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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
December 2010
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Linda Shockey, BBC Pronunciation Unit and University of Reading, UK
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK
Paul Foulkes, University of York and JP French Associates, UK
Lisa Lim, University of Hong Kong
E-mail address: fonetiks-request at jiscmail.ac.uk
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Visit the IPA web page at http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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2-3 December 2010. 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT2010). Paris, France. http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu/ (08/10)
9-11 December 2010. IV International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2010). Lódz, Poland. http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents2010 (08/10)
14-15 December 2010. Sociophonetics, at the Crossroads of Speech Variation, Processing and Communication. Pisa, Italy. http://linguistica.sns.it/Sociophonetics/home.htm (08/10)
14-16 December 2010. Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2010). Melbourne, Australia. http://www.assta.org/sst/2010 (02/10, 04/10)
6-9 January 2011. APA Panel: A New Look at Greek Prosody. San Antonio, TX, USA. http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/annualmeeting.html (04/10)
6-9 January 2011. Panel in MLA Discussion Group: Teaching Phonetics and Phonology. Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://www.mla.org (04/10)
12-14 January 2011. CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages. CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, NY, USA. http://cunyphonologyforum.net/endan.php (06/10)
20-22 January 2011. 8th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8). Marrakech, Morocco. <OCP8 AT gmail.com> (07/10)
28-31 January 2011. New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research (VLSP 2011). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/workshop/ (11/10)
5 March 2011. One-day research workshop: "Working with Sound: Language, Music, and Beyond..." Oxford, UK. www.phon.ox.ac.uk/sound_day (11/10)
27-28 May 2011. TRANSCRIBING, WRITING, FORMALISING - 2, 25th international conference, Cercle Linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest,Université d'Orléans, France. http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/cerlico/cerlico.htm (09/10)
9-11 June 2011. 6th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen - Nijmegen, NL. http://www.slp-nijmegen.nl/smc2011
13-15 June 2011. Phonetics without Borders (PhwB-2011). Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia. http://www.amursu.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3738&Itemid=661&lang=en (11/10)
16-17 June 2011. International Child Phonology Conference, University of York, UK.
http://yorkconferences.com/Delegate_Information/International_Child_Phonology_Conference.aspx (10/10)
21–22 June 2011. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2011 (PaPI 2011). Tarragona, Spain.
http://wwwa.urv.cat/deaa/PaPI2011/home.html (11/10)
16 August 2011. Coarticulation in New Varieties of English. A satellite event to ICPhS XVII. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. http://www.reading.ac.uk/epu/ICPhS17_Satellite/ (11/10)
17-21 August 2011. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII). Hong Kong SAR, China. http://www.icphs2011.hk (08/10)
24-26 August 2011. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) 2011. Venice, Italy. http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/ (11/10)
++ 27-31 August 2011. Interspeech 2011. Florence, Italy. http://www.interspeech2011.org/ (12/10) [Further details below]
12-14 September 2011. The Prosody-Discourse Interface, Salford, Manchester, UK. http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pdi_conference (09/10)
++ 7-8 October 2011. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT): The Confluence of Social Factors and Pronunciation: Accent, Identity, Irritation and Discrimination. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. http://pslltconference.com (12/10) [Further details below]
++ 2 July 2012. Teaching and Learning Pronunciation: Local and global perspectives on research and practice. Cairns, Australia. http://www.astmanagement.com.au/acta12/index.html (12/10) [Further details below]
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CONFERENCES
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Interspeech 2011
Florence, Italy, 27-31 August 2011
http://www.interspeech2011.org/
Deadline: 31 March 2011
INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing(SLP) both in humans and in machines.
The Theme of INTERSPEECH 2011 will be: “Speech science and technology for real life” and under this theme the conference will emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning the basic theories to applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special sessions are planned. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and other news at our website www.interspeech2011.org.
We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to:
Speech Perception and Production
Phonology, Phonetics
Para-/Non- linguistic Information
Language Processing
Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals
Speaker and Language Identification
Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
Technologies and Systems for New Applications
Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech Translation, and Information Retrieval
Application, Evaluation, Standardization, Spoken Language Resource
Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2011 proceedings should be up to four pages in length and conform to the format given in the paper preparation guidelines and author kits which will be available on the INTERSPEECH 2011 website along with the Final Call for Papers. Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM. Authors shall also declare that their contributions are original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system, which will open early in 2011. The deadline for submitting a paper is 31 March 2011. This date will not be extended. Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to [log in to unmask]
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Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching
The Confluence of Social Factors and Pronunciation: Accent, Identity, Irritation and Discrimination
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, October 7-8, 2011
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/PSLLT2011
Call Deadline: 1 April 2011
Invited Speaker
Donald Rubin, University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia USA
Second language pronunciation acquisition is widely considered to be difficult from a physical, cognitive and developmental point of view, but just as significant are the role of social factors. Native and non-native accents, even when they are intelligible, are not neutral, but are subject to social pecking orders which cause listeners to evaluate speakers in various ways. These evaluations may lead to discriminatory or preferential treatment, and they may even affect speakers´ ability to be audible, to construct their identities, and to successfully acquire a new language (Miller 2006).
This conference will provide a forum for discussions of how social factors influence and are influenced by pronunciation. Possible paper topics may include descriptive and experimental studies, discussions of instructional approaches that emphasize social factors, and case studies of the interaction of social and linguistic factors in the development of oral skills.
In addition to papers related to how social factors impact the learning of pronunciation, how accent affects social acceptance and the results of acceptance (or lack thereof), how irritation is related to intelligibility, and how interlocutors' reactions can be improved, this third annual conference invites proposals for papers or poster presentations on any aspect of pronunciation research, teaching and learning. Papers will be given in English, but papers addressing the teaching and learning of pronunciation for any language are encouraged.
Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for a peer-reviewed, on-line proceedings of the conference.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by April 1, 2011 to the following site:
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/PSLLT2011
Acceptances will be sent out by May 1, 2011. Please specify whether you would like your abstract to be considered as a paper or a poster.
For further information about the conference, go to http://pslltconference.com or contact John Levis at [log in to unmask]
NOTE: The conference will be held concurrently with the Second Language Research Forum conference (SLRF) and will include a joint colloquium with SLRF entitled 'Social influences on the acquisition of L2 phonetics and phonology'
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Teaching and Learning Pronunciation: Local and global perspectives on research and practice
Cairns, Australia, 2 July 2012
http://www.astmanagement.com.au/acta12/index.html
Deadline: 1 March 2012
Invited speakers:
• Dr. Tracey Derwing
• Dr. Andy Kirkpatrrick
• Dr. John Field
• Dr. Lynda Yates
• Dr. Helen Fraser
Featuring a half-day colloquium followed in the afternoon by concurrent sessions in two streams: one targeting classroom teachers and one targeting researchers and teacher educators. Held in conjunction with the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) International TESOL Conference “TESOL as a Global Trade – Ethics, Equity, and Ecology”, July 3 - 5, 2012, which will follow with a dedicated pronunciation stream and plenary speaker (Dr. Tracey Derwing).
For more information, please see the following: http://www.astmanagement.com.au/acta12/index.html
KEY DATES
Call for Abstracts opens on 1st February 2011
Call for Abstracts closes on 1st March 2012
Notification to Presenters on 1st April 2012
Presenters' acceptance closes on 15th April 2012
Final Program available on 30th April 2012
Authors or organisations interested in submitting a paper or presenting a workshop, colloquium or poster session are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. The abstract should outline the aims, contents and conclusions of the paper or presentation, or provide details of the workshop or colloquium and the author's, authors' or organisations' intended role.
All proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Committee. Presentations will be selected to provide a program that offers a comprehensive and diverse treatment of issues related to the conference theme. Authors will be notified by email of the outcome of their abstract submission.
Please note:
All confirmed abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts.
Accepted authors must register for the Conference to be included in the Program. Where a paper is to be presented by joint authors, at least one author is required to register.
Abstract submissions will only be accepted via the conference website.
We regret that no financial support can be provided for workshops and session papers.
Please indicate if you will be presenting an academically-oriented, professional paper for consideration for publication in the conference proceedings. Submit your request for peer refereeing by emailing the conference secretariat after you have submitted your abstract.
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POSITIONS VACANT
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The Department of Language and Linguistics, Faculty of English Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens plans to announce a tenure track position in Linguistics, with special emphasis on empirical methods of analysis. Candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:
a. corpus linguistics
b. computational linguistics
c. phonetics
d. language acquisition/learning
are invited to express their interest by sending a CV to the department secretary (Ms Victoria Chryssafi, [log in to unmask]).
REQUIREMENTS
Candidates must hold a PhD in one of the relevant fields. Also, they must have excellent command of English and Greek and preferably some teaching experience. They will be required to teach both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and should demonstrate expertise through quality publications. The ideal candidate should be able to teach a wide range of courses in English (mostly undergraduate) and, depending on their area of expertise, contribute to the research profile of the Department.
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PhD positions
Linguistics/ Centre for Language Science, Macquarie University
http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/clas/
Deadline: 31 January 2011
Child Language Lab at Macquarie University’s Centre for Language Sciences has several positions for PhD students to conduct research on phonological and morphological development. We are especially interested in recruiting those with strong quantitative, experimental, and phonetics background to explore issues in early speech perception and production in typical, language/hearing impaired, bilingual, and L2 populations.
The Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) is housed in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. It has close connections with MACCS (Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science), NAL (the National Acoustics Lab), and is part of the new Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders, where language in SLI and autistic populations will also be explored. All will be soon housed in the Hearing Hub - a state-of the art hearing and language research 'hub', with MEG, EEG, infant speech perception lab, language production lab, eye-tracking, computational linguistics expertise, and many other research facilities.
For more information contact
Katherine Demuth, Professor
Department of Linguistics
Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS)
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Sydney
Australia
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Visiting Assistant Professor/ Lecturer: Phonetics
Linguistics, UC Berkeley, CA
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu
Deadline: 15 March 2011
Pending budgetary approval, the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics is conducting a search for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (or Lecturer) in Phonetics for the academic year, 2011-2012. The appointee will teach four (to six) courses over two semesters, covering both undergraduate and graduate levels, with the option of teaching a graduate seminar on a topic of the appointee’s interest. Strength in phonology, corpus linguistics or in a particular language area would be considered an asset, but is not necessary. Salary, commensurate with experience, will be based on established UC Berkeley salary scales, with benefits according to the standard UC Berkeley benefits package.
Applicants are requested to send application materials by email. These should include a vita, a cover letter describing experience and interests for both teaching and research, sample papers, and documentation of teaching record (including teaching evaluations). Applicants should also request three letters of recommendation to be sent by email from individuals familiar with their work. Applications will be reviewed starting on March 15, 2011. The position will remain open until filled.
All applications, materials, and questions should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
UC Berkeley is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
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MEMBERSHIP
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The Association for Laboratory Phonology is an international organization committed to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge on the phonetics and phonology of all human languages. The purpose of the Association is to promote the scientific study of all aspects of the phonetics and phonology of spoken and signed languages through scholarly exchange across disciplines. The Association hosts the biennial Laboratory Phonology conference, and starting in 2010 publishes the journal Laboratory Phonology with Mouton de Gruyter.
Membership in the Association includes a subscription to Laboratory Phonology, where you will find articles featuring laboratory or experimental research on the elements of spoken and signed language, their organization, their grammatical function, and their role in speech communication. Individual journal subscription is available exclusively through membership in the Association.
Additional benefits of membership include reduced registration rates at the LabPhon conferences, eligibility to be a member of and vote in the Association's Executive Committee, and access to the Association’s worldwide database of members.
To become a member of the Association and get a subscription to Laboratory Phonology, please register online at www.labphon.org/member.
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The deadline for material for the next foNETiks newsletter is 27 December 2010.
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Dr Lisa Lim
Coordinator, Language and Communication Programme, School of English, University of Hong Kong
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