The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages will be held in Berlin, Germany, from Monday, June 18 till Wednesday, June 20, 2018. TAL 2018 will be organized at Beuth University Berlin conveniently located in the city center close to all major attractions. TAL 2018 is timed after Speech Prosody 2018 in Poznań, Poland, June 13-16, only a three-hour train ride away.
TAL 2018 is supported by the International Speech Communication Association and the ISCASProSIG.
The symposium will continue the tradition of the previous five symposia, aiming to present state-ofthe–art research on the typological, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, acquisitional, and technological aspects of tonal contrasts. We invite contributions from all these areas. Also welcome are contributions on non-tone languages and the use of tone in poetry or song.
Selection of Scientific Area Topics:
Phonology and phonetics of tones
Typology of tones and tone languages
Tone production and perception
Acquisition and learning/teaching of tones
Evolution of tones and tone change
Tone, accent, and intonation
Tonal variation in continuous speech
Modeling of tonal aspects of languages
Speech processing for tone languages
Tonal processing in speech recognition, synthesis, and assessment
Psychological and neural mechanisms of tones
Pathology and therapy for tonal aspects of languages
Speech corpus and annotation for tones
Cross-linguistic study of tone languages and non-tone languages
Tonal information in forensic phonetics
Tone in singing and opera
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