Supporting Young Investigator Travel to the Eleventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology

实验室音韵学（Labphon）系列会议汇集了一群学者，他们使用实验和定量方法来研究人类语言的声音结构如何在思想和大脑中表现出来。实验室音系学超越了传统的学科界限。虽然该会议植根于语言学领域，但它吸引了来自电气工程、心理学、语音和听力科学、人类学等不同领域的积极参与者。它的学术影响甚至延伸到更广泛的学科，如传播学、语言病理学和社会学。以前的十次Labphon会议的每一次都以出版编辑卷而告终。《实验室音韵学》丛书收录了大量被广泛引用的论文，其中一些被认为是语音学和音韵学领域的经典。许多在之前的Labphon会议上发表过演讲的年轻研究者都在口语研究方面取得了非常成功的学术和职业生涯。2008年，Labphon将首次在美国或欧洲以外的地方，在新西兰的惠灵顿举行。该基金将为10位早期职业学者（包括学生）参加第十一届实验室音韵学会议提供旅费支持。旅行资助申请将由来自俄亥俄州立大学、纽约大学、西北大学、俄勒冈大学、麻省理工学院、明尼苏达大学和两所Labphon Eleven主办大学惠灵顿大学和坎特伯雷大学的早期职业调查人员组成的委员会进行评估。他们将由明尼苏达大学管理。美国国家科学基金会支持年轻研究人员前往Labphon 11，这是对10位旅行资助获得者未来研究和学术努力的切实投资。这种支持将进一步提高跨学科口语研究的知名度和突出性，并将提高美国研究对全球受众的知名度。

The Laboratory Phonology (Labphon) Conference series brings together a community of scholars who use experimental and quantitative measures to study the how the sound structure of human language is represented in the mind and in the brain. Laboratory Phonology transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. Though firmly rooted in the field of linguistics, the conference has attracted active participants from diverse fields including electrical engineering, psychology, speech and hearing sciences, and anthropology. Its scholarly impact extends even more broadly to disciplines like communication studies, speech-language pathology, and sociology. Each of the ten previous Labphon conferences has culminated in the publication of an edited volume. The Laboratory Phonology book series includes numerous widely cited papers, some of which are regarded as classics in the fields of phonetics and phonology. Many young investigators who have presented at previous Labphon conferences have gone on to have very successful academic and professional careers studying spoken language. In 2008, Labphon will be held for the first time outside of the United States or Europe, in Wellington, New Zealand. This grant will provide travel support for ten early-career scholars, including students, to attend the Eleventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Travel grant applications will be evaluated by a committee of early-career investigators from the Ohio State University, New York University, Northwestern University, University of Oregon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, and the two Labphon Eleven host universities, the University of Wellington and Canterbury University. They will be administered by the University of Minnesota. National Science Foundation support of young-investigator travel to Labphon Eleven is a tangible investment in the future research and scholarly endeavors of the ten travel-grant recipients. This support will further increase the visibility and prominence of research in spoken language across disciplines, and will increase the visibility of US research to a global audience.