Interdisciplinary Workshop on "The Phonetics of Laughter"

The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Papers

We invite submission of short papers of approximately 1500 words length. Oral presentations will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion time. Additionally, there will be a poster session.

All accepted papers will be available as on-line proceedings on the web, there will be no printed proceedings. We plan to publish selected contributions for a special issue in an international scientific journal.

Submissions

All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers.

Please send submissions by e-mail to laughter@coli.uni-sb.de specifying "short paper" in the subject line and providing

1. for each author: name, title, affiliation in the body of the mail

2. Title of paper

3. Preference of presentation mode (oral or poster)

4. Short paper as plain text

In addition you can submit audio files (as wav), graphical files (as jpg) and video clips (as mpg). All files together should not exceed 1 Mb.

Important dates

Submission deadline for short papers: March 16, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2007
Early registration deadline: June 16, 2007
Workshop dates: August 5, 2007

Plenary lecture

Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Organisation Committee

Nick Campbell (ATR, Kyoto)
Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University & Phonetik-Büro Trouvain, Saarbrücken)

Programme Committee

Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Véronique Aubergé (Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble)
Jo-Anne Bachorowski (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Hui-Chin Hsu (University of Georgia, Athens)
Daniel O'Connell (Loyola University of Chicago)
Silke Kipper (Duke University, Durham, NC)
Sabine Kowal (Technical University Berlin)
Rod Martin (University of Western Ontario)
Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Neal Norrick (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
Eva Nwokah (Communic. Sciences and Disorders, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Willibald Ruch (University of Zürich)
Bernd Pompino-Marschall (Humboldt University Berlin)
Béatrice Priego-Valverde (University Aix-en-Provence)
Marc Schröder (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, Saarbrücken)
Diana Szameitat (Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Dietmar Todt (Free University Berlin)

Location

The laughter workshop will take place in the Centre for Language Research and Language Technology on the campus of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The campus is located in the woods and is 5 km from the town centre of Saarbrücken.

Contact

Jürgen Trouvain

Saarland University
FR. 4.7: Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Building C7.4
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany

E-mail: laughter@coli.uni-sb.de