18.772, Calls: Discourse Analysis,Phonetics/Germany; Lang Description/Sweden

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Subject: 18.772, Calls: Discourse Analysis,Phonetics/Germany; Lang Description/Sweden

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1)
Date: 13-Mar-2007
From: Jürgen Trouvain < trouvain at coli.uni-sb-de >
Subject: Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Phonetics of Laughter 

2)
Date: 11-Mar-2007
From: Karsten Legère < afrkl at hum.gu.se >
Subject: Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:54
From: Jürgen Trouvain < trouvain at coli.uni-sb-de >
Subject: Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Phonetics of Laughter 

Full Title: Interdisciplinary Workshop: The Phonetics of Laughter 

Date: 05-Aug-2007 - 05-Aug-2007
Location: Saarbruecken, Germany 
Contact Person: Juergen Trouvain
Meeting Email: trouvain at coli.uni-sb.de
Web Site: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonetics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2007 

Meeting Description
Research investigating the production, acoustics and perception of laughter is
very rare. This is striking because laughter occurs as an everyday and highly
communicative phonetic activity in spontaneous discourse. This workshop aims to
bring researchers together from various disciplines to present their data,
methods, findings, research questions, and ideas on the phonetics of laughter
(and smiling). 

Interdisciplinary Workshop on ''The Phonetics of Laughter''
5 August 2007 Saarbrücken, Germany

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07

Second and Last Call for Papers

[Paper deadline extended to March 31]

The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 16th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Papers 
We invite submission of short papers of 2-4 pages in the ICPhS style
(approximately 1500 words length). 
Oral presentations will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion time.
Additionally, there will be a poster session. 
All accepted papers will be available as on-line proceedings on the web (papers
will be given page numbers for reference purposes). 

We plan to publish selected contributions for a special issue in the
international inter-disciplinary journal Phonetica. Authors of papers accepted
for the workshop will be encouraged to submit a long version for the
peer-reviewed special issue by the end of September. Please note that an
acceptance of the short paper for the workshop does not automatically mean an
acceptance of the long paper for the special issue.

Submissions 
All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers. Please send
submissions by e-mail to <laughter at coli.uni-sb.de> specifying ''short paper'' in
the subject line and providing
   1. for each author: name, title, affiliation in the body of the mail
   2. Title of paper
   3. Preference of presentation mode (oral or poster)
   4. Short paper as a pdf-file. In addition you can submit audio files (as
wav), graphical files (as jpg) and video clips (as mpg). All files together
should not exceed 2 Mb.
Please use the ICPhS paper template (see ''Authors' guidelines'' under
''Papers'' on www.icphs2007.de). Length of the papers: 2-4 pages.

Important Dates 
Extended submission deadline for short papers: March 31, 2007 
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2007 
Early registration deadline: June 16, 2007 
Workshop dates: August 5, 2007

Plenary Lecture 
Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Organising Committee 
Nick Campbell (ATR, Kyoto) 
Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara) 
Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University & Phonetik-Büro Trouvain, Saarbrücken)

Programme Committee 
Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 
Véronique Aubergé (Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble) 
Jo-Anne Bachorowski (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) 
Hui-Chin Hsu (University of Georgia, Athens) 
Daniel O'Connell (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
Silke Kipper (Duke University, Durham, NC) 
Sabine Kowal (Technical University Berlin) 
Rod Martin (University of Western Ontario) 
Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal) 
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Neal Norrick (Saarland University, Saarbrücken) 
Eva Nwokah (Communic. Sciences and Disorders, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) 
Willibald Ruch (University of Zürich) 
Bernd Pompino-Marschall (Humboldt University Berlin) 
Béatrice Priego-Valverde (University Aix-en-Provence) 
Marc Schröder (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI,
Saarbrücken) 
Diana Szameitat (Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 
Dietmar Todt (Free University Berlin)

Location 
The laughter workshop will take place in the Centre for Language Research and
Language Technology on the campus of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken,
Germany. The campus is located in the woods and is 5 km from the town centre.

Contact 
Jürgen Trouvain 
Saarland University 
FR. 4.7: Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Building C7.4 
Postfach 15 11 50 
66041 Saarbrücken, Germany 
E-mail: laughter at coli.uni-sb.de

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:47:58
From: Karsten Legère < afrkl at hum.gu.se >
Subject: Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory 

Full Title: Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory 
Short Title: IBLC 

Date: 04-Oct-2007 - 06-Oct-2007
Location: Gothenburg/Göteborg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Karsten Legère
Meeting Email: afrkl at hum.gu.se
Web Site: http://www.african.gu.se/BantuConference.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2007 

Meeting Description:
International Bantu Language Conference 

Abstracts are invited for conference presentations, addressing any aspect of the
analysis and description of Bantu languages, such as phonology, morphology,
syntax/semantics, pragmatics, historical, typological and textual studies. We
particularly welcome papers combining theoretical analysis with the description
of new or lesser known aspects of Bantu languages. 

Keynote speakers:
Sonja Bosch (Pretoria)
Tom Güldemann (Leipzig/Berlin)
Bernd Heine (Cologne)
Joyce Mathangwane (Gaborone)
Alfred Mtenje (Zomba)
Ruth Mukama (Kampala)

Time for presentations is 30 minutes including discussion.

Abstracts should be no longer than one page A4, including data and references,
with 2.5 cm margins and 12 point font size. Abstracts may be submitted either 
1. electronically - see the instructions at the Conference webpage
http://www.african.gu.se/BantuConference.htm - or
2. as PDF, RTF, or MS Word email attachment to 
Karsten Legère [afrkl <at> hum <dot> gu <dot> se] or
Christina Thornell [afrct <at> hum <dot> gu <dot> se] or
3. as a hard copy by post - addressed to 
Karsten Legère or Christina Thornell
University of Gothenburg - Göteborgs universitet
Humanisten/Afrikanska språk 
Box 200, 
SE 405 30 Göteborg
Sweden/Sverige
+46 (0)31 786-1979 (telephone)
+46 (0)31 786-5270 (fax)

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