Call for Papers

Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS)

volume 3, number 1 (regular issue)

Indexed in Linguistics Abstracts and the DOAJ (Directory of Open-Access Journals)

ISSN: 2236-9740

http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org

This is the Call for the fifth issue of the Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS). JoSS covers experimental aspects dealing 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.

The contributions should be sent through the journal website (www.journalofspeechsciences.org) until January 30^th, 2013. 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 given. The goal of this policy is to ensure a wide dissemination of quality research written in these three Romance languages. The contributions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, though the final decision as regards publication will be taken by the 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: January 30th, 2013^*Notification of acceptance: May, 2013Final manuscript due: June, 2013Publication date: July, 2013

^* If arrived after that date, the paper will follow the schedule for the next issue.

Fourth issue titles and authors (to appear in December 2012)

Regular papers

Formal intonation analysis: applying INTSINT to Portuguese [In Portuguese] by Letícia Celeste and César Reis from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Changes in in TV news speaking style reading after journalistic broadcasting training [In Portuguese] by Ana C. Constantini from the State University of Campinas, Brazil.

Analysis of the production of yes/no questions in Brazilian learners of Spanish as a foreign language [In Portuguese] by Eva C. O. Dias and Mariane A. Alves from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Experimental approach of the prosodic component in the linguistic input of garden-path sentences in Brazilian Portuguese [In Portuguese] by Aline A. Fonseca from the Federal University of of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Prosodic correlation between the focus particle ozik ‘only’ and focus/GIVENness in Korean byYong-cheol Lee from the University of Pennsylvania, United States.

Thematic papers

Extending Automatic Transcripts in a Unified Data Representation towards a Prosodic-based Metadata Annotation and Evaluation by Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno Mamede and Ana Isabel Mata from INESC-Lisboa.

Spontaneous Emotional speech in European Portuguese using Feeltrace system – fisrt approaches [In Portuguese] by Ana Nunes and António Teixeira from the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Open-Source Boundary-Annotated Qur’an Corpus for Arabic and Phrase Breaks Prediction in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic Text byMajdi Shaker Sawalha, Claire Brierley and Eric Atwell from the universities of Jordan (first author) and Leeds.

This issue acceptance rate: 73 %. Mean acceptance rate (four issues) : 52 %.

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