16.1353, Calls: General Ling/USA; Phonetics/Slovenian/Slovenia

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Subject: 16.1353, Calls: General Ling/USA; Phonetics/Slovenian/Slovenia

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1)
Date: 27-Apr-2005
From: Grover Hudson < hudson at msu.edu >
Subject: Michigan Linguistic Society

2)
Date: 27-Apr-2005
From: Peter Jurgec < peter.jurgec at guest.arnes.si >
Subject: 1st Slovene International Phonetic Conference

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:06:24
From: Grover Hudson < hudson at msu.edu >
Subject: Michigan Linguistic Society

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Full Title: Michigan Linguistic Society
Short Title: MLS

Date: 15-Oct-2005 - 15-Oct-2005
Location: East Lansing, MI, United States of America
Contact Person: Grover Hudson
Meeting Email: mls at msu.edu
Web Site: http://www.msu.edu/~mls/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2005

Meeting Description:

The Michigan Linguistic Society, now in its 35th year, invites papers in all
areas of linguistics.

Abstracts submitted to the LSA Annual Meeting or other linguistics meeting may
be submitted to the MLS meeting.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically to mls at msu.edu as one-page pdf files
(11 or 12 pt.).

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:07:26
From: Peter Jurgec < peter.jurgec at guest.arnes.si >
Subject: 1st Slovene International Phonetic Conference

Full Title: 1st Slovene International Phonetic Conference
Short Title: SloFon 1

Date: 20-Apr-2006 - 22-Apr-2006
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact Person: Peter Jurgec
Meeting Email: slofon at zrc-sazu.si
Web Site: http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Subject Language(s): Slovenian (SLV)

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2005

Meeting Description:

The SloFon 1 conference is the first scientific meeting of phoneticians in
Slovenia and will take place from 20th to 22nd April 2006 in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. It is organized by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Fran Ramovs Institute of Slovenian
Language. We welcome both Slovene and foreign phoneticians, language
technologists, and other linguists to participate in this event. The main goal
of the conference is to promote research in phonetics and related disciplines in
Slovenia and in the wider region. The names of the invited speakers will be
announced in the course of this year.

Themes
SloFon 1 covers an extensive field of phonetics and related sciences:
1. phonetics of Slovene - experimental phonetic research in Standard Slovene,
acoustic, articulatory and auditory phonetics, experimental phonetic research in
dialects and non-standard speech
2. phonetic and phonological contrastive studies - Slovene vs. foreign language
contrastive analyses (phonetic, phonological, morphonological etc.), standard
vs. non-standard contrastive analysis (phonetic, phonological, morphonological
etc.), Slovene as L2
3. contemporary trends in phonetics/phonology - generative phonology,
postgenerative phonological schools, natural phonology, metrical stress theory,
autosegmental phonology, optimality theory, speech perception, psychophonetics,
sociophonetics, speech and text analysis, voice analysis
4. phonetics and language technologies - speech corpora, linguistic corpora and
phonetics/phonology, speech recognition and synthesis
5. interdisciplinary studies - logopedics, phoniatrics, rhetoric and speech
techniques, forensic phonetics
6. other areas of phonetics and phonology

Call for abstracts
Abstracts should be submitted in both English and Slovene, or at least in one of
the two languages, and should be from 1000 to 1500 characters long, including
spaces. (For further information see SloFon 1 webpage at
http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si). Submitted and accepted abstract will be published in
the book of abstracts. Oral presentation will be of the standard format of 20
minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Abstracts should be sent by 15th November 2005 via email (slofon at zrc-sazu.si) or
via regular mail to the following address (please, submit electronic version as
well):
SloFon1
ZRC SAZU, In?titut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramov?a
Novi trg 2
P. p. 306
SI-1001 Ljubljana
Slovenija, EU

Imporatant Dates
15. 11. 2005 - abstracts submission
1. 2. 2006 - abstracts acceptance/rejection
10. 2. 2006 - early registration (reduced fee)
1. 3. 2006 - submission of final versions of abstracts
15. 3. 2006 - registration
20. 4. 2006 - the conference

Fees
The registration fee is 80 EUR (or 20,000 SIT). The reduced fee (payable by 20th
February 2006 at the latest) is 60 EUR (or 15,000 SIT). The student fee is 20
EUR (or 5,000 SIT), and a written certificate of student status by the mentor or
the faculty is required.

Committees
Organizing Committee
Peter Jurgec (SRC SAZU, Ljubljana), Hotimir Tivadar, M. A. (Faculty of Arts,
Ljubljana), Dr. Primoz Vitez (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Melita Zemljak
Jontes (Faculty of Education, Maribor), Dr. Andreja Zele (SRC SASA, Ljubljana),
Dr. Jerneja Zganec Gros (Alpineon)
International Scientific Committee
Dr. Simon Dobrisek (Faculty of Computer and Education Science, Ljubljana), Peter
Jurgec (SRC SASA, Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Zdravko Kacic (Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor), Prof. Dr. Smiljana Komar (Faculty of
Arts, Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Simona Kranjc (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Prof.
Dr. Vesna Mildner (Faculty of Arts, Zagreb), Dr. Vladimir Nartnik (SRC SAZU,
Ljubljana) Prof. Dr. Zdena Palkova (Insitute of Phonetics, Prague), Prof. Dr.
Irena Sawicka (Institute of Slavic Languages, Torun) Prof. Dr. Rastislav
Sustarsic (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Hotimir Tivadar, M. A. (Faculty of Arts,
Ljubljana), Dr. Primoz Vitez (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana), Dr. Melita Zemljak
Jontes (Faculty of Education, Maribor), Dr. Jerneja Zganec Gros (Alpineon)

Further Information
Further information is available on SloFon1 webpage http://slofon.zrc-sazu.si or
by conference e-mail slofon at zrc-sazu.si.

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