Editorial

Alice Lee and Fiona Gibbon

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics July, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 393-393.

What explains the reductions in /s/-clusters: Sonority or [continuant]?

Mehmet Yavaş

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 394-403.

Longitudinal comparison of early speech and language milestones in children with cleft palate: A comparison of US and Slovak children

Nancy J. Scherer, Zuzana Oravkinova, and Matthew T. McBee

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 404-418.

The linguistically aware teacher and the teacher-aware linguist

Elspeth McCartney and Sue Ellis

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 419-427.

Preschool children’s performance on Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C)

Fiona E. Gibbon and Heather Smyth

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 428-434.

Imageability of Norwegian nouns, verbs and adjectives in a cross-linguistic perspective

Hanne Gram Simonsen, Marianne Lind, Pernille Hansen, Elisabeth Holm, and Bjørn-Helge Mevik

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 435-446.

The development of falling intonation in young children with cochlear implants: a 2-year longitudinal study

David P. Snow and David J. Ertmer

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 447-458.

Early lexical expression in typically developing Maltese children: implications for the identification of language delay

Daniela Gatt, Helen Grech, and Barbara Dodd

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 459-471.

Cortical auditory evoked potentials in unsuccessful cochlear implant users

Boška Munivrana and Vesna Mildner

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 472-483.

A normative-speaker validation study of two indices developed to quantify tongue dorsum activity from midsagittal tongue shapes

Natalia Zharkova

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 484-496.

Lexical and child-related factors in word variability and accuracy in infants

Toby Macrae

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 497-507.

The influence of the frequency of functional markers on repetitive imitation of syntactic constructions in children with specific language impairment, from their own language productions

Sandrine Leroy, Christophe Parisse, and Christelle Maillart

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 508-520.

Tracking change in children with severe and persisting speech difficulties

Elisabeth Joy Newbold, Joy Stackhouse, and Bill Wells

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 521-539.

Intervention for improving comprehension in 4–6 year old children with specific language impairment: practicing inferencing is a good thing

Chantal Desmarais, Line Nadeau, Natacha Trudeau, Paméla Filiatrault-Veilleux, and Catherine Maxès-Fournier

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 6-7: 540-552

Subject: [Thèse] appel à candidature : “Fluency and disfluency markers”

Pour compléter notre équipe sur le projet “Fluency and disfluency markers. A multimodal contrastive perspective” l’Institut Langage et Communication de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) est à la recherche d’un(e) assistant(e) de recherche pour réaliser une thèse de doctorat portant sur les marqueurs prosodiques de fluence et de disfluence en français. Le/La candidat(e) retenu(e) travaillera en collaboration avec les autres membres du projet dont l’objectif est d’étudier les marqueurs de fluence et disfluence en langue orale et signée dans trois modalités différentes : le discours en langue première (français et anglais), le discours en langue seconde (anglais) et la langue signée (français de Belgique).
La thèse portant sur la (dis)fluence prosodique sera encadrée par les
professeures Anne Catherine Simon et Liesbeth Degand au sein du centre de recherche Valibel – Discours et Variation.

Profil:
- Master en linguistique française (avec grade)
- Maitrise (quasi) native du français, très bonne connaissance de
l’anglais académique
- Bonnes connaissances en statistiques linguistiques
- Formation en linguistique de corpus (outils et méthodes)
- Dynamisme et motivation
- Indépendance et esprit de collaboration
- Une expérience dans l’analyse du français parlé et/ou en analyse du
discours est un atout
Nous offrons :
- Un contrat à durée déterminée de 4 ans
- Un environnement de recherche stimulant avec de nombreuses opportunités de collaboration
- Un salaire mensuel consistant en une bourse de recherche comprenant la
sécurité sociale (+/- 1600€ net/mois)

Début du contrat: Au plus tard le 1er septembre 2013
Date limite pour les candidatures: 15 juillet 2013

Si cette offre vous intéresse, merci de nous faire parvenir une lettre de
motivation, un CV et deux recommandations académiques sous format électronique à:

Prof. Anne Catherine Simon (anne-catherine.simon@uclouvain.be)

Informations complémentaires:
Institut Langage et Communication: http://www.uclouvain.be/ilc
Projet sur la (dis)fluence: http://www.uclouvain.be/415256.html
Valibel – Discours & Variation: http://www.uclouvain.be/valibel

–
Alice Bardiaux
Université catholique de Louvain
Centre de recherche VALIBEL – Discours et Variation
Collège Erasme – Place Blaise Pascal 1, boîte L3.03.33
B – 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
+32 (0)10/47.45.98
alice.bardiaux@uclouvain.be

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
Volume 27, Number 5 (May 2013)

The impact of extrinsic demographic factors on Cantonese speech acquisition

Carol K. S. To, Pamela S. P. Cheung, and Sharynne Mcleod

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 5: 323-338.

Speech perception and lexical effects in specific language impairment

Richard G. Schwartz, Frances L. V. Scheffler, and Karece Lopez

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 5: 339-354.

Sentence comprehension in Swahili–English bilingual agrammatic speakers

Tom O. Abuom, Emmah Shah, and Roelien Bastiaanse

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 5: 355-370.

The relationship of phonological skills to language skills in Spanish–English-speaking bilingual children

Solaman J. Cooperson, Lisa M. Bedore, and Elizabeth D. Peña

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 27, No. 5: 371-389.

22-25 JANUARY 2014

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2013
First call for papers: 29 April 2013
Second call for papers: 15 July 2013
Last call for papers: 1 September 2013
Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2013
Main conference: 23-25 January
Pre-conference workshop: 22 January

Invited speakers:
Adamantios I. Gafos (University of Potsdam)
Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
Alan Prince (Rutgers University)

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Meertens Instituut Amsterdam are proud to announce that the eleventh Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 11) will take place in Leiden and Amsterdam from 23 to 25 January 2014. It is organised by a group of local phonologists and follows in the line of previous OCP conferences, which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh, Nice, Marrakech, Berlin, and Istanbul. Abstracts for presentation as either talks or poster papers can be submitted on any phonological issue (theoretical or empirical).

The conference will be preceded by a workshop on the relationship between phonetics and phonology on 22 January. Everyone attending the conference is very welcome to attend the workshop, too.

For the main conference, we invite abstracts either for an oral presentation of 20 minutes (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or for poster presentation.

For the workshop, we invite submission of abstracts for an oral presentation of 20 minutes (followed by 10 minutes of discussion).

Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including examples and references. Submissions are restricted to one single-authored and one co-authored abstract. The conference language is English: abstracts and talks will be in English.
Page format: A4, 2,54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides, 12-point font, single line spacing.
File format: .pdf.
File name:
For submissions for the main conference: [title-main.pdf]
For submissions for the workshop: [title-workshop.pdf]

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

During the last years a special attention has been devoted to the relationship between phonetics and phonology. However, most of the questions dealing with the role of phonetics in formal models of phonology are still unanswered. As a matter of illustration, some of these questions are the following: are phonological features grounded in phonetics, or are they substance-free? If features are grounded in phonetics, are they based on articulation or acoustics? Is the mapping between the phonological output and phonetics a direct or an indirect one? Should functional explanations of phonological patterns be included in formal phonology, or are synchronic phonological patterns just phonetically arbitrary, meaning that those explanations do not belong to grammar but to other theories such as sound change? How is metrical structure reflected in phonetics? (How) should phonetic variation in the speech signal be captured in phonological theory?

Local organizers:
Chair: Björn Köhnlein
Bert Botma
Ben Hermans
Frans Hinskens
Peter Jurgec
Claartje Levelt
Kathrin Linke
Etske Ooijevaar
Marc van Oostendorp
Marijn van ‘t Veer
Secretary: Francesc Torres-Tamarit

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. It can concern basic or applied research projects.

The Award provides the elected scientist with financial support for the development of a short-term research project that
(1) illustrates concretely the achievements of her/his research work
(2) could help promoting this work in the scientific community and to Grant Agencies
(3) gives an overall view of the state of the art in the research domain.
The proposed research project can have the form of a demonstrator, a technical product or of a pedagogical multi-media product (Movie, Web-site, interactive software…).
The Award is valued at 7,500 Euros.

The commitments of the elected scientist are:
–  to attend the Interspeech2013 Conference in Lyon, France
–  to deliver the final product of the project within 2 years
–  to present her/his results in a workshop such as, among others, AVSP, ISSP, or SpeechProsody.

In the application, the candidate should provide
– a statement of research interests,
– a detailed curriculum vitae
– a description of the proposed short-term research project. The description should include a presentation of the scientific and/or pedagogical objectives and of the methodological aspects, a link with the former research work of the applicant, as well as a detailed description of the provisional budget.

Applications will be evaluated by an international committee including experts in the field of Speech and Face-to-Face communications and representatives of the Institutions supporting the award.

Applications should be sent to
Pascal Perrier: Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr
before Monday May 20, 2013
. Electronic submissions are mandatory.

The successful candidate will be notified by June 17, 2013. The Award will be delivered at the Interspeech 2013 Conference in Lyon (France) (http://www.interspeech2013.org/

For further information, please contact Pascal Perrier.

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* 3,500 Euros will be given immediately; the remaining 4,000 Euros will be available at reception of the multi-media project by the Christian Benoit Association. Travel and registration costs necessary to attend the Interspeech 2011 Conference will have to be paid on this grant.
** For details about the Association Christian Benoît and the past awardees of the Christian Benoît Award see http://www.gipsa-lab.fr/acb/
–
Kayla Hewitt
Administrative Assistant
Association for Laboratory Phonology

I have to admit to being somewhat depressed with these responses. The North Wind and the Sun story was never claimed to be phonetically balanced for English (e.g. there are some phonemes of English missing from the story) but, even if it were, what makes people think that versions in other languages would be? Surely we’ve moved beyond the “just translate it from one language and it’ll work in another” way of thinking?

I feel the choice of this passage displays a lack of understanding of what a ‘phonetically balanced passage’ actually is. Such a passage ideally should contain:
1. All the phonemes of the language
2. Main subphonemic variants
3. Sounds in main structural positions (initial – final; clusters, etc)
4. Sounds in relative frequency as in the spoken language.

While such an ideal may well be hard to meet in a passage of a manageable size, there must surely be better alternatives than translating a not-very-phonetically-balanced passage from another language…?

Phonetically balanced passages need to be carefully devised for the specific language, and it’s high time we put the north wind where the sun don’t shine!

Topics of interest for ISSP 2014 include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Perception-action control
• Intra- and inter-speaker variability
• Articulatory synthesis
• Mapping between articulatory and acoustic events
• Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
• Connected speech processes
• Convergence and human interaction
• Coarticulation
• Prosody
• Rhythm and timing
• Biomechanical modeling
• Models of motor control
• Audiovisual synthesis
• Aerodynamic models
• Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech
• Disorders of speech motor control
• Instrumental techniques
• Speech and language acquisition
• Audio-visual speech perception
• Plasticity of speech production and perception

Invited speakers:

Christian Kell (Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany) Oscillatory signatures of speech preparation and production

D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh, UK) (title to be announced)

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT, USA) The role of prosody in speech production planning

Michael J. Richardson (University of Cincinnati, USA) Behavioural dynamics of social coordination and speech production

Caroline Palmer (McGill University, CA) Auditory-motor integration in ensemble music performance

Further information is provided here:

http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/

To contact the organizers, please send an email to:

issp-2014@uni-koeln.de

Important dates:

1st October 2013: Four page paper submission

15th December 2013: Notification of acceptance

15th January 2014: Online registration open

25th February 2014: Revised version of four page paper

15th March: Deadline for early bird registration

5th May – 8th May 2014 : ISSP 2014

The organizers:

Susanne Fuchs, Martine Grice, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Doris Muecke

Queen Margaret University PhD bursaries 2013. For 2013 entry, one studentship has been made available by QM for competitive application as part of investment in this flagship area.
Deadline is 30 April 2013 – see http://www.qmu.ac.uk/post_research/bursarycomp.htm
for full details.

We particularly welcome applications in one of our three priority areas for 2013:

Topic 1 – Clinical Remediation of Speech Disorder using EPG or Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

We have a number of externally-funded projects undertaking clinical research into diagnosis and treatment using one or other of these articulatory techniques, and we welcome applications to take this impactful research forward. A qualification in Speech and Language Therapy would be a requirement for applicants wishing to pursue this topic. The clinical focus of the research is open.

Contact: Dr Sara Wood swood@qmu.ac.uk for EPG or Prof James M Scobbie jscobbie@qmu.ac.uk for UTI.

Topic 2 – Measurement of Reaction Time through Articulatory Speech Analysis

Empirical research into the psycholinguistics of speech production tends to rely on acoustic speech data. Despite the fact that articulation underlies and also precedes audible speech, theoretical models generally fail to take into account information about the timing and nature of the initiation of the articulatory processes that are an essential part of speech production. This project would gather novel data on the silent (and noise-producing) articulatory processes that precede speech sounds, using reaction time methodologies and through measurements of the tongue, jaw, lips and face. A background in psychology and/or phonetics would be an advantage for this topic.

Contact: Dr Sonja Schaeffler sschaeffler@qmu.ac.uk

Topic 3 – Speech intelligibility and speech variability in Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s speech is typically characterized by monotony, harsh breathy voice, imprecise articulation and impaired prosody, leading to reduced speech intelligibility. Intelligibility is a key contributor to functional communication, and a necessary component of assessment in speech disorder. This project aims to evaluate two different approaches, listener perception and computer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR), to intelligibility measurement, and to identify acoustic indicators of intelligibility. Findings will inform future development of a semi-automatic system for intelligibility measurement, suitable for large-scale research and clinical assessment. A clinical qualification in Speech and Language Therapy would be an advantage.

Contact: Dr Joan Ma jma@qmu.ac.uk

Our postgrad page – http://www.qmu.ac.uk/shs/pg/default.htm
The CASL home page – http://www.qmu.ac.uk/casl/