| 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>) |