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    Impact Factor 1.065

    Laboratory Phonology has received an Impact Factor of 1.065 (1.000 without self-cites) for the 2018 release, up from 1.000 last year.

    The journal is ranked 76/184 in the category of Linguistics.

    Data from Journal Citation Reports.

    Posted on 06 Sep 2019

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    Call for Papers - Special Collection on Prosody and Speech Processing across Languages and Varieties

    We are calling for high-quality contributions on the topic of “Prosody and Speech Processing across Languages and Varieties” for a Special Collection in Laboratory Phonology.

    Guest editors: Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, and Janet Fletcher, with Olcay Turk and Mengzhu Yan.

    Call for papers

    As an integral part of spoken language, prosody has been shown to play an important role in many speech production and perception processes. However, our knowledge of the role of prosody in speech processing draws on a relatively narrow range of (mostly closely related) languages. There is an urgent need for more psycholinguistic research looking at commonalities and differences in the use of prosodic cues in speech processing across different languages, and also different varieties of major languages. This special collection aims to bring together research which advances our understanding of the role of prosody in speech processing, particularly beyond well-studied languages. We are especially interested in research on: (i) the role of prosody in semantic interpretation, including information structure; and (ii) prosody as an organizational structure for speech production and perception, including multimodal perspectives.
     
    This special collection was inspired by the “Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),” held in Wellington, New Zealand in November 2018. The special collection invites contributions from workshop participants, as well as others working in related areas.
     
    Examples of research topics suitable for this collection include, but are not limited to, cross-linguistic and cross-varietal commonalities and differences in:

    • the role of prosody in signalling information structure, particularly in the activation and resolution of contrast and contrastive alternatives

    • the integration of prosody and morphosyntactic cues in speech comprehension, e.g., as cues to information structure

    • the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse

    • prosodic structure as an organizational frame in speech production or perception

    • links between prosodic structure and multimodal speech cues such as gesture

    As a first step, contributors are asked to submit a 1-page abstract to the guest editors at proslangworkshop@gmail.com.
    Contributions will be evaluated based on relevance for the topic of the special issue and overall quality and contribution to the field. Contributors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper, which will undergo the standard peer review process. Contributions that do not fulfil the criteria for this special issue can, of course, still be submitted to Laboratory Phonology.
     
    Timeline
    Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 15 May 2019
    Invitation for full paper submission: 10 June 2019
    Deadline for submission of full paper: 30 November 2019

    Posted on 15 Mar 2019

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    Call for papers - special issue on Techniques and Methods for Investigating Speech Articulation

    We are soliciting high-quality contributions on the topic of “Techniques and Methods for Investigating Speech Articulation” for a Special Issue of Laboratory Phonology.

    Guest editors: Lorenzo Spreafico, Alessandro Vietti

    Call for papers

    Articulatory data are critical to our understanding of speech production, and investigating the vocal tract is a challenging task because the articulators differ widely in their anatomy (soft vs. hard articulators), physiology (fixed vs. mobile articulators), and accessibility (visible vs. non-visible articulators). Indeed, only a few methods are available for the simultaneous imaging of articulators and/or the tracking of their movements.

    Recently, applied physics and biomedical engineering have revolutionized the way we record, visualize, and measure the function of some organs of the human body. However, most medical imaging technologies are not designed with the investigation of the speech organs in mind, and their significant potential to address fundamental questions about the nature of human speech sounds and sound systems remains underdeveloped.

    Thus, this special issue of Laboratory Phonology aims to facilitate contact between researchers active in laboratory phonology and specialists in engineering, industrial, and clinical development in the area of speech imaging. The special issue will offer participants a platform to present new knowledge and findings regarding the acquisition, imaging, analysis, and modelling of visible and non-visible articulators in order to examine the organization and structure of speech from the perspective of laboratory phonology.

    We invite contributions ranging from established and advanced practices to future technologies and methods, but, ideally, the focus should be on the real-time and deferred visualization of speech processes with minimal invasiveness.

    All interested parties are encouraged to submit proposals, including researchers outside of the laboratory phonology community of scholars. Potential contributions include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

    • Principles for the detection and estimation of the kinematics of speech articulators;
    • Direct and indirect measuring devices for speech articulation and the vocal tract;
    • Multi-modal measuring systems;
    • Articulatory data processing, analysis, modelling, and integration and fusion;
    • Design and management of articulatory corpora.

    As a first step, contributors are asked to submit a 1-page abstract to the editors at email address alps@unibz.it. Contributions will be evaluated based on relevance for the topic of the special issue and overall quality and contribution to the field. Contributors are invited to mention in their abstracts and articles how their proposal is relevant to the themes of laboratory phonology. Contributors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper, which will undergo the standard peer review process. Contributions that do not fulfil the criteria for this special issue can, of course, still be submitted to Laboratory Phonology for review for a future issue of the journal.

    Timeline
    Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 01 January 2019
    Invitation for full paper submission: 01 March 2019
    Deadline of submission of full papers: 01 July 2019

    Posted on 26 Sep 2018

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    Impact Factor 1.0

    Laboratory Phonology has received an Impact Factor of 1.0 for the 2017 release (0.87 without self-cites, both up from 0.667 for last year; data from Journal Citation Reports), and is ranked 73/181 in the category of Linguistics (up from 90/182).

    Posted on 09 Jul 2018

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    LabPhon16 in Lisbon, June 19-23, 2018

    The program for LabPhon16 has been posted, along with the schedule for the five satellite workshops on June 19 and 23. The overarching theme of the conference is "Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology" and the topics of the satellite workshops range from a "Tutorial on ultrasound evidence in phonology" to a workshop on "The role of predictability in shaping human sound systems". As the official journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, Laboratory Phonology is an ideal venue for work in this area, and the General Editor invites submissions of work presented at LabPhon16 or at its satellite workshops, as well as ideas for special collections of papers arising from the themes of the conference.

    Posted on 29 May 2018

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    Impact Factor 0.667

    Lab Phon has received an Impact Factor of 0.667 for the 2016 release, and is ranked 90/180 in the category of Linguistics.

    Posted on 16 Jun 2017

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    Call for papers: Abstraction, Diversity, and Speech Dynamics

    Guest Editors Jonathan Harrington, Marianne Pouplier and Eva Reinisch are soliciting high-quality contributions on the topic of Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics for a Special Issue of Laboratory Phonology.

    Producing and perceiving speech involves the parallel transmission of numerous types of signs or categories, both linguistic (e.g. words and their constituent consonants and vowels) and indexical (social class, regional affiliation, gender etc.). The production of speech also involves a coordinated activity of some hundred muscles per second that is adapted to speaking and situational contexts. While it has long become clear that the linguistic and social as well as the cognitive and physical aspects of speaking are tightly intertwined, quite how these multiple layers of semiotic and signal aspects of speech are connected and how those connections may be manifested differently in the world's languages and cultures remains poorly understood.

    The aim of the special issue is to advance the discussion on these issues by bringing together scientists from various disciplines engaged in research on areas such as memory and its relationship to abstraction, feedback and feedforward control systems, and modelling the association between discrete categories and continuous speech dynamics. It is only with a deeper understanding of the semiotic-signal association that breakthroughs can be achieved in understanding how the sounds of language are acquired, in how normal and disordered mechanisms of speech are related, and in the way that social and linguistic information interact and are transmitted in speech communication.

    We will particularly welcome proposals on, though not limited to, one or more of the following topics:

    • Models of lexical access and the lexicon and their relationship to speech perception and production
    • The role of experience and social interaction for abstraction 
    • First and second language acquisition, lifelong learning, multilingualism
    • Language dynamics over the lifespan of an individual as much as within a speaker community 
    • The emergence of linguistic diversity and sound change from interactions between speakers and hearers 
    • The link between perception and production and the role of feedback and feedforward mechanisms for stability and change in phonological systems, and their disruption in speech disorders 
    • Techniques for quantifying and categorising large samples of dynamic speech data 

    As a first step, contributors are asked to submit a 1-page abstract to the editors via the e-mail address dynamics@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de.

     

    Contributions will be evaluated based on relevance for the topic of the special issue and overall quality and contribution to the field. Contributors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit the full paper, which will undergo a regular peer review. Contributions that do not fulfill the criteria for this special issue can of course still be submitted for review to Laboratory Phonology in the usual way.

    Timeline
     Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 15 July 2017
    Invitation for full paper submission: 01 August, 2017
    Deadline of submission of full papers: 01 December, 2017

    Posted on 01 Jun 2017

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    Impact Factor: 0.667

    LabPhon has been indexed by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the first time with a 2015 Impact Factor of 0.667

    Posted on 22 Jul 2016