|  | We would like to announce  the Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech Communication in Journal of Phonetics, co-edited by Jennifer Pardo, Elisa
 Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo and Bernd Möbius.
 
 We especially invite contributions which:
 
 - examine and ideally compare instances of vocal accommodation in human-human and
 human-computer interactions according to their underlying mechanism (e.g. automatic
 perception production link) and social functions (e.g. to signal social closeness or
 distance; to become more intelligible; to sound dominant, trustworthy or attractive);
 
 - investigate the effect of task-specific and talker-specific characteristics (gender,
 age, personality, linguistic and cultural background, role in interaction) in degree and
 direction of convergence towards human and computer interlocutors;
 
 - integrate articulatory and/or perceptual/neurocognitive/multimodal data to the analysis
 of vocal accommodation in interactive and non-interactive speech tasks;
 
 - investigate the contribution of short/long-term accommodation in human-human and
 human-computer interactions to the diffusion of linguistic innovation and ultimately
 language variation and change;
 
 - explore the implications of accommodation for human and machine speaker recognition,
 language learning technologies, and speech rehabilitation.
 
 Important Dates and Timeline
 
 Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 31 July 2019
 
 Invitation for full paper submission: 31 August 2019
 
 Deadline for submission of full paper: 31 December 2019
 
 Further information
 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-phonetics/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-vocal-accommodation-in-speech-communication With best wishes from the
 editors
 
 Jennifer Pardo (pardoj@montclair.edu <mailto:pardoj@montclair.edu>), Elisa Pellegrino
 (elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch <mailto:elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch>), Volker Dellwo
 (volker.dellwo@uzh.ch <mailto:volker.dellwo@uzh.ch>), Bernd Möbius
 (moebius@coli.uni-saarland.de <mailto:moebius@coli.uni-saarland.de>)
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