foNETiks
a Network Newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
September 1999
Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, U.K.
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, U.K.
Paul Foulkes, Leeds University, U.K.
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(Date of first appearance follows)
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10 - 12 September 1999. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
(GALA) 1999. Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam,
Germany http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/gala99/ (07/99)
13 - 14 September 1999. ESCA-NATO Tutorial and Research Workshop on MIST:
Multi-lingual Interoperability in Speech Technology. Satellite event
of Eurospeech'99. Leusden, The Netherlands.
http://lands.let.kun.nl/mist (12/98)
13 - 17 September 1999. Workshop on Text, Speech, Dialogue. Plzen, Czech
Republic. email: [log in to unmask];
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd99/ (02/99)
13 - 17 September 1999. Machine Translation Summit VII: "MT in the
Great Translation Era". Kent Ridge Digital Labs, National
University of Singapore. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
(Japan); [log in to unmask] (Singapore);
http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/ (08/99)
14 - 17 September 1999. CFP AI*IA99: Sixth Congress of the Italian
Association for Artificial Intelligence. Bologna, Italy. Further
info: Email: [log in to unmask]; URL:
http://www.deis.unibo.it/Events/AIIA99 (08/99)
14 - 19 September 1999. ICHoLS VIII: 8th International Conference on
History of Language Sciences. Ecole Normale Superieure de
Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, Fontenay Aux Roses, France.
http://www.ens-fcl.fr/neuf/colloques/ichols.htm (08/99)
15 - 18 September 1999. EUROCALL'99 (European Association for
Computer-Assisted Language Learning): Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) in varied language learning
environments. Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France.
http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr
http://lib.univ-fcomte.fr/RECHERCHE/P7/EUROCALL/EUROCAL L.html (08/98)
15 September 1999. Speech Technology in Language Learning. Besancon,
France.
http://www.tay.ac.uk/div_lang/capital/Deuxieme_Seminaire_InSTIL.html
(06/99)
4 - 7 October 1999. SPECOM'99 International Workshop. Moscow Linguistic
University. email: [log in to unmask]; http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/speech
(01/99)
7 - 9 October 1999. Distinctive Feature Theory. Zentrum fur Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. [log in to unmask] (06/99)
8 - 9 October 1999. Recent Developments in Generative Metrics. University
of Toronto, Canada. (04/99) More info: [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
14 - 17 October 1999. NWAVE Conference. University of Toronto.
http://momiji.arts-dlll.yorku.ca/linguistics/NWAVE/NWAVE-28.html
(06/99)
**15 - 16 October 1999. Symposium on Prosody and Intonation,
Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas.
http://www.kumc.edu/kuce/app/mlc (9/99)
15 - 17 October 1999. Fifth Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology
(McWOP99). Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
[log in to unmask] (08/99)
1 - 5 November 1999. 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Columbus, Ohio. http://asa.aip.org/columbus/columbus.html (08/98)
5 - 7 November 1999. The 24th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development. Boston University.
http://web.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html (03/99)
18 November 1999. University of Southern California Speech Production
Conference. [log in to unmask] (08/99)
12 - 15 December 1999. ASRU'99: 1999 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech
Recognition and Understanding. Keystone, Colorado.
http://asru99.research.att.com/asru99_index.shtml (06/99)
7 - 8 January 2000. 2000 Conference on Pidgin and Creole Languages.
Chicago. [log in to unmask] (08/99) (See below under Conferences
for more information.)
1 - 3 March 2000. The Word in Phonology. German Society of Linguistics,
Marburg, Germany. [log in to unmask] (06/99)
April 2000. RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur =
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval) International Conference:
Content-Based Multimedia Information Access. Paris, France. Email:
[log in to unmask]; Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO. (08/99) (See
below under Conferences for more information.)
3 - 6 April 2000. The Evolution of Language. Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications, Paris, France.
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ (08/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
1 - 4 May 2000. 5th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data. Kloster
Seeon, Bavaria, Germany. Email: [log in to unmask];
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5 (08/99) (See below under
Conferences for more information.)
29 - 31 May 2000. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP). Jonkerbosch
Conference Centre. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/swap (08/99) (See below under Conferences
for more information.)
31 May - 2 June 2000. LREC2000: The 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece.
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) (08/99) (See below
under Conferences for more information.)
29 June - 1 July 2000. LabPhon7. Max Planck Institute/University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [log in to unmask];
http://www.let.kun.nl/labphon7/ (02/99)
29 June - 1 July 2000. ICLaVE 1 (Barcelona 2000): First International
Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(08/99) (See below under Conferences for more information.)
16 - 19 August 2000. VIIIth meeting of the International Clinical
Phonetics and Linguistics Asociation. John MacIntyre Centre,
Edinburgh, Scotland. http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/ICPLA2000/index.htm
(07/99)
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CONFERENCES
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Session on Prosody, Mid-America Ling Conference
We are soliciting papers for a symposium on Prosody and Intonation, to be
held as a special session of the 1999 Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
Papers on any aspect of prosody and/or intonation studies will be considered.
The 1999 Mid-America Linguistics Conference will be held Oct. 15-16 at
the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Geoffrey Pullum will be the guest
speaker.
Please send abstracts to:
Daniel Lefkowitz
c/o Linguistics Department
Kansas University
Lawrence KS 66045-2140
Abstracts can also be sent via email to: [log in to unmask]
Please submit abstracts for the prosody and intonation session by August
16, 1999. (Please Note: The deadline for abstracts for all other sessions
of the Mid-America Linguistics Conference remains August 9, 1999.)
For further conference details, please see the conference website at:
http://www.kumc.edu/kuce/app/mlc
or the website of the Kansas University Linguistics Department:
http://www.ukans.edu/home/linguistics
This link contains information on abstract format, among other things.
http://www.kumc.edu/kuce/app/mlc/
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POSITIONS VACANT
& RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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Postdoctoral Research Traineeship conducting research in Speech and
Hearing Science (broadly defined), Department of Speech and Hearing
Science, The Ohio State University
A Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship (National
Institutional Research Service Award Fellowship) for PhDs or MDs is
available immediately. This postdoctoral traineeship provides an
opportunity to pursue focused research (either basic research or
clinical research) in one of five areas of concentration within the
discipline of speech and hearing science including speech production,
speech processing, psychoacoustics, speech perception, and
speech-language development. Emphasis of this training program is on
cross-disciplinary research. The training faculty come from many
different departments including the Departments of Speech and Hearing
Science (Robert Fox, Lawrence Feth, Jan Weisenberger, Osamu Fujimura,
Marios Fourakis, Jan Edwards, Sandy Schneider, Michael Trudeau),
Linguistics (Mary Beckman, Keith Johnson,), Psychology (Mari Jones,
Neal Johnson, Caroline Palmer, Mark Pitt, Julie Boland),
Otolaryngology (Kamran Barin, Tom DeMaria), Electrical Engineering
(Ashok Krishnamurthy, Stan Ahalt, Randy Moses), Zoology (William
Masters), Mechanical Engineering (Mardi Hastings), and
Wright-Patterson AFB (Tim Anderson).
Potential trainees should have a doctorate and be a U.S. citizen or have
permanent residence status.
This traineeship is for two years. Support will include a stipend, moving
expenses, travel, and other training-related expenses.
Interested individuals should submit inquiries and vitae along with a list
of references to:
Dr. Robert A. Fox,
Dept of Speech and Hearing Science,
110 Pressey Hall,
1070 Carmack Rd.
Columbus OH 43210-1002
Phone: 614-292-1628
FAX: 614-292-7504
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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* SPHEAR (Speech, Hearing and Recognition) is a research
network funded by the European Commission Transfer and
Mobility of Researchers programme from 1st March 1998 for four
years.
* SPHEAR is researching models of hearing, particularly
Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and the Precedence
Effect. The network links this work to new methodologies for
robust automatic speech recognition, primarily
'Missing Data' and 'Multistream'. Recognition for in-car applications
is used as a testbed.For more details, see
<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~pdg/sphear/sphear.htm
* The SPHEAR partners are
University of Sheffield, GB
Ruhr Universitat Bochum, DE
Daimler-Chrysler Research, Ulm, DE
Institute Communication Parle, Grenoble, FR
IDIAP, Martigny, CH
University of Keele, GB
Wire Communication Lab, University of Patras, GR.
* SPHEAR employs BOTH POSTDOCTORAL AND DOCTORAL
RESEARCHERS (you can do part or all of your Ph.D. within the
network).
* By the TMR eligibility rules, all these researchers must
be under 35 years of age,
be European Union citizens and
be prepared to work outside their own country.
* There will be opportunities for individuals to take a series of
placements to work in several SPHEAR labs who are collaborating
on the same or related tasks.
* Research students who have already commenced their doctoral
studies may spend part of their time on placements within
SPHEAR.
* Research students will have their tuition fees paid by the network.
* Payment will be based on the Marie Curie TMR fellowship rates
(details from the web site)
If you are interested, send your CV and the names and addresses
of two referees to the address below. Indicate what SPHEAR
tasks (see the web site) and what SPHEAR labs interest you, and
when you expect to be available.
Alternatively, talk to us at Eurospeech, where several SPHEAR
papers will be presented.
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Dr Phil Green
Speech and Hearing Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
phone: (44) 114 22 21828
fax: (44) 114 27 80972
email: [log in to unmask]
www: <<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Green/
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BOOKS & JOURNALS
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JIPA SOLICITS SUBMISSIONS!
The Journal of the International Phonetic Association is looking for
articles of interest to the phonetics community.
As you may have heard, there is a yet-unratified plan to have three
editors for the coming year, Peter Ladefoged, John Local, and Linda
Shockey. In the past, editing and producing JIPA has proved too
much for any one person, despite enormous (and much
appreciated) efforts from editors, most recently Martin Barry. As a
result of having more editors some new reviewers we will be able to
handle more contributions and improve turnaround time.
Contributors might like to note that the Journal of the International
Phonetic Association has a far higher circulation among individual
phoneticians than any other journal in the field.
Other changes are being discussed ... watch this space.
We strongly urge you to submit the research paper which you are
currently writing up to JIPA. Please send to one of the following
(postal addresses on request):
Martin Barry [log in to unmask]
Peter Ladefoged [log in to unmask]
John Local [log in to unmask]
Linda Shockey [log in to unmask]
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RESOURCES
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Vocal Emotions Mailing List
We would like to announce a new mailing list for discussing
research questions about the vocal expression of emotions:
[log in to unmask]
In order to subscribe/unsubscribe, write an email to:
[log in to unmask]
Topics to be discussed in this mailing list encompass all
aspects of vocal emotions research, e.g., theoretical
considerations, empirical research, methodological issues,
technological applications, ...
Contributions from various backgrounds and disciplines
are highly appreciated.
Noam Amir
Marc Schroeder
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Material for the October 1999 issue of foNETiks should reach the
editors by 26 September.
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