29.795, Calls: Forensic Linguistics, Phonetics, Socioling/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-795. Fri Feb 16 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.795, Calls: Forensic Linguistics, Phonetics, Socioling/UK

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:52:59
From: Sula Ross [s.m.ross at hud.ac.uk]
Subject: 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics

 
Full Title: 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics 
Short Title: IAFPA 2018 

Date: 29-Jul-2018 - 01-Aug-2018
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: IAFPA Organising Committee
Meeting Email: iafpa2018 at hud.ac.uk
Web Site: http://iafpa2018.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 27th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic
Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) will be held on 29th July - 1st August 2018 in
Huddersfield. 

This year's conference is being hosted by the Linguistics and Modern Language
Department at the University of Huddersfield.


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for papers on topics including, but not limited to:

- Speaker/voice comparison
- Speech and audio enhancement
- Transcription
- Speaker profiling
- Questioned utterance analysis
- Authentication of recordings
- LADO (Language analysis for the determination of origin)
- Automatic speaker recognition/comparison
- Voice line-ups
- Retrieval of population data
- Interesting case reports

At IAFPA 2018 we plan three categories of paper:

1) Regular oral papers.
2) Regular poster presentations.
3) Work in progress poster presentations. This is a special poster session to
outline new or ongoing research developments, particularly suitable for
students currently working on dissertations.

The deadline for submissions under categories (1) and (2) is 19 March 2018.
Note that we do not expect to extend this deadline. Submissions under category
(3) may be made up to 11 June 2018.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iafpa2018

For more information, visit https://iafpa2018.wordpress.com/cfp/ .

Best Student Paper award:

There will be a best student paper award. Please indicate on your abstract PDF
whether your paper is eligible for the student paper award. The criteria for
participation are:

- The first author is a student, i.e. registered as a Bachelors/Masters/PhD
student.
- The first author presents his/her presentation or poster in person at the
conference.
- The majority of the work presented has been done by the student.

Note: being a student member of IAFPA is not a requirement.

The winner of this Prize wins free registration for next year’s IAFPA
conference.

There will be a satellite workshop on data sharing following the conference on
2 August 2018 as part of the ESRC-funded WYRED project, with more information
to follow.




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