37.1599, Confs: Nordic Prosody XIV (Sweden)

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Date: 27-Apr-2026
From: Jens Edlund [edlund at speech.kth.se]
Subject: Nordic Prosody XIV


Nordic Prosody XIV
Short Title: NPXIV
Theme: Speech prosody concerning Nordic languages and languages spoken
around the Baltic Sea

Date: 18-Aug-2026 - 20-Aug-2026
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: Organisers
Contact Email: npxiv at nordicprosody.org
Meeting URL: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Submission Deadline: 21-May-2026

General Information:
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org
Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH
Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch)
Abstract submission: 21 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026
Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted
contribution)
Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). ISCA
members pay EUR 180 and 90, respectively.
Full paper submission (optional): November 2026
Templates: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/templates/
Submission: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/submissions/
Scope:
We invite submissions for papers on all aspects of prosodic research
concerning Nordic languages and languages spoken around the Baltic
Sea. We welcome papers on both phonetic and phonological analyses of
prosody, including but not limited to: perception and production of
prosody, rhythm and intonation, prosody in speech synthesis and speech
recognition, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition
of prosody, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.
Invited Speakers:
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of
Computer Science at Columbia University, where she served as Chair of
the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018. She received her
PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985
and spent the following eighteen years at Bell Laboratories and AT&T
Labs Research, where she worked on prosody for text-to-speech
synthesis and created the Human-Computer Interface Research
Department. She joined Columbia in 2002. Her research spans prosody,
spoken dialogue systems, and the automatic detection of emotion,
deception and charisma in speech. She served as President of the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2005 to
2007 and is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, ACM and IEEE, a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, and holds honorary doctorates from
KTH Stockholm (2007) and Tilburg University (2018). She received the
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA
Medal for Scientific Achievement, both in 2011.
Tomas Riad, Stockholm University
Tomas Riad is Professor of Nordic Languages at Stockholm University
and a member of the Swedish Academy. Born in Uppsala in 1959, he spent
his early childhood in Egypt before returning to Sweden. He completed
his doctorate at Stockholm University in 1992 with a dissertation on
prosodic change across the Germanic languages, subsequently held a
position at Stanford, and has been a guest researcher at universities
in Vilnius, Paris and Berlin. His research covers phonology, prosody,
verse metrics, historical linguistics and morphology. He is among the
foremost authorities on Scandinavian tone accent: its origins, its
typological variation across dialects, and its role in regulating
Swedish morphology. His monograph The Phonology of Swedish (Oxford
University Press, 2014) remains the definitive account of the sound
structure of the language. He has been a member of the Swedish Academy
since 2011.
Participation:
The conference will be held in person only. At least one author of
each accepted paper must register for and present at the conference
venue.
Submissions:
Abstracts may be up to two pages long and must follow the templates
that are available on the conference website's submissions page.
Proceedings:
There will be an opportunity to submit a full paper in the conference
proceedings volume after the conference. Since 2022, full papers are
published with open access (in 2022 with Gruyter/Sciendo). Further
information will be provided on the website.
Contact: npxiv at nordicprosody.org



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