{"id":5,"date":"2014-09-16T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/home\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:56:38","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech Prosody 2016 Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Speech Prosody 8, which will be hosted at Boston University from Tuesday, May 31 through Friday, June 3, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-conference news!<\/strong> The four-page papers (with DOI) constituting the Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8, Boston, 2016, are available at the following web site, maintained by ISCA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isca-speech.org\/archive\/SpeechProsody_2016\/index.html\">http:\/\/http:\/\/www.isca-speech.org\/archive\/SpeechProsody_2016\/<\/a> To access the enhanced proceedings (with video archives), see our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/proceedings\/\" title=\"Proceedings\">Proceedings page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0The banquet at the Hotel Commonwealth on Thursday, June 2nd has\u00a0<strong>SOLD OUT!<\/strong>\u00a0We are no longer able to offer additional banquet tickets for Hotel Commonwealth. Tickets are included for all registrants who have paid as of May 24, 2016. Additionally, we cannot guarantee a banquet ticket for any new registrations after this date. If you register after May 24, 2016, and we are not able to find a banquet ticket for you, we will refund you $130, the cost of a banquet ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/schedule\/detailed-program\/\" title=\"Detailed program\">detailed schedule<\/a> is now available! See also our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/schedule-at-a-glance\/\" title=\"Schedule at a glance\">schedule at a glance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/registration\/\">Online registration<\/a> for the conference\u00a0is still open.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conference theme<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>Prosody and the Individual:\u00a0<\/span><span>Unity and Difference Within and Across Speech Communities<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keynote Speakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aoju Chen,<\/strong> Universiteit Utrecht<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laura Dilley,<\/strong> Michigan State University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rupal Patel,<\/strong> Northeastern University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Wong,<\/strong> Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Special sessions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rising intonation in English and beyond<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Meghan Armstrong, Page Piccinini, Amanda Ritchart<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sentence-final particles and intonation: Similarities, interactions, and historical relationships<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: James Sneed German, K. K. Luke<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Petra Wagner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speaker comfort and communication in noisy environments<\/strong> (Special Poster Session)<br \/>\nOrganizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Simone Graetzer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information on each of the special sessions can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/special-sessions\/\">Special Sessions page<\/a>. Papers to special sessions will be submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=sp2016\" title=\"submission page\">via EasyChair<\/a> with other submissions and will be reviewed and selected by Special Session organizers. Papers submitted to special sessions must also follow the same formatting and criteria of regular submissions. Please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/author-information\/\" title=\"author information\">author information page<\/a> for full submission requirements.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Satellite Meetings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We are pleased to announce 4 satellite meetings that will be held in association with Speech Prosody 2016, Boston.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Framing speech: Celebrating 40 years of inquiry with Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel,\u00a0<\/strong>organized by Jon Barnes, Alejna Brugos and Nanette Veilleux. Friday, June 3, 2:30 &#8211; 6:00 p.m.\u00a0See our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/satellite-meeting-framing-speech\/\">information page.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<b>A\u00a0<i>Common Prosody Platform<\/i> (CPP) for Comparing Prosodic Theories.<\/b> Organized by\u00a0<b>Doug Whalen\u00a0<\/b>(Haskins Laboratories, City University of New York),\u00a0<span><b>Yi Xu (<\/b>University College London), and\u00a0<b>Santitham Prom-on\u00a0<\/b>(King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand).\u00a0Saturday, June 4, full day, times to be announced. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/satellite-workshop-cpp\/\">workshop information page<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary) and its use for practical prosody training of Japanese.<\/strong> Boston University, Saturday, June 4, 2016, 9:00 a.m. &#8211; 2:30 p.m. Organized by Nobuaki Minematsu (Professor of The University of Tokyo, Leader of Project OJAD, Japan), Keikichi Hirose (Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Japan) and Emi Yamanaka (Lecturer of Boston University, USA). For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/speechprosody2016\/satellite-workshop-ojad-and-its-use-for-practical-prosody-training-of-japanese\/\">workshop information page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Note that the Workshop on IPrA: The International Prosodic Alphabet has been cancelled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Important upcoming dates:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Conference: May 31-June 3, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speech Prosody 2016 is conveniently timed following <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/tal2016\/\">TAL (Tonal Aspects of Language) 2016<\/a>, which will be held in Buffalo, NY, from Tuesday May 24 \u2013 Friday May 27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch this site for updates!<\/p>\n<p><em>Page updated May 24,\u00a02016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Speech Prosody 8, which will be hosted at Boston University from Tuesday, May 31 through Friday, June 3, 2016. Post-conference news! 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