37.753, Confs: 2nd Workshop in Corpus Phonetics at LabPhon20 (Canada)

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Subject: 37.753, Confs: 2nd Workshop in Corpus Phonetics at LabPhon20 (Canada)

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Date: 21-Feb-2026
From: Christian DiCanio [cdicanio at buffalo.edu]
Subject: 2nd Workshop in Corpus Phonetics at LabPhon20

2nd Workshop in Corpus Phonetics at LabPhon20
Short Title: CorpusPhon2

Date: 29-Jun-2026 - 29-Jun-2026
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Contact: Christian DiCanio
Contact Email: cdicanio at buffalo.edu
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/corpusphon2/home

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 13-Mar-2026

We are inviting submissions to CorpusPhon2, a workshop to be held
directly after LabPhon20 in Montréal, Québec on Monday,  June 29,
2026. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
working with corpus phonetic techniques to discuss research and best
practices, and to build a cohesive corpus phonetics community.
One-page abstracts with a second page for figures and references are
due Friday, March 13th, 2026, by 11:59pm (anywhere on Earth).
Please see below or refer to the website for more information
regarding the specific areas of interest and submission instructions.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.
Call for Abstracts: CorpusPhon2
The production of speech can be simultaneously examined in laboratory
and non-laboratory settings. While the former context allows us to
carefully target specific, controlled aspects of production, the
latter allows us to examine speech in more ecologically-real settings.
Alongside advances in computational power and increased access to
automated techniques, this perspective has elevated corpus phonetics
as a major approach to research in phonetics and phonology. Corpus
phonetic methods are now used in a wide range of contexts, from the
analysis of fieldwork data from small numbers of speakers to the
automated processing of cross-linguistic speech data sets representing
hundreds or thousands of speakers. The primary goal of the CorpusPhon
workshop is to create an inclusive forum for this diverse set of
practitioners, bringing together researchers who use corpus phonetic
tools with a view towards building a cohesive community.
The workshop will be held alongside LabPhon 20 in Montréal, Québec,
Canada at McGill University on June 29th, 2026. It will offer a venue
for discussing methodological best practices in corpus phonetics,
demonstrating a diversity of approaches, examining the relevance of
corpus data to laboratory phonology and phonetics, analyzing problems
relating to collecting or analyzing corpus data at different scales,
presenting results of corpus studies, and showcasing data and tools.
Areas of Interest:
 We are soliciting work on original and unpublished research on topics
related to corpus phonetics, as well as tutorials on existing
data/tools, or strong work in progress. Appropriate sub-topics include
(but are not limited to) the following:
 - Corpus phonetic studies, including studies involving smaller speech
corpora, endangered/underdocumented language data, prosody,
sociophonetics, cross-linguistic/dialectal variation, longitudinal
data, historical data, or large-scale corpora.
 - Processing tools, such as forced alignment, grapheme-to-phoneme
conversion, automated annotation, and automated phonetic measurement;
 - Quantitative analysis (statistical methods, visualization) for
corpus/observational data;
Issues in corpus development, such as validation and quality control;
issues related to data storage, management, and metadata; and ethical
issues;
 - Presentation of new corpora appropriate for research in laboratory
phonology.
Submissions should specify whether the presentation is better suited
for a standard conference talk (~20 min + 10 min questions) or a
demonstration (10-min lightning talk + participation in a 1-hour
walk-about session). For example, a talk could report new research
using an existing corpus, summarize a “closed” corpus (e.g.
co-developed with a language community), or discuss broader
methodological and conceptual considerations for corpus phonetics. A
demonstration could present a tool for automatic speech analysis, show
a new “open” corpus, or give a quick tutorial.
Submission Instructions:
1-page abstract with a second page for figures and references. The
formatting should adhere to the LabPhon abstract formatting
requirements (Times New Roman, 12pt font, single spacing, 1-inch
margins). Abstracts should be submitted on EasyChair.
Link for submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CPLP2026
Please specify whether your abstract should be considered for a
demonstration slot or a standard talk slot. Demonstrations should be
given in person. We might be able to offer a hybrid presentation
option for a limited number of presenters who are giving a standard
talk.
Important Dates:
Submissions are due by Friday, March 13th, 11:59pm, Anywhere on Earth
(AoE)
Notifications will be sent out by March 31, 2026.
Date/Time (Tentative): 09:00-17:00, Monday 29 June 2026
Location: TBA (the same place as the conference venue, McGill
University)
Workshop Structure:
Participants can submit an abstract for two types of presentation:
Talks: ~20 min + 10 min questions
Demonstrations: ~10-min lightning talk; participation in 1 hour
walk-about demo session

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