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foNETiks
A newsletter for
The International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
March 2014
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Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK.
Gerry Docherty, Griffith University, Australia.
Lisa Lim, The University of Hong Kong.
Rachel Smith, University of Glasgow, UK.
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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28 March 2014. 4th Speech, Language, Hearing, Communication Sciences Student Research Day. CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, NY, USA.
3-4 April 2014. Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014). UCL, London, UK. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014 (11/13)
4-6 April 2014. Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA). Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. http://pantheon.yale.edu/~rtb27/ssmca.html (10/13)
5 April 2014. GLOW Phonology Workshop: Phonological Specification and Interface Interpretation. Brussels, Belgium. http://www.glow37.org/phonology (07/13)
7-8 April 2014. International Conference on Empirical Methods in Linguistics EMLS 2014, Łódź, Poland. http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/emls (12/13)
8-11 April 2014. International Workshop on Multilinguality in Speech Research: Data, Methods and Models. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Saarland, Germany. http://www.dagstuhl.de/14153,http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/dagstuhl-14 (09/13)
14 April 2014. Workshop on Evolution of Signals, Speech and Signs, Vienna, Austria. http://ai.vub.ac.be/news/workshop-evolution-signals-speech-and-signs (09/13)
4 May 2014. Workshop on Interpersonal Coordination and Phonetic Convergence (Satellite workshop of 10th ISSP2014). Cologne, Germany. http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/?page_id=166 (10/13)
5-8 May 2014. 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2014). Cologne, Germany. http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/ (04/13)
## 8-10 May 2014. Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure (ETI3). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/events/upcoming-events/eti3
## 9-10 May 2014. North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC8). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc8/ (03/14)
13-16 May 2014. 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL2014). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://www.tal2014.org (07/13)
## 14-16 May 2014. The 4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU 2014). St Petersburg, Russia. http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014/ (03/14)
16-17 May 2014. 4th Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians (BIMEP 2014). Belgrade, Serbia. bimep.conference {at} gmail.com (10/13)
20-23 May 2014. Speech Prosody. Dublin, Ireland. http://www.speechprosody2014.org/ (09/13)
## 21-23 May 2014. From Sound to Gesture (S2G). Padova, Italy. http://www.maldura.unipd.it/LCL/S2G/ (03/14)
20-23 May 2014. Prosody of Slavic Languages (Special Session at Speech Prosody 2014). Dublin, Ireland. http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_proslav.html (02/14)
## 26-27 May 2014. 10th Annual Conference on the Phonology of Contemporary English (PAC10). Montpellier, France. (03/14)
28-31 May 2014. Sound Change in Interacting Human Systems - 3rd Biennial Workshop on Sound Change. University of California, Berkeley, USA. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/SCIHS/ (09/13)
2-3 June 2014. International Symposium on Prosody to Commemorate Gösta Bruce. Lund, Sweden. http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/bruce-2014/ (12/13)
5 June 2014. Speech Acquisition Workshop. Olomouc, Czech Republic. http://olinco.upol.cz/#work1 (11/13)
11-13 June 2014. 15th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.icpla2014.se (09/13)
## 16-19 June 2014. Odyssey 2014: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Joensuu, Finland. http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/ (03/14)
30 June – 2 July 2014. 12th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (RFP2014). Lille, France. RFP2014.Lille {at} gmail.com (11/13)
1 July 2014. Historical Phonology. Thematic Session of the 12th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (RFP2014). Lille, France. RFP2014.Lille {at} gmail.com (11/13)
## 3-5 July 2014. 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology (ICPM). Guangju, South Korea. http://www.phonology.or.kr (03/14)
25-27 July 2014. 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14). Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/labphon14/ (07/13)
## 11-15 August 2014. Instrumental Articulatory Phonetics and Dialectological Fieldwork: Strange Bedfellows? (Workshop session of Methods in Dialectology XV). Groningen, The Netherlands. etske.ooijevaar {AT} meertens.knaw.nl (03/14)
15-17 August 2014. Leiden Conference on Word Stress / Word Accent. Leiden, Netherlands. (02/14)
3-5 September 2014. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP-7), Aix-en-Provence, France. http://larp7.sciencesconf.org (01/14)
5-6 September 2014. Sixth Annual Conference: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT). Santa Barbara, California, USA. http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/PSLLT2014 (11/13)
## 8-12 September 2014. 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD). Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2014
10-11 September 2014. 3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linguistique/actualites/swip2014_en.html (09/13)
10-12 September 2014. 6th Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE6). Utrecht, Netherlands. http://www.tie2014.com (02/14)
## 11-12 September 2014. Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM 2014). (Satellite event of the 15th Annual Conference Interspeech, Singapore.) Penang, Malaysia. http://language.cs.usm.my/SLAM2014/ (03/14)
11-14 September 2014. The Perception of Non-Native Varieties: Methods and Findings in Perceptual Dialectology. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Acquisition of Third Language Phonology. Poznań, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Phonetic Reduction and Reduction Processes. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
11-14 September 2014. Non-Automatic Alternations in Phonology. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. http://sle2014.eu/ (11/13)
## 12-14 September 2014. The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Singapore. http://www.iscslp2014.org (03/14)
14-18 September 2014. 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2014): Celebrating diversity of languages. Singapore. http://www.interspeech2014.org/ (11/13)
18-20 September 2014. (Phonetic) Building Blocks of Speech (PBBS). Victoria, BC, Canada. http://web.uvic.ca/ling/pbbs/ (09/13)
25-27 September 2014. 22nd Czech German Workshop on Speech Communication. Prague, Czech Republic. http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/workshop2014/ (12/13)
6-8 October 2014. 11th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR-2014). São Carlos, Brazil. http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/ (11/13)
## 17-19 October 2014. 2014 International Conference on Phonetic Research and Language Learning & English Phonetic Conference in China. Changsha, Hunan, China. http://www.icprll2014.org/ (03/14)
## 12-14 November 2014. The Sound of Indo-European 3 (SIE3). Opava, Czech Republic. http://sounds-of-indo-european.webnode.cz/ (03/14)
21-23 May 2015. EPIP4 - 4th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. Prague, Czech Republic, http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/epip4/ (12/13)
10-14 August 2015. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.icphs2015.info/ (02/14)
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CONFERENCES
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Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure (ETI3)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 8-10 May 2014
http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/events/upcoming-events/eti3
Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3 will take place at McGill University from May 8-10, 2014. This workshop will be the last of three workshops organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group (McSIRG) as part of a multi-year grant to study linguistic interfaces. Following ETI 1 (Word structure) and ETI 2 (Implicatures, alternatives and the semantics/pragmatics interface), the topic of ETI 3 will be 'Prosody and Constituent Structure'.
In particular, ETI 3 will deal with issues surrounding prosodic and phonological evidence for syntactic constituent structure, with a focus on verb-initial languages.
Goals of the Workshop:
- To bring together researchers working on issues at the syntax-phonology interface (e.g. syntactic constituency, prosodic effects on word order) from the perspectives of syntax, prosody, and phonology/phonetics
- To bring together researchers working on a variety of different languages, with an emphasis on languages with default verb-initial word order
- To encourage communication and discussion about methodologies that can be used for the empirical study of prosody and the syntax-phonology interface
Invited Speakers:
Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)
Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)
Lauren Eby Clemens (Harvard)
Emily Elfner (McGill)
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)
Norvin Richards (MIT)
Joey Sabbagh (UT Arlington)
Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Methods Tutorials:
In addition to the regular session, we will have two tutorials on local technological tools for fieldwork, with special reference to fieldwork on prosody:
- Tutorial 1: Automatic Acoustic Alignment in Underdocumented Languages
- Tutorial 2: LingSync: An Online Tool for Field Work
This conference is supported through an FQRSC team grant on Linguistic Interfaces and funding from a SSHRC Grant on Prosody and Constituent Structure.
Organizing Team:
Emily Elfner, Jessica Coon, Lisa Travis, Michael Wagner
Student Organizers:
Michael Hamilton, Henrison Hsieh, Yuliya Manyakina
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North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC8)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9-10 May 2014
http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc8/
The North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC) is a biennial event hosted at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec since 2000. The conference is devoted to phonology as a module of Generative Grammar.
Invited Speakers for NAPhC8:
Peter Avery, York University
Heather Newell, UQAM
Marc van Oostendorp, University of Leiden
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University
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From Sound to Gesture (S2G): Communication as speech, prosody, gestures and signs
Padova, Italy, 21-23 May 2014
http://www.maldura.unipd.it/LCL/S2G/
Understanding how human communication works requires investigating the complex relations between abstract representations of both sounds and gestures and their concrete realizations. The study of both spoken and signed language can provide a key to understanding the fascinating connections between human sounds, gestures and language.
The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars interested in the relationships between different modalities (acoustic, visual) and between different levels within the same modality (e.g., phonology-phonetics, verbal-nonverbal, prosodic-segmental, etc.).
Invited Speakers:
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Marianne Gullberg (University of Lund)
Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
Contact person: Antonio Baroni ([log in to unmask])
Conference website: http://www.maldura.unipd.it/LCL/S2G/.
Organizing Committee:
Maria Grazia Busà
Antonio Baroni
Laura Vanelli
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The 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology (2014)
Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, 3-5 July 2014
http://www.phonology.or.kr
Call deadline (extended): 20 April 2014
We are pleased to announce that the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea will host the 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology on July 3~5, 2014 at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, with plenary speakers:
Beth Hume (University of Canterbury)
Robert Daland (UCLA)
Registration Fee:
The conference fee is 30,000 won or 30 dollars for early registration (40,000 won or 40 dollars after June 1, 2014). The fee for students is 10,000 won or 10 dollars for early registration (20,000 won or 20 dollars after June 1, 2014). To be qualified for early registration, please send us an email at [log in to unmask] by May 31 and indicate your intention to participate in the conference.
Accommodation:
For conference participants, a limited number of rooms at Chonnam National University's Guesthouse will be available for a reasonable price (about 30 dollars per night for a guest room for one or two people; about 20 dollars for a dormitory room with two single beds for up to two people). For more information about the guesthouse and bookings, please contact Mira Oh at [log in to unmask]
Further Information:
Further information about the conference will be available on http://www.phonology.or.kr. Participants are asked to check this website regarding possible alternations and changes. Additional questions concerning the conference in general can be sent to Sung-Hoon Hong at [log in to unmask]
Call for papers:
Abstracts are invited in all areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology and interfaces between any grammatical components that address issues in phonetics and phonology. The official language is English. Presenters can choose between oral and poster presentations. Oral presentations will last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion and questions. An allotment of time will be set aside for poster presentations and discussion. The abstract text should be single-spaced, at least 11-point font, on one page (A4) with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margin on all sides. An additional page for data, figures, and references may be included. Authors' names should not appear on abstracts, but the abstract should include a title.
Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs on LinguistList.org: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/pmck2014 as a .pdf or .doc file by April 20, 2014. Notification of acceptance will be made by May 1, 2014.
If accepted, either a 4-page long full paper or a handout should be submitted by June 10, 2014, which will be published in the program handbook.
Important Dates:
Abstract deadline: April 20, 2014
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2014
Early registration closes: May 31, 2014
Conference dates: July 3~5, 2014
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Instrumental Articulatory Phonetics and Dialectological Fieldwork: Strange Bedfellows?
Workshop session of Methods in Dialectology XV
Groningen, The Netherlands, 11-15 August 2014
Traditionally, articulatory phonetics was limited to a laboratory setting. As of recently, however, the collection of articulatory data is also possible in the field, thanks to Ultrasound Tongue Imaging, which is non-invasive, portable, and inexpensive compared to most other instrumental articulatory techniques. Studies using ultrasound have already shown that this method provides new insights concerning sociolinguistic and dialectal variation. In addition, the combination of acoustic and articulatory measurements can show a more complete picture of a sound change in progress.
However, several challenges arise when using ultrasound, such as obtaining valid data, synchronizing articulatory and audio data, extracting comparable measures, and developing methods for quantitative analysis. All these have been the topic of active research related to the use of ultrasound in different linguistic subfields.
This workshop will serve as a forum for scientific exchange on the advances in sociolinguistic fieldwork that are made possible by the use of ultrasound, as well as on the current limitations and development of methodological approaches. We invite abstracts for oral presentations of 30 minutes. Each presentation will be followed by a 15 minute discussion by a fellow researcher, and 15 minutes for plenary questions and discussion. Topics may include dialectal and sociophonetic studies using ultrasound, but may also be more general. For instance, we welcome abstracts which address methodological issues related to using ultrasound in dialectal and sociophonetic fieldwork.
However, there is also a clear need for conceptual and theoretical reflection. For example, how can ultrasound data shed light on phonological or sociolinguistic questions? What do covert articulations, in which the articulation of a sound is made, but has no acoustic effect, tell us about phonological representations?
The workshop that is proposed here will be part of the conference Methods in Dialectology XV. This conference will be held on 11-15 August 2014 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Organisers:
Ben Hermans
Frans Hinskens
Etske Ooijevaar
Marc van Oostendorp
Patrycja Strycharczuk
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Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM 2014)
(Satellite event of the 15th Annual Conference Interspeech, Singapore.)
Penang, Malaysia, 11-12 September 2014
http://language.cs.usm.my/SLAM2014/
Call deadline: 12 May 2014
Following the first successful edition of the Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) in Marseille, France last year, we will be bringing the next edition of the workshop to Penang, Malaysia! SLAM workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in speech, language and audio processing to analyze, index and access multimedia data. Multimedia data are now available in very large amounts: Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast, podcasts, social videos on the Web, etc. Such data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise specific challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality; Efficiency to handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across modalities; Potentially high error rates in transcription; etc. Worldwide, several national and international research projects are focusing on audio analysis of multimedia data. Similarly, various benchmark initiatives have been initiated such as TRECVID MED, MediaEval, or ETAPE and REPERE in France.
SLAM 2014 is organized in conjunction with Interspeech 2014 over one and a half days, starting Thursday 11 September 2014 and ending Friday 12 September 2014. Penang is conveniently connected by bus, train and flight to Singapore, where the Interspeech 2014 conference will take place. The format of the workshop will include an invited talk, oral presentations of scientific work and a poster session for project and benchmark presentations. SLAM2014 Workshop is jointly organized by the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia and the IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing in Multimedia. The proceeding will be published by ISCA and available online at ISCAOnline Archive. Best papers selected will be able to extend their paper to be submitted to special issue in a dedicated journal that we will announce later.
The SLAM workshop intends to bring together players from the field to share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects, benchmarking initiatives and applications. We expect communications on research work, project description, evaluation initiative, demonstrations and applications dealing with speech and/or language and/or audio on any type of multimedia material. The list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to):
• Audio event detection and audio classificatication
• Speech and speaker recognition on multimedia material
• Audio-aware genre analysis and classification
• Multimodal speaker identification and clustering
• Multimedia spoken term detection and content retrieval
• Speech and audio aware content segmentation and structuring
• Audio indexing and fingerprinting
• Robust feature extraction and processing
• Natural language processing for multimedia
• Metadata extraction: Entity extraction, keyword extraction, etc.
• Summarization and hyperlink generation
• Multimodal fusion and integration involving audio
• Generation of descriptive text for multimedia
• Speech and audio multimedia applications and services
• Databases and benchmarks
• Large scale speech and audio analysis
• Navigation in multimedia audio content applied to any media such as:
o Professional broadcasts – TV, radio, podcasts, newsfeeds, synopsis, etc.
o Social media – YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Voice Social Network, etc.
o Audiovisual archives – Lectures and conferences, meetings, etc.
o Music – Music catalogs, music collections, etc
Publication and Post Publication
Prospective authors should submit a manuscript following instructions on the web site. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Proceedings will be published online in ISCA open access and a special issue in a dedicated journal is targeted.
Paper Preparation
SLAM 2013 papers must follow the following paper format: 5 pages of text plus one page (maximum) for references only. This will facilitate the sometimes difficult arbitration between work description and citation coverage. Any paper with text on the 6th page other than references will be rejected.
The working language of the workshop is English.
We are using the same formatting as the SLAM 2013. Feel free to use the existing paper kit if you have one.
Or Download the Paper Kit on the website.
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The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP)
Singapore, 12-14 September 2014
http://www.iscslp2014.org
Call deadline: 10 April 2014
The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2014) will be held on September 12-14, 2014 in Singapore. ISCSLP 2014 is a joint conference between ISCA Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing and National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication of China. ISCSLP is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing.
While the ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to the following:
1. Speech Production and Perception
2. Speech Analysis
3. Speech Coding
4. Speech Enhancement
5. Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implant
6. Phonetics and Phonology
7. Corpus-based Linguistics
8. Speech and Language Disorders
9. Speech Recognition
10. Spoken Language Translation
11. Speaker, Language, and Emotion Recognition
12. Speech Synthesis
13. Language Modeling
14. Speech Prosody
15. Spoken Dialog Systems
16. Machine Learning Techniques in Speech and Language Processing
17. Voice Conversion
18. Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech Signals
19. Multi-Modal Interfaces
20. Speech and Language Processing in Education
21. Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation
22. Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology
23. Others
While the Chinese language is emphasized, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English. However, there is a special track to accept Chinese paper submissions.
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, five-page papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically and details can be found in the conference website http://www.iscslp2014.org. The ISCSLP-2014 also invites proposals of special sessions and welcomes exhibitions of products and demos of research prototypes within the areas relevant to the conference. Please refer to the conference website for details of their submission procedure.
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2014 International Conference on Phonetic Research and Language Learning & English Phonetic Conference in China
Changsha, Hunan, China, 17-19 October 2014
http://www.icprll2014.org/
We are pleased to announce the International Conference on Phonetic Research and Language Learning (ICPRLL) & English Phonetic Conference in China (EPCC) will be held during October 17-19, 2014 at Hunan University, Changsha, China. ICPRLL_EPCC2014 will provide an excellent international forum for researchers to report and discuss the latest progress in phonetic research and language learning.
Organizer:
English Department, College of Foreign Languages, Hunan University
We warmly welcome papers in English or Chinese reporting empirically-based studies and invite all interested colleagues and graduate students to take part in this conference. We invite papers on original research related to phonetics, L1 development and L2 development:
- Speech perception
- Speech production
- Speech acquisition
- Prosody acquisition
- Speech acoustics
- Lexical acquisition
- Syntactic acquisition
- Semantic acquisition
- Pragmatic acquisition
- Language processing
- Language teaching
- Language assessment
Any individual can be a first author of one paper and a co-author of another paper submitted for consideration.
The papers may be in English or Chinese following the format requirements as stated in the Word file template, Paper Template (English) or Paper Template (Chinese). Please visit the conference website (http://www.icprll2014.org/CallForPapers.jsp) to download these templates.
The length of the papers is four A4 pages.
Papers will be reviewed in a double-blind manner by two or more reviewers.
Papers must be submitted via [log in to unmask] in Microsoft Word .DOC or .DOCX format on or before submission deadline. Faxed papers will not be considered.
Only the first author or co-author can register for the accepted papers and present the papers at the conference. An individual can register for more than one paper.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: August 21, 2014
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2014
Submission of final version: September 21, 2014
Online registration deadline: September 22, 2014
On-site registration deadline: October 18, 2014
Conference dates: October 17-19, 2014
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The Sound of Indo-European 3 (SIE3)
Opava, Czech Republic, 12-14 November 2014
http://sounds-of-indo-european.webnode.cz/
Call deadline: 30 August 2014
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts must be at most two pages long and should be sent by e-mail as .doc or PDF attachments to: [log in to unmask]
Institute of Czech language and Library Science, Silesian University in Opava
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University in Brno
The Sound of Indo-European 3 will take place again in Opava, Czech Republic, from 12-14 November 2014. The conference follows in the line of the previous successful conference which has been held in Copenhagen and in Opava.
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.
Invited Speakers:
Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) - University of Copenhagen
Alwin Kloekhorst - Leiden University
Götz Keydana - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Conference Fee:
100 Euro. The participants will pay the fee in cash at the registration desk.
Organizing Committee:
Roman Sukač (Silesian University in Opava)
Ondřej Šefčík (Masaryk University in Brno)
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts must be at most two pages long and should be sent by e-mail as .doc or PDF attachments to: [log in to unmask]
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POSITIONS VACANT
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Postdoctoral position in Phonetics
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Language Study Unit
http://www.unibz.it/labphon
Application deadline: 17 March 2014
The ALPs (Alpine Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology) at the Language Study Unit of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano offers a full-time post-doctoral position for a maximum of two years.
Post-doctoral fellows conduct experimental phonetics and sociophonetics research in close collaboration with researchers at the Language Study Unit. Duties include articulatory (ultrasound tongue imaging) data collection and analysis, publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, participating in seminars and conferences, and collaborating on research grant applications.
Successful applicants have a doctoral degree in phonetics, linguistics, cognitive sciences or a related field. Candidates must also have a background in experimental research in speech sciences, knowledge of the phonetics and phonology of German and/or Italian, and a record of individual initiative in research. Preference will be given to applicants whose research interests best align with those of researchers at the ALPs.
Application URL: http://www.unibz.it/en/organisation/vacancies/research/assegnidiricerca/default.html?TargetId=1_2014&call=1956
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Lecturer in Phonology
Harvard University, Dept. of Linguistics
http://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu
Application deadline: 30 April 2014
The Department of Linguistics seeks applications for a full-time lecturer in phonology. The appointment is expected to begin on 7/1/2014. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching phonology at any level (undergraduate, beginning graduate, and advanced graduate). The position is for one-year.
Basic Qualifications: Doctorate in Linguistics or related discipline ordinarily required by the time the appointment begins.
Additional Qualifications: Demonstrated excellence in teaching is desired.
Special Instructions: Please submit the following materials through the application website below no later than April 30, 2014:
Required Documents
1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Cover Letter
3. Statement of Teaching Philosophy
4. Statement of Research
5. Publication
6. Course Evaluations
7. Names and contact information of two references (two letters of recommendation are required, and the application is only complete when both letters have been submitted)
Harvard is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
Application URL: http://academicpositions.harvard.edu
Contact Information:
Cheryl Murphy
Department Administrator
Harvard University, Boylston Hall
Rm. 305
Harvard Yard
Cambridge MA 2138
Email: clmurphy {AT} fas.harvard.edu
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Postdoctoral research associate in Linguistics (Phonetics)
University of Toronto Scarborough, Centre for French and Linguistics
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/cfl/welcome-centre-french-linguistics
Application deadline: Open until filled
The Centre for French and Linguistics at the University of Toronto Scarborough invites applications for a full-time post-doctoral research associate to participate in SSHRC (The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)-funded research projects: “A corpus-based study of Korean dialects: microvariation and language universals” and “Bilingualism, perceptual drift, and regularization of loanwords”. The successful candidate should have a PhD in linguistics or a closely related discipline and a strong background in acoustic phonetics, experimental designs and data analyses (acoustic production, cross-language speech perception), and programming (Praat, R, Python). Research experience in Korean phonology and phonetics is highly desirable but not required.
The initial term of the appointment will be for one year with a possibility of renewal for another year. The successful candidate will also participate in the tri-campus graduate department of linguistics at the University of Toronto.
Applications including a cover letter indicating the expected date of availability and the names and contact information of three references, a CV, two sample publications, and a one-page summary of research interests and accomplishments should be sent to Professor Yoonjung Kang at the application email address below. Reference letters will only be requested from shortlisted candidates. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. International applicants with strong English skills are encouraged to apply.
Application email:
yoonjung.kang {AT} utoronto.ca
Contact information:
Yoonjung Kang yoonjung.kang {AT} utoronto.ca
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Lecturer in General Linguistics, Phonoology
University of Washington, Department of Linguistics
http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb/
Search number: 1314-30
Application deadline: Open until filled
A 100% FTE appointment is intended in the area of general linguistics, with specialization in phonology, beginning in the Autumn 2014 term. Applicants should have the Ph.D. degree by the start of appointment and will be expected to participate in large lower division undergraduate teaching, upper division teaching and online instruction. Candidates should have eight years of experience teaching large lecture linguistics courses and show evidence of excellence in teaching undergraduates; they should demonstrate knowledge of online instruction and hybrid courses and familiarity with electronic instructional support systems comparable to those at UW (e.g. Catalyst, Canvas, Moodle). Candidates should display ability to plan curriculum and assessment and expertise in TA coordination. The position is not eligible for tenure. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.
Applications, including a curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, sample of teaching materials, and three letters of recommendation, should be sent to the application address below.
Priority will be given to applications received before February 28, 2014. The University of Washington is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from women, minority candidates, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Please contact the department if you need a disability accommodation, further information regarding the status of the position or how to apply at the contact email address below.
Application address:
Professor Richard Wright
University of Washington
Department of Linguistics
Box 352425
Seattle WA 98195
USA
Phone: 206-543-2046 Fax: 206-685-7978
Email: phoneme {AT} uw.edu
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PhD positions in Linguistics
Umeå University, Sweden
http://www.sprak.umu.se/english/education/doctoral-studies/phd-2014
Application deadline: 31 March 2014
The Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden invites applications for the doctoral training programs in Educational Work, English Literature, Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics (English, General, Russian, Scandinavian), and Sami Studies. All positions are linked to employment in the department. Click on this link for more info<http://www.sprak.umu.se/english/education/doctoral-studies/phd-2014>.
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The deadline for material for the next foNETiks newsletter is 28 March 2014.
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Dr Lisa Lim
Coordinator, Language and Communication Programme, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
http://www.english.hku.hk/staff/lisalim.htm, http://hku-hk.academia.edu/LisaLim
http://www.english.hku.hk/3yrlangcom.htm, http://www.english.hku.hk/4yrlangcom.htm
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