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Speech Prosody 2004 Short Title: SP2004 Date: 23-Mar-2004 - 26-Mar-2004 Location: Nara, Japan Contact: Keikichi Hirose Contact Email: pro-officeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuegavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Meeting URL: http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2004/ Linguistic Sub-field: Phonology Call Deadline: 26-Oct-2003 Meeting Description: Speech Prosody is the international conference that brings together researchers working in all areas related to speech. Following the first conference in Aix-en-Provence, the second conference of Speech Prosody 2004 (SP2004) will be held in Nara, Japan, at the end of March 2004. The aim of the conference is to highlight issues from the basic sciences and from applications in technology, education, and medicine, so that all researchers will receive an up-to-date overview of the entire field. Speech prosody covers a huge multidisciplinary area involving academics, scientists, and engineers with various research backgrounds, united by an interest in human communication. Papers in any field dealing with speech prosody are welcome. The topics of the conference will include: Prosody and the Brain Physics of Voice Analysis, Formulation and Modeling of Prosody Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody Variations in Prosody Prosody of Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech Prosody of Expressive Speech Prosody and Speech Perception Prosody in Speech Synthesis Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding Prosody in Language Learning Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired Annotation and Speech Corpus Creation Others Papers in any field dealing with speech prosody are welcome. All submissions will go through careful evaluation and review by renowned specialists of each area before the final acceptance or rejection decision is made. Please visit the submission instruction page for details: http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2004/guidelines.htm