Call for Papers

Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS)

Volume 1, number 2 (regular issue)

This is the Call for the second issue of the Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS). The JoSS covers experimental aspects that deal with scientific aspects of speech, language and linguistic communication processes. Coverage also includes articles dealing with pathological topics, or articles of an interdisciplinary nature, provided that experimental and linguistic principles underlie the work reported. Experimental approaches are emphasized in order to stimulate the development of new methodologies, of new annotated corpora, of new techniques aiming at fully testing current theories of speech production, perception, as well as phonetic and phonological theories and their interfaces.

Original, previously unpublished contributions should be sent through the journal website (www.journalofspeechsciences.org) until July 15th. The primary language of the Journal is English. Contributions in Portuguese, in Spanish (Castillan) and in French are also accepted, provided a 1-page (between 500-600 words) abstract in English be provided. The goal of this policy is to ensure a wide dissemination of quality research written in these two Romance languages. The contributions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, though the final decision as to publication is taken by the two editors.

For preparing the manuscript, please follow the instructions at the JoSS webpage. If accepted, the authors must use the template given in the website for preparing the paper for publication.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:                July 15th, 2011^*
Notification of acceptance:       September, 2011
Final manuscript due:               November, 2011
Publication date:                      December, 2011

^* If arrived after that data the paper will follow the schedule for the third issue, volume 2.

First issue titles and authors (to appear in July 2011)

Regular papers

. SILVA, Jair de Almeida; MEIRELES, Alexsandro Rodrigues. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. Sociophonetic study of the Capixaba speech rhythm (in Portuguese)

. SILVA, Carolina Garcia de Carvalho; NAME, Maria Cristina. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Is “limpa” a verb or an adjective? The role of phonological phrase boundaries on syntactic parsing (in Portuguese)

Acceptance rate: 33%

Invited papers

. HIRST, Daniel, Université de Provence. The analysis by synthesis of speech melody - from data to models^*.

. SAN-SEGUNDO, Rubén¹, BONAFONTE, Antonio², MARTÍNEZ-HINAREJOS, Carlos D.³, ORTEGA, Alfonso⁴, ¹Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; ²Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; ³Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; ⁴Universidad de Zaragoza.  Review of Research on Speech Technology: main contributions from Spanish research groups

. XU, Yi, University College London. Experimental Prosody: A methodological review^*.

^*These titles are provisory.

About the JoSS

The Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS) is an open access journal which follows the principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), meaning that its readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of any article electronically published in the journal. It is accessible at <http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org>.

The JoSS covers experimental aspects that deal with scientific aspects of speech, language and linguistic communication processes. The JoSS is supported by the initiative of the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS), <http://www.lbass.org>. Founded in the 16th of February 2007, the LBASS aims at promoting, stimulating and disseminating research and teaching in Speech Sciences in Brazil and Portugal, as well as establishing a channel between sister associations abroad.

Editors

Plinio A. Barbosa (Speech Prosody Studies Group/State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Sandra Madureira (LIACC/Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)

E-mail: {pabarbosa, smadureira}@journalofspeechsciences.org