IPA News 2021

21 Dec 2021

The IPA is co-sponsoring Speech Prosody 2022, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-26, 2022. IPA is offering up to six Awards covering the student registration fees. Applicants for these Awards must be:

  1. sole author or first and presenting author of an oral or poster presentation accepted by SP2022, and
  2. an eligible student member of the IPA: student member, unemployed member, member under age 35, or
    member from a low-income-level country.

Applications for IPA membership can be lodged via our website here. A full list of member benefits can be found on this page. To apply for an Award, eligible members of the IPA should log in to the website with their membership details and fill in the application form here. Students should upload their paper and notification of acceptance. The deadline for applications is Μarch 1, 2022. The registration fees will be reimbursed after the completion of the event and upon receipt of confirmation of participation at the conference. This will include photographs that can be posted on the IPA social media.

14 Jul 2021

The IPA is saddened to announce the death of Jack Windsor Lewis, who died on 11 July at the age of 94. He was in his seventieth year of IPA membership. The earliest of his many contributions to the Association's journal was in 1964, and the most recent appeared less than a year ago. He served on the IPA Council over the years 1985–1990.

His most notable publication is A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English (1972, London: OUP), and the indication of pronunciations in learners' dictionaries remained one of his central interests, but he was also a wide-ranging and assiduous reviewer, blogger and obituarist. During the 1970s and 1980s he was active in forensic phonetics and in 1991 was a Founder Member of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics.

The last nineteen years (1970–1989) of his working life were at the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics in Leeds, but that had been preceded by teaching posts in Belgium, Norway, Iran, Spain and Sweden, in addition to the UK, while summer courses and guest lectures took him even farther afield.

An astute observer and recorder of current English speech, he was an entertaining lecturer and popular teacher who will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all who knew him. On behalf of the whole Phonetics community, the IPA sends its condolences to his widow Jane.

30 May 2021

The International Phonetic Association is offering IPA Student Awards to student members of the Association attending conferences (virtual or physical) in 2021. Student members of the Association attending international conferences/symposia/workshops on the phonetic sciences are eligible to apply.

ipa-supportAwards will cover the student registration fees up to a maximum of 200 Euros per award. The IPA aims to support as many students as possible within the budget allocated for Student Awards. Priority will be given to students presenting their research at conferences; for students participating at conferences as auditors, awards will be made on a first come, first served basis. Applications for IPA membership can be lodged via our website here. The same webpage gives a full list of member benefits.

To apply for an Award, eligible members of the IPA should log in to the website with their membership details and fill in the application form. Applications need to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the conference. Students presenting their research should upload their abstract and notification of acceptance. The registration fees will be reimbursed after the completion of the event and upon receipt of confirmation of participation at the conference. This will include photographs or screenshots that can be posted on the IPA social media.