12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology

第12届实验室音系学会议（LabPhon 12）将于2010年7月8日至10日在新墨西哥州大学举行。LabPhon会议系列汇集了来自各种背景的研究人员，他们采用经验方法来研究语言在其最基本的结构元素（声音，符号或手势的“原子”）水平上的组织方式。该系列会议的独特之处在于每次会议都围绕不同的主题组织。LabPhon 12的主题是“手势作为语言;手势和语言”。其目的是将动作作为语言单位的研究与更广泛的手势作为交流的一部分的研究联系起来，包括不属于语言系统但仍然帮助我们交流的手势。会议将汇集研究人员谁有一个手势的角度对语言，并鼓励不同的研究领域之间的交叉施肥，因为这些在语音组织的水平相交。这一主题似乎特别及时，因为手语语言学和手势研究越来越多地与语言学研究的长期建立的领域相结合，最近在运动研究方面的技术发展使更广泛和精确的语音和符号分析成为可能。特别会议将围绕与主题相关的六个分主题，邀请国际演讲者。讨论这些主题的其他论文将列入会议，会议结束时将邀请一名评论员对与每个分主题有关的论文进行反思。将安排一次或两次非专题会议，以便就更广泛的专题发表重要意见，还计划举行三次海报会议。LabPhon的传统是只有全体会议，在会议的三天内保持持续的对话，促进了与会者之间的持续互动。LabPhon会议受到研究生的强烈参与，其中许多人展示了他们正在进行的研究成果。学生参与将通过一个有利的低学生注册费鼓励。与同行和高级同事介绍和讨论他们的工作的机会有助于研究与教育的整合。此外，会议的国际性和跨学科性质旨在加强网络和伙伴关系建设，这往往会产生最具创造性的新科学工作。将作出特别努力，吸引在科研活动中代表性不足的少数群体成员，特别是美洲土著人和聋人社区的成员参加。会议记录不仅将在正式的学术出版物中传播，而且还将以使非专业读者感兴趣的形式在网上传播，并通过大学的网站进行宣传。会议的中心议题中有几个有可能带来直接的社会效益。更多地了解面部和手动手势如何与口语产生相协调，有望增强自动语音识别，以及对聋人和听力障碍者的培训。深入了解语言手势是如何产生的，为临床干预和语言教学以及语音技术的应用提供了更坚实的基础。研究个别语言的特点，可以提高人们对每个社区语言的意义和价值及其对整个人类文化的贡献的认识。

The 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) will be held at the University of New Mexico on July 8-10, 2010. The LabPhon conference series brings together researchers from a variety of backgrounds who employ empirical methods to study the way that language is organized at the level of its most basic structural elements, the "atoms" of sound, sign or gesture. The conference series is distinctive in that each conference is organized around a different theme. The theme for LabPhon 12 is "Gesture as language; gesture and language". The objective is to connect the study of movements as linguistic units to the broader study of gesture as part of communication, including gestures that are not part of a linguistic system but nonetheless help us communicate. The conference will bring together researchers who have a gestural perspective on language and encourage cross-fertilization between different areas of research as these intersect at the level of phonological organization. This theme seems particularly timely, as sign language linguistics and gesture studies are increasingly integrated with longer-established fields of linguistic study, and recent technological developments in the study of movement are making possible more extensive and precise analysis of both speech and sign. Special sessions will center on six sub-topics related to the main theme, with an international group of invited speakers. Additional contributed papers addressing these themes will be included in the sessions, which conclude with an invited commentator who reflects on the contributions relating to each sub-topic. One or two non-thematic sessions will be scheduled to accommodate significant contributions on a wider range of topics, and three poster sessions are also planned. Sustained interaction among attendees is facilitated by the LabPhon tradition of having only plenary sessions, maintaining an ongoing dialogue during the three days of the conference.LabPhon conferences enjoy strong participation by graduate students, many of whom present results of their ongoing research. Student participation will be encouraged through a favorable low student registration fee. The opportunities to present and discuss their work with peers and senior colleagues contribute to the integration of research with education. Further, the international and inter-disciplinary nature of the meeting is designed to enhance the kind of networking and partnership-building that often spawns the most creative new scientific work. Particular efforts will be made to attract participation by members of minorities under-represented in scientific research activities, most especially in this case members of the Native American and Deaf communities. The conference proceedings will be disseminated not only in formal academic publications but also on the web in a format designed to interest the lay reader and publicized via the university's web site. Among the central topics of the conference are several that have potential to bring direct societal benefits. Greater knowledge of how facial and manual gestures are coordinated with spoken language production promises to enhance automatic speech recognition, as well as training for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing. Deeper understanding of how linguistic gestures are produced provides a sounder foundation for clinical intervention and language instruction as well as for applications in speech technology. Study of the special features of individual languages increases awareness of the significance and value of every community's language and its contribution to overall human culture.