The Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校将于2004年6月24日至26日举办第九届实验室语音学会议（LabPhon 9）。本次国际会议的主要目标是促进对语言声音结构的跨学科研究，从不同的角度克服将作为理论语言学分支的音系学与研究言语产生、言语感知、口语习得以及其他与人类言语有关的学科分开的传统界限。LabPhon 9的中心主题将是语音学的变化。在保持与会议的跨学科性质，我们包括在儿童语音习得的变化，社会因素，条件语音变化，声音变化的机制，双语者和语言学习者的语音变化，以及在计算机语音处理变化的语音模型的副主题。这些主题涉及许多具有广泛社会意义的重要领域，包括儿童语言发展、语言教学和人机交互技术。LabPhon会议是语言学家和其他领域学者之间跨学科互动的重要论坛。特邀演讲者和其他与会者隶属于不同的学术部门，如心理学，计算机科学，电气工程，语音和听力科学等，以及语言学和外语部门。会议将支持来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生和学者的参与，包括非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲人。会议的精选论文将以编辑卷的形式出版，这是有影响力的LabPhon系列的第9卷。

With National Science Foundation support, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 9) on June 24-26, 2004. The main goal of this international conference is to promote interdisciplinary research on the sound structure of languages, overcoming the traditional boundaries that separate phonology, as a branch of theoretical linguistics, from the study of speech production, speech perception, spoken language acquisition, and other disciplines concerned with human speech from different perspectives. The central theme of LabPhon 9 will be Change in Phonology. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, we include subthemes on change in child phonology acquisition, social factors that condition phonetic variation, mechanisms of sound change, phonological change in bilinguals and language learners, and phonological models of variation in computer speech processing. These topics address many important areas of broad social interest, including child language development, language pedagogy, and technologies for human-computer interaction.The LabPhon conference is a major forum for interdisciplinary interaction between linguists and scholars in other fields. Invited speakers and other conference participants are affiliated with diverse academic departments, such as Psychology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Speech and Hearing Sciences, among others, as well as departments of Linguistics and foreign languages. The conference will support the participation of students and scholars from underrepresented minorities, including African-Americans and Latinos. Selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited volume, the 9th in the influential LabPhon series.