LINGUIST List 26.4808
Thu Oct 29 2015
Calls: General Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology/USA
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Oct-2015
From: Jonathan Barnes <jabarnes
bu.edu>
Subject: Speech Prosody 2016
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Date: 31-May-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact Person: Jonathan Barnes
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.speechprosody2016.org
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2015
Meeting Description:
Prosody and the Individual:
Unity and Difference Within and Across Speech Communities
Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.
We are pleased to announce the special sessions of Speech Prosody 2016:
1. Rising intonation in English and beyond (Organizers: Meghan Armstrong, Page Piccinini, Amanda Ritchart)
2. Sentence-final particles and intonation: Similarities, interactions, and historical relationships (Organizers: James Sneed German, K. K. Luke)
3. Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings: Measures before measuring speech signals from inside and outside the lab (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Petra Wagner)
4. Speaker comfort and communication in noisy environments (Special Poster Session) (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Simone Graetzer)
Keynote Speakers for Speech Prosody 2016, Boston:
Aoju Chen, Universiteit Utrecht
Laura Dilley, Michigan State University
Rupal Patel, Northeastern University
Patrick Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact:
speechprosody2016.org
speechprosody2016
gmail.com
2nd Call for Papers:
Speech Prosody 2016, Boston: Announcing Special Sessions and Call for Papers
Speech Prosody 2016, the eighth international conference on speech prosody, will be hosted at Boston University, May 31 to June 3, 2016. We invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody. This year, we especially invite submissions concentrating on variation and differences both at the level of the community and that of the individual. Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) (
http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/sprosig.php) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (
http://www.isca-speech.org/), is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.
Contact:
speechprosody2016.org (
http://www.speechprosody2016.org/)
speechprosody2016
gmail.com
Important Deadlines:
Submission of papers: November 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance (by email): January 15, 2016
Early registration deadline: February 15, 2016
Author's registration deadline: March 1, 2016
Conference: May 31 - June 3, 2016
Review Areas:
1. Phonology and phonetics of prosody
2. Signal processing
3. Rhythm and timing
4. Prosody in computational linguistics
5. Acquisition of first language prosody
6. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
7. Prosody in language and music
8. Prosody in Tone Languages
9. Prosody in language contact and second language acquisition
10. Prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects
11. Audiovisual prosody modeling and analysis
12. Communicative situation and speaking style
13. Prosodic aspects of speech and language pathology
14. Psycholinguistic, cognitive, neural correlates of prosody
15. Meta-linguistic and para-linguistic communication
16. Voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics
17. Prosody of sign language
18. Prosody in automatic speech synthesis, recognition and understanding
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