenka Weingartová ([log in to unmask])
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We are happy to announce that the Institute of Phonetics in Prague, Czech Republic, will be hosting two international conferences in the coming years:
22nd Czech German Workshop on Speech Communication
Prague, Czech Republic, September 25-27, 2014
Call for abstracts (400-500 words) deadline: June 15, 2014
Conference website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/workshop2014/
We would like to bring together speech researchers from the Czech Republic and German-speaking countries and welcome them in Prague for a small, friendly and inspiring workshop. Its focus is expanding from speech processing to speech communication in general, so the organizers welcome contributions from all areas concerning speech.
Organizers: Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Contact person: Lenka Weingartová ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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POSITIONS VACANT
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A permanent position as senior lecturer (full time) in linguistics has been announced at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
The position includes 50% research time during the first year.
Closing date for applications is 2014-01-20.
If you're interested, please see the job announcement webpage (short url http://goo.gl/XZ99hQ) for information on how to apply.
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The University of Leipzig, Germany, offers full funding for 2 post-doctoral candidates in any area of syntax, morphology and/or phonology and their interfaces. The post-doctoral research will be carried out as part of the newly approved graduate programme ``Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks'' (IGRA) at the University of Leipzig (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~igra), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Each PhD position is funded for 2 years, with social benefits (payscale: 1.0 TVL-E13).
The central research focus of IGRA is on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of natural languages. Recent developments in grammatical theory have accumulated an impressive body of knowledge about the representations of linguistic expressions of varying complexity, and about the grammatical building blocks (rules, operations, constraints, schemata, extralinguistic factors) that restrict their distributions. In addition, there are some plausible hypotheses as to how these building blocks interact with one another. However, what is so far lacking is a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the possible interactions of grammatical building blocks from different theoretical perspectives, on the basis of detailed empirical studies of phonological, morphological, and syntactic phenomena from an array of typologically diverse languages. It is the primary goal of the graduate programme to address this gap.
The post-doctoral candidates are encouraged to pursue research that is based on different grammatical models (and potentially also on combinations thereof), such as Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Rule-Based phonology, Distributed Morphology, Lexical Decomposition Grammar, Construction Grammar, Framework-Free Grammatical Theory, Minimalist Morphology, Paradigm-Function Morphology. The programme will provide a unique opportunity of conducting linguistic research in an academically rigorous environment that is not pre-biased toward one or other theoretical framework.
Detailed information about the research programme, including a list of the programme's faculty and a list of potential dissertation topics, can be found here:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~igra.
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The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University, Doha invites applications for an Assistant/Associate level position in linguistics with specialization in phonetics and phonology to begin Fall 2014. The position is three years renewable. Candidates whose research projects bring together phonetics and sociolinguistics theoretically and methodologically are specially invited to apply. Knowledge of Arabic or sociolinguistics of the Arab World will be an additional advantage.
The candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching of a broad range of general undergraduate linguistics courses, which include introduction to language, Introduction to linguistics, phonetics and phonology, history of the English language, and speech sciences etc. The candidate will also be responsible for supervising undergraduate capstone research projects in linguistics.
The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University offers undergraduate degree in English with concentrations in linguistics and literature. The Department is committed to familiarizing students with both formal and functional approaches to the study of language.
Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in Linguistics with specialization in phonetics/phonology from an recognized and accredited university in North America or UK; significant record of publications in refereed journals; evidence of excellent teaching at the undergraduate level; interest in teaching core and general courses in linguistics; proficiency in the use of technology in the classroom; and ability to provide leadership and engage in department development. sahl {at} qu.edu.qa
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The deadline for material for the next foNETiks newsletter is 27 December 2013.
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