30-31 October 2014. Phonetics and Phonology of the Baltic Languages (BaltPhon). Vilnius, Lithuania. http://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/renginiai/1131-fonetika (06/14)
 
30-31 October 2014. Empirical Approaches to the Phonological Structure of Words. Marburg Hessen, Germany. http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb09/lingbas/aktuelles/conference (07/14)
 
## 5-7 November 2014. VI International Conference of Experimental Phonetics. Valencia, Spain. http://www.valesco.es/cife2014/?lang=en (10/14)

 

12-14 November 2014. The Sounds of Indo-European 3 (SIE3). Opava, Czech Republic. http://sounds-of-indo-european.webnode.cz/ (03/14)

 

13-15 November, 2014.  High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico. hdls at unm.edu (8/14)
 
2-4 December 2014. 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST). Christchurch, New Zealand. www.nzibb.canterbury.ac.nz/SST.shtml (04/14)
 
4-5 December 2014. Palatalization. Tromsø, Norway. https://castl.uit.no/index.php/conferences/palatalization-conference (06/14)
 
8-9 December 2014. Workshop on the Role of Prosody in Language Learning (WAPSTI). Sydney, Australia. http://www.mq.edu.au/wapsti (05/14)
 
11-13 December 2014. 8th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (ACCENTS 2014). Lódz, Poland. http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents (04/14)
 
## 8-9 January 2015. 7th Speech in Noise Workshop (SPiN). Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.spin2015.dk/ (10/14)

 

## 28-30 January 2015. 11^th AISV Congress: Emergence, Change, and Pathology of the Sound Structure of Language. Bologna, Italy. http://aisv2015.unibo.it/ (10/14)

 

4-6 March 2015. Workshop: Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing. Session of Annual Meeting 2015 of DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft). Leipzig, Germany. https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/workshop-universal-biases/call (07/14)
 
4-6 March 2015. Workshop: Strong versus Weak Prosodic Positions: possible Variation and Relevance for Grammar. Session of Annual Meeting 2015 of DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft). Leipzig, Germany. http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=8&L=1 (07/14)
 
## 27-28 March 2015. Shared Processing in Language and Music: What Neurocognition and Disorders Reveal (SPLM). Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/SPLM (10/14)

 

## 9-13 April 2015. PAC 2015 (11^th “Phonology of Contemporary English” Conference). Toulouse, France. http://www.projet-pac.net (10/14)

 

21-23 May 2015. 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP4). Prague, Czech Republic. http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/epip4/ (12/13)

 

## 28-30 May 2015 Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP3). Urbana-Champaign, USA. http://dgwatson.wix.com/etap3 (10/14)

 

## 29-30 June 2015. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2015. Cambridge, UK. http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/pape (10/14)

 

26-31 July 2015. Prosodic Constructions in Dialog (Panel at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference). Antwerp, Belgium.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/pconstructions/ (09/14)
 
10-14 August 2015. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.icphs2015.info/ (02/14)
  
**********************
  CONFERENCES
**********************

 

18^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015)

Glasgow, Scotland

 

10-14 August 2015

http://www.icphs2015.info/

 

ICPhS 2015 is delighted to announce the first call for papers.

 

Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished research in the scientific areas listed at http://icphs2015.info/Scientific.aspx

 

Instructions and templates for the preparation of your paper can be found at http://icphs2015.info/Call.aspx

 

An individual may be a first author of only one paper submitted for consideration. You will be able to select up to three scientific areas in which to submit your paper.

 

If you wish to submit your paper for oral presentation you can also then select (by ticking the appropriate box) to be considered for a Discussant Session.  In these sessions, a thematic selection of thought-provoking studies will be highlighted and discussed by leading specialists. You can find out more about Discussant Sessions at http://icphs2015.info/Sessions.aspx

 

Paper submission closes 1 February 2015.

 

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow!

 

The Local Advisory Board of ICPhS 2015

 

-------------------------------

 

French Prosody in Contact

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

 

30 October 2014

http://prosodyincontact.org/  

 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the prosody of French in contact with other languages, and the prosody of other languages in contact with French. The notion of two languages being in contact is deliberately understood in its broadest sense, including the phenomena observed in areas where French is spoken concurrently with other languages and the interaction between an individual speaker’s L1 and L2 during language learning.

 

During the workshop, specialists and young researchers will come together to present the results of studies on prosody when French is found in contact with:

 

- African languages (Swahili, Lingala, Kirundi);

- Germanic languages (Norwegian, German, Dutch, English);

- Romance languages (Italian, Spanish).

 

The workshop highlights corpus-based approaches, with authentic speaker productions from L1 and L2/learner corpora, while many of the presentations focus on perceptual experiments to assess issues such as the perception of regional accent, stress deafness and fluency.

 

We hope that the workshop will foster a fruitful debate on aspects of the French prosodic system (such as initial stress, prosodic contours, rhythm etc.) and will highlight the theoretical and methodological issues inherent in the study of prosody in contact (e.g. the effects of the typological distance between source and target language, difficulties in assessing the existence of prosodic transfer etc.).

 

George Christodoulides (Valibel, UCL)

Marie-Catherine Michaux (Valibel, UCL)

Mathieu Avanzi (Valibel, UCL & LLF, U. Paris Diderot)

Anne Catherine Simon (Valibel, UCL)

 

------------------------

VI International Conference of Experimental Phonetics

Valencia, Spain

 

5-7 November 2014

http://www.valesco.es/cife2014/programa-del-congreso/?lang=en

 

The VI International Conference of Experimental Phonetics will be held in the University of Valencia, at the School of Philology, Translation and Communication, in the city of Valencia, from November 5-7, 2014.

 

This conference will offer, once more, an opportunity to promote debate on Experimental Phonetics and gain insight into different aspects involved in the study of this discipline. The aim of the conference is also to consider the presence of Experimental Phonetics in a new era of technological innovation and educational and academic challenges.

 

The program will take place over three days and it will contain eight topic areas. For each area, there will be a specialized talk by an expert in the field, as well as a series of shorter presentations. The program also includes a round table about Applications of Phonetics in the 21st Century.

 

Alongside these academic activities, there will be a series of sociocultural activities through which participants will be able to discover the city of Valencia: its culture, main touristic sites, etc.

 

------------------------

7^th workshop on Speech in Noise (SPiN)

Copenhagen, Denmark

 

8-9 January 2015

http://www.spin2015.dk/

 

We are pleased to announce the 7th workshop on Speech in Noise which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the 8th and 9th of January 2015.

 

The program for the 7th workshop includes numerous oral presentations given by speakers focusing on different aspects of speech-related research. A list of speakers and preliminary titles of their talks is available on the workshop’s webpage. 

 

A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge, UK) about "Predicting the intelligibility of connected speech in adverse listening conditions".

 

All participants are invited to submit abstracts for poster contributions. The best poster will be elected by the participants and be rewarded with the Collin Cherry Award 2015.

 

Abstract deadline: December 8, 2014.

 

Registration is now open. Additional details on registration, submitting abstracts, talks, and travelling are available on the workshop's web page.

 

For enquiries about the workshop, please write to [log in to unmask].

 

We are looking forward to greeting you in Copenhagen.

 

The organising team:

Dorothea Wendt

Gaston Hilkhuysen

Sébastien Santurette

 

------------------------

 

11^th AISV Congress: Emergene, Change and Pathology of the Sound Structure of Language

Bologna, Italy

 

28-30 January 2015

http://aisv2015.unibo.it/

 

11th Congress of the Italian Speech Science Association (AISV)

Il farsi e il disfarsi del linguaggio. Emergence, change and pathology of the sound structure of language

 

As the title of the congress suggests, the topic aims to draw the attention of linguists and speech scientists from different disciplines to an insightful intuition of Roman Jakobson's classical, and at the same time revolutionary, paper: Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze (1941). Here it was proposed that the parallels between the phonological development of child language and (in Jakobsonian terms) the 'dissolution' of sound structure in language pathologies are rooted in common general phonetic laws, the same laws that also govern the sound structure and sound changes of the world's languages.

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Daniel Recasens - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona

Marianne Pouplier - Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig - Maximilians Universität, Monaco

 

Official languages: Italian and English

 

Accomodation: information at http://aisv2015.unibo.it/

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Cinzia Avesani, ISTC-CNR Padova

Fabio Tamburini, Università di Bologna

Mario Vayra, Università di Bologna

 

------------------------

Shared Processing in Language and Music: What Neurocognition and Disorders Reveal (SPLM).

Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

27-28 March 2015

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/SPLM

 

Traditionally, language and music have been regarded as two separate domains. Growing evidence, however, suggest that these two domains share at least certain processes. While there is more interesting research every day, part of what makes this field so exciting is that there are still two very different perspectives: Those who emphasize the differences between music and language and those who emphasize the similarities. Not only behavioral paradigms but more and more neurophysiological techniques are used to test hypotheses arising from those different perspectives and to investigate the neural underpinnings of possibly shared cognitive processes. At the same time, disorders that affect either faculty but supposedly spare the other, such as amusia and aphasia, are of great interest, too, as they can also lead to insights on what is shared by both domains and what is not.

 

This workshop aims at bringing together scientists from as diverse fields as linguistics, musicology, psychology, neurology and biology in order to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that might create a better understanding of the shared processes in music and language.

 

The workshop is embedded in the SMART Cognitive Sciences Conference that is held from March 25-28, 2015.

 

We invite submissions for oral presentations on empirical or theoretical work. Abstracts should not be longer than one page (including references) and are to be submitted as pdfs to [log in to unmask]

 

Any contributions focusing on the question of shared mechanisms between music and language are welcome, whether specific disorders are investigated, neurocognitive methods are employed or a combination of both. Theoretical approaches to this topic are also welcome.

 

Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2014

Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2014

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Prof. Dr. Usha Goshwami, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Daniela Sammler, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany

Dr. Victoria Williamson, University of Sheffield, UK

 

Venue: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 

Email address: [log in to unmask]

 

------------------------

 

PAC 2015 (11^th “Phonology of Contemporary English” conference: Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English)

Toulouse, France

 

9-13 April 2015

http://www.projet-pac.net/

 

We are very pleased to announce the 11th “Phonology of Contemporary English” conference, to be held at the University of Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès, Toulouse France, from 9 to 13 April 2015 (Thursday-Monday).

 

Keynote Speakers (in Alphabetical Order):

 

Maciej Baranowski (University of Manchester, England)

Gerard Docherty (Griffith University, Australia)

Mariko Kondo (Waseda University, Japan)

Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Eiji Yamada (Fukuoka University, Japan)

 

The PAC conferences have been organized each year in Toulouse, Montpellier or Aix-en-Provence since 2004. PAC ''La Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure / The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure'' is a programme coordinated by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Anne Przewozny. Its main aims have been to provide a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic), to test phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation, to favour communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory, to provide data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language. We have been involved in the construction of a corpus of spoken English from 31 locations in the English-speaking world. In terms of linguistic study, the recordings lend themselves to various types of exploitation, including syntax and pragmatics. The PAC programme has developed into a variety of thematic research groups with dedicated research interests:
ICE-IPAC (the Interphonology of Contemporary English), PAC-Syntax (the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of contemporary spoken English), PAC-Prosody (analysis of speech prosody and tools), PAC-Research (annotation issues and tools), PAC-EFL (the teaching of English as a second language and pedagogical tools), LVTI (Language, Urban life, Work, Identity) on the study of English in urban contexts.

 

Main Organisers:

 

Anne Przewozny, Steven Moore, Jacques Durand (CLLE-ERSS & Department of English Studies, U. Toulouse 2), Philip Carr (EMMA & Department of English Studies, U. Montpellier 3)

 

Local Organisation Committee:

 

Willy Beaujean, Hugo Chatellier, Léa Courdès-Murphy, Lison Fabre, Cécile Viollain, Sylvain Navarro, Inès Brulard-Carr, Daniel Huber, Amélie Josselin-Leray

 

------------------------

 

Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP3)

Urbana-Champaign, USA

 

28-30 May 2015

http://dgwatson.wix.com/etap3

 

The third conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) is taking place this coming May 28-30, 2015, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A special focus of this year’s ETAP is prosodic variability. Prosodic processing presents a challenge to researchers because of the many sources of variability in how prosodic phenomena area realized. Prosodic information consists of bundles of features (e.g., pitch, duration, loudness, intensity), but patterns of these features vary systematically across different speakers, populations, dialects, and contexts. They also vary randomly due to speech errors or noise in the environment. A long-standing, critical issue in the field is understanding the nature of such variability in prosodic information as well as understanding how listeners maintain their prosodic representations despite the variable input. This conference aims at bringing together researchers from different disciplines who work on these issues, as well as researchers working on general questions in prosody research. We will post Call for Papers on our website in October 2014.

 

------------------------

 

Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2015

Cambridge, UK

 

29-30 June 2015

http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/pape

 

Phonetics and Phonology in Europe brings together researchers interested in all areas of phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the relationship between the two. The intrinsically interdisciplinary nature of most current research in these areas has always been reflected in the conference programme, with speakers from a wide variety of disciplines including historical linguistics, language typology, neurolinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive psychology, and speech technology.

 

This installment of the conference will be the first to be hosted outside the Iberian Peninsula where it was originally established a little over 10 years ago (as Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia).

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Maria Josep Solé, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Sarah Hawkins, University of Cambridge

 

Satellite workshops will be held on 28 June 2015.

 

Call for papers

 

Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015 welcomes the submission of abstracts on any area of phonetics and phonology. Preference will be given to cross-linguistic comparisons and innovative interdisciplinary approaches.

 

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2014

 

Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed 500 words. In addition, references, examples and/or figures can optionally be included, but should not exceed two pages of A4. Font: Times New Roman, 12pt; Line spacing: single; Margins: 2.5cm.

 

One copy of the abstract must be sent anonymously and another one with the author’s name(s), e-mail address(es), and affiliation(s). In the latter, camera-ready copy, the first line of the abstract should contain the title of the paper in boldface, the second line the author’s name(s), the third line the affiliation(s) and the fourth line the e-mail address(es). A blank line should be left between the title lines and the abstract text.

 

Abstracts may be submitted either for a 'talk/poster', or as a 'poster only'. Authors may submit ONE abstract as first author and up to 3 abstracts as a co-author.

 

Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to the following address:

[log in to unmask]

***************************
  POSITIONS VACANT
***************************

 

The University of Kentucky

Linguistics

https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/

 

The University of Kentucky seeks a linguist with demonstrated research and teaching expertise in phonetics. Preference will be given to candidates who can also build on the program’s strengths in sociolinguistics, corpus/computational linguistics, and historical linguistics; and contribute to teaching computational and experimental research methods. Rank is at Assistant Professor level. In exceptional circumstances we will consider an appointment at a higher rank.

 

Teaching responsibilities will be entirely within the University’s interdepartmental Linguistics Program and will include courses at the introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels; maximum teaching load is two courses per semester. Appointment will be tenure‐line and housed in the College of Arts & Sciences, initially within the Department of English, and subsequently in the newly formed Department of Linguistics. Evidence of successful scholarship and teaching required. Doctorate in Linguistics required at the time of appointment. Appointment begins August 2015.

 

Applications should be submitted through interfolio (link below). Please submit a letter of application describing research and teaching, C.V., a single representative research paper, and three letters of recommendation. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the LSA Annual Meeting in January. Finalists who are not attending the LSA meeting may request an interview via Skype. Review of applications begins November 15. The interfolio site will close on December 1. Questions should be addressed to the search committee chair, Dr. Rusty Barrett (email below).

 

The University of Kentucky’s Linguistics Program is a research‐active environment with a history of synergy between linguistics and computer science; existing research groups focus on morphological theory & typology, sociolinguistics, corpus/computational linguistics, historical linguistics, and minority languages.

 

The University of Kentucky is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity University that values diversity and is located in an increasingly diverse geographical region. It is committed to becoming one of the top public institutions in the country. Women, persons with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. The University also supports family‐friendly policies.

 

Application deadline: 15 November 2014

Application URL: http://apply.interfolio.com/26580

 

-----------------

McGill University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada   
Linguistics
http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/

 

The Department of Linguistics, McGill University, invites applications for a tenure-track position
in phonetics and related areas of experimental linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor,
effective August 1, 2015. Applicants should have a research agenda that connects to the existing
strengths of the Department. General qualifications are a PhD in linguistics and demonstrated
excellence in research and teaching in the area(s) of specialization. Duties will include
undergraduate and graduate teaching, graduate research guidance and administrative
responsibilities.

 

Deadline for applications: November 7, 2014.

 

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian
immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

McGill University is committed to diversity and equity in employment. It welcomes applications
from: women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, persons of
minority sexual orientation or gender identity, visible minorities, and others who may contribute
to diversification.

 

Interested candidates should submit an application consisting of a letter of introduction, a
curriculum vitae, samples of research and teaching evaluations. Applicants should also arrange
for three referees to submit letters of reference. The application and the letters of reference must
be uploaded directly to the application website below (position ID:McGill Linguistics ASSTPROF
#4520). To ensure full consideration, all materials should be submitted by November 7, 2014. 

 

Application URL: http://academicjobsonline.org 
Contact Information: Professor Morgan  Sonderegger

 

---------------------

 

Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
Assistant Professor in Phonology
 
The Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Phonology, with a starting date of August 2015. Candidates should have a strong background in core phonological theories and methods as well as in the collection and analysis of primary phonological data. Such data can be from any source, including research on under-described language varieties, child or adult language learners, phonological processing, among others. The Department of Linguistics at Ohio State has a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration, interacting with and supporting other programs, including contributions to the Buckeye Language Network and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and collaborations with Computer Science and Engineering, Psychology, Philosophy, Speech and Hearing Sciences, and the foreign language programs, among others. Linguistics faculty have built strong ties with affiliated faculty across the University through research collaborations, student advising, co-taught courses, curricular development, workshops, and conferences. Candidates who are interested in building connections and interacting with faculty and students across this broader linguistics community are particularly encouraged to apply.

 

Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of publication in top-tier journals, as well as promise for excellence in teaching core graduate and undergraduate courses and advising students in the study of the cognitive representation of language sound systems. The new assistant professor will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements, and to perform service duties as required by the Department and the University. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D. in Linguistics, or a related field, by the start of employment.

 

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching interests, and three letters of recommendation. Applicants are requested to identify 3-5 samples of published or unpublished work, including at least one example of the currently most active research program, and provide URLs where the work can be accessed. Inquiries may be directed to Cynthia Clopper ([log in to unmask]; 614-292-8235). Review of applications will begin on November 17, 2014 and we encourage submission before that date. However, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Please apply online through Academic Jobs Online at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4468.

 

The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status, or protected veteran status. Ohio State is an NSF Advance Institution.

 

Details URL: https://linguistics.osu.edu/phonology-search

 

-----------------

 

Nuance Communications BVBA

www.Nuance.com

 

Linguist/Phonetician - Speech Data Validation

 

Position Summary

- Major duties and responsibilities: assisting in the speech data validation effort for the development of UK English TTS voices.

- General reporting structure: The contractor will be a member of a data validation team working on the above named projects and reporting to Mihaela Calacean (supervised by Mario DeBock).

- Location: Merelbeke, Belgium

 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

 

Principal Responsibilities

- Perform phonetic validation of speech data i.e. listen to voice recordings and check if orthography, phonetic transcriptions and prosodic labels are correct and match the audio signals.

- Perform segmentation validation i.e. check if phoneme boundaries are well aligned to the audio signal.

- Perform synthesis evaluation i.e. listen and evaluate synthesis generated with Female/Male UK English text-to-speech voices.

- Participate in the effort of tuning the TTS voices.

- Testing the product release.

 

Qualifications

- Education: Candidates need to have studied English at an advanced (university) level (e.g. germanisten, vertalers, tolken).

- Number of Years of Work Experience: N/A

 

Required Skills

- Native or near-native proficiency in English

- Thorough understanding of phonological and phonetic concepts

- Very good listening skills

- Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average comfort with software

- Strong sense of precision and quality in the daily job

- Ability to work independently as well as in a team

- Good problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills

 

Preferred Skills

- Experience with correcting phonetic transcriptions for speech technology

- Familiarity with development of language assets of text-to-speech technologies

 

Application deadline: 15 October 2014

http://jobs.nuance.com/

 

--------------------

Samsung Research & Development Institute Poland

 

Samsung Research & Development Institute Poland is currently looking

for external linguistic experts with:

- knowledge of phonology

- experience in acoustic phonetics

- expertise in analysis of spectrograms/oscillograms of phones

 

Cooperation timeframe & conditions:

- start date: a.s.a.p.

- ~3 months, up to 40 hours a week (depending on the expert’s

availability)

- remote work

 

Languages:

- Czech

- Greek

- Hungarian

 

If you are an acoustic phonetician and know the basics of phonology

of one of the languages mentioned above or you are a native speaker

of one of them, you’re a perfect fit for the job.

 

However we also welcome experienced phoneticians with general

understanding of phonetic processes with no insight into these

particular languages.

 

To apply, please send your CV in English to all addresses below:

[log in to unmask]

[log in to unmask]

[log in to unmask]

 

In your application please specify that you found our advertisement on

linguistlist.org. Your CV must include the following clause:

“I grant consent to have my personal data processed for the purposes

of current and future recruitment processes carried out by Samsung

Electronics Polska Sp. z o.o. with the seat in Warsaw, in accordance

with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act of 29 August

1997 (Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883, as amended)”. 

 

Application deadline: 31 October 2014 

******
OTHER
******

 

Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings from several languages

 

We are happy to announce the public availability of speech recordings made as part of the UCLA project "Production and Perception of Linguistic Voice Quality".

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/voiceproject/voice.html

 

Audio and EGG recordings are available for Bo, Gujarati, Hmong, Mandarin, Black Miao, Southern Yi, Santiago Matatlan/ San Juan Guelavia Zapotec; audio recordings (no EGG) are available for English and Mandarin. Audio and EGG recordings of Luchun Hani from Professor Kiangping Kong of Peking University, and audio recordings of Jalapa Mazatec extracted from the UCLA Phonetic Archive, are also posted. All recordings are accompanied by explanatory notes and wordlists, and most are accompanied by Praat textgrids that locate target segments of interest to our project.

 

Analysis software developed as part of the project – VoiceSauce for audio analysis and EggWorks for EGG analysis – and all project publications are also available from this site. All preliminary analyses of the recordings using these tools (i.e. acoustic and EGG parameter values extracted from the recordings) are posted on the site in large data spreadsheets.

 

All of these materials are made freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-3.0 Unported License.

 

This project was funded by NSF grant BCS-0720304 to Pat Keating, Abeer Alwan and Jody Kreiman of UCLA, and Christina Esposito of Macalester College.

 

Pat Keating (UCLA)

 

*****************************************************************
The deadline for material for the next foNETiks newsletter is 4 November 2014.
*****************************************************************