Monthly Archives: January 2012

Multivalued distinctive features

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Those applying distinctive feature systems to disordered speech have usually utlized either the fully binary system of SPE, or more recent developments combining binary and unary feature systems. An alternative approach to features was developed in the 1970s by Pater … Continue reading →

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LARSP update – 2

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

We have just had the cover design for the first of the LARSP books, see below:

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LARSP update – 1

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

We have just been awarded a contract by the publisher Multilingual Matters for a second collection of adaptations of the LARSP grammatical profile to different languages. The estimated publication date is mid 2013. The proposed contents and authors are listed … Continue reading →

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2012 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

2012 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians 26-28 March 2012 University of Leeds http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~lnpbaap/ BAAP is the professional organisation for phoneticians in the British Isles. Its members are involved in research in phonetics, in teaching phonetics in higher … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Tone and Intonation (WTI-2012)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Workshop on Tone and Intonation (WTI-2012) 26-27 January 2012 Guwahati, Assam, India http://www.iitg.ernet.in/hss/WTI2012/ The focus of this workshop is on tone and intonation, aspects of speech which are crucial for language and communication. Significantly, these aspects of speech are also … Continue reading →

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Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics York, United Kingdom 5-7 September 2012 http://www.avml2012.wordpress.com Linguistics, like many other scientific disciplines, is centrally reliant upon visual images for the elicitation, analysis and presentation of data. It is difficult to imagine how linguistics … Continue reading →

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International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech – ISICS 2012

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech – ISICS 2012 Aix-en-Provence, France 3-5 September 2012 In the course of a conversational interaction, the behavior of each talker often tends to become more similar to that of the conversational partner. … Continue reading →

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On the status and use of corpora in linguistics

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Call for Papers: On the status and use of corpora in linguistics Workshop, June 1-2, 2012, Equipe EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone), Université Montpellier III In recent years, an increasing amount of research in linguistics has been corpus-based. This … Continue reading →

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Fronto Temporal Dementia Conference 2012

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

Abstract Submission is Now Open Start off the New Year by submitting an abstract to FTD 2012. By submitting an abstract you open up a networking opportunity to dialogue with peers and colleagues. Click here to submit an abstract Plenary … Continue reading →

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Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

CALL FOR PAPERS Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges University of Cambridge, UK 6th July 2012 At a time when UNESCO deems 43% of the world’s 6,000 languages at risk of extinction, the imperative to record and analyse these linguistic … Continue reading →

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