Category Archives: phonetics

Seventh Christian Benoît Award

Seventh Christian Benoît Award **********Deadline has been postponed to May 20, 2013******* The Christian Benoît Award is delivered periodically by the Association Christian Benoit (**). It is given to promising young scientists in the domain of SPEECH and FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION. … Continue reading

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Phonetically balanced passages – the north wind and the sun?

Since my original request for phonetically balanced passages in languages other than English, I have received several messages suggesting the use of the North Wind and the Sun story. This exists in many languages, as popularized by the publications of … Continue reading

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10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014

We are pleased to announce the 10th International Speech Production Seminar, which will take place in Cologne from 5th to 8th May 2014. This international meeting was launched in 1988 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum … Continue reading

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Revista Leitura, Call for Papers

Revista Leitura, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Línguística (PPGLL) / Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), is accepting submission of papers, essays, book reviews, and interviews for its 52nd issue, to be published in … Continue reading

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International Child Phonology Conference 2013

The International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC) is an annual conference on issues related to all aspects of children’s speech-sound development. ICPC 2013 will take place at the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), June 10-12, 2013. This year ICPC consists of … Continue reading

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Phonetically balanced passages – French

Damien Hall reports on a passage used in dialect studies: Phonologie du Français Contemporain programme (http://www.projet-pfc.net ). The passage is called ‘Le Premier Ministre ira-t-il à Beaulieu ?’ and is on pp21-2 of the Bulletin downloadable from http://www.projet-pfc.net/bulletins-et-colloques/cat_view/918-bulletins-pfc/919-bulletin-pfc-nd1.html). “The passage … Continue reading

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Phonetically balanced passage – Catalan

From: Bruyninckx, M., Harmegnies, B., Llisterri, J., y Poch, D. (1994). Language-Induced voice quality variability in bilinguals. /Journal of Phonetics, 22/, 19-31. El barri de xalets de Sitges era un lloc on m’agradava d’anar a passejar a començaments de temporada. … Continue reading

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Second call for posters: Variation in the Acquisition of Sound Systems

**Deadline for submissions: March 15th** Variation in the Acquisition of Sound Systems Workshop at the Linguistic Institute 2013: Universality and Variability University of Michigan Friday, June 28, 2013 Co-sponsored by New York University Department of Linguistics Northwestern Department of Linguistics … Continue reading

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Phonetically Balanced passages: Spanish

Wendy Elvira (University of Barcelona) kindly sent me the following two passages, with references. She also noted that the Spanish version of the North Wind and the Sun has been used for linguistic studies.   Texto 1 Autores: Joaquim Llisterri … Continue reading

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Ultrafest 6: International Conference on Ultrasound Imaging, Edinburgh University

Ultrafest 6: International Conference on Ultrasound Imaging in Speech Production 6-7 November 2013 Call for Papers (First Notice) We are delighted to host the 6th Ultrafest in Edinburgh. We invite papers on all aspects of ultrasound-based vocal tract imaging, with … Continue reading

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