LabPhon 17: Laboratory Phonology 17 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada, July 5-8, 2020 |
Conference website | https://labphon.org/labphon17/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=labphon17 |
Submission deadline | November 8, 2019 |
NOTE: Submission deadline has been extended! Abstracts will be accepted until 11:59 PM (Niue time) on 8 November 2019.
LabPhon is the biennial conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. The purpose of the association is to promote the scientific study of all aspects of the phonetics and phonology of spoken and signed languages through scholarly exchange across disciplines. The association is an international body open to scholars world-wide, and is committed to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge on the phonetics and phonology of all human languages.
Conference Theme
Laboratory Phonology on the Margins
Not every speaker, community, or data point is at the peak of a distribution. Many communities, individuals, and phenomena are on the tails. The theme of this LabPhon is on these tails, these empirical phonological phenomena that are often understudied and overlooked in data collection and theoretical frameworks. Our phonological theories need to be informed by these understudied patterns, and we seek contributions to the conference that address these patterns and populations that are often left on the margins.
Specific sub-themes are:
- Acquisition on the Margins
- Social Variation on the Margins
- Languages on the Margins
- Phonological Structure on the Margins
- Speech on the Margins
- Computational Approaches to the Margins
Submission Guidelines
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Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed one page of text. References, examples and/or figures can optionally be included on a second page.
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Submitted abstracts must be in .pdf format, with Times New Roman font, size 12, 1 inch margins and single spacing.
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The filename must be in the form Paper_title.pdf (e.g., Articulatory_binding.pdf ).
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Do not include author names or affiliations in either the filename or the abstract itself.
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During the submission process, authors will be asked to identify which conference sub-theme(s), if any, their submission relates to (as listed above), and whether an abstract is submitted for oral presentation, poster presentation, or either. Authors whose papers are accepted for oral presentation will be required to share their slides with discussants of the relevant theme in May 2020, and authors who indicate that they are submitting for an oral presentation should be committed to doing so.
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During the submission process, authors will be asked to provide between three and five keywords that best characterize their submission.
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Authors may submit one abstract as first author, and may be co-author on no more than one additional abstract. In other words, one may be an author on up to two submissions, but first author on only one of those. If you have a compelling reason as to why you should be exempted from this rule (e.g., you are from the Global South and want to make the most of your conference travel opportunity), please email us so that we can discuss your situation.
Organizing Committee
- Dr. Molly Babel, UBC
- Dr. Ashley Farris-Trimble, SFU
- Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall, UBC
Venue
LabPhon17 will be held July 6–8, 2020 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, in Canada.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to labphon.17@ubc.ca.
Satellite Workshops
The following satellite workshops have been confirmed for LabPhon 17. More information about each will be posted on the main LabPhon 17 website as it becomes available.
- July 5, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM:
- "Cue weighting: Thinking outside the box" -- organized by Meghan Clayards, James Kirby, and Jessamyn Schertz
- "Word-specific phenomena in the realization of vowel categories: Methodological and theoretical perspectives" -- organized by Gerard Docherty, James Grama, Ksenia Gnevsheva, Jennifer Hay, James Brand, Simon Gonzalez, Debbie Loakes, Elena Sheard, Paulk Foulkes, Chloe Diskin, Katie Drager, James Walker, and Catherine Travis
- July 5, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM:
- "Usage-based approaches to phonological change" -- organized by Vsevolod Kapatsinski and Corrine Occhino
- "Forms and representations in phonology" -- organized by Amalia Arvaniti, Bettina Braun, Sasha Calhoun, James Kirby, and Ivan Yuen
- July 9, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM:
- "Pedagogical approaches to Laboratory Phonology" -- organized by Christina Bjorndahl, Mark Gibson, and Jonathan Howell
- "Situating phonological contrast within the production-perception loop" -- organized by Abby Cohn and Jason Shaw
- July 9, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM:
- "Advancing transparency and reproducibility in Laboratory Phonology" -- organized by Joseph Casillas and Timo B. Roettger
- "Neural network models for articulatory gestures" -- organized by Tomas O. Lentz and Marianne Pouplier