The Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology

在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24-26日主办第九届实验室音系学会议(LabPhon 9)。这次国际会议的主要目的是促进对语言声音结构的跨学科研究，打破传统的界限，将音系学作为理论语言学的一个分支，从不同的角度研究言语产生、言语感知、口语习得等与人类言语有关的学科。LabPhon 9的中心主题将是音系学的变化。为了与会议的跨学科性质保持一致，我们包括以下主题：儿童语音习得的变化、调节语音变化的社会因素、语音变化的机制、双语者和语言学习者的语音变化以及计算机语音处理中的语音变化模型。这些话题涉及许多社会广泛关注的重要领域，包括儿童语言发展、语言教育学和人机交互技术。LabPhon会议是语言学家和其他领域学者之间跨学科互动的主要论坛。受邀的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、言语和听觉科学等，以及语言学系和外语系。会议将支持来自代表不足的少数族裔的学生和学者参加，其中包括非洲裔美国人和拉美裔美国人。从会议中挑选出来的论文将以编辑后的卷出版，这是颇具影响力的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.