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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
February 2010
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Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK and BBC Pronunciation Unit
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK
Paul Foulkes, University of York and JP French Associates, UK
Lisa Lim, University of Hong Kong
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[date of first appearance follows]
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12-14 February 2010. Georgetown Linguistics Society 2010 - Sound, Structure,
Meaning: Explorations at the Interface. Washington, D.C., USA. http://sites.
google.com/site/gls2010site/Home (09/09)
13-14 February 2010. Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://www.ualberta.ca/~kirchner/CMSPA.html (09/09)
19-20 February 2010. 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Los
Angeles, USA. http://www.wccfl2010.org (11/09)
24-26 February 2010. Prosodic Typology: State of the Art & Future Prospects.
Berlin, Germany. http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/ (09/09)
26-28 February 2010. Creation of Multilingual Speech Resources. Mysore, India.
http://www.ldcil.org/up/cmsr.html (12/09)
8-10 March 2010. Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions. Bristol, UK.
http://language.psy.bris.ac.uk/workshop/index.html (12/09)
19-21 March 2010. Ultrafest V, Haskins Labs, New Haven, CT, USA.
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/conferences/ultrafestV.html (09/09)
22-23 March 2010. International Programme in Maltese Linguistics. Valletta,
Malta. http://www.fis.com.mt/programmes.html (11/09)
23 March 2010. Fifth Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics.
Newcastle, UK. www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/postgrad/conference.htm (11/09)
24-25 March 2010. BIMEP 2010, Belgrade International Meeting of English
Phoneticians. Belgrade, Serbia. bimep.2010 at gmail.com (10/09)
29-31 March 2010. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium
2010. University of Westminster, London, UK. at http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/
baap2010/index.php (12/09)
13 April 2010. GLOW Workshop on Phonology and Phonetics. Wroclaw, Poland.
http://www.ifa.uni.wroc.pl/~glow33 (11/09)
14-17 April 2010. 8th International conference on the Evolution of Language (
Evolang8). Utrecht University, NL. http://evolang2010.nl/ (05/09)
19-24 April 2010. AMAZONICAS III: Phonology and Syntax. Bogota, Colombia.
http://www.humanas.unal.edu.co/amazonicas3 (12/09)
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, 06/09)
11-14 May 2010. Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody. Doubletree
Magnificent Mile, Chicago, USA. http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu (05/09)
20-22 May 2010. 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK.
http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/18mfm.html (11/09)
28-30 May 2010. International Phonetics-Phonology Conference, College of
English Language and Literature at Shanghai International Studies University
(SHISU).
17th June 2010. FirthDay, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
(01/10)
23-26 June, 2010. 13th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and
Linguistics Association. Oslo, Norway. www.hf.uio.no/icpla2010 (09/09)
24-25 June 2010. Dutch Accents in English, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
http://www2.hum.uu.nl/solis/hum/congres/uiteng/eng.htm (01/10)
24-25 June 2010. Child Language Seminar. City University, London,
UK. http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/childlanguageseminar.html. (07/09)
8-10 July 2010, 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. http://www.unm.edu/~labfon12/ (06/09)
25-27 August 2010. ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. Athens,
Greece. http://conferences.phil.uoa.gr/exling/ (12/09)
8-10 September 2010. Phonlex 2010 International Conference. Toulouse,
France. http://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/phonlex2010 (11/09)
9-11 September 2010. 4th Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE4).
Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.nordiska.su.se/tie4 (11/09, 2/10)
10-11 September 2010. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and
Teaching; Hosted by TESL/Applied Linguistics, Iowa State University, Ames,
IA USA. (01/10)
23-25 September 2010. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology. Provo,
Utah, USA. http://hispling.byu.edu/larp/ (12/09)
26-30 September 2010. Interspeech 2010. Spoken Language Processing for All.
Makuhari, Japan. http://www.interspeech2010.org/ (12/09)
27 September- 1 October 2010. Summer School CPMSP2 - 2010: Cognitive and
Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-
Perception Interaction Part III: Planning and Dynamics, Berlin. (01/10)
21-22 October 2010. Workshop on Sound Change. Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.traces.uab.cat/soundchange/ (09/09, 12/09)
6-19 November 2010. Tutorial and Special Session on Forensic Voice Comparison
and Forensic Acoustics at 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics.
Cancun, Mexico. http://cancun2010.forensic-voice-comparison.net/
16-19 November 2010. Sound of Indo-European 2 (SIE2). Opava, Czech Republic.
Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen
++`14-16 December 2010. Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on
Speech Science and Technology Melbourne, Australia, SST 2010.
http://www.assta.org/sst/2010 (2/10)
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CONFERENCES
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Second call for papers, TIE4
The Fourth European Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE4) will take
place on September 9-11, 2010, at Stockholm University, Campus Frescati.
The TIE conference series brings together researchers working on
different
aspects of tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Abstracts
for papers and posters are welcome on any topic within these areas.
Keynote Speakers:
Bjvrn Lindblom
Amalia Arvaniti
Kai Alter
Yiya Chen
Bert Remijsen
Patrik Bye
Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2010
Abstracts should be be maximum one A4 page plus one additional page of
figures and/or references (12 pt, 1 inch margins).
We use the Easy Abstracts facility on Linguist List. To upload your
abstract, please click on the following link, and follow the
instructions given there: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/TIE2010.
Please upload your file as a pdf. It is important that you do not
include any personal information in the uploaded file.
Other important dates:
April 20th, 2010, notification of acceptance (please note that this date
was changed from May 17th)
June 14th, 2010, program announcement
Conference web site: www.nordiska.su.se/tie4
<http://www.nordiska.su.se/tie4>
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SST2010
Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science
and Technology, Melbourne, Australia
14-16 December 2010
http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/
Call for Papers
ASSTA and La Trobe University are pleased to announce the Thirteenth Inter-
national Conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology (SSTT2010). The
conference will be held at the La Trobe University City Campus.
Conference Themes
Submissions are invited for oral presentations. Submissions should describe
original contributions to spoken language, speech science and/or technology
that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers,
linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists audiologists and
other professionals.
Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but
particularly in the following areas:
" Speech production
" Acoustic phonetics
" Acoustics of accent change
" Phonetics and Phonology of Australasian languages
" Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice
" Music and speech processing
" Applications of speech science and technology
" Speech processing for Forensic applications
" Speech recognition and understanding
" Speaker recognition and classification
" Speech enhancement and noise cancellation
" Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing
" Corpus management and speech tools
" Contributions of speech science and technology to audiology and
speech language therapy
Key dates:
Papers due Friday 18 June
Notification of acceptance Friday 27 August
Early-bird registration due Friday 1 October
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POSITIONS VACANT / STUDENTSHIPS
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Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
#31,671 - #52,347 p.a.
Working in an energetic and expanding subject group, you will have the ability
to contribute teaching across the discipline of English language, linguistics
and specific areas of applied linguistics. You will also have an excellent
record of securing research funding and of publication. Your research will
contribute to one or more of four key areas of our research in linguistics:
Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Forensic Linguistics and
Language Education. Applicants should have a doctorate in English language,
linguistics or cognate disciplines, and experience of teaching at under-
graduate and postgraduate level. Ref: R100010
Application forms, further information and details of who to contact for an
informal discussion regarding the posts are available on our website:
http://www.aston.ac.uk/jobs by email: [log in to unmask] or by
telephoning:
0121 359 0870 (24 hour answerphone), quoting the relevant reference number.
Please note CVs will only be considered if accompanied by a completed
application form.
Closing date: 26th February 2010.
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One PhD position at Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication (ACLC)
/NKI-AVL 2010
Automatic evaluation of voice and speech rehabilitation following
treatment of head and neck cancers.
Abstract:
The research project will study the use of existing Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) applications to evaluate pathologic speech after
treatment of head and neck cancers in a clinical setting. The aim is to
obtain therapeutically meaningful measures of the speech quality of
individual patients over the course of their treatment. Basic and
applied research into the properties and pathologies of Tracheo-Esophageal
(TE) speech following laryngectomy has a long history at the ACLC. The
current project also includes the effects of other
treatment, e.g. radio- and chemotherapy. The project could also
contribute to a practical end goal where ASR systems in the future could
be used to obtain objective information on speech quality, real-time
during treatment and rehabilitation sessions. Such objective information
is needed for evidence based medical treatment and is currently lacking.
Emphasis will be given to studying the relation between medical history,
speech and voice acoustics, and specific ASR results for individual
patients. Of special interest are word recognition errors that can be
traced to specific phrasing, prosodic, and phoneme errors known to
affect TE speakers. The candidate will study how pre-recorded patient
materials can be evaluated using existing ASR applications and process
the results. The candidate will collaborate with laboratories in Belgium
and Germany.
Application and Procedure
You have to apply as a candidate. Please follow the Guidelines for
applying for an internal PhD position 2010 (see below under Information).
Tasks
The PhD student needs to carry out the research and write a dissertation
within the duration of the project (4 years (80%) or 3.3 years (full time)).
Requirements
Educational background :
Logopedic, linguistics, or phonetics with an affinity to speech pathology
Experience :
Experience with speech technology and perception experiments is welcome
Information
The following documents give precise information about the application
procedure:
Project description 'Automatic evaluation of voice and speech
rehabilitation following treatment of head and neck cancers'
http://www.hum.uva.nl/template/downloadAsset.cfm?objectid=6A975BC9-1321-
B0BE-A4AEADEE9606E295
ACLC guidelines for application 2010
http://www.hum.uva.nl/template/downloadAsset.cfm?objectid=6A992ABD-1321-
B0BE-A486D0A4B8D373EB
The original position can be found at the ACLC web site
http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc/object.cfm/DBFA7FA8-14CF-4213-9DC6A7A4E11E9878/
6A8B1555-1321-B0BE-A446C998FB2AC9E6
NB Incomplete applications will be automatically rejected so please read
the guidelines carefully.
Further information can be obtained from the intended supervisors of
this project, Prof. Dr. Frans Hilgers, phone +31.20.512.2550, e-mail:
f.hilgers AT nki.nl, Dr. Rob van Son, e-mail: R.J.J.H.vanSon AT uva.nl, or
from the managing director of the ACLC, Dr. Els Verheugd, phone
+31.20.525.2543, e-mail: E.A.B.M.Verheugd-Daatzelaar AT uva.nl. The
original position can be found at the ACLC web site
Position
The PhD student will be appointed for a period of 4 years
(80%) or 3.3 years (full time) at the Faculty of Humanities of the
University of Amsterdam under the terms of employment currently valid
for the Faculty. A contract will be given in the first instance for one
year, with an extension for the following years on the basis of an
evaluation of, amongst other things, a written piece of work. The salary
(on a full time base) will be # 2042 during the first year (gross per
month) and will reach # 2612 during the fourth year, in accordance with
the CAO for Dutch universities.
Submissions
Submissions of your application as a candidate should be sent before 22
February, 2010 to aclc-fgw AT uva.nl (or, in the case of a paper version,
to the director of the ACLC, Prof. Dr P.C Hengeveld, Spuistraat 210,
1012 VT Amsterdam). Applications received after this date or those that
are incomplete will not be taken into consideration.
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Queen Margaret University will be announcing the availability in early February
of PhD bursaries at approx #11k per year for 3 years available to students who
wish to undertake doctoral research in speech science and phonetics,
particularly articulatory phonetics and work on the phonetics/phonology
interface, in Edinburgh. Please see www.qmu.ac.uk/ssrc, or contact
jscobbie AT qmu.ac.uk, Professor James M Scobbie, Director of the Speech Science
Research Centre.
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The School of Linguistics at Bangor University is eligible to submit up
to 12 applicants to the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC)
2010 postgraduate funding competition. Students wishing to apply for
AHRC funding are requested to contact Prof. Vyv Evans
(v.evans AT bangor.ac.uk) to request an application form. Applicants must
be citizens of the EU. Completed applications must be received by Prof.
Evans on or before *Wednesday 24th February 2010. *Those applications
selected will be submitted to the AHRC on behalf of the applicant by the
University.
Applications are particularly sought for the Research Preparation
Masters competition (which provides funding for an MA programme and
beyond), and PhD study. Details of MA programmes at Bangor are
available here: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/listcourses_pg.php.en.
Outstanding applicants for PhD study are particularly sought for the
following areas:
*Syntactic theory*. Dr. Dirk Bury would welcome proposals in syntax and
related areas. (He is currently supervising research on grammatical
effects of language contact.)
*Cognitive linguistics*: Prof. Vyv Evans welcomes proposals on
figurative language and abstract thought, conceptual structure and
lexical representation within the framework of LCCM Theory.
*Bilingual sound systems*: Prof. Ineke Mennen is interested in
supervising projects that address how bilinguals manage two (possibly
competing) sound systems (specifically at the prosodic level), and/or
the relative influence of prosody and segments on perceptions of foreign
accent in L2 learners. She would be specifically interested in exploring
neuro-scientific approaches to investigate perceptions of foreign accent.
*Bilingual cognition*: Dr. Panos Athanasopoulos is supervising PhDs in
the areas of language and thought, bilingual cognition, first and second
language acquisition, and categorical perception of colour, objects, and
events.
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Dolbey and Company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and has been
in business since 1914. We develop and market dictation, transcription and
speech recognition products for the medical market. The position we are
looking to fill would be located at our headquarters and be in our speech
recognition products.
Responsibilities:
> Evaluating design and quality of pronunciation dictionaries
> Generating Language models
> Testing Language Model
> Testing of text formatting
> Merging pronunciation dictionaries
> Evaluating and correcting dictionary entries
> Identifying new entries for general and specialized dictionaries
> Writing phonetic transcriptions for new and existing entries
> Serving as language expert resource for engineers and researchers
Requirements:
> Completion of at least an undergraduate degree in linguistics
> Knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet
> Ability to work independently
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> Helpful Skills:
Expertise in medicine, or technology
I can be reached at the phone number below.
Thank you,
Bob Leslie
Senior VP/GM
Dolbey and Company
1-800-756-7828 x109
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The linguistics department of the University of Potsdam, Germany, invites
applications for a tenured W2 professorship in phonology.
The rank of the position is roughly equivalent to that of an associate
professor. The legal requirements for holding such a position
('habilitation',or equivalent qualification) are often interpreted as
presupposing a successful publication record of at least two or three years
after the completion of the dissertation for applicants from outside
Germany. Professors are not required by law to be able to speak German at
the beginning of their employment, but our BSc courses are taught in
German, so that applicants should be willing to learn German rather quickly.
The position comes with the 8hr/semester teaching load of tenured
professorships.
Please contact Gisbert Fanselow at the email address below with any questions.
The job description in German can be downloaded at
http://uni-potsdam.de/verwaltung/dezernat3/stellen/index.html.
The English translation follows.
Full professorship (W2) in General Linguistics: Grammar theory with a
specialization in phonology
The candidate will be responsible for research and teaching in the area of
grammar theory with a specialization in phonology, complementing the
existing areas of syntax and semantics. Competence in empirical and
experimental methods relating to phonology is expected.
The research profile of the candidate should fit into the interdisciplinary
nature of the Excellence Center for Cognitive Sciences at Potsdam
(http://www.uni-potsdam.de/humfak/hum-exzellenzbereich.html); the candidate
is also expected to contribute to the close connection between Linguistics
and Psychology. Participation is expected in the Collaborative Research
Project (Sonderforschungsbereich 632), Information Structure: the
linguistic means for structuring utterances, sentences and texts (see:
http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/main.html), and in other projects related
to cognitive science. In addition, the candidate will be expected to
contribute to teaching in the clinically oriented areas of linguistics.
Experience in obtaining third-party funding and an international presence
is desirable.
The University of Potsdam is an Equal Opportunity employer and is actively
engaged in increasing the proportion of women in research and teaching;
qualified women are therefore encouraged to apply. All other things being
equal, handicapped candidates will be given preference.
Send your application to the address below. Please do NOT send applications
directly to Gisbert Fanselow.
Application Deadline: 25-Feb-2010
Application Address: Die Praesidentin
Universitdt Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Germany
Contact Information: Gisbert Fanselow
gisbert.fanselow AT gmail.com
Phone: 49-331-977-2446 Fax: 49-331-977-2087
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Department of
Linguistics at The Ohio State University. The position will be primarily
research-oriented, with a light teaching load of two courses per year. The
ideal applicant will have a background in phonology with strong
computational skills particularly with regards to the computational
modeling of probabilistic patterns in language. The appointment will be for
one year beginning on July 1, 2010, with the possibility of reappointment
for an additional year.
Applicants should submit a current CV, a letter outlining relevant
experience, a writing sample, and the names of three references to Elizabeth
Hume at the email address below.
Applications received prior to April 2, 2010 will be assured of receiving
full consideration. For information about the OSU Department of
Linguistics, please visit http://linguistics.osu.edu.
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.
Application Deadline: 02-Apr-2010
Application Email: ehume AT ling.osu.edu
Contact Information: Elizabeth Hume
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