Monthly Archives: April 2012

Calling Clinical Linguists working on languages other than English

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

As you may be aware, David Crystal Paul Fletcher and I have recently edited a book collecting together new versions of LARSP (Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure) for 12 languages other than the original English. Details are available at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847696380 … Continue reading →

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The 4th Annual Conference of Pronunciation in Second Language Learning (PSLLT)

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

The 4th Annual Conference of Pronunciation in Second Language Learning (PSLLT): Setting the Course for Pronunciation Teaching and Assessment Simon Fraser University (Vancouver Campus), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 24-25 August 2012 http://pslltconference.com   Pronunciation has moved from being a central feature … Continue reading →

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Sociophonetic Research in Emerging Varieties

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Sociophonetic Research in Emerging Varieties Thematic Session of Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 Berlin, Germany, 22-24 August 2012 http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/   Cities have always been the meeting place for speakers of different language backgrounds and ethnicities. Consequently, different recognizable group dialects of any … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology (SIGMORPHON 2012)

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

12th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics (SIGMORPHON 2012) Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 7 June 2012 http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/ One of the missions of SIGMORPHON is to encourage interaction between work in computational linguistics and work … Continue reading →

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20th Manchester Phonology Meeting (20mfm)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

20th Manchester Phonology Meeting (20mfm) Manchester, UK, 24-26 May 2012 http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html We are pleased to announce the plans for our 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting (20mfm). The mfm is the UK’s annual phonology conference, with an international set of organisers. It … Continue reading →

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Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

****************************************************************************************** Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication ****************************************************************************************** University of Cambridge, 26 June 2012 We are delighted to announce a one-day workshop on Neural Systems for Speech Communication to be held at the Department of Theoretical and Applied … Continue reading →

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3-4 September 2012. Prosody in Typical and Atypical Populations.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

Prosody in Typical and Atypical Populations Reading, UK, 3-4 September 2012 http://www.reading.ac.uk/ptap-conference.aspx Call for Papers Deadline: 30 April 2012 The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and speech and language therapists to share thoughts, ideas, and research … Continue reading →

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3rd International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU12)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

3rd International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU’12) Cape Town, South Africa, 7-9 May 2012 http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012/ The third International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU’12) will be held at the Monkey Valley Resort (near … Continue reading →

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 26:5

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

  Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Volume 26, Number 5 (May, 2012) The above issue is now available online from Informa Healthcare at: http://informahealthcare.com/toc/clp/26/5?ai=1liu&ui=ge5d&af=H Bidirectional perception–production relations in phonological development: evidence from positional neutralization TARA MCALLISTER BYUN 397-413.   Development and … Continue reading →

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PhD Studentship available: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Due to a late withdrawal, we have a vacancy for a PhD candidate to start in Fall 2012; funding via a Graduate Assistantship is possible for the right candidate. Funding will cover course fees and provides a stipend for living … Continue reading →

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