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  foNETiks

  A newsletter for
  The International Phonetic Association
  and for the Phonetic Sciences

  January 2016

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** THE EDITORS WISH ALL READERS A PRODUCTIVE AND FULFILLING 2016! **

  Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK
  Lisa Lim, The University of Hong Kong
  Rachel Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
  Radek Úwiæciñski, University of Amsterdam

  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.internationalphoneticassociation.org


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  ANNOUNCEMENTS
  [new ones marked ##, normally with further information below]
  [date of first appearance follows]
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7-8 January 2016. Workshop on Tone and Intonation 3. Guwahati, Assam, India. http://www.iitg.ernet.in/wti3 (06/15)

9 January 2016. Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (SPIRE). Groningen, The Netherlands. http://spin2016.nl and http://inspire-itn.eu/index.php/inspire-events/workshop-spin2016 (09/15)

13 January 2016. Workshop on Variation in Phonology. Workshop of OCP13 (see item below). Budapest, Hungary. http://seas3.elte.hu/ocp13/variation.html (05/15)

13-16 January 2016. 13th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP13). Budapest, Hungary. http://seas3.elte.hu/ocp13 (05/15)

4 March 2016. Third Workshop on Sound Change. Salamanca, Spain. http://diarium.usal.es/fsmiret/3rd-workshop-on-sound-change-salamanca-march-4th-2016/ (03/15)

22-23 March 2016. Prosody and Information Structure in Stuttgart (PINS). Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS.html (09/15)

25-28 March 2016. 1st International Symposium on Applied Phonetics. Nagoya, Japan. https://goo.gl/Wd1Pnj (12/15)

## 30 March – 1 April 2016. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Lancaster, UK. http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/phonetics/baap2016/ (01/16)

## 31 March 2016. Learner Scoring and Automatic Assessment for Spoken Data? Pre-conference workshop of 18th Conference on Spoken English at Villetaneuse (ALOES2016) (see item below). Paris Diderot, France. http://pre-conf-aloes-2016.clillac-arp.univ-paris-diderot.fr (01/16)

31 March - 2 April 2016. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing (SVALP). Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.cpe.vt.edu/svalp/ (04/15)

1-2 April 2016. Sound to Word in Bilingual and Second Language Speech Perception. Iowa City, Iowa, USA. http://www.soundtoword16.org/ (09/15)

1-2 April 2016. 18th Conference on Spoken English at Villetaneuse (ALOES2016). Paris 13 University, France. pierre.fournier AT univ-paris13.fr

8 April 2016. Workshop on Syntactic and Phonological Representation of Speech Acts. Göttingen, Germany. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/glow-2016---39th-generative-linguistics-in-the-old-world/510338.html

15-17 April 2016. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP 2016). Columbus, Ohio, USA. http://u.osu.edu/caspslaposu2016/ (06/15)

12-13 May 2016. Contemporary Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methods, Aspects and Problems (CRiPaP 2016). Riga, Latvia. http://www.lulavi.lv/news/view/109 (01/16)

18-20 May 2016. 'r-atics 5, The Fifth International Workshop on Phonetic, Phonological, Acquisitional, Sociolinguistic and Dialect-Geographic Aspects of Rhotics. Leeuwarden / Ljouwert, The Netherlands. r-atics5 AT fryske-akademy.nl http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/r-atics5  (11/15)

24-27 May 2016. 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2016). Buffalo, NY, USA. https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/tal2016/ (09/15)

24-28 May 2016. International Colloquium Amazonicas VI: Phonology & Syntax. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Leticia. valenzuela AT chapman.edu (11/15)

25 May 2016. Manchester Phonology Meeting FRINGE Workshop. Manchester, UK. heinz AT udel.edu  (12/15)

## 26-28 May 2016. 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting (24mfm). Manchester, UK. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/24mfm.html  (01/16)

## 31 May – 3 June 2016. Speech Prosody 2016. Boston, MA, USA. http://www.speechprosody2016.org, speechprosody2016 AT gmail.com (09/15)
Special Sessions: Rising intonation in English and beyond; Sentence-final particles and intonation: Similarities, interactions, and historical relationships; Sources of prosodic variation across recording settings; Speaker comfort and communication in noisy environments. http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/ (11/15, 01/16)

10-12 June 2016. New Sounds 2016: 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Aarhus, Denmark. http://conferences.au.dk/newsounds2016/ (09/15)

## 13-15 June 2016. Spoken Communication 2016. Naples, Italy. http://www.sli-gscp.it/index.php/convegni/75-gscp-2016-call-for-papers (01/16)

15-18 June 2016.  International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference. Halifax, Canada.  http://icpla2016.ca (07/15)

13-16 July 2016.  15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. http://labphon.org/labphon15 (03/15)

18-23 July 2016. International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology Rome, Italy. http://www.CILFR2016Roma.it (07/15)

1-3 September 2016. 7th Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE2016). Canterbury, Kent. http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/tie-conference/ (10/15)

## 12-16 September 2016. TSD2016: Text, Speech and Dialogue. Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2016 (01/16)

21-24 September 2016. Experimental Approaches to the Perception and Production of Language Variation, Vienna. https://exapp2016.univie.ac.at/ (07/15).

## 29 September – 1 October 2016. 12th Conference on the Phonology of Contemporary English: ENGLISH MELODIES. Aix-en-Provence, France. sophie.herment AT univ-amu.fr (12/15, 01/16)

28-30 October 2016. Phonetics Today. Moscow, Russia. phoneticstoday AT yandex.ru (09/15)

## 3-5 May 2017. International Workshop on Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics. Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/institut/veranstaltungen/abstraction-diversity-dynamics/index.html (01/16)


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  CONFERENCES
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British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP)
Lancaster, UK, 30 March – 1 April 2016
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/phonetics/baap2016/

The BAAP Colloquium is a meeting of phoneticians with links to the UK. The 2016 colloquium will take place over three days at Lancaster University.

The BAAP Colloquium is open to members and invited participants, i.e. those phoneticians working in the British Isles, who know a member. Those who are not members and are interested in attending are encouraged to contact a member known to them or the President directly (Jane Stuart-Smith: Jane.Stuart-Smith AT glasgow.ac.uk). Postgraduate students in phonetics and speech science are particularly encouraged to attend the Colloquium.

Registration for BAAP 2016 is now open. The registration packages include lunch, and teas and coffees, and wine reception on 30th March. You can register for the conference as a student or standard registration, or one day registration is also available. Early registration is available until 28th February, after which registration prices will rise to £140 (standard) and £115 (student).

Accommodation is available on campus and includes breakfast. All rooms are en-suite and have wifi. We have reserved a limited number of rooms for the nights before and after the conference, so please book early if you would definitely like one of these. Parking on campus is free with accommodation. Please reserve your accommodation through the conference registration page as this will take you to the rooms we have allocated for BAAP. There are other accommodation options available in the city centre, but please note that the university is up to 30 minutes from the city centre by bus.

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 31st March in Barker House Farm (on campus). Included in the £25 price are three courses and wine.

Any questions, please contact the organisers, Claire Nance and Sam Kirkham: baap2016 AT gmail.com

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24th Manchester Phonology Meeting (24mfm)
Manchester, UK, 26-28 May 2016
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/24mfm.html

2nd Call for Papers
Abstract deadline: 15 February 2016

The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference, with an international set of organisers. It is held in late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK, and with excellent international transport connections). The meeting has become a key conference for phonologists from all over the world, where anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological in any phonological framework. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a broad range of topics, including the phonological description of languages, issues in phonological theory, aspects of phonological acquisition and implications of phonological change.

Organising Committee:
The first named is the convenor and main organiser, If you have any queries about the conference, feel free to get in touch (patrick.honeybone AT ed.ac.uk).
- Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
- Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
- Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)

Special session: 'Evidence in phonology', featuring (in alphabetical order):
- William Idsardi (University of Maryland)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
- Sharon Rose (University of California, San Diego)

Discussant:
- Adam Albright (MIT)

Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester, England. Organised through a collaboration of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and elsewhere.

NB: there will also be a FRINGE workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 May, timed to coincide with the mfm, entitled 'Computation and learnability in phonological theory' - details of this can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/24mfmfringe/

Abstract Submission:

This mentions only a few details - please consult the website for full information: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/24mfm.html

- There is no obligatory conference theme for the 24mfm - abstracts can be submitted on anything phonological.
- We are using the Linguist List's EasyAbstracts system for abstract submission. Abstracts should be uploaded to the 24mfm's page on the EasyAbstracts site by or on 15th February 2016: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/24mfm
- Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for questions, and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a half hours. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to indicate whether you would be prepared to present your work (i) either as a talk or a poster paper or (ii) only as a poster.
- We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by early-to-mid March, and we will contact all those who have sent abstracts as soon as the decisions have been made.
- Further important details concerning abstract submission are available on the conference website. Please make sure that you consult these before submitting an abstract: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/24mfm.html

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Contemporary Research in Phonetics and Phonology: Methods, Aspects and Problems (CRiPaP 2016)
Riga, Latvia, 12-13 May 2016
http://www.lulavi.lv/news/view/109

Call for Papers
Abstract deadline: 1 March 2016

Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia invites you to participate in the 3rd International Scientific Conference CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: METHODS, ASPECTS AND PROBLEMS held at the Latvian Language Institute on May 12-13, 2016.

Working language: English
Time for the presentation: 15 min + 5 min for discussion.

The registration form (can be downloaded at http://www.lulavi.lv/conferences) and abstract are to be submitted via e-mail by March 1, 2016 (for further details see the call http://www.lulavi.lv/media/upload/tiny/files/Call_for_papers_EN%20CRiPaP2016.pdf).

The scientific and organizing committee of the conference:
Dr. philol. Juris Grigorjevs, jugrig AT latnet.lv
Dr. philol. Inese Indrièâne, ineseindricane AT inbox.lv
Mg. hum. Jana Taperte, jana.taperte AT gmail.com

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Spoken Communication 2016
Naples, Italy, 13-15 June 2016
http://www.sli-gscp.it/index.php/convegni/75-gscp-2016-call-for-papers

Call for Papers
Abstract deadline: 15 February 2016

The next GSCP International Conference, ‘Spoken Communication 2016’, will be held in Naples from 13 to 15 June 2016 and it will be hosted by the University of Naples L’Orientale and by the University of Naples Federico II. For this conference, acceptable themes regarding spoken communication include the following areas:
- phonic dimension
- morpho-syntactic dimension
- lexical dimension
- cognitive dimension
- pragmatic and semantic dimension
- acquisitional dimension
- educational dimension
- anthropological and sociological dimension
- interactional dimension
- expressing emotions
- speech-language pathology
- ontogeny and phylogeny
- history of the studies on spoken communication
- tools and techniques

Scholars interested in presenting papers at the conference should send an abstract (approximately 600-1000 words) of the proposed contribution to congressogscp AT gmail.com. The email should contain the following information: title of the paper, name and email of the author(s), the preferred kind of presentation (oral presentation or poster), key words, thematic areas. Proposals will be anonymously submitted to the Scientific Committee, which will decide whether and in what form each contribution will be presented.

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12th Conference on the Phonology of Contemporary English: ENGLISH MELODIES
Aix-en-Provence, France, 29 September – 1 October 2016
http://www.projet-pac.net
sophie.herment AT univ-amu.fr

Call for papers
Abstract deadline: 29 February 2016

In the framework of the PAC program, an annual conference is organised, with the aim of gathering researchers interested in issues relating to the ‘Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure’, within and outside the PAC program. The PAC Program (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 a project coordinated by Anne Prezwozny, Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Sophie Herment. 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
- providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language

Several sessions will be organised, following the development of a variety of thematic research groups with dedicated interests within the PAC program:
- PAC-Research with a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi and Daniel Hirst will present the latest functions of SPPAS, a tool producing automatic phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its transcription, including Momel and Intsint which are now implemented.
- PAC-Prosody
- ICE-PAC (interphonologies of contemporary English)
- LVTI (Langue Ville Travail Identité), the study of English in urban contexts and its link with the concept of identity

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. A special emphasis will be given this year to English melodies, in the broadest sense, from intonation to segmental primes. We will welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets as well, in connection with the workshop.

The deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is February 29, 2016. Please send your proposal in 2 pdf files, one with name and affiliation, the other anonymous to both:
- gabor.turcsan AT univ-amu.fr
- sophie.herment AT univ-amu.fr

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March.

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TSD2016: Text, Speech and Dialogue
Brno, Czech Republic, 12-16 September 2016
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2016

Call for Papers
Abstract deadline: 15 March 2016
Full paper (for review) deadline: 22 March 2016

TSD2016 will address the following topics within the field of natural language processing:
- Corpora, texts and transcription
- Speech analysis, recognition and synthesis
- Their intertwining within NL dialogue systems

Topics of the TSD 2016 Conference will include (but are not limited to):
- Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
- Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
- Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
- Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
- Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
- Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
- Machine Translation (statistical, rule-based, example-based, hybrid, text and speech translation)
- Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
- Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)

Abstract length:
The authors should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text.

Abstract format:
The whole proceedings is typeset in TeX and LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. The authors are thus strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version may ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format (with extra fee, see below). For detailed instructions on the final paper format see the Springer Information for LNCS Authors (for LaTeX example of a paper you may download directly the Springer sample file typeinst.zip with the LaTeX class llncs2e.zip, or it can be found as typeinst.texat the Springer FTP server ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors.

Means of submission:
The final submission of your paper (maximum length is 8 pages, being it presented orally or as poster) comprises of three parts:
(i) a completed and signed copyright form
(ii) electronic files of your paper:
- text files (latex, tex) and .eps files for the figures or the .doc file
- the final DVI file (for papers prepared using LaTeX or TeX)
- the final PDF or PostScript file (not in reverse page order)
(iii) registration of at least one author per paper
Files are uploaded to the conference submission system.

Notice of acceptance: May 15, 2016

The official language of the event will be English, but papers on issues relating to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

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International Workshop on Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics
Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 3-5 May 2017
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/institut/veranstaltungen/abstraction-diversity-dynamics/index.html

Call for papers
Abstract deadline: 15 October 2016

Producing and perceiving speech involves the parallel transmission of numerous types of signs or categories, both linguistic (e.g. words and their constituent consonants and vowels) and indexical (social class, regional affiliation, gender etc.). The production of speech also involves a coordinated activity of some hundred muscles per second that is adapted to speaking and situational contexts. While it has long become clear that the linguistic and social as well as the cognitive and physical aspects of speaking are tightly intertwined, quite how these multiple layers of semiotic and signal aspects of speech are connected and how those connections may be manifested differently in the world's languages and cultures remains poorly understood. The aim of the conference is to advance the discussion on these issues by bringing together scientists from various disciplines engaged in research on areas such as memory and its relationship to abstraction, feedback and feedforward control systems, and modelling the association between discrete categories and continuous speech dynamics. It is only with a deeper understanding of the semiotic-signal association that breakthroughs can be achieved in understanding how the sounds of language are acquired, in how normal and disordered mechanisms of speech are related, and in the way that social and linguistic information interact and are transmitted in speech communication.

Invited speakers:
•       Jan Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Madison
•       Esther Janse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
•       James McQueen, Radboud University
•       Caroline Niziolek, Boston University

We invite submissions on any of the following topics:
•       Models of lexical access and the lexicon and their relationship to speech perception and production
•       The role of experience and social interaction for abstraction
•       First and second language acquisition, lifelong learning, multilingualism
•       Language dynamics over the lifespan of an individual as much as within a speaker community
•       The emergence of linguistic diversity and sound change from interactions between speakers and hearers
•       The link between perception and production and the role of feedback and feedforward mechanisms for stability and change in phonological systems, and their disruption in speech disorders
•       Techniques for quantifying and categorising large samples of dynamic speech data

Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2016


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  JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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Special Issue on "Investigating segmental, prosodic and fluency features in spoken learner corpora"

Call for papers
Submission deadline: 15 April 2016

Following an increasing awareness of phonetic learner corpora for phonetic and phonological research and for corpus linguistics, we invite paper submissions for a special issue of the "International Journal of Learner Corpus Research" entitled "Investigating segmental, prosodic and fluency features in spoken learner corpora".

With this issue we would like to promote research on speech of language learners in large-scale data settings. We would like to invite linguists, phoneticians, speech technologists, second/ foreign language researchers as well as scientists from all other fields who share an interest in spoken learner corpora, particularly those with non-scripted
L2 speech.

Papers on all topics related to spoken learner corpora are welcome, especially those focusing on the following topics:
- (Re-)examinations of theories and models of L2 phonology acquisition
- Segmental and prosodic characteristics of non-native speech
- Experimental research with data from phonetic learner corpora
- Contrastive phonetic studies of L1 and L2 speech based on corpus data
- Assessment and annotation of L2 speech
- Integration of learner corpora in computer-assisted spoken language training

In accordance with the guidelines of the journal, the length of full papers, i.e. original research papers reporting on completed learner corpus-based research, should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words including references.

Important dates
- First call for papers: December 2015
- Deadline for submission: 15 April 2016
- First review completed: 30 June 2016
- Revised manuscripts due: 15 August 2016:
- Second review completed: 30 November 2016
- Final submission of accepted papers: 15 February 2017

Guest editors:
- Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
- Frank Zimmerer (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
- Bernd Möbius (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
- M?ria Gósy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
- Anne Bonneau (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France)

Submission Guideline:
The guide for authors can be found on the journal homepage:
<https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijlcr/guidelines>. All manuscripts should be submitted through Benjamins’ Editorial Manager: <http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijlcr/default.aspx>.
When submitting their manuscript, authors should select 'Special issue: Phonetic Learner Corpora' under 'Select Section/Category' in the submission menu.


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  POSITIONS VACANT
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Assistant Professor, Sociophonetician or Sociophonologist
Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington
http://www.uta.edu/linguistics/

Application deadline: 19 January 2016 (consideration of applications begins, and continues until position is filled)

The Department of Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Sociophonetics or Sociophonology, to begin in Fall of 2016. Preference will be given to candidates with the ability to teach and supervise work in Phonetics, Phonology, and Sociolinguistics involving GIS in work on language variation and change. Candidates will have a doctorate in linguistics, with college-level teaching experience and evidence of success and continued promise in publishing in this area.

Applicants must have a strong publication record reflecting theoretically driven interests and a national reputation for high-quality research. The new assistant professor will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements, and to perform service duties as required by the Department and the University (e.g. dissertation supervision, college level committee work, and program advising). The successful candidate will have a research area that complements existing faculty expertise. We anticipate that this faculty member will contribute to training graduate and undergraduate students in core areas of phonetics and phonology. In addition, we are interested in candidates who will build connections via interdisciplinary projects in the Digital Arts and Humanities; in particular, we aim to hire a researcher doing work that involves acquiring and analyzing big data sets of phonetic and/or phonological data, bringing quantitative depth to the existing research areas in our department. Potential hires with a successful track record in external grants are of particular interest. Applications from members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.

We are a growing department with four graduate degree programs, including a doctorate in linguistics and an M.A. in TESOL, as well as a new BA in linguistics. The University of Texas at Arlington is aggressively pursuing Tier One status, seeking to increase doctoral production, undergraduate graduation and retention rates, and extramural funding. The University is highly diverse in its student demographics, and is a doctoral-granting, research-intensive public institution with 37,000 on-campus students in the dynamic Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, which has a wide variety of cultural, recreational, and entertainment offerings.

To apply go to the application website: http://www.uta.edu/uta/faculty-opportunities/index.php

Candidates must submit a cover letter for this position, describing teaching and research interests, a current curriculum vitae, two writing samples, and three letters of reference from those most familiar with the applicant’s work.

Consideration of applications will begin on January 19, 2016, and will continue until the position is filled. Please indicate in your cover letter if you will be presenting at the 2016 LSA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. A criminal background check will be conducted on finalists.

As an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer, it is the policy of The University of Texas at Arlington to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity for all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

Contact name and email: Joseph Sabbagh, sabbagh AT uta.edu

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Assistant Professor, Hispanic Linguistics (with expertise in Phonetics/ Phonology/ Sociolinguistics)
Department of Linguistics and Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
http://cola.siu.edu/languages/ and http://cola.siu.edu/linguistics/

Application deadline: 1 February 2016, or until filled

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics (tenure-track); joint appointment in the Department of Linguistics and in the Spanish program within the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade. Tenure home will be determined at time of hire based on the expertise and interests of the selected individual, with academic appointment in each department. Position is contingent on available funding. Start Date: August 16, 2016; 9-month appointment.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, Linguistics, or a closely related field, demonstrated evidence or promise of an active research agenda in Hispanic linguistics; college-level teaching experience. The applicant must have exceptional language fluency and communication skills in both English and Spanish. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in Phonetics and Phonology or Sociolinguistics. ABD applicants will be considered PhD candidates will be considered if all degree requirements will be completed by August 15, 2016. If all requirements for the Ph.D. are not completed by August 15, 2016, a term, non-tenure track appointment may be offered in accordance with University policy (http://policies.siu.edu/personnel_policies/chapter2/ch2-faps/conting.html).

Duties: Maintaining an active program of peer-reviewed scholarship; teaching courses in Hispanic linguistics and general linguistics including SPAN 511: Linguistic Structure of Spanish and courses in areas of specialization; mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; appropriate department and university service. The typical teaching load for untenured faculty in the department is two courses per semester.

Application Procedures: Submit letter of application, CV, three confidential letters of reference, unofficial graduate transcripts, a writing sample, and a teaching portfolio consisting of a 1-page statement of teaching philosophy and full sets of teaching evaluations from the past 3 years, if available. Applications may be submitted electronically to the application email address below. Electronic applications preferred. Applicants may also send materials to the postal address below.

SIU Carbondale is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans that strives to enhance its ability to develop a diverse faculty and staff and to increase its potential to serve a diverse student population. All applications are welcomed and encouraged and will receive consideration.

Application email: forlang AT siu.edu

Postal application address:
Jennifer Smith, Hispanic Linguistics Search
Department of Languages, Cultures and International Trade
1000 Faner Drive; Mail Code 4521
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale IL 62901
USA

Contact name and email: Jennifer Smith, smithjen AT siu.edu

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Tenure-track Research Faculty (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor)
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/

Application deadline: 15 February 2016

The Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (ILAS), Taiwan, invites applicants for a tenure-track position at all levels (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor equivalent).

A Ph.D. in Linguistics or related degree is required by the time of application. Preference will be given to candidates who specialize in the sub-areas of phonetics or historical syntax/grammar and focus on Min or Hakka dialects.

The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant research only program in linguistics, which also houses two active research laboratories (Phonetics and Cognitive Linguistics).

Applicants for the position will need to demonstrate a record of (or evidence for the promise of) scholarly productivity that will advance the program’s research profile. Other expectations for the position include: applying for extramural funding; mentoring junior faculties when applicable; participating actively in the life of the Institute; performing institutional and academy services.

Interested applicants are required to provide the following documents:
(1) Application letter
(2) Curriculum vitae in English and Chinese
(3) List of publications in English and Chinese
(4) Copies of representative publications for the last five years (Applicants for the rank of assistant research fellow must submit his/her Ph.D. dissertation)
(5) A 5-year research plan in English and Chinese and
(6) Three contact information for references

A soft-copy and a hard-copy of the above documents should be mailed to the application email address below and the address below:

Application email:
ilsecretariat AT sinica.edu.tw

Postal application address:
Chiu-yu Tseng
Institute of Linguistics
Academica Sinica
No. 128, Section 2, Academia Road
Nankang
Taipei 115
Taiwan

Contact name and email: Hsin Yi Huang, ilsecretariat AT sinica.edu.tw


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Dr Lisa Lim
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Language and Communication Programme,
Chair, Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee,
School of English, The University of Hong Kong
http://www.english.hku.hk/staff/lisalim.htm, http://hku-hk.academia.edu/LisaLim

Just published:
Lim, Lisa and Umberto Ansaldo. 2016. Languages in Contact. (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics.) Cambridge University Press.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/languages-contact?format=PB

LinguisticMinorities.HK
http://linguisticminorities.hk

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