13th Nordic Prosody Conference

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Sonderborg, Denmark

17-19 August 2022

Topic: Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research

The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) and the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark. The conference will be held 17-19 August 2022.

Website: https://event.sdu.dk/13rdnordicprosody/main

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken all around the Baltic Sea coastline. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.

Keynote Speakers

- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence

- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters

- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words

Scientific Areas (not exhaustive)

• Phonology and phonetics of prosody

• Production and perception of prosody

• Acquisition, learning and teaching of prosody

• Assessment of prosody and measures to evaluate prosodic skills

• Non-native aspects in the production and perception of prosody

• Socio-phonetic aspects of prosody

• Prosodic variation in continuous speech

• Speech processing of and for prosodic patterns

• Prosody in and for talking machines and robots

• Psychological and neural mechanisms of prosody

• Pathologies and therapies related to prosody

• Resources related to prosody: Speech corpora, annotation systems, tools & methods

• Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of prosody

• Mutimodal signals related to prosody

• Applied prosody

Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume by Sciendo/de Gruyter.

Important dates:
05 June 2022 Abstract submission deadline (through EasyChair)

01 July 2022 Notification of acceptance
31 July 2022 Early bird registration deadline
17-19 August 2022 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2022 Full-paper submission deadline

Registrations are made through the conference website under “Sign up”. Abstracts should be submitted under the following EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np13 . Please find the formatting guidelines or template for both the abstract and the full paper below or on the “Download” subpage. Please note that the full-paper after the conference submission is not made through EasyChair. To submit your full paper, please use this link to Sciendo here: https://sciendo.com/book/9788366675728

We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.

The NP13 organizing committee