foNETiks
a Network Newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
April 2000
Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Paul Foulkes, Leeds University, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]>
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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** 3 - 6 April 2000. BAAP2000 (British Association of Academic
Phoneticians) Colloquium. Glasgow, Scotland.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/baap/home.html (04/00)
3 - 6 April 2000. The Evolution of Language. Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications, Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ (08/99)
12 - 14 April 2000. RIAO2000 (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par
Ordinateur = Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference: Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access. Paris, France. [log in to unmask];
http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO (08/99)
13 April 2000. IEE Colloquium on State-Of-The-Art in Speech Synthesis.
Savoy Place, London. http://www.iee.org.uk/Events/e13apr00.htm
(03/00)
28 - 30 April 2000. First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC).
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. [log in to unmask];
[log in to unmask];
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/naphc.html (12/99)
29 - 30 April 2000. CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled
Language Applications. Seattle, Washington. (Pre-conference
Workshop in conjunction with the joint meeting of the ANLP/NACLA
conferences (see entry below).
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000 (12/99)
29 April - 3 May 2000. Language Technology Joint Conference: 6th
Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Conference and the
1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Seattle, Washington.
[log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask];
www.aclweb.org (12/99)
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)
10 - 12 May 2000. SNLP 2000: The Fourth Symposium on Natural Language
Processing 2000. Chiangmai, Thailand.
www.nectec.or.th//sll//snlp2000; www.cpe.eng.kmutt.ac.th/~snlp
(12/99)
11 - 12 May 2000. VOTS 2000. Voice Operated Telecom Services: Do They Have
A Bright Future? Gent, Belgium.
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop (01/00)
18 - 20 May 2000. 8th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of
Manchester, UK. http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/8mfm/call.htm
(03/00)
29 - 31 May 2000. Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP). Jonkerbosch
Conference Centre. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/swap (08/99)
** 29 May 2000. LREC2000 workshop: From spoken dialogue to full natural
interactive dialogue. Theory, empirical analysis and evaluation.
Athens, Greece. http://www.nis.sdu.dk/lrec2000workshop (04/00)
** 29 May 2000. XLDB - 1st. Int'l Workshop on Very Large Telephone Speech
Databases (satellite of LREC 2000). Athens, Greece.
http://www.speechdat.org/XLDB.html (04/00)
30 May 2000. Development of Language Resources for Minority Languages
(satellite of LREC 2000). Athens, Greece. [log in to unmask];
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/SALTMIL/lrec00.html (02/00)
** 30 May - 3 June 2000. 139th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Atlanta, Georgia. http://asa.aip.org/atlanta/atlanta.html
(04/00)
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)
** 8 - 10 June 2000. 2nd Round Table in Phonology of the GDR 1954,
Templatic and concatenative aspects in phonology, The Phonology of
French: usage, variety and structure. Bordeaux, France.
http://www6.50megs.com/phono/ (04/00)
12 - 16 June 2000. First International Natural Language Generation
Conference (INLG'2000). Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/main.html (12/99)
15 - 17 June 2000. TENNET (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology)
meeting, Montreal, Canada. [log in to unmask];
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet (09/99)
22 - 23 June 2000. Utrecht Biannial Phonology Workshop: Typology in
Phonology. [log in to unmask] (02/00)
27 - 30 June 2000. EIS'2000: Second International ICSC Symposium on
Engineering of Intelligent Systems. University of Paisley,
Scotland, U.K. http://www.icsc.ab.ca/eis2000.htm (12/99)
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)
3 - 5 July 2000. Third Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation.
Bellagio, Italy. [log in to unmask];
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/
(12/99)
10 July - 18 August 2000. Summer workshop on Language Technology.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/proposal.html (12/99)
** 15 - 30 July 2000. 8th European Summer School on Language and Speech
Communication - Text and Speech Triggered Information Access
(TeSTIA). Chios Island, Greece.
http://www.ilsp.gr/testia/testia2000.html (04/00)
23 - 27 July 2000. TISLR7: 7th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign
Language Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sign-lang/tislr7/ (12/99)
** July 2000. Summer 2000 at Ohio State University. Spoken Language in
Context: Methods and Models. http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000
(04/00) (See under Conferences, Workshops & Meetings below for
further details.)
** 6 August 2000. Finite-State Phonology : SIGPHON 2000. Fifth Meeting of
the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology. A
full-day workshop held at COLING 2000. Luxembourg.
[log in to unmask]; http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon.
(04/00) (See below under Conferences, Workshops & Meetings for
further details.)
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)
21 - 25 August 2000. LP2000: Item order. Charles University, Prague.
[log in to unmask] (02/00)
** 22 - 26 August 2000. Linguistic theory, Speech and Language pathology,
Speech therapy. Padova, Italy. [log in to unmask] (04/00) (See
below under Conferences, Workshops & Meetings for further
details.)
29 - 30 August 2000. InSTIL 2000 Symposium: Integrating Speech
Technology in (Language) Learning. University of Abertay Dundee,
Scotland, UK. http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil2000/ (03/00)
5 - 7 September 2000. ISCA Workshop on Speech and Emotion. Northern
Ireland (venue tba). http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/isca/index.htm
(11/99)
** 5 - 8 September 2000. X European Signal Processing Conference. Tampere,
Finland. http://eusipco2000/cs.tut.fi (04/00)
13 - 16 September 2000. The Third International Workshop on Text, Speech
and Dialogue (TSD 2000). Brno, Czech Republic. [log in to unmask];
http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ (12/99)
14 - 16 September, 2000. VIEW 2000: Variation Is EveryWhere. University of
Essex, Colchester, England.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ (03/00)
** 18 - 20 September 2000. ASR2000 - International Workshop on Automatic
Speech Recognition: Challenges for the Next Millennium. Paris,
France. http://www-tlp.limsi.fr/asr2000 (04/00)
** 25 - 28 September 2000. SPECOM 2000 - International Workshop
Speech and Computer. St. Petersburg, Russia.
http://www.spiira.nw.ru/speech/specom00.html (04/00)
2 - 5 October 2000. Prosody 2000: speech recognition and synthesis
workshop. Krakow, Poland. http://ptfon.wmid.amu.edu.pl (01/00)
** 8 - 11 October 2000. Patterns of speech sounds in unscripted
communication: production - perception - phonology. Institute of
Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, Kiel.
[log in to unmask] (04/00) (See below under Conferences,
Workshops & Meetings for further details.)
** 11 - 13 October 2000. Multi-lingual Speech Communication. Kyoto, Japan.
http://www.msc2000.atr.co.jp/MSC/ (04/00)
** 16 - 20 October 2000. ICSLP2000: 6th International Conference on Spoken
Language Processing. Beijing, China. http://www.icslp2000.org
(04/00)
9 - 12 November 2000. Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction
Division of the National Communication Association. Seattle, WA.
[log in to unmask];
http://www.natcom.org/convention/2000/call2000.html (12/99)
** 4 - 7 December 2000. 8th Australian International Conference on Speech
Science and Technology. Canberra, Australia.
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/sst2000/ (04/00)
** 4 - 8 December 2000. 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Newport Beach, Califoria.
http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html (04/00)
** 3 - 6 (7) September 2001. EUROSPEECH'2001 - 7th European Conference on
Speech Communication and Technology. Aalborg, Denmark.
http://cpk.auc.dk/eusp2001/ (04/00)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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The Concordia Linguistics Students Association will be hosting a talk by
Morris Halle on the evening of April 27th. This is the evening before the
beginning of the First North American Phonology Conference. The talk will
take place at 7PM on the seventh floor of the Hall Building (1455 de
Maisonneuve W.) in downtown Montreal. The title of the talk is
"On the nature of stress and what it tells us about phonology"
We invite all NAPhC1 participants to register on the web at
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca
There is still time to have your payment postmarked by April 1 and receive
the preregistration discount.
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Summer 2000 at Ohio State University
Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models
During July of 2000, the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State
University will be offering a unique combination of short courses aimed at
exploring spoken language, with a particular focus on the empirical study
of naturally-occurring speech through various instrumental, quantitative,
and analytic means. Scholars, researchers (industry or academic), and
students are invited to join us for an intense and rewarding summer
session.
Course offerings:
Laboratory Phonology - Mary Beckman
Quantitative Methods - Michael Broe
Field Phonetics - Keith Johnson
Historical Phonology - Brian Joseph & Richard Janda
Practicum in English Intonation - Julia McGory
The Pragmatics of Focus - Craige Roberts
For more information see the website:
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
FINITE-STATE PHONOLOGY : SIGPHON 2000
Fifth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group
in Computational Phonology
A full-day workshop held at
COLING 2000
Luxembourg, 6 August 2000
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The workshop will focus on the growing role of finite-state methods in
computational phonology. Excellent papers in other areas of computational
phonology are also welcome.
Sample topics:
* Finite-state formalizations of phonological frameworks
* Algorithms and theorems about finite-state phonological formalisms
* Embedding finite-state phonology in NLP or speech systems
* The application of finite-state methods to empirical description
(including difficulties, representational encodings, and software
tools)
* Phonologically motivated extensions to finite-state techniques
* Research bearing on whether the finite-state assumptions are
empirically adequate or computationally necessary
A principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are
working in different phonological frameworks:
Finite-state methods have been more-or-less persuasively applied to a
range of frameworks, from derivational approaches to Optimality Theory.
This shared formal underpinning exposes crucial differences among the
frameworks (Frank & Satta 1998), and also suggests deep similarities
(Karttunen 1998).
We hope that the workshop's focus on formalizations using finite-state
techniques, which are well understood in themselves, will facilitate
further discussion of the theoretical and empirical virtues of different
frameworks. We are particularly interested in the potential for new or
hybrid frameworks.
ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Lauri Karttunen, Xerox Research Centre France (program chair)
Markus Walther, University of Marburg (local chair)
Jason Eisner, University of Rochester (organization)
Alain Theriault, Universite de Montreal (administration)
Daniel Albro, University of California at Los Angeles
Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania
John Coleman, University of Oxford
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado
Andras Kornai, Belmont Research, Cambridge MA
Reviewing will be blind. The program chair may invite additional
reviewers as necessary to obtain relevant expertise and avoid conflicts of
interest.
Questions and correspondence may be sent to:
Jason Eisner
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
P.O. Box 270226
Rochester, NY 14627 USA
tel: +1 (716) 275-5671
fax: +1 (716) 461-2018
email: [log in to unmask]
More information about SIGPHON is available at
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Content: Papers should be original, topical, and clear. Completed work is
preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should clearly
indicate the state of completion of the reported results.
Length: Submissions should be full-length papers, up to a maximum of 10
pages. (The final version in the proceedings should incorporate
reviewers' suggestions and may be up to 12 pages.)
Layout: Except for length, papers should adhere to Coling 2000 formatting
guidelines, at http://www.coling.org/format.html. Be careful not to
disclose authorship.
Electronic submission procedure:
1. Turn your paper into a PDF file, or if necessary a Postscript file.
See http://www.coling.org/postscript.html for help.
2. Email this file as an attachment to
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The body of the email should give title, author(s), abstract,
and contact information. The subject line should include the
word "SIGPHON."
Hardcopy submission procedure:
If electronic submission is impossible, please send FOUR hardcopies to
Alain Theriault
Departement de linguistique et de traduction
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montreal, Quebec
H3C 3J7
CANADA
along with a page giving title, author(s), abstract, and contact
information. Note that electronic submission is strongly preferred!
IMPORTANT DATES
Mon. 1 May Deadline for receipt of submissions
Wed. 24 May Authors notified of acceptance
Wed. 21 June Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy
Sun. 6 Aug. Workshop held in Luxembourg at Coling 2000
Coling 2000 - http://www.coling.org
SIGPHON - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon
Luxembourg - http://www.coling.org/lux-links.html
Registration fees and details - http://www.coling.org/reg.html
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Linguistic theory, Speech and Language pathology, Speech therapy
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Padova 22th - 26th August 2000
The Department of Linguistics of the University of Padua is pleased to
announce a conference on the relevance of Linguistics in Speech and
Language Pathology and in Speech therapy. Our aim is to explore the
interdisciplinary complexity of the interface language/cognition and
evaluate the relevance of linguistic theory in the development of
cognitive science; to discuss general problems posed by different
analyses; to bring under scrutiny theoretical assumptions taken for
granted in recent analyses, which may not be so obvious as they seem; to
investigate how even apparently minimal choices in the description of
phenomena may affect the form and complexity of the interface; and to
stress the theoretical and methodological relevance of the tools developed
in this area by focusing on empirical data of different languages. We
encourage submissions of papers dealing with any aspect of Speech and
language pathology in relation to any area of linguistics: phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language
acquisition, language change, sign language, bilingualism,
sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive grammar, generative grammar,
etc. We welcome submissions of proposals for
PAPERS & POSTERS
Abstracts should be as specific as possible and include a statement of the
author's topic or problem, approach and conclusions.
Authors interested in presenting a paper should submit one copy of a
one-page abstracts (plus one-page for references). Please send a separate
cover page with the following information:
1. Name & affiliation.
2. Title of paper/poster.
3. Mail address
4. E-mail address
5. Phone and/or Fax number
6. Audiovisual needs
7. Status (faculty, graduate student)
THEME SESSIONS
Theme sessions are encouraged. They are organized by an individual and
submitted as a unit. They are intended to deal with a unified idea or
topic, whether from similar or diverse viewpoints. Talks should be on a
coherent topic within the conference themes that can be expected to
generate opposing views and discussion with a broader audience. Theme
sessions will normally include 3 or 4 papers, plus a brief introduction.
Papers should be distributed in advance among participants and
participants are invited to refer to each other's approaches. Each panel
can accommodate introductory remarks framing the issues and three to four
30-minute talks. Proposals for Theme sessions should include:
- an overall abstract, outlining the topic and nature of the theme
session as a whole
- a short abstract from each presenter
The form of the abstract for the theme session, and for each included
paper, is the same as that for regular abstracts.
Please send the following information on a separate cover page:
1. Topic/Title of the Theme Session.
2. Name & affiliation of organizer
3. Names & affiliations of presenters
4. Mail address
5. E-mail address
6. Phone and/or fax
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
PAPERS AND POSTERS: 15TH MAY 2000
THEME SESSIONS: 30TH. MAY 2000
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: June 15 2000
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Official language for Papers and Posters is English. There will be No
Translation service. Spanish official languages and French are admitted
for Theme sessions.
Organizing Committee
Prof. Alberto Mioni
Chair of the Department Discipline Linguistiche, comunicative e dello
spettacolo,
Universit di Padova
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Dr. Paola Crisma
Diploma Universitario di Logopedista, Universit di Padova
Dipartimento di Scienze geografiche e storiche Universit di Trieste
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Prof. Elisabetta Fava, contact person
Dipartimento di discipline Linguistiche, comunicative e dello spettacolo
Universit di Padova
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Dr. Mario D'angelo
Diploma Universitario in Logopedia
Universit di Padova
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Dr. Sara Gesuato
Diploma Universitario in Logopedia
Universit di Padova
Dr. Alessandro Zijno
Diploma Universitario in Logopedia
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contact person
Prof. Elisabetta Fava
Dipartimento di discipline Linguistiche, comunicative e dello spettacolo
Via Beato Pellegrino 1
Palazzo Maldura
I-35100 Padova (Italy)
Fax ++39-049 8274919
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REGISTRATION FORM
CAPITALS THROUGHOUT PLEASE
Last name:
First name:
Institution:
Address:
Post code / zip code:
City:
Country:
e-mail:
FAX:
Phone:
Send to
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REGISTRATION FEE:
70 Euros (35 Euros for students) before July 30, 2000
to be deposited at 10021 Banca AntonVeneta, sede di padova, via VIII
febbraio 5, 35100 Padova, CAB 12150, ABI 5040
after July 30, 2000: 100 Euros at the arrival in Padova
LODGING AND TRANSPORTATION: WWW.PADOVAnet.it
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ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop ASR2000
Automatic Speech Recognition:
Challenges for the new Millenium
September 18-20, 2000
Paris, France
The ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop ASR2000 will focus on core speech
recognition technology and in particular on recent advances and
prospective work. Some of the challenges for speech recognition research
are to develop robust generic technology, low-cost development strategies,
portability to new tasks and languages, and adaptability.
For more information visit the workshop website at:
http://www-tlp.limsi.fr/asr2000/
Important dates:
Electronic submission of papers for review May 1
Final papers due August 1
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A NEW INITIATIVE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE IPA
CALL FOR PAPERS
>From 8th to 11th October 2000, the Institute of Phonetics and Digital
Speech Processing, Kiel will be holding a symposium on
Patterns of speech sounds in unscripted communication:
production - perception - phonology
We request abstracts (approximately 400 words) for contributions
appropriate to discussion within one of the following sub-topics:
o analysing and describing spontaneous speech in a variety of
languages
o supplementing the traditional word-based phonetics and phonology with a
new paradigm of phrase-level phonetics and phonology in the following
domains:
- articulatory reduction and elaboration and their conditioning variables
- (dys)fluency and dialogue structure
o multilingual comparisons
- generalizing phrase-level regularities across languages
- phonetic and phonological typologies at the phrase level
- phonetic and phonological universals at the phrase level
o developing adequate scenarios for spontaneous speech data collection
o the perception of reduced speech and the development of a new paradigm
for its analysis.
Abstracts will be reviewed for suitability of oral presentation.
There will be no parallel and no poster sessions.
Invited speakers are Bill Barry (Saarbruecken), Luke van Buuren
(Amsterdam), Francesco Cutugno (Naples), Gerry Docherty (Newcastle),
Danielle Duez (Aix), Olle Engstrand (Stockholm), Paul Foulkes (Leeds),
Steve Greenberg (Berkeley) and Nina Gronnum (Copenhagen), John Kelly
(Leeds), Diana Krull (Stockholm), John Local (York), Sam Obeng (Indiana),
Richard Ogden (York), John Ohala (Berkeley), Manjari Ohala (Berkeley),
Linda Shockey (Reading), Elizabeth Shriberg (Menlo Park), Maria Josep Sole
(Barcelona), Hans Tillmann (Munich), Bill Wells (London), Hans Wodarz
(Frankfurt).
We are at present applying for funding for the symposium. Active
participants can expect to receive financial assistance for their travel
expenses. Fees to attend the symposium will be at a reduced rate of
DM100.- for members of the IPA (DM200.- for non-members).
The symposium will be held in residence at the conference centre Akademie
Sankelmark, set in idyllic surroundings near the north German town of
Flensburg (web-site with pictures to follow).
A selection of the papers presented at the symposium will, after review,
appear in a volume of the Journal of the International Phonetic
Association.
Important dates to remember:
15th May deadline for abstracts
16th June notice of acceptance/rejection
Please send your abstract (including name and affiliation), as well as
any other queries, by e-mail to:
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Adrian Simpson Klaus Kohler
Institut fuer Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung
der Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
24098 Kiel, Germany
Tel: +49 431 880 3318 Fax: +49 431 880 1578
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POSITIONS VACANT & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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EPSRC STUDENTSHIP: SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Applications are invited for an EPSRC quota award research studentship
leading to a Ph.D., to start in October 2000. The award can be held
full-time over 3 years. The research studentship can be held in any area
of speech or language processing that falls within the remit of EPSRC
funding and is related to our current research activities.
The Department holds two EPSRC grants:
- The role of systematic fine phonetic detail in synthesizing speech that
sounds natural and is robust in adverse listening conditions. (Dr. Sarah
Hawkins)
- The role of systematic fine phonetic detail in spoken word
recognition. (Dr. Sarah Hawkins)
The first of these also includes scope for research on:
- Design of perceptual tests to evaluate the quality of synthetic speech,
especially its intonation.
Other relevant research in the department is in:
- English intonation. (Dr. Francis Nolan)
- Cross-linguistic study of conceptualisation. (Dr. Kasia Jaszczolt)
Applicants should have a class I or II:1 degree in a relevant area
(normally including phonetics, psychology, or computational linguistics),
or a Masters degree with relevant research experience.
Full studentships include a basic maintenance award and are available to
British applicants and those with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK
(excluding full time education). Tuition fees and college fees are paid
direct to the university and your college, respectively. The maintenance
award is paid to the student. It is currently of 6,620 p.a., and will
probably increase by about 2.5% before October. Additional maintenance
allowances are available to students above 26 years of age, or if you have
sole financial responsibility for children (single parents). A Tuition fee
studentship without a maintenance allowance would be available to EU
residents.
You may wish to consult our Departmental Web site
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/index.htm and links from there about the
department and our research. The EPSRC studentship handbook online
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/INTRO.asp?Main.htm
gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance allowances.
Applications should be made on the standard form, available from the Board
of Graduate Studies at the address below. Include a brief statement of the
research areas that interest you, and if possible a specific research
proposal. The closing date for applications is May 3 2000.
Further informal information can be obtained from Dr. Sarah Hawkins
([log in to unmask]) Please mark correspondence "EPSRC studentship".
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Tel: +44 1223 33 50 52
Fax: +44 1223 33 50 53
Application forms are available from
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi/gsrequest
The Board of Graduate Studies
4 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1RZ
Telephone: +44 1223 766302
Fax: +44 1223 338723
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The University of Reading
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
SPEECH RESEARCH LABORATORY
TEACHING STUDENTSHIP IN PHONETICS
We are offering a three-year research studentship in Phonetics, with
teaching and demonstrating responsibilities. The studentship provides 9000
per annum. The person to whom it is awarded will be expected, in addition
to studying for a PhD in the Department, to provide about 150 hours of
teaching each year, assisting in the teaching of experimental phonetics
and of practical English and IPA phonetics. A knowledge of clinical
phonetics would be an advantage. The teaching will be based on small
groups, and does not involve large-scale lectures. The appointee will be
provided with a room and computer in the Speech Research Laboratory.
Applicants should have substantial knowledge of phonetics and either have
a relevant degree or be about to complete one. You will need in the first
instance to complete an application form for PhD registration for the
Department if you have not already done so. If you wish to apply, please
contact the following before March 30th:
Peter J. Roach
Professor of Phonetics and Head of Department
Department of Linguistic Science
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA, UK
tel: 0118 931 8138
email: [log in to unmask]
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
APPOINTMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Readership (Reference Number: 00/35)
Readership: 31,563 - 38,561 p.a.
Senior Lectureship (Reference Number: 00/34)
Senior Lectureship: 31,563 - 35670 p.a.
Lecturer (Reference Number: 00/33)
Lecturer A/B: 17,238 - 30,065 p.a.
We wish to make three additional academic appointments and further
strengthen our research specialisms. Candidates are sought particularly
in areas such as learning and language development (especially
neuropsychological approaches), health psychology, and cognitive
neuroscience. The school, which has recently established a Centre for
Cognitive Neuroscience with facilities for fMRI and ERP, has an
outstanding record of success in both teaching and research. According to
national assessments we rank among the top-rated UK Psychology departments
for research (i.e. rated 5A on a scale of 1-5*) and have achieved the
highest rating "excellent" for Teaching Quality.
We are particularly interested in appointing researchers with interests in
Brain and Language who will complement the interests of our language
research group by bringing expertise in ERP, fMRI and other neuroscience
methods. Current research strengths in the School include the acquisition
of phonology, morphology and syntax; language disorder (dyslexia, aphasia
and others); cross-linguistic comparisons; reading and spelling and their
disorders; computational modelling and emergence; bilingualism; second
language acquisition; psycholinguistic studies of adults and children;
infant speech perception; cognitive linguistics; applied
psycholinguistics. A new interdisciplinary research unit, the Centre for
Psycholinguistic Studies Bangor, promotes research collaborations between
Psychology, Linguistics and Informatics. We have strong links with health
and clinical psychology services.
Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. and teaching and research
experience appropriate to the level of appointment in a relevant field.
Application forms and further particulars are available from: Personnel
Services, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG. Tel: (+44)
1248-382926. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
For informal enquiries contact either:
Nick Ellis [log in to unmask] (+44) 1248-382207
Marilyn Vihman [log in to unmask] (+44) 1248-383775
Please quote the appropriate reference number when applying. Applicants
are required to state clearly the level of appointment for which they wish
to be considered.
Closing date for applications: Friday 21st April 2000
Committed to Equal Opportunities
Gillian Mair
Administrative Secretary
School of Psychology
University of Wales, Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2DG
Tel: 01248-383884
Fax: 01248-382599
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION
IN
SPOKEN LANGUAGE GENERATION AND UNDERSTANDING
We invite applications for the position of Postdoctoral Researcher with a
specialization in phonetics and phonology. The position is for one year
with the possibility of one additional year, pending funding. The
researcher will be expected to take a leadership role in the phonological
and phonetic analysis of a corpus of conversational speech. Candidates
should hold a PhD in linguistics. Essential knowledge and experience for
the position are familiarity with Windows-based and Unix/Linux-based
operating systems and some knowledge of computational speech analysis. The
starting date can be as early as July 15 but no later than September 15,
2000. Starting salary for the twelve-month appointment is $28,000 plus
benefits. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, representative
samples of published or unpublished work, and three letters of
recommendation to the address below. Review of applications will begin
April 17, 2000. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity,
Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans,
disabled veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to
apply. See http://vic.psy.ohio-state.edu/
http://vic.psy.ohio-state.edu
for additional information about the position and the project.
Professor Elizabeth Hume
Spoken Language Generation and Understanding
Department of Linguistics
Ohio State University
222 Oxley Hall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Address queries to Elizabeth Hume ([log in to unmask]) or Mark Pitt
([log in to unmask]).
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Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California
We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in
SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING
to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute for
Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Marina
del Rey, CA.
The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue,
agent-based reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive
multimedia displays in a large-scale new project that has links to
research at several USC centers including the Information Sciences
Institute (ISI) and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC).
The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or Natural
Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities in
the both areas. The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer
Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate students
in addition to performing the research.
Please contact both
William Swartout Eduard Hovy
USC/ICT USC/ISI
13274 Fiji Way 4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695
tel: 310-574-5705 tel: 310-448-8731
email: [log in to unmask] email: [log in to unmask]
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Positions in speech recognition at Carnegie Mellon University
The Carnegie Mellon Speech Group conducts a broad program of research in
speech recognition and synthesis, language modeling and interactive dialog
systems. Most recently, we have made our Sphinx recognition system
available in open source.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
Two positions are available:
A Post-Doctoral appointment in speech recognition, with an emphasis on
acoustic modeling and recognition algorithms. The ideal candidate should
have a recent or expected PhD in Computer Science or in Electrical
Engineering as well as a record of research in the field. We are also
interested in candidates with a recent or expected PhD in Mathematics,
Physics or allied fields, and a strong interest in developing expertise in
speech recognition technologies. Either candidate would be expected to
contribute to ongoing work in the group while developing an independent
research program.
A Project Scientist appointment. Candidates should have a recent or
expected PhD or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Mathematics, Physics or allied fields. Experience in implementing speech
or distributed systems is desirable but not essential. We are seeking
individuals with strong cross-platform programming skills and with an
interest in developing expertise in speech technologies, as well as an
interest in contributing to the Group's open source activities.
To submit an application (please include a resume) or for more
details,
please contact:
Dr. Alexander Rudnicky
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ONE YEAR GRADUATE COURSE
**STUDENTSHIPS AVAILABLE**
COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE PROCESSING
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER LABORATORY
ONE-YEAR M.PHIL COURSE
The course covers the theory and practice of speech and language
processing. It runs from early October to September and consists of two
terms lectures and practicals followed by a three month project. The final
degree is awarded on the basis of coursework, examination and project.
Unlike some alternative programmes, the course aims to provide a in-depth
practical and theoretical grounding in the techniques for speech and
language processing which form the basis for today's commercial and
research prototype systems. There are strong links with industry and the
great majority of past students have gone on to doctoral work or to jobs
in industrial research laboratories.
Cambridge is a major international centre for research in both speech and
language processing. The course lecturers and demonstrators are directly
involved in leading edge research within the university and in
collaboration with other European and US industrial and academic
laboratories.
There are currently a number of EPSRC studentships available for the
course to qualifying applicants. We encourage applications from students
with a background in engineering, computer science, linguistics and/or
psychology.
For further details please consult the course URL:
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/MPhil/
or contact:
Mrs Mavis Barber (M.Phil Computer Speech & Language Processing)
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK
Tel: +44-1223-332752
Fax: +44-1223-332662
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world?s leading provider of
speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to
businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down
language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable
people to interact by voice in any language with the machines that empower
them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and
application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company
delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings
in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis,
and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and
headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty
countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South
America. With over 4.500 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and
engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $344 million in 1999. For
the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):
Project Manager Farsi
Development Farsi Language & Speech Technology
Function:
* You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area
of language and speech processing technology and systems for Farsi.
* You will coordinate the start-up of the Farsi language development team,
including a.o. recruitment and logistics.
* You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers
based both in Ieper and Turkey.
* You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the
development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Farsi and the
translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology.
* You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are
reached.
* You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project.
* You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within
L&H and relevant Turkish and Iranian institutes, organizations, etc. .
Profile:
* relevant university degree preferably in (computational) linguistics;
* an experience in management of development projects,
* experience in the field of natural language and/or speech processing;
* near-native or native speaker of Farsi and a conversational level of
English;
* good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas:
speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics,
natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script
languages,?), other languages;
* able to work in a team and independently;
* perseverant, accurate and thorough;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit;
* willing to travel for limited periods of time.
If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill
the required profile, we have to meet each other.
Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:[log in to unmask]
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.22.95.31
To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our
homepage: http://www.lhsl.com
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Nuance Cements Leadership In Voice Portal Market
http://www.nuAnce.com/index.htma?SCREEN=nvpmarket
Nuance is leading the market with the most advanced server software and
tools, the largest set of partners, and the most customers and deployments
handling the largest number of transactions per day (over 2 million).
http://www.nuAnce.com/index.htma?SCREEN=analyst_quotes Nuance
Communications Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public
Offering http://www.nuAnce.com/index.htma?SCREEN=publicoffering
www.nuance.com
Please send resumes to [log in to unmask]
(I) POSITION AVAILABLE:
Dialog Design Experts, Speech Applications
Description:
As a Dialog Design expert you will be part of a dynamic team that
envisions, creates and optimizes dialogs for Nuance's next-generation
interactive speech recognition systems.
Responsibilities:
Consult with internal and external customers.
Refine customer requirements
Design and refine challenging interactive dialogs for easy-to-use
applications
Collect data and perform analysis
Perform system tuning
Required:
Interest in speech recognition technology
Computer-Human Interface skills
Excellent written and verbal skills
Analytical problem solving ability
Thrive in a fast-paced environment
Ideal:
Any combination of the following is a huge plus:
BS, MS or PhD combining Computer Sciences and/or Engineering with
Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, and/or Psychology
Familiarity with software industrial design cycle
Speech recognition, speech coding, pattern recognition, DSP
Software coding experience (Java, Unix, C, C++, NT)
Experience with Dialog Design
Experience in data analysis and/or usability studies
Ability to lead a project or team
(II) POSITION AVAILABLE:
Manager, Languages Group
Job Code: RD164
Summary:
Manager of Nuance's Languages group. The group is tasked with porting
Nuance's Speech Server to many languages and maintaining and improving
these international modules. Tasks include data collection, dictionary
procurement & development, acoustic model training, productization,
software/engineering, & QA. The candidate should have a good working
knowledge of most of these areas, and be able to come up to speed in the
rest very quickly. He/she should have very good project and people
management skills. Within-company communications (e.g. with Sales,
Marketing, and Engineering) is a key job component.
Responsibilities:
Defining, prioritizing, assigning, and scheduling projects
Interfacing with Marketing and Sales
Delivering high a quality speech recognition product
Managing motivated engineers
Required:
Good software engineering skills, UNIX and C/C++
Working knowledge of speech recognition
Good people-management and project-management skills
Good communications skills
Ideal:
Expert speech recognition analysis/development
Expert understanding of Phonetics and Phonology
Experience porting speech recognition to various languages
Industrial management experience
Willingness to do what it takes to deliver a high-quality product
Education:
MS or Ph.D. in EE, CS or Linguistics with specialization in
speech technology or related field
Senior Level Engineers require a Masters level degree
Junior Level Engineers require a Bachelors level degree plus
work experience
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to
[log in to unmask] or fax in the USA to +(650) 847-7979.
(III) POSITION AVAILABLE:
Speech R&D, Languages Group
RD164
Summary:
This position is part of the ongoing global expansion of Nuance. You will
create and maintain the Nuance recognition and verification engines in
multiple languages.
Responsibilities:
Tracking data from deployments.
Training, testing and releasing new acoustic models.
Developing pronunciation models and dictionaries.
Interfacing with Sales department and customers.
Some opportunity for language-specific R&D work
Requirements:
Specialization in speech recognition, verification or text-to-speech
Fluent in C or C++
Scripting language (e.g. Perl)
Unix
Ideal: Any combination of the following is a huge plus Experience with
telephony (CTI or call center)
Linguistics
Multilingual
Project Management
Education:
M.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
M.A. or higher in Linguistics with specialization in phonetics,
phonology or computational linguistics
(IV) POSITION AVAILABLE:
Nuance Professional Services
Technical Manager, Speech Application Deployment
Job Code: PS172
Summary:
As a Manager in the Nuance Professional Services Applications group, you
are responsible for leading a high caliber technical team that envisions,
creates and deploys Nuance's next-generation interactive speech
recognition/verification applications. This is an opportunity to use your
proven project management skills combined with your strong project
deployment experience to lead, mentor, motivate and track your team as
they deploy state of the art speech recognition and verification systems.
You will be responsible for managing service forecasts, developing
opportunities, negotiating services bids, meeting team goals as well as be
involved in customer care and forging alliances with partners and
customers. You and your team will work directly with Nuance partners and
customers, Nuance Sales, and various technical groups within Nuance
including Speech R&D, Dialog R&D, and Core Software Engineering. Your job
is fast-paced and challenging as you draw on your technical knowledge to
lead your team to push the envelope daily with Nuance customers around the
world.
Responsibilities:
Leading and mentoring team members in speech technology.
Leading and mentoring team members in project management practices.
Bid Management (project estimates, working with Nuance Sales team and
external customers)
Project Management (project planning, deliverables, risk assessment and
negotiation)
Business Management (revenue tracking, revenue reporting, revenue driving
responsibilities)
Process Improvement (capturing and refining processes used to deliver
Nuance Professional Services)
Required:
Thrive in a fast-paced state-of-the-art-technology environment
Experience in speech recognition, verification technology
Experience in leading and tracking projects
Experience in leading and motivating a team
Experience in working with customers
Excellent written and verbal skills
Excellent problem solving skills
Proactive, self-directed, detailed, and organized
Any combination of the following is ideal:
Experience in a Professional Services group
Speech coding, pattern recognition, DSP, telephony
Experience with dialog design for speech systems
Experience with data analysis and tuning
Experience with usability studies
Familiarity with software industrial design cycle
Software coding experience (Java, Unix, C, C++, NT)
Education:
BS, MS or PhD in wide variety of technical fields including Computer
Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Business, Risk Management,
Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences.
Brion Wikes, Staffing Specialist
Nuance Communications (USA)
Direct Phone: 650-847-7799
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Comp Ling: Staff Engineer at Sony U.S. Research Labs, San Jose USA
Staff Engineer - SW Development Job Code: SH-LLUSRL5085
Working within Sony's U.S. Research Labs (USRL) in San Jose, CA, the
incumbent will develop language modeling software for a large Vocabulary
English speech recognizer. This individual will create and maintain the
language model using state-of-the-art techniques; research issues in
design and generation of text corpora; and will develop search algorithm
for large vocabulary speech recognition decoding software.
Position requires an MS degree in CS with at least 5 years of experience
in speech recognition research. Profound experience in HMM based
recognizers is a must. Strong C/C++ programming skills in a UNIX
environment are required. Perl and TcI/Tk programming knowledge is
preferred.
PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME TO:
3300 Zanker Road, MD# SJ1G2
San Jose, CA, 95134-1901
Fax : (408) 955-5166
E-mail (ASCII Text Only): [log in to unmask]
Web Site: http://www.sonyjobs.com
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Applied ling: Manager for Language Corpora and Evaluation
at Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton USA
Rank of Job: Manager for Language Corpora and Evaluation
Areas Required: Applied linguistics
Other Desired Areas: Programming, experimental design
University or Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute
Department: CSLU
State or Province: Beaverton
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: Position to be filled immediately
Contact: Jan P. H. van Santen [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
20000 NW Walker
Beaverton
OR 97006
USA
The Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) at the Oregon
Graduate Institute is seeking applicants for the position of
Manager of Language Corpora and Spoken Language System Evaluation
The key responsibilities of the Manager will include:
* Collecting text and speech corpora
* Applying and enhancing state-of-the-art speech processing tools
* Supervising linguistic labeling of corpora
* Documenting and reporting of projects
* Designing and developing evaluation technologies
We need a person who has:
* A broad interest in language and speech science.
* Excellent administrative skills.
* Ability to do simple programming, with a strong motivation to
learn more.
* Ability and willingness to learn new tools.
* Excellent written and oral communication, as well as
interpersonal, skills.
* At least a bachelor's degree in a relevant field [linguistics,
computer science, electrical engineering, psychology], with a
master's degree preferred.
CSLU has an international reputation in speech corpora and spoken language
system evaluation. With the rapid expansion of speech technology
business, CSLU is positioning itself to become a major supplier of
sophisticated language and speech corpora for research and business and of
evaluation services. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and
highly motivated individual to secure a future for him- or herself in this
growing field.
The Manager will work closely with faculty at CSLU/OGI, both in the
initial phase when he or she is learning to use our tools, and at later
phases when it is hoped that he or she will help contribute to the further
development of our toolset. Income will depend on experience and
qualifications.
Applicants should send electronic CV's and statements of interest to
Jan P. H. van Santen
Director, Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Oregon Graduate Institute
Email: [log in to unmask]
Please use regular text files only.
OGI is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Universit de Provence
Equipe Prosodie et Reprsentation Formelle du Langage
29 Avenue Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence FRANCE
tel:+33 4 4295 3628 secr:+33 4 4295 3634 fax: +33 4 4259 5096
web: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~hirst
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BOOKS & JOURNALS
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PHONETICS: The Science of Speech
Martin J. Ball, School of Behavioural and Communication Sciences,
University of Ulster, and Joan Rahilly, School of English, The Queen's
University of Belfast
(An Arnold Publication)
This comprehensive introductory textbook is designed primarily for
students of linguistics who are encountering phonetics for the first time.
The book guides the reader through the main sub-areas of phonetic science
which constitute the "speech chain", charting the progress of speech from
speaker to listener.
March 2000
0-340-70010-6 paper $19.95
0-340-70009-2 cloth $65.00
Oxford University Press
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CUADERNOS DE FILOLOGA (CFI) is a biannual, refereed journal published by
the Department of English Philology (Murcia University, Spain). We are
planning to issue a monograph under the title 'Perspectives on Contrastive
Phonology. English as a FL'. The idea is to publish a wide-ranging view of
current theoretical thinking and applied practices in contrastive
phonology (perception /production ) from different phonological
standpoints ( prosodic, phonemic, natural, cognitive, autosegmental,
articulatory, optimality theory, etc.) but focusing on English as a
foreign language.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: September, 28 (2000).
Publication: March 2001.
Rafael Monroy &
Francisco Gutierrez
Facultad de Letras
Campus de La Merced
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
Tel.: 968-36 31 74
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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The new issue of 'Speak Out' has recently been sent out to members. If
you would like details of its contents (or of IATEFL in general / their
PronSig in particular), look out our recently revamped website
http://members.aol.com/PronunciationSig/index.htm
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GROUPS
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ISCA, The International Speech Communication Association, (formerly ESCA):
http://www.isca-speech.org/home.html
has just approved the creation of SProSIG: a Special Interest Group (SIG)
on Speech Prosody.
The creation of SProSIG was supported by 72 founder members from 23
different countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK,
USA, Venezuela).
Membership of the group is open to anyone with a scientific interest in
research on the prosody of human speech. Elections will be held during
the coming year to nominate officers. Until the first elections the
following acting officers have been nominated:
Chairman: Daniel Hirst
Secretary: Bernard Bel
Liaison officer: Nick Campbell
The aims of SProSIG are to promote the study and diffusion of knowledge
about Speech Prosody in general in a number of ways, including:
+ dedicated web pages
+ a regular email Newsletter
+ a bibliographic database
+ organisation of workshops on specific themes
+ helping to co-ordinate sessions on prosody in International meetings
(Interspeech, Eurospeech, ICPhS, ICL etc.)
It is also hoped that the International nature of the SIG will provide a
means for diffusing information both to and from the different language
communities involved in research on various languages.
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Equipe Prosodie et Reprsentation Formelle du Langage
29 Avenue Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence FRANCE
tel:+33 4 4295 3628 secr:+33 4 4295 3634 fax: +33 4 4259 5096
web: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~hirst
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A website for the British Assn of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) has
recently been made by John Wells at
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/baap/home.html
where you can now see the programme of BAAP's forthcoming Colloquium in
Glasgow.
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RESOURCES
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Dear Colleague,
As a fellow Speech Pathologist or language/literacy specialist, I invite
you to visit eLr ("Extra Language Resources"), an interactive resources
Web site, http://www.elr.com.au . A free trial is available at
http://www.elr.com.au/elrtrial.htm via a temporary registration (you may
request another any time you wish).
eLr currently has over 2,000 separate interactive activities, each
comprising multiple items, covering some 425 target areas in Phonology,
Phonemic Awareness and Reading and Spelling. New activities are
continually being prepared - for example, we are currently working on
Semantics, which will include additional activities for acquired (aphasia)
and developmental language disorders. The eLr site features both PCS and
COMPIC pictographs, as well as many text based exercises.
This site and all activities have been produced by myself (Toni Seiler)
and Anna Breakell (practicing Speech Pathologists) and my husband Rob
Seiler, a computer programmer. Our aim is to provide speech, language and
literacy specialists, teachers and parents with a comprehensive set of
resources which can be accessed anywhere directly from the Web.
Subscribers to the site are able to open each specific task(s) from an
on-line, goal orientated Directory, and are also able to provide their own
clients free "Guest" access to enable home practice. All users have
immediate access to new materials or revisions as they occur.
To use eLr, you will need MS Internet Explorer (version 4.1 or higher) for
Windows as the eLr site relies extensively on dynamic HTML features that
other browsers and operating systems do not yet offer. To get a better
understanding of our design principles and clinical usage we suggest you
also read -
"eLr Design Principles" - http://www.elr.com.au/support/design.htm "Hints
for using eLr" - http://www.elr.com.au/support/elrhints.htm and "FAQ's" -
http://www.elr.com.au/support/elrfaq.htm
We would welcome any feedback and please feel free to add a link to eLr on
your site if you wish.
Thank you
Toni Seiler, B Sp Path (Univ Qld, Aus), MS Sp Path (Ithaca College, NY)
Rob Seiler, PhD (Cornell Univ, NY), Dip Comp Sc (Deakin Univ, Aus)
Anna Breakell, B App Sc - Sp Path (LaTrobe Univ, Aus)
(Directors, ELR Software Pty Ltd)
Extra Language Resources
"Speech and Language Resources for the World"
... Web: http://www.elr.com.au
... e-mail: [log in to unmask]
... voice: +61 (3) 5156 8309
... fax: +61 (3) 5156 8609
ELR Software Pty Ltd
PO Box 1456
Bairnsdale VIC 3875
Australia
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Material for the May issue of 'foNETiks' should reach us by 28 April.
Lisa Lim
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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]
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