LAST Call for papers : Summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior? Aix-en-Provence 30.09.-04.10.2013

[Claudia Pichon-Starke]

4th summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific
Behavior?

 

Aix-en-Provence, France

 

September 30th to October 4th, 2013

 

 

LAST Call for papers – deadline : 15th of May 2013

 

Speakers show phonetic differences while producing the very same utterance.
These speaker-specific differences occur at various linguistic levels and
they can be realized phonetically by many parameters such as voice quality,
speech rate, loudness, fundamental frequency, breathing, articulatory
behavior, etc. At the same time, listeners can vary in the way they exploit
such cues for the purpose of speech perception and understanding.

 

 Speaker-specific behavior has long been regarded irrelevant for linguistic
theories and is generally treated as noise in the data. 

 Methodologically, speaker-specific variation has often been ignored in the
statistical modelling of speech production and perception data.

 

 However, there are numerous recent studies showing that speaker-specific
variation allows for new insights into learning processes, speech planning
and speech motor control strategies, processing of linguistic and
paralinguistic information, among others.

We seek to link findings from different disciplines by asking the following
questions:

 

   * Which speaker-specific behaviors are crucial for a better

     understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech production and

     perception and which are less important? What can it tell us? Why?

   * Does information about the speaker help listeners to extract meaning?

   * Do physical and cognitive differences among individuals matter for

     native language acquisition?

   * How do we deal with speaker-specific behavior statistically?

 

 The invited international scholars have been chosen to address these
issues.

 

 This summer school is mainly intended for graduate students, post-docs or
researchers who work in the field of speech production, perception and
perception-production interaction. We expect about 50 participants. 

 One of the aims of the summer school is to provide a forum for exchanges
between students, junior and senior researchers and encourage all
participants to contribute to the dialog. Please send a letter of motivation
and an abstract (no longer than 1 page) of your prospective contribution
till to the 15th of May 2013.

 

 Official website:  <http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/>
http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/

 

 

 *Confirmed invited speakers:*

*	Alejandrina Cristia (MPI, Nijmegen): Speech acquisition
*	Frank Eisner (MPI, Nijmegen): Speech perception and listener
adjustments
*	Rodger Mundry (MPI, Leipzig): Statistics
*	Pascal Perrier (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble): Biomechanics
*	Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow): Speech perception and fine
phonetic detail
*	Benjamin Swets (Grand Valley State University, Allendale):
Psycholinguistics
*	Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena): Articulation


 

 *Organizing committee (in alphabetical order):*

 

 Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

 

 Caroline Magister (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

 

 Daniel Pape (IEETA + UA Aveiro, Portugal)

 

 Caterina Petrone (LPL-CNRS Aix-en-Provence, France)

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