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foNETiks: December 2002

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"Lisa L.S. Lim" <[log in to unmask]>

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 foNETiks

 A network newsletter
 for the International Phonetic Association
 and for the Phonetic Sciences

 December 2002

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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]>

E-mail address:
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The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at:
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Visit the IPA web page at:
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 THE SEASON'S WARMEST GREETINGS FROM THE EDITORS TO ALL READERS
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 IPA NEWS
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Election of the Association's Council 2003-2007 &
Election to the Permanent Council for the Organisation of the
International Congresses of Phonetic Science 2003-2011

IPA members: Please return your ballot paper to the Secretariat by 3
December 2002.

John H. Esling, Secretary <[log in to unmask]>


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 ANNOUNCEMENTS
 [new ones marked ++]
 [date of first appearance follows]
************************************

2 - 5 December 2002. 9th Australian International Conference on Speech
Science & Technology 2002. University of Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/SST/ (07/02)

2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144th Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Acoustics and 9th Mexican Congress
on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico. http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00)

5 - 7 December 2002. 2nd workshop on sociolinguistic, phonetic and
phonological characteristics of /r/. Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium. http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/phonolab/r-atics2/r-atics2.htm;
<[log in to unmask]> (10/02)

++ 9 - 11 December 2002. 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
Processing. St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. http://mmsp02.njit.edu/ (12/02)

9 - 11 January 2003. Old World Conference in Phonology I (Segmental
Phonology). Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/ocp1/  (06/02)

++ 9 - 11January 2003. Workshop on Spoken Language Processing. Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
http://speech.tifr.res.in/wslp/ (12/02)

21 - 24 January  2003. 8th International Symposium on Social
Communication. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
<[log in to unmask]> (03/02)

7 - 9 March 2003. Texas Linguistics Society. Theme: The Dynamics of
Coarticulation in Speech Production and Perception. The University of
Texas at Austin, USA. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/ (10/02)

27 - 29 March 2003.  International Colloquium on Prosodic Interfaces.
Nantes, France.
http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/infos/ip2003/IP2003GB.html;
<[log in to unmask]> (06/02)

++ 4 - 5 April 2003. ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval.
Macau. (prior to ICASSP2003 in Hong Kong; see next entry)
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/MSDR/ (10/02)

++ 6 - 10 April 2003. The 28th International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Convention & Exhibition Center,
Hong Kong. http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~icassp03/ (12/02)

7 - 11 April 2003. Ecole thmatique de phonologie et de phontique. Ile de
Porquerolles, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~etpp03;
<[log in to unmask]> (10/02)

++ 14 - 16 April 2003. ISCA/IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing
and Recognition. Tokyo, Japan. (after ICASSP2003 in Hong Kong; see entry
above) http://www.sspr2003.com/index.html (12/02)

18 - 20 April 2003. Phonetics Today: IV International Conference. Moscow,
Russia. <[log in to unmask]> (11/02)

++ 20 - 23 May 2003. NOLISP 03: ISCA (International Speech Communication
Association) Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non-Linear Speech
Processing. Le Croisic, France. <[log in to unmask]> (12/02)

++ 19 - 21 June 2003. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET
XIV). Universit du Qubec, Montreal, Canada. http://www.tennet.ca;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/02) [further details below]

1 - 4 July 2003. Child Phonology Conference. UBC, Vancouver.
<[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> (09/02; 12/02)
[further details below]

7 - 11 July 2003.  Headhood, Contrastivity and Specification; and
Representations to Constraints and from Constraints to Representations.
Universit de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France.
<[log in to unmask]> (11/02)

3 August 2003. Intonation in language varieties - AM approaches. Satellite
workshop at ICPhS2003 [see next entry]. Universitat de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/icphs/intonation_in_varieties.html (10/02)

3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS2003: The 15th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. Palau de Congressos, Plaa d'Espanya, Barcelona, Spain.
http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01)

++ 6 - 8 August 2003. 2nd International Conference on Speech, Writing and
Context. Osaka, Japan.
http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/teachers/toyota/ICSWC2.htm;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/02) [further details below]

11 - 15 August 2003. Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders. Montreal,
Canada. http://www/ifacongress2003.com (05/02)

++ 28 - 31 August 2003. ISCA (International Speech Communication
Association) Tutorial and Research Workshop: Error Handling in Spoken
Dialogue Systems. Hotel Roc et Neige, Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland.
http://www.speech.kth.se/error/; < [log in to unmask]> (12/02)
[further details below]

1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003: 8th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology. Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.symporg.ch/eurospeech/  (08/01)

++ 5 - 8 September 2003. DiSS'03: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech.
Gothenburg, Sweden. http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/diss03/ (12/02)

11 - 14 September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference.
University of Sheffield, UK. <[log in to unmask]> (04/02)

8 - 10 October 2003. 2nd International Workshop on the Phonology and
Morphology of Creole Languages. University of Siegen, Germany.
http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/workshop/ (11/02)

8 - 10 December 2003. 6th International Seminar on Speech Production.
Sydney, Australia. http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/events/2003/issp2003;
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/speechprodconf (10/02)

23 - 26 March 2004. Speech Prosody 2004. Nara, Japan.
<[log in to unmask]> (10/02) [further details below]

++ 29 - 30 March 2004. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of
Languages - with Emphasis on Tone Languages. Institute of Linguistics,
Beijing, China. <[log in to unmask]> (12/02) [further details below]


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 CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
*************************

CALL FOR PAPERS

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET XIV)
Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 2003

The 14th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental
Neuropsychology, TENNET XIV, will be held in June 2003 in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada at Universit du Qubec, Montreal.

The basic conference structure is (a) two invited thematic symposia of 3
hours, each day, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers
are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon.

Participants may submit either abstracts (250 word limit), short papers
(maximum of 4 manuscript pages, including one table or figure and up to 5
references) or regular papers for consideration. Abstracts are printed in
Brain and Cognition as part of the conference proceedings.  Short papers
will be reviewed by the Program Committee and published in Brain and
Cognition as peer-reviewed 'Brief Reports'.  Regular papers will be
peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published as standard articles.
Authors of accepted submissions (abstracts, papers) will be asked to
prepare poster presentations for the TENNET conference.

The deadline for submissions, via e-mail only, is January 5, 2003.

New Information for Refereed Submissions

All submissions should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in any
domain of experimental, clinical or theoretical neuropsychology, including
neurolinguistics, development and history. The title of the presentation,
the full name(s) of author(s) (and complete mailing address, with
institutional affiliation, if any, telephone number and e-mail) and
acknowledgments should appear on the first page of the submission. This
information is needed to properly prepare the program if your paper is
accepted. Three types of submissions will be considered:

1) An abstract of 250 words or less, for publication as part of the
conference proceedings, and to serve as an archival record of a poster
presentation;
2) A short paper, with a maximum of 4 manuscript pages (including one
table or figure, and up to 5 references).  These submissions will be
reviewed by the Program Committee, and accepted short papers will be
published as peer-reviewed "Brief Reports" in the special issue of Brain
and Cognition that contains the conference proceedings; or
3) A regular scientific paper (APA manuscript style is required),
including a 200 word abstract and a maximum of three (3) tables or
figures.  These submissions will go through a standard peer-review
process. And accepted papers will appear as regular feature articles in
the special issue of Brain and Cognition that contains the conference
proceedings.  If a paper submission is not accepted, the author may be
invited to re-submit a short paper or abstract for publication (see
above).

If a submission is accepted, then one of the authors must attend the
conference to present a poster in order for the abstract or paper to be
published in the journal.

Your submission should arrive by the January 5 deadline to the TENNET
office in Montreal.  Submissions received early will be sent for review as
soon as they come in.

IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with an updated general-purpose
antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Attached files should
be in MS Word or RTF.

Submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask]

Further information about accommodation, registration, preliminary program
and past conferences can be found at the following web site:
http://www.tennet.ca

Cheers,
Henri Cohen & Peter J. Snyder

Henri Cohen, Ph.D.
Cognitive neuroscience center
& Dept. Psychology, UQAM
PB 8888, Stn. Centre-Ville
Montreal, Qc.  H3C 3P8
Canada
T: (514) 987-4445      F: (514) 987-8952    I: [log in to unmask]
http://www.tennet.ca

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2003 Child Phonology Conference
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA

UBC is hosting the 2003 Annual Child Phonology Conference July 1-4, 2003.
The general schedule for the conference will be as follows:

July 1: Evening Reception (optional Canada Day celebrations)
July 2: Symposia:       Segmental and Feature Development
                        Word and Syllable Structure Development
        Posters:        Other topics
July 3: Symposia:       Phonology in Context -- perception,
                        morphology/phonology, syntax/morphology, motor
                        development/phonology, metaphonology, literacy, hearing
                        impairment/phonology, etc.
        Posters:        Other topics
July 4: Optional:       Lab tours, focused research discussion groups

We are now calling for symposium paper or poster abstracts for the above
topics.
Symposium papers will be 20-30 minutes in length.
Completed symposia papers need to be received by June 1, in order to be
sent to the discussants.
Posters will be up for the whole day, with a dedicated discussion time at
the end of the day. Posters need not be sent ahead of time.

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words by email to Barbara
Bernhardt: <[log in to unmask]> BY JANUARY 31, 2003

Indicate your presentation preference:  [  ]   symposium paper only
                                        [  ]   poster only
                                        [  ]   prefer symposium,
                                                but poster OK if necessary
                                        [  ]   no preference

In February, abstracts will be reviewed, symposia organized, and
discussants invited.  The plan will be adjusted depending on submissions.

Note: We are hoping to disseminate the papers from the conference either
in a book or on the web.

We hope to see you there!

Barbara Bernhardt & Joe Stemberger

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2nd International Conference on Speech, Writing and Context
6 - 8 Aug-2003, Osaka, Japan

Call Deadline: 31 Jan 2003

The Second International Conference on Speech, Writing and Context
(ICSWC2) carries on the tradition set by the first Conference held at the
University of Nottingham in July 1998. These Conferences aim to explore
the two modes of linguistic communication in their situations of usage.
For this second Conference, the specific focus will be on promoting
cross-fertilization of concepts from various research fields. The
presentations will be organized along three strands: linguistic,
literature and language education, and multimedia and information
technology.

Plenary speakers:
Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham, UK
Suzanne Eggins, University of New South Wales, Australia
Rebecca Hughes, University of Nottingham, UK
David Olson, University of Toronto, Canada.

Papers should be 20 minutes in duration, with a further 10 minutes allowed
for discussion.

Further information is available via the conference web-site:
http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/teachers/toyota/ICSWC2.htm
Contact Person: Hiromi Murakami [log in to unmask]

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Tutorial and
Research Workshop:
Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems

August 28-31, 2003, Hotel Roc et Neige, Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland

Workshop website: http://www.speech.kth.se/error/
Webmaster: Gabriel Skantze
Email contact: [log in to unmask]

Supported by:
CLIF (Computational Linguistics in Flanders)
SIGDIAL

Aims:

Spoken dialogue systems in real applications as well as research have
attracted increased attention in recent years.  With the limitations of
current speech technologies, both for recognition and understanding and
for speech generation, this interest in `real' systems has led to an
increased awareness in the problems raised by system errors, especially in
recognizing user input, and the consequent confusion they may lead to for
both users and the system itself over the dialogue.  The need to devise
better strategies for detecting problems in human-machine dialogues and
then dealing with them gracefully has become paramount for spoken dialogue
systems.

This workshop will consider all aspects of how systems can detect and
recover from problems in spoken dialogue systems.  We will address
questions such as:

What can we learn from errors in human-human and wizard-of-Oz systems that
will help us to handle error in human-machine dialogue systems?

How do systems detect when a dialogue is `going wrong'?  How do they
define such conditions?  What factors are the key contributors to and
indicators of `bad' dialogues?

How do systems identify their own errors?  What are the most important
causes of such errors, from the user side (e.g. non-native accent,
hyperarticulated speaking style, gender, age) and from the system side
(e.g. inappropriate prompts)?  How difficult is it to determine the causes
of particular error?

How can we predict which dialogues will be successful?  How should we
define `success'?  What features can best predict it?

What mechanisms can be devised to allow systems to recover from error
gracefully?  Can we devise adaptive strategies to identify patterns of
error and respond accordingly?

What sorts of behavior do users exhibit when faced with system errors? Can
these be taken into account in error handling?

What measures (better prompts, anticipation of likely error, better help
information) can be taken to minimize possible errors?

Papers are invited on innovations in ways that systems can detect their
own errors (e.g. through features such as ASR confidence scores); on
methods for evaluating spoken dialogue systems that include system errors
and error recovery as a major component; on strategies for determining
on-line when dialogues are `going wrong'; on mechanisms for recovering
once errors are detected; on laboratory and corpus-based studies of human
behavior relevant to human-machine problem detection/recovery; on methods
for minimizing dialogue problems (e.g. by varying dialogue strategy,
system prompts). Position papers are also invited for a special session on
aspects of error handling are most in need of additional attention and to
propose research approaches in such areas.

Invited Speakers:

Herb Clark, Stanford University
Emiel Krahmer, Tillburg University
Mike Phillips, Speechworks
Atsushi Shimojima, JAIST

Important Dates:

Submissions due: March 1, 2003.
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2003.
Deadline for Early Registration: May 1, 2003
Deadline for Regular Registration: June 1, 2003
Deadline for Final Papers:  June 1, 2003
Workshop: August 28-31, 2003.

Submission requirements:

Abstracts of no more than 800 words in length (please state whether this
is a submission to a regular session or to the special session on future
research) should be submitted electronically by March 1. Details for
submission will be available at http://www.speech.kth.se/error/

Workshop Location:

Hotel Roc et Neige (http://www.cm.be/images/intersoc/Chateau/chateaug.htm)
in the town of Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud
(http://www.skiswitzerland.com/chateau/chateau.htm) in the 'alpes
vaudoises' in the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland.

Accommodation and Registration Fees:  TBA

Proceedings:

Workshop proceedings will be available upon registration at the conference
center and subsequently on the workshop web site.

Language:

The official language of the workshop will be English.

ISCA

The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Speech Communication Science and Technology
internationally.  For membership and other information, please contact the
ISCA secretariat at:

c/o Institut fuer Communikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Tel: (+49) 228-735638
Fax: (+49) 228-735639
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.isca-speech.org

This workshop is endorsed by SIGdial (www.sigdial.org) and CLIF

Organizing Committee:

Rolf Carlson, KTH
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University and AT&T Labs -- Research
Marc Swerts, University of Antwerp and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

International Scientific Committee:

Linda Bell, Telia Research
Lou Boves, Nijmegen University
Susan Brennan, SUNY Stony Brook
Jim Glass, MIT
Yasuhiro Katagiri, ATR
Emiel Krahmer, Tillburg  University
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Elmar Noeth, Erlangen University
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI
Sophie Rosset, LIMSI
Alex Rudnicky, CMU
Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI
Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs--Research

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SPEECH PROSODY 2004
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

March 23-26, 2004 in Nara, Japan

Inspired by the success of the first international conference on prosody
2002 in Aix-en-Provence, Japanese researchers who are working on speech
prosody are planning to invite the next conference to Nara, an ancient
capital of Japan.  The rationale for holding the second conference in
Japan is that we have two on-going projects related to prosody:  one is
"Prosody and Speech Processing," a large-scale National Project supported
by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from the
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (headed by Keikichi
Hirose at the University of Tokyo), and the other is "Processing of
Expressive Speech," funded by the Japan Science & Technology Agency
(headed by Nick Campbell at ATR).  Since both projects will last until the
end of March 2004, it is quite opportune for us to host the
conference toward the end of March, when the climate and scenary in Nara
are ideal.

The current plan is as follows:

- Venue:  Nara New Convention Center, Nara, Japan
- Period: March 23 (Tuesday) to 26 (Friday), 2004
- Committee:
   Honorary Chair: Hiroya FUJISAKI (Professor Emeritus, University of
Tokyo)
   Chair:          Keikichi HIROSE (University of Tokyo)
   Vice Chair:     Nick CAMPBELL (ATR)
   Secretary:      Nobuaki MINEMATSU (University of Tokyo)
- Preliminary List of Topics:
        Analysis, Formulation and Modeling of Prosody
        Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
        Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody
        Variations in Prosody
        Prosody of Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
        Prosody of Emotional Speech
        Prosody and Speech Perception
        Prosody in Speech Synthesis
        Prosody in Speech Recognition/Understanding
        Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired
        Speech Corpus for Prosody Research/Applications
        Others

We are also pleased to give preliminary information on a satellite
symposium being planned by our colleagues at the Institute of Linguistics,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing. Here are the plans:

- Tentative Title:
     International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages - with Emphasis
on Tone Languages
- Venue:  Institute of Linguistics, Beijing, China
- Period: March 28 (Sunday), 2004, registration
           March 29 (Monday) to 30 (Tuesday), symposium
- Committees (tentative):
   Honorary Chair: Zongji WU (Emeritus Member, Institute of Linguistics)
   Chair:          Maocan LIN (Institute of Linguistics)
   Secretary:      Aijun LI  (Institute of Linguistics)

For further information, please contact

Keikichi HIROSE         mailto:[log in to unmask] (for SP2004)
Maocan LIN              mailto:[log in to unmask] (for the symposium in
Beijing)

We hope that our plans will meet the approval of many colleagues working
in the fields of research related to speech prosody both in basic sciences
and applied technology, and look forward to welcoming you to Nara and
Beijing,

Keikichi HIROSE and Maocan LIN


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

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION SPEECH SCIENCE

Assistant Professor position available in Speech/Hearing Science;
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences; Purdue University; West
Lafayette, IN 47907-1353.  This position is a tenure track 10-month
position available Fall 2003. Ph.D. required. A successful candidate is
expected to pursue an active research program in an area related to normal
and/or atypical (e.g., language-impaired, hearing-impaired) developmental
aspects of speech perception. Teaching duties include undergraduate and
graduate courses in developmental speech perception, acoustics, and
related areas.

To be assured of full consideration, complete applications should be
received by December 6, 2002.  However, applications will continue to be
accepted until the position is filled.

A curriculum vita, letter of application, selected publications/papers,
and three letters of recommendation that address the candidate's potential
abilities in both teaching and research should be sent to:
Jackson T. Gandour, Ph.D.,
Chair, Search Committee,
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences,
Heavilon Hall,
Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1353.

E-mail correspondence should be directed to: [log in to unmask]

Purdue is an equal access/equal opportunity/affirmative action employer
fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/aus/

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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITIONS IN SPEECH, HEARING & SENSORY
COMMUNICATION AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Indiana University is pleased to announce the availability of NIH
Postdoctoral Traineeships in Speech, Hearing, and Sensory Communication.
Postdocs are available to qualified individuals with Ph.D. degrees who
wish to further their background and training in any of the following
areas of basic and clinical research:

(1) Speech Perception and Production;
(2) Spoken Word Recognition and Lexical Access;
(3) Auditory Psychophysics and Hearing Science;
(4) Clinical and Experimental Audiology;
(5) Tactile Psychophysics and Communication;
(6) Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology;
(7) Perceptual and Cognitive Development;
(8) Clinical Phonetics and Phonology;
(9) Sensory Aids for the Hearing Impaired;
(10) Speech Perception in Deaf Children and Adults with Cochlear Implants;
(11) Language Development in Hearing Impaired Children and Deaf Children
with Cochlear Implants.

The program welcomes individuals with background and previous training in
Speech and Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Engineering, Developmental and
Experimental Psychology, and Cognitive Science. Trainee salaries,
consistent with current NIH guidelines, range from $31,092 to $38,712 plus
a modest travel allowance. Trainees are expected to carry out empirical
and/or theoretical research and collaborate with core professors and other
research scientists currently working in the laboratories and clinics in
Bloomington and the Indiana University School of Medicine School in
Indianapolis.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to send: (1) an up-to-date
vita, (2) a personal letter describing their specific research interests,
goals, and long-term career plans, and (3) reference letters from three
people who can describe the applicant's background, interests, research
potential and previous accomplishments as soon as possible before
Februrary 1, 2003. Reprints and preprints should also be included with the
application letter.

Women, minority members, and handicapped individuals are urged to apply.
NIH guidelines require that 'the individual to be trained must be a
citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been
lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment.

Send all correspondence and materials to:
Professor David B. Pisoni,
Program Director,
Indiana University,
Department of Psychology,
1101 E. 10th St.,
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7007,
tel (812)855-1155, fax (812)855-1300
Email: [log in to unmask]

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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PHONETIC TRANSCRIBERS (Full-time or Part-time) (Ref. # R & D 2002/1)
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology/L/Research Institute Company
Limited/L/Internet Group

Requirements:
1. Strong background in phonetics, with excellent knowledge of the English
phonological system.
2. Familiarity with both American and British accents.
3. Practical experience in performing narrow phonetic transcription of
spoken English.

Duties: To do orthographic and phonetic transcription on speech data.
Candidates may work at home or via the Internet.
Application Deadline: open until filled.
Remuneration: Commensurate with applicant's qualifications and experience.
Application Address:
18/F, Tower 6, Gateway,
9 Canton Road,
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon,
Hong Kong

Contact Information: Director of Administration [log in to unmask]


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 NEW PUBLICATIONS
******************

The phonetics of Wa:  Experimental phonetics, phonology, orthography and
sociolinguistics. Justin Watkins. 2002 ISBN 0 85883 486 3 xxvii + 226 pp.
Australia A$47.85 International A$43.50

This is a linguistic phonetic study of the Northern Mon-Khmer language Wa,
spoken by about one million people in an area on the border between
China's Ynn Province and Burma's (Myanmar's) Shan State.  The aim of this
book is to describe the phonetic facts of the sounds of Wa in terms of the
simplest segment types without compromising detail, and to illustrate the
types of contrasts which distinguish them from one another, so that they
may be viewed in a wider, phonetic linguistic, context.  It is hoped that
sufficient material is presented here to inform a comparison of dialectal
variants of Wa and that the instrumental data may be of value in comparing
a sound in Wa with similar sounds in other languages.

This study aims to be accessible to all those who are interested by the
relevance of phonetics to linguistics.  It is hoped that certain sections,
in particular the background information and the discussion of topics
relating to the historical phonology of Wa, may be of interest to a wider
readership, namely Mon-Khmerists, those working on other minority
languages of South East Asia or elsewhere, or those with a general
interest in Wa language, culture or society.

Orders may be placed by mail, e-mail or telephone with:

Publishing, Imaging and Cartographic Services (PICS)
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 3269 Fax:    +61 (0)2 6125 9975
mailto:[log in to unmask]

Credit card orders are accepted.

Other enquiries (but not orders) should go to:

The Publications Administrator
Pacific Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 2742 Fax: +61 (0)2 6125 4896
mailto:[log in to unmask]

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'Streaming Speech: Listening and Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of
English.' Windows CD-ROM. ISBN 0-9543447-0-7. New Publication from
speechinaction.

'Streaming Speech: Listening and Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of
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chapter publication that features recordings of spontaneous speech of
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For listening, particular attention is paid to the fastest stretches of
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Users are required to practise accuracy and fluency simultaneously -
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imitate, record, and compare their versions with the original spontaneous
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their pronunciation: each speaker presents the vowels and consonants of
English.

Throughout there is a strong teacher-training component.  Section 3 of
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speechinaction
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PHONETICS: Invitation for student subscriptions

With the new semester beginning in many countries, a lot of you who teach
have a new crop of phonetics students. In addition to being a general
discussion forum for those who teach or work in phonetics-related fields,
the PHONETICS list was also originally intended for *students* studying at
all levels of phonetics. We thus issue a call to all teachers of phonetics
to invite your new (and old) students to join the list, so that they can
extend their involvement in phonetics beyond the classroom into their
everyday lives.

PHONETICS is a place to ask any kind of phonetics question at all - the
only 'stupid' question is one that isn't asked! - or to bring up any
phonetics-related topic to discuss with interested subscribers - now over
200, living in more than 30 countries around the world. Discussion lists
like PHONETICS can be a valuable resource in stimulating student interest
and motivation in a subject, and they create a sense of community - in
addition to being a handy place to go for help in a pinch. There are many
outstanding phoneticians (if you are one and are not subscribed, you're
invited too!) on the list who can give of their knowledge and experience,
as well as speakers of a large variety of languages who can offer you
firsthand information about phonetic data.

If you already have your students' e-mail addresses, you can e-mail them
an invitation to join PHONETICS; a suggested text that you can copy and
paste follows below. Otherwise you can put on your syllabus, Web site, or
the black/whiteboard, the URL to the sign-up page:
http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/; or you can have students send a
blank email to [log in to unmask] There is also a sign-up box
at: http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/phon1index.htm.

Looking forward to a new semester of lively phonetics discussions!

Karen Steffen Chung
National Taiwan University
[log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/

Sample text to invite students to join PHONETICS:

You are invited to join PHONETICS, an international discussion list with
over 200 subscribers in more than 30 countries. PHONETICS is a good place
to ask any kind of question you have about phonetics, to discuss
phonetics-related issues, and to network with others who share an interest
in phonetics.

To join, enter your e-mail address in the subscription box field at:
http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/, where you will also find a list
description; or send a blank email to [log in to unmask]
There is also a sign-up box at:
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/phon1index.htm.
You will receive list owner approval shortly after submitting your
subscription request.


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Deadline for inclusion of items in the next foNETiks: 26 December 2002.


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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