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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
January 2013
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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.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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16-18 January 2013. Variation and Language Processing 2 (VALP2), New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) and the Linguistics Department at the University of Canterbury New Zealand. http://www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/VALP.shtml (10/12)
16-18 January 2013. Conference on the Feature in Phonology. New York, USA. http://cunyphonologyforum.net/featconf.php (08/12)
16-19 January 2013. 10th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP10). Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.ocp10.boun.edu.tr/ ; ocp10 {AT} boun.edu.tr (08/12)
22-25 January 2013. La Percepción Unimodal y Multimodal del Habla, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC, Madrid, Spain. http://www.sel.edu.es/?q=node/153 (10/12)
25-27 January 2013. International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology 2013 (ICPP2013). Tokyo, Japan. http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/phonology/InternationalConference/icpp_2013/home/ (08/12)
21-22 February 2013. 2nd Workshop on Tone and Intonation (WTI2). Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. https://sites.google.com/site/wti2eflu/ (12/12)
28 February - March 1 2013. CROSSLING symposium: Language contacts at the crossroads of disciplines, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu. https://wiki.uef.fi/display/CROSSLING/CROSSLING+Symposium+2013 (10/12)
12-15 March 2013. Prosody and Information Status in Typological Perspective. Workshop at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS). Potsdam, Germany. (06/12)
18-22 March 2013. Speech in Action. Copenhagen, Denmark. https://sf.cbs.dk/cphspeech2013 (08/12)
17-18 April 2013. Workshop on Sound Change Actuation. Chicago, USA. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phonlab/sound-change-actuation/ (09/12) (10/12)
4 May 2013. 4th Theoretical Phonology Conference (TPC 4). Taipei, Taiwan. http://phonology.nccu.edu.tw/tpc4/ (04/12)
8-10 May 2013. 3rd International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP3). Murcia, Spain. https://sites.google.com/site/epip32013/ (06/12)
17-19 May 2013. New Sounds 2013. Montreal, QC, Canada. http://doe.concordia.ca/newsounds2013/ (12/12)
23-25 May 2013. 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting (21mfm). Manchester, UK. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/21mfm.html (12/12)
## 30 May - 1 June 2013. Spoken English Corpora: From Annotation to Interphonologies (PAC 2013), Aix en Provence, France. (1/13) [final details below]
10-12 June 2013. International Child Phonology Conference 2013 (ICPC2013). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://www.childphonology.org/ (12/12)
25-26 June 2013. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 2013. Lisbon, Portugal. http://ww3.fl.ul.pt//laboratoriofonetica/papi2013/ (12/12)
1-3 July 2013. French Phonology Network Meeting (RFP 2013). Nantes, France. http://www.lling.univ-nantes.fr (12/12)
7-10 July 2013. Phonetics and Phonology of Sub-Saharan Languages. Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.wits.ac.za/conferences/phonetics (12/12)
22-27 July 2013. Word Stress: Dialectal Variation and Perception. Workshop of the International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.cil19.org/en/workshops/word-stress-dialectal-variation-and-perception/ (08/12)
## 8 - 10 August 2013. PTLC - Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL London. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/ptlc
(1/13) [further details below]
21-23 August 2013. Phonetics, Phonology and Language Contact (PPLC13). Paris, France. https://sites.google.com/site/ppcpinterspeech2013/home (12/12)
25-29 August 2013. 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013). Lyon, France. http://www.interspeech2013.org (12/12)
11-13 September 2013. Prosody-Discourse Interface (IDP2013). Leuven, Belgium. http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/franitalco/idp2013 (12/12/)
30 September – 4 October 2013. 4th Summer School on Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behaviour. Aix-en-Provence, France. http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/ (12/12)
## 29 - 31 October 2013 ‘R-ATICS 4, Grenoble (Autrans). (1/13) [further details below]
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CONFERENCES
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‘R-ATICS 4
Grenoble (Autrans), 29-31 October 2013
The SLD research team (Systèmes Liguistiques et Dialectologie) and the DPC (Département Parole et Cognition) of GIPSA-Lab (Grenoble) are pleased to announce that ’R-atics 4 will be held in Grenoble (Autrans), on the 29-31 October 2013. ‘R-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds and has been previously organised in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Bruxelles (Belgium) and Bozen (Italy). This is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of rhotics. For the 2013 edition, we introduce a special session on the theme rhotics in dialectological atlases, co-ordinated by Hans van de Velde (Universiteit Utrecht) and Michele Contini (Université Stendhal Grenoble 3). Yohan Payan from Timsey-Lab (Grenoble) will present a tutorial on possible biomechanical reasons for the variability of r sounds.
Invited speakers:
• Prof. Leda Bisol, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil)
• Dr. Chiara Celata, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pise (Italy).
• Prof. Fang Hu, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China).
• Prof. Ian Maddieson, University of New Mexico and University of California, Berkley (USA).
Organisers:
• Didier Demolin : GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble (France)
• Paolo Mairano : Università di Torino (Italy) / GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble (France)
• Rita Demasi : GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble (France)
Important dates:
• Deadline for abstract submission: 10th of June 2013.
• Notification of acceptance: 10th of July 2013.
• Early-bird registration: 30th of September 2013.
• Dates of the congress: 29-31 of October 2013.
The goal of the ‘R-atics symposium is to gather international experts working on phonetic and phonological issues of rhotics in the languages of the world. There will be a special session on « rhotics in dialectological atlases ». We invite contributions dealing with this particular issue, as well as all other issues concerning r sounds, such as (but not exclusive to) :
• the diversity of r realisations
• the socio-phonetic aspects of r realisations
• the production of rhotics in a language or in a language family
• the perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family
• the description of rhotics in the world’s languages
• the phonological status of r sounds
• issues in the acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2
• aspects of corrective phonetics in the pronunciation of r sounds
• r sounds in clinical phonetics
Abstracts should include 500-1000 words (excluding bibliographic references). They should be sent in RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT or PDF format to [log in to unmask] before the 10th June 2013. Authors should indicate their name, affiliation and specify the preferred type of presentation (oral, poster, indifferent).
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English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP 3)
8-10 May 2013
Murcia, Spain
https://sites.google.com/site/epip32013/
This will be the 3rd International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices, following those in Chambéry, France (2009) and Grahamstown, South Africa (2011).
The conference aims to bring together researchers and teachers of English, phonetics, phonology and EFL/ESL/EA interested in the issues surrounding English pronunciation, both native and non-native.
2nd Call for Papers:
The submission deadline has been extended to Monday 14 January 2013.
The 3rd International Conference on English Pronunciation (EPIP3) invites proposals on any aspect of research on English pronunciation. EPIP3 welcomes proposals on a wide variety of issues, including (but not limited to) the following:
- Norms & reference accents
- Variability in native & non-native accents of English
- Methodology of accent studies, pedagogical implications
- Implications of phonological change
- Sociolinguistic aspects and issues of identity
- Analyses of national or regional language policy
Proposals regarding original, previously unpublished research are invited in two formats: individual papers or posters. Each paper presentation will be scheduled for 20 minutes.
Each person may submit no more than one abstract as the first author. The first author will have to register for the conference in order to be assured a place on the programme.
Instructions for Submissions:
(a) Abstracts should be written in English.
(b) Authors should specify a format (paper or poster) at the time the proposal is submitted.
(c) Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding references).
(d) Authors should email 2 copies, one in .doc format, including their name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es) under the title, and the other in PDF format (for anonymous review), identified by title only.
(e) Abstracts should be sent to the following address: epip2013gmail.com.
Abstracts for paper/poster presentations will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
A selection of papers will be published after the conference.
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Spoken English Corpora: From Annotation to Interphonologies (PAC 2013)
30 May- 1 Jun 2013
Aix en Provence, France
We are pleased to announce that the PAC annual conference ‘Spoken English Corpora: From Annotation to Interphonologies’ is due to take place from Thursday May 30 to Saturday June 1, 2013 and will be hosted by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/) and Aix-Marseille University at Aix-en-Provence.
The PAC Project (http://www.projet-pac.net), ‘La Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain : Usages, Variétés et Structure; The Phonology of Contemporary English: Usage, Varieties and Structure’ is coordinated by Anne Przewozny, Philip Carr and Jacques Durand. Among other things it aims at:
- giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic);
- testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation;
- favouring communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; and
- providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Call for Papers:
Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English.
For the 2013 conference, we would particularly welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets. One afternoon will be dedicated to a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi will present SPPAS, a tool to produce automatically phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its orthographic transcription (http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~bigi/sppas/index.php) and Sophie Herment will do a demo on Momel and Intsint for prosodic annotation.
We would also like to open perspectives on L2 research, with papers dealing with interphonologies and will organize a special session on this issue.
The deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is 1 February 2013. Please send your proposal in 2 files, one in .doc with name and affiliation, the other anonymous in .pdf to:
gabor.turcsanuniv-amu.fr & sophie.hermentuniv-amu.fr
Please indicate whether you would prefer i. oral, ii. poster or iii. any type of presentation. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid March.
Organisers:
Laurence Colombo, Stéphanie Desous, Sophie Herment, Valérie Kerfelec, Joëlle Lavaud, Claudia Pichon-Starke, Gabor Turcsan.
Scientific Committee:
Cyril Auran, Université de Lille 3, France
Nicolas Ballier, Université Paris 7 Diderot, France
Joan Beal, University of Sheffield, England
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester, England
Brigitte Bigi, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
Phil Carr, University of Montpellier III, France
Sylvain Detey, Waseda University, Japan
Jacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse II, France
Jean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, France
Martine Faraco, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
Ulrike Gut, Münster University, Germany
Silke Hamann, Düsseldorf University, Germany
Sophie Herment, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
Daniel Hirst, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Mariko Kondo, Waseda University, Japan
Noël Nguyen, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
Peter Prince, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
Anne Przewozny, Université Toulouse II, France
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Gabor Turcsan, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France
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2nd Call for Papers
Workshop on Sound Change Actuation
April 17-18, 2013
University of Chicago
One of the great mysteries of linguistics is the so-called actuation problem, that is, what causes the inception of language change, if the linguistic conditions favoring particular changes are always present? This problem of language change was first articulated by Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog in 1968 and is still largely unanswered to this day.
This workshop will focus on the role of the individuals in the actuation of sound change. Previous studies on sound change have mainly focused on group-normative effects, that is, effects that are representative of the population as a whole. Recent work has drawn on interspeaker variation as a solution to the actuation puzzle. Understanding the source(s) of the individual linguistic differences is seen as crucial for understanding sound change propagation, particularly for the purpose of identifying the characteristics of the linguistic innovators and early adopters of change.
The workshop will consist of four theme panels targeting the perceptual, articulatory, socio-indexical and computation aspects of the actuation problem in sound change. The invited speakers and discussants are:
Perceptual factors in sound change actuation: Cynthia Clopper (Ohio State); Pam Beddor (Michigan)
Articulatory factors in sound change actuation: Bryan Gick (British Columbia); Jeff Mielke (Ottawa/NCSU)
Socio-indexical factors in sound change actuation: Rob Podesva (Stanford); Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
Computational modeling of sound change actuation: Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern); Morgan Sonderegger (McGill)/James Kirby (Edinburgh)
The deadline for submitting abstracts is Jan 15.
See the website for further details.
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phonlab/sound-change-actuation/
This workshop is a satellite workshop of the annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. For more information about the CLS meeting, please visit
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/index.shtml
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Phonetics and Phonology of Sub-Saharan Languages
7- 10 Jul 2013
Johannesburg, South Africa
http://www.wits.ac.za/conferences/phonetics
The Linguistics Department of the University of the Witwatersrand is pleased to announce a conference to be held at the university from 7-10 July 2013 entitled ‘The Phonetics and Phonology of Sub-Saharan Languages’.
The conference is to be held in memory of Professor Tony Traill (1939-2007).
Invited speakers: Amanda Miller (Ohio State University), Ian Maddieson (University of California Berkeley / University of New Mexico), Tom Gueldemann (Humboldt University, Berlin)
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts for papers on Sub-Saharan Languages, especially Bantu and Khoisan. Relevant areas include all sub-areas of phonetics and phonology, including descriptive, theoretical, experimental, typological and historical studies as well as interface work such as morphology/phonology, and syntax/phonology.
(a) The abstract should be written in English, no more than one A4 or letter-size page in length.
(b) Email 2 copies of the abstract to Andrew.vanderspuywits.ac.za. One copy should be in MS Word format, and include the author’s name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es). The file name of this copy should include the words ‘name included’, e.g. Egressive_clicks_in_Khoisan_name_included.docx. The other should be in PDF format (for anonymous review), identified by title only. The file name of this copy should include the word ‘anonymous’, e.g.Egressive_clicks_in_Khoisan_anonymous.pdf.
(c) Special fonts (if any) should also be sent as an attachment to the same email address.
Due date for abstracts: 31 January 2013
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 March 2013
For further information, please see the conference website:
http://www.wits.ac.za/conferences/phonetics
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PTLC
Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference
A biennial international conference devoted to the teaching, learning and assessment of phonetics
PTLC2013 will take place at UCL 8-10 August, 2013
Paper submissions are now invited
The three-day conference will feature oral presentations of (peer-reviewed) papers, an invited keynote, and published proceedings (of full 4-page papers).
PTLC began in 1999, and has been hosted regularly at UCL since then. It provides a unique forum for research concerned with all aspects of the teaching, learning and assessment of phonetics, including (but not confined to):
general phonetics
phonetics for speech therapy and audiology
phonetics for the performing arts
phonetics for language teaching
forensic phonetics
the use of IT and distance learning in phonetics
PTLC will be followed by the annual UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics (SCEP), 12-23 August. Details here...
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/ptlc
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PhD STUDENTSHIP
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PhD Candidate for ERC project 'Foreign Casual Speech' (full time)
Faculty of Arts, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Vacancy number: 23.62.12
Closing date: 24 January 2013
Responsibilities
In spontaneous conversations, words often appear in reduced variants (e.g. 'probly' for 'probably' or 'mis' for 'mist'). Previous research has shown that these variants are problematic for advanced learners. The ERC project 'Foreign casual speech', led by Prof. Mirjam Ernestus, investigates how advanced learners of a foreign language process these reduced pronunciation variants, and how their processing can be improved.
As a PhD student you will investigate why these reduced variants are even difficult for advanced learners. Learners may not have experience with the subtle speech signal characteristics that cue these variants. This lack of experience may affect both learners' processing and their lexical representations. This hypothesis will be tested by means (of mostly behavioral) experiments with native speakers of Spanish processing gradient reduction of schwa and of word-final consonant clusters in English. In addition, you will investigate how advanced learners' comprehension of reduced words can be improved.
Your dissertation should consist of an introduction, at least three experimental chapters that have been submitted to high impact international journals, and a General Discussion.
Work environment
The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,700 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research.
Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two research institutes: the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HLCS) and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS).
You will work as a member of the Speech Comprehension PI Group of the Centre for Language Studies. This group currently consists of four senior researchers and eleven PhD students.
What we expect from you
- you have or shortly expect to obtain a Master's degree in a field related to speech processing, such as phonetics, linguistics, psychology, or cognitive neuroscience;
- you have an excellent command of written and spoken English;
- you have demonstrable knowledge of data analysis;
- you preferably have knowledge of the phonetics/phonology of English;
- you preferably have knowledge of the phonetics/phonology of Spanish.
What we have to offer
We offer you:
- employment: 1,0 fte;
- in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
- the starting salary will amount to €2,042 gross per month on a full-time basis; the salary will increase to €2,612 gross per month on a full-time basis in the fourth year (salary scale P);
- you will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2 years (on the basis of a 38-hour working week);
- you will be classified as a PhD student (promovendus) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO).
Other Information
Students who applied for this job at an earlier time are excluded from the procedure.
Would you like to know more?
Further information from Prof. dr. Mirjam Ernestus, leader of the ERC project
Telephone: +31 24 3612970
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Applications
Are you interested?
Please send us your letter of motivation, curriculum and transcripts of your university grades.
It is Radboud University Nijmegen's policy to only accept applications by e-mail. Please send your application, stating vacancy number 23.62.12, to [log in to unmask], for the attention of Mr. drs. M.J.M. van Nijnatten, before 24 January 2013.
For more information on the application procedure: +31 24 3612916
http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/RUN/vacancy/16696/lang/en/
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