30.2099, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science / Journal of Phonetics (Jrnl)

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Subject: 30.2099, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science / Journal of Phonetics (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 16:29:33
From: Elisa Pellegrino [elisa.pellegrino at uzh.ch]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science / Journal of Phonetics (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal of Phonetics 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2019 

Call for Papers:

Vocal accommodation, i.e. the tendency of talkers to adapt their
acoustic-phonetic behavior to that of another talker, is a ubiquitous, elusive
and multi-faceted phenomenon observed in human communication and in
human-computer interaction. It is ubiquitous since evidence of convergence in
both domains has been documented in numerous segmental and suprasegmental
features (e.g. intensity, speech rate, f0), in addition to lexical and
syntactic choices, facial expressions, and body movements. It is elusive since
patterns of accommodation vary tremendously between talkers, and irrespective
of the degree of spontaneity of communicative tasks (i.e. shadowing task,
dyadic interactions, multi-party conversation), frequency of occurrence of
lexical items, and interlocutors' sex or role in conversation (information
giver vs receiver). It is multi-faceted since talkers do not show consistent
patterns of accommodation in all acoustic-phonetic attributes as shadowing
studies and research on users entraining to spoken dialogue systems or
animated characters have largely documented.

This extreme variability in research findings, also imputable to the use of
different speakers, different data collection methods, and distinct phonetic
features across different studies, makes it extremely difficult to comprehend
why speakers make specific adjustments in their acoustic-phonetic behavior. 

Given the current state of research in the field, we are especially interested
in contributions which:
- examine and ideally compare instances of vocal accommodation in human-human
and human-computer interactions according to their underlying mechanism (e.g.
automatic perception production link) and social functions (e.g. to signal
social closeness or distance; to become more intelligible; to sound dominant,
trustworthy or attractive)
- investigate the effect of task-specific and talker-specific characteristics
(gender, age, personality, linguistic and cultural background, role in
interaction) in degree and direction of convergence towards human and computer
interlocutors
- integrate articulatory and/or perceptual/neurocognitive/multimodal data to
the analysis of vocal accommodation in interactive and non-interactive speech
tasks; investigate the contribution of short/long-term accommodation in
human-human and human-computer interactions to the diffusion of linguistic
innovation and ultimately language variation and change
- explore the implications of accommodation for human and machine speaker
recognition, language learning technologies, and speech rehabilitation

This special issue was inspired by the ''Workshop on Accommodation in Speech
Communication'' held in Zurich, Switzerland, in December 2018
(http://tiny.uzh.ch/RC). The special issue invites contributions from
participants who attended the workshop, as well as from others working in
related areas.In light of the scope of the Journal of Phonetics, papers of an
interdisciplinary nature are welcome provided that linguistic-phonetic
principles underlie the work reported.

Further information about abstract and paper submission/revision:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-phonetics/call-for-papers/call-fo
r-papers-vocal-accommodation-in-speech-communication

Timeline:
Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 31 July 2019
Invitation for full paper submission: 31 August 2019
Deadline for submission of full paper: 31 December 2019




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