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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
May 2012
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Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK.
Gerry Docherty, Newcastle University, UK.
Shira Katseff, University of Canterbury, NZ.
Lisa Lim, The University of Hong Kong.
E-mail address: fonetiks-request at jiscmail.ac.uk
The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/fonetiks.html
Visit the IPA web page at http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[date of first appearance follows]
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22-25 May 2012. 6th International Conference, Speech Prosody 2012. Prosody
in the real world: Understanding and approaching human prosodic
performance. Shanghai, China. http://www.speechprosody2012.org/ (12/11)
24-25 May 2012. Methods in L2 Prosody (ML2P). Padova, Italy
http://www.maldura.unipd.it/LCL/ML2P (03/12)
24-26 May 2012. 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting (20mfm). Manchester, UK.
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html (04/12)
27-29 May 2012. International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages
(TAL). Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. http://www.TAL2012.org (11/11,
12/11)
29 May 2012. Discourse Coherence and Prosody (CDP2012). Lille, France.
http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/je-cdp (12/11)
4-6 June 2012. International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC) 2012.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~munso005/ChildPhonology (12/11)
7 June 2012. Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology (SIGMORPHON
2012). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/ (04/12)
25-27 June 2012. French Phonology: Reseau Francais de Phonologie (RFP).
Paris, France. http://www.rfp2012.cnrs.fr (04/12).
25-28 June 2012. Odyssey 2012: The Speaker and Language Recognition
Workshop. An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Singapore.
http://www.odyssey2012.org/ (12/11)
27-30 June 2012. 14th International Clinical Phonetics & Linguistics
Association (ICPLA) Conference, Cork, Ireland. http://www.icpla2012.com/
(01/12)
2 July 2012. Teaching and Learning Pronunciation: Local and global
perspectives on research and practice. Cairns, Australia.
http://www.pronunciationsymposium.org/ (12/10, 04/12 note website
amendment)
6 July 2012. Second Language Acquisition of Phonology (UK-SLP2012). York,
United Kingdom http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/slp2012 (03/12)
##16-20 July 2012. Phonology of Creole Languages: Testing the Limit.
University of Porto, Portugal.
19-21 July 2012. Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing (PoRT). Glasgow, United
Kingdom. http://www.gla.ac.uk/rhythmsinscotland/ (12/11)
27-29 July 2012. 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon13).
Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.labphon13.labphon.org/ (12/11)
30 July 2012. Advancing Prosodic Transcription for Spoken Language Science
and Technology. Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.labphon.org (03/12)
5-9 August 2012. Annual Conference of the International Association for
Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA 2012). Santander, Spain.
http://www.iafpa2012.com (03/12)
15-17 August 2012. Nordic Prosody XI. Tartu, Estonia.
http://www.nordicprosody.ut.ee/ (07/11)
22-24 August 2012. Sociophonetic Research in Emerging Varieties, Thematic
Session of Sociolinguistics Symposium 2012. Berlin, Germany.
http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/ (04/12
24-25 August 2012. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning (PSLLT):
Setting the Course for Pronunciation Teaching and Assessment. Vancouver,
BC, Canada. http://pslltconference.com (04/12)
25 August 2012. Roundtable on Assessment and Pronunciation. Vancouver, BC,
Canada. http://www.sfu.ca/~mjmunro/psllt/PSLLT_2012/Home.html (03/12)
3-4 September 2012. Prosody in Typical and Atypical Populations. Reading,
UK. http://www.reading.ac.uk/ptap-conference.aspx (04/12)
3-5 September 2012. International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in
Speech (ISICS 2012). Aix-en-Provence, France.
http://spim.risc.cnrs.fr/ISICS.htm (01/12)
5-7 September 2012. Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics (AVML).
York, United Kingdom. http://avml2012.wordpress.com/ (01/12)
6-8 September 2012. 5th European Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE5).
Oxford, UK. http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/tie/ (04/12)
9-13 September 2012. InterSpeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA.
http://interspeech2012.org (11/11)
3-5 October 2012. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP6).
Mexico City, Mexico. http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/LARP2012-MX_IU
(04/12)
##7-9 October, 2012. Form and function of non-pulmonic Sounds in European
Languages, Friedrich Schiller Universitat, Jena, Germany.
http://www.sprechwissenschaft.uni-jena.de/Lehrbereiche/Sprechwissenschaft/Non_pulmonic+workshop.html
(05/12)
12-14 October 2012. Locality and Directionality at the
Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface. Stanford, California, USA.
http://www.stanford.edu/~gribanov/CrISP_workshop.html (04/12)
12 -14 October, 2012. 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Tokyo,
Japan. http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/jk2012/ (02/12)
3-6 December 2012. 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech
Science and Technology (SST2012). Sydney, Australia.
http://clas.mq.edu.au/sst2012/ (04/12)
5-8 December 2012. 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language
Processing (ISCSLP-2012). Hong Kong SAR, China. http://www.iscslp2012.org
(04/12)
4 May 2013. 4th Theoretical Phonology Conference (TPC 4). Taipei, Taiwan.
http://phonology.nccu.edu.tw/tpc4/ (04/12)
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BOOKS FOR REVIEW FOR JIPA
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The following books are available for review for the Journal of the
International Phonetic Association. Reviews are published at the discretion
of the editors.
If you applied previously to do a review of one of these, your application
is on record and will be considered. We are asking again as we had too few
replies.
Please contact l.shockey at reading.ac.uk or a.wichmann at virgin.net if
you wish to do a review, mentioning your qualifications to deal with the
book you have chosen.
Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, Plural, 2006
Ashby, P. , Understanding Phonetics, Hodder, 2011
Backley, An Introduction to Element Theory, Edinburgh, 2011
Ball, Perkins, Mueller and Howard, Handbook of Clinical Linguistics,
Blackwell 2008
Burton, William Barnes's Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (with CD),
Chaucer Studio Press, 2010
Emiliano, Fonetica do Portugues Europeu, Guimaraes, 2009
Fuchs, Toda, Zygis, Turbulent Sounds, De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
Gussenhoven and Jacobs, Understanding Phonology, 3rd Edition, Hodder, 2011
Hancock, English Pronunciation in Use, 2nd Edition, CUP 2012
Hardcastle, Laver, Gibbon, Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd edition, 2010
Hassan and Heselwood, Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Benjamins
Hayes, Introductory Phonology, Blackwell, 2009
Menn, Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications, Plural, 2011
Rogerson-Revell, English Phonology and Pronunciation Teaching, Continuum,
2011
Tatham and Morton, A Guide to Speech Production and Perception, Edinburgh,
2011
Vigario, Frota, and Freitas, Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and
Interrelations.Benjamins, 2009
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CONFERENCES
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Phonology of Creole Languages: Testing the Limits
16 - 20 July, 2012
University of Porto, Portugal
http://cl.up.pt/conteudos/encontros/crioulo.pdf
Advanced Course (20 hours)
Prof. Nick Faraclas (University of Puerto Rico)
This series of five intensive and interactive sessions is for students who
wish to critically examine existing paradigms of descriptive, analytical
and theoretical linguistics from the particular vantage point of the
segmental and suprasegmental phonologies of creoles and other contact
languages. The general framework within which the lectures, presentations,
group discussions, and practical work sessions will unfold will be provided
by readings on phonology in creole and other contact languages which
contest many of the underlying assumptions of contemporary sociolinguistic
theory and readings on creolistics that contest many of the underlying
assumptions of contemporary phonological theory. Students who are working
on particular projects related to the theme of the course are welcome to
bring their data to class in order to get feedback on theoretical approach,
methodology, and analysis from their colleagues participating in the
sessions.
Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
Fees:
University of Porto staff and students: Free
Non-UP students: 30 EUR
Others: 60 EUR
Information and applications: João Veloso (jveloso at letras.up.pt)
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Workshop announcement / Call for papers
Form and function of non-pulmonic sounds in European languages
7th - 9th October 2012
Institute of German Linguistics,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Fürstengraben 27 (Rosensäle), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, 07743
Jena, Germany
Sounds produced with a non-pulmonic airstream mechanism, such as clicks and
ejectives are well-documented and much analysed sound classes in the
languages of the world. Until very recently, both sound classes have found
only sporadic and brief mention in relation to the sound systems of
European languages, such as English and German. However, there is a growing
body of evidence for both languages of clicks and ejectives routinely and
systematically fulfilling linguistic, social and interactional functions.
This workshop intends to bring together researchers working on the form and
function of non-pulmonic sounds in European languages, but also experts
working on the form, function and historical development of non-pulmonic
sounds in those languages which have such sound types as part of their
regular phonological inventories.
Invited speakers:
Ioana Chitoran
Susanne Fuchs
Erica Gold
Olga Gordeeva
Sven Grawunder
Phil Hoole
Richard Ogden
James Scobbie
Jane Stuart-Smith
Melissa Wright
Organiser: Adrian P. Simpson
Contact & registration: nonpulmonic2012 at gmail.com Workshop website:
http://www.sprechwissenschaft.uni-jena.de/Lehrbereiche/Sprechwissenschaft/Non_pulmonic+workshop.html
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POSITIONS VACANT
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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, the
Netherlands) invites applications for a PhD position in experimental
psycholinguistics.
The MPI in Nijmegen is a leading research institute, with a
stimulating environment and excellent facilities. It is the only institute
devoted to the question of how we acquire, produce, and understand
language. Its investigations are highly multidisciplinary, uniting
anthropology, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, computer
science and genetics.
The successful candidate will be affiliated with the department
Psychology of Language (A. S. Meyer). The mission of the
department is to understand the psychological processes and
representations underlying the production and comprehension of
spoken utterances. Much of the research in the department is
currently directed at understanding how and why adults differ in
linguistic knowledge and their ways of using this knowledge. The
research is carried out in close collaboration with the departments
Language and Genetics and Neurobiology of Language. The new
PhD project should concern individual differences in the structure of
the mental lexicon and in lexical access.
We seek exceptional students with a talent and inclination for first
class research. Candidates should have, or shortly expect to obtain,
a high quality scientific degree in psychology, cognitive
neurosciences, linguistics, computer sciences or related areas (MA
or equivalent). Solid knowledge of statistics and experimental design
is a requirement. Candidates should have excellent written and
spoken command of English and ideally some knowledge of either
Dutch or German.
The position is funded for 3 years. Starting date is September 1,
2012, or January 1, 2013. The institute provides state-of-the art
research facilities and technical support, and a generous conference
and travel budget. A program of taught courses is provided by the
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS). The Max Planck
Society is an equal opportunity employer.
Position open until filled.
Applications should include the candidate's CV, a short statement of
research interests (2 pages), a sample of their writing, and the
names and e-mail addresses of two referees. Inquiries and
applications should be sent as soon as possible to evelyn.giering at mpi.nl
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The linguistics department at the University of Geneva invites
applications for a part-time lecturer position in phonetics and
phonology.
Specifications:
- Applicants must have a doctorate in linguistics with a specialisation
in phonetics and/or phonology
- Experience of university-level teaching and good knowledge of
French is required
- Skills in using current tools for speech processing are desirable.
Duties:
It is a 25% part-time position, corresponding to two hours a week of
class in phonetics and phonology and one or two hours a week of
practical sessions.
Terms of employment:
Three-year contract, renewable.
Salary:
Level 23/00 à 23/22 (CHF 120.894.- à CHF 163'452.- a year, for a
full time).
Starting date:
1 September 2012.
Application procedure:
Candidates are asked to send a cover letter, two copies of their CV,
two copies of their list of publications, and a copy of their university
diplomas by the 31st of May 2012.
The application is to be sent to the application email address eva.capitao
at unige.ch or to Eva Capitao, Madame Université de Genève - Faculté des
lettres Secrétariat du département de linguistique Faculté des lettres, rue
de Candolle 5 CH-1211 Genève 4 Switzerland
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Teach yourself Palatography!
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Dear All,
YouTube now hosts videos about palatography, a technique in
experimental phonetics. The lessons teach practical aspects of how to
do palatograms and linguograms and a couple of things around that.
As you can see in the videos, palatography can be a bit messy but it's
a lot of fun too!
There are six videos covering different aspects of doing palatography:
1: Equipment
http://youtu.be/wCDuh6dfw6g
2: Mixing the paint
http://youtu.be/2XEJVs6XbYA
3. Choosing and remembering test words
http://youtu.be/kC1x63lgulM
4. Hygiene
http://youtu.be/llP36cePiMM
5. Doing linguograms
http://youtu.be/CqN-mh02o5U
6. Doing palatograms
http://youtu.be/8Sh5hFnIuS4
The videos were made by Sophie Salffner and Maria Tzika together
with students from the 2011/2012 Phonetics Course at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London. We hope you'll
enjoy them!
All the best,
Sophie Salffner
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