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foNETiks
A network newsletter for
the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
September 2008
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Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK.
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK.
Paul Foulkes, University of York and JP French Associates, UK.
Lisa Lim, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
E-mail address: <[log in to unmask]>
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
[new ones marked ++]
[date of first appearance follows]
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8-12 September 1008. Eleventh International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008). Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.tsdconference.org/ (01/08)
11 September 2008 Workshop on Phonological Variation in Voicing. marc.van.oostendorp at Meertens.KNAW.nl (06/08)
15-17 September 2008. 3rd TIE Conference on Tone and Intonation. Lisboa, Portugal. <http://www.fl.ul.pt/LaboratorioFonetica/TIE3/> (04/08)
18-20 September 2008. Phonetics and Phonology of Media Discourse. Warsaw, Poland. <http://globe.ils.uw.edu.pl/> (03/08)
22-26 September 2008. Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, Australia. <http://www.interspeech2008.org/> (09/06; 04/08)
22-26 September 2008. Special Session of Interspeech 2008: Forensic Speaker Recognition: Traditional and Automatic Approaches. Brisbane, Australia. http://geoff-morrison.net/ForensicSpeakerRecognitionSpecialSession/ (04/08)
26-28 September 2008. Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology. University of Texas, Austin TX, USA. <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/conferences/lasp/main/> (04/08)
6-8 October, 2008. Acoustics Week in Canada. <http://www.caa-aca.ca/vancouver-2008.html> (06/08)
23-24 October 2008. International Conference on Prosody and Iconicity. Rouen, France. smhttiki at hotmail.com (04/08)
4-6 November, 2008. Applications of Phonetics and Phonology on Arabic. Al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan. http://www.aabu.edu.jo/art/home.htm (06/08)
20-21 November 2008. Prosodic Alignment at the Word Level. Mannheim, Germany. < http://www.ids-mannheim.de/gra/wortphonologie.html>(08/08)
24-26 November 2008. 10th National Congress/ 4th International Congress of Phonetics and Phonology (XCNFF/IVCIFF). Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://sbfonetica.vilabol.uol.com.br (08/08)
4-6 December 2008. Heard Around The World: Phonetic Diversity In The World's Languages. Universite Libre de Bruxelles and The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences of Belgium. <http://www.heard.ulb.ac.be> (01/08)
8-12 December 2008. 8th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2008). Strasbourg, Alsace, France. <http://issp2008.loria.fr/> (03/08, 04/08)
12-14 December 2008. Accents 2008. Native and non-native accents of English. Lodz, Poland. http://www.filolog.uni.lodz/pl/accents2008 (05/08)
15-16 December 2008. British Association of Clinical Linguistics Colloquium, 15th-16th December 2008, University of Reading, Reading UK. <http://www.reading.ac.uk/epu/bacl> (07/08)
17-18 December 2008. 8th Conference on Language Engineering (CLE2008). Cairo, Egypt. http://www.esole.org (08/08)
++ 5-7 January 2009. Experimental Studies on Intonation: Phonetic, Phonological and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Sentence Prosody. Potsdam, Germany. http://www/ling/uni-potsdam.de/pip/daten/workshop.html [further details below]
23-25 February 2009. International Conference on Spoken Communication (GSCP09). Naples, Italy. http://www.comunicazioneparlata.org (08/08)
4 March 2009. Insertions and Deletions in Speech. Osnabrueck, Germany. insertions at zas.gwz-berlin.de (08/08)
++ 16-19 April 2009. The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics. Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/kopen09.doc [further details below]
3-5 June 2009. English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP). Chambéry, France. [log in to unmask] (08/08)
1-3 May 2010. New Sounds 2010: Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Poznan, Poland. <http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/newsounds/> (03/08)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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Experimental Studies on Intonation: Phonetic, Phonological and Psycholinguistic
Aspects of Sentence Prosody
5 - 7 January 2009
Potsdam, Germany
Experimental Studies on Intonation: Phonetic, Phonological and Psycholinguistic
Aspects of Sentence Prosody
The workshop ''Experimental Studies on Intonation: Phonetic, Phonological and
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Sentence Prosody'' is an event of the German
Research Council's Priority Program 1234 ''Phonetic and Phonological
Competence'' (http://www.spp1234.de/). The workshop will be held at Potsdam
University from the 5th - 7th January 2009. It is hosted by the project
''Prosody in Parsing'' (http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/pip/) at Potsdam
University and is jointly organized by researchers from the Universities of
Potsdam, Cologne, Stuttgart and Berlin. The four projects of the Priority
Program are engaged in the following areas:
- comparative studies on intonation
- prosody in sentence processing
- tonal and articulatory correlates of information structure
- prosodic categories in speech perception
The workshop aims at furthering interdisciplinary exchange and advancing
discussion on the above and other aspects of intonation. The workshop will
consist of invited talks and presentations of the individual project's work.
Invited speakers
- Mara Breen - UMass-Amherst
- Gösta Bruce - Lund
- Gorka Elordieta - University of Basque Country
- Janet Fodor - CUNY
- Carlos Gussenhoven - Nijmegen
- David House - Stockholm
- Hélène Loevenbruck - Grenoble
- Pilar Prieto - Barcelona
- Amy Schafer - University of Hawaii
- Shari Speer - Ohio State University
Contact: Gerrit Kentner <gerritling.uni-potsdam.de>
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/pip/daten/workshop.html
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The British Association of Clinical Linguistics
Colloquium 2008
Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th December 2008, University of Reading, UK
http://www.reading.ac.uk/epu/bacl/colloquium.htm
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
This will be a two day event which aims to bring together researchers and teachers of clinical linguistics and phonetics. We invite submissions of papers on any area of clinical linguistics and phonetics which report on research findings, discuss issues in the teaching and learning of speech and language therapy, or combine both areas.
The focus of Monday 15th December will be research, and the focus of Tuesday 16th December will be teaching and learning.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 5-minute question period. Posters will be on display for a full day with one attended session during the day.
Invited Speakers:
Susanna Martin, City University, London (Teaching and Learning)
Mick Perkins, University of Sheffield (Research)
ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT
Abstracts should be submitted by email as PDF documents. Please save your document using the first author's surname as the file name (e.g. Smith.pdf).
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words in length. The first page should include the name, affiliation, contact email address, and title of the proposed presentation. The text of the abstract should fit on the second page. A third page may be included for examples, figures, or references, if desired.
Abstracts submitted should present original research in clinical linguistics and phonetics, discuss issues in the teaching and learning of clinical linguistics and phonetics, or combine both areas.
Please indicate if you would prefer an oral paper or a poster presentation.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
All submissions must be received by FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2008.
Please send your abstracts and any questions to: [log in to unmask]
In the subject line, please write the first author's surname followed by BACL 2008 (e.g., Smith BACL 2008).
Local organisers: Jane Setter and Vesna Stojanovik.
REGISTRATION
The deadline for registration is FRIDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2008. Details on registration and a registration form for the event in MSWord and Portable Document File format can be downloaded from the website.
Dr Jane Setter
Department of Applied Linguistics
University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 218
Reading, RG6 6AA
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 6089
Fax: +44 (0)118 975 6669
http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/appling/setter.htm
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The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics
16-19 April 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/kopen09.doc
Call for Papers
An international conference, ''The Sound of Indo-European - Phonetics,
Phonemics, and Morphophonemics'', organized within the framework of the
programme ''The Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations'', will take
place at the University of Copenhagen, April 16th - 19th, 2009. The conference
fee will be 50 Euros, lunch included.
Participants wishing to give a presentation are kindly invited to send a
preliminary title before November 1st, 2008. The general theme of the conference
includes phonetic, phonemic, and morphophonemic questions relating to either the
Indo-European protolanguage and its prestages or to a specific branch of the
Indo-European family.
Featured speakers are: Dr. Eugen Hill (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München),
Prof. Martin Kümmel (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), and Prof. Brent Vine
(University of California, Los Angeles).
Notifications of interest, including preliminary title and abstract, should be
addressed to student assistant Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen at
bsshhum.ku.dk. Please utilize the form found at
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/kopen09.doc. A site devoted to the
conference, along with a general call for participation that includes the
conference programme, will follow.
Contact Person: Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen
<bsshhum.ku.dk>
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE
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Research Positions in Irish Speech Synthesis
Two positions are being offered by Trinity College for research on Irish synthesis, as part of the Cabógaí project, which is funded by Foras na Gaeilge (see www.abair.ie <http://www.abair.ie/> ). The appointments may be for:
- a postgraduate student, where the work is carried out as part of an MSc/PhD;
or
- a research assistant who may work full or part-time on the project.
The skills being sought are speech processing, computational linguistics, Irish linguistics and a good knowledge of Irish.
The contract will be for two years, with salary depending on the applicant's experience.
Application deadline: 7 September, 2008
Forward application, CV and referee details to the address below. Ensure references are sent separately to same address.
Postal Address: Ailbhe Ní Chasaide/Amelia Kelly, An tSaotharlann Foghraíochta agus Urlabhra, CLCS, Scoil na n-Eolaíochtaí, Teangeolaíochta, Urlabhra agus Cumarsáide, Coláiste na Tríonóide, BÁC 2, Éire.
Email: Amelia Kelly; [log in to unmask]
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