We are delighted to announce that following approval by the IPA Council, a new publication agreement has been signed with Cambridge University Press for the Journal of the Association. This agreement will usher in a new era for JIPA.

JIPA, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, is switching to fully open access. This means that all articles accepted for publication in the JIPA will be published with a Creative Commons license and are freely available to read online. Printed copies of JIPA will no longer be produced and distributed as of 2025.

The costs of open access publication will be covered through agreements between the publisher and the author’s institution, payment of APCs from grant or other funds, or else waived entirely (for IPA members), ensuring every author can publish and enjoy the benefits of OA open access.

Seven student members have received IPA Student Awards for their participation at Speech Prosody 2024, 2-5 July in Leiden, The Netherlands. They are:

• Marlene Böttcher (Kiel University, Germany)
• Jiajun Gao (The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China)
• Wenxi Fei (The Hong-Kong Polytechnic University)
• Celeste Olson (University of Calgary, Canada)
• Xiaomu Ren (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Thomas Sostarics (Northwestern University, USA)
• Jungyun Seo (University of Michigan, USA)

Congratulations to the awardees!

Committee on Conference Sponsorships and Student Awards: Patrice Beddor, Ioana Chitoran (chair), John Esling, Jonathan Harrington, Katerina Nicolaidis, Masaki Taniguchi

The IPA is co-sponsoring the 5th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics to be held in Tartu, Estonia, 30 September-2 October 2024. IPA is offering up to four Awards covering the student early-bird registration fees. Applicants for these Awards must be:

• sole author or first and presenting author of an oral or poster presentation accepted by ISAPh 2024, and
• 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. They need to be submitted at least a week before the deadline for applications for IPA Student Awards. 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 abstract and notification of acceptance. The deadline for applications is May 30th, 2024. 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.

John Kelly, phonetician, phonologist and Africanist, died in Leeds on 30 December 2023 at the age of 87. He was born in Davyhulme, a small town on the outskirts of Manchester on 23 August 1936.

John read French and German as an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and in 1961 began postgraduate study at Edinburgh in the Department of Phonetics under David Abercrombie. He was an assistant
lecturer in phonetics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1961 to 1964, and a lecturer in phonetics at the University of lbadan, Nigeria, from 1964 to 1965. He then became a lecturer in phonetics and linguistics at SOAS moving to the Department of Language, as it then was, at the University of York in 1972 to teach Swahili and Phonetics. He retired as Reader in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1998.

John was an astonishingly acute auditory and impressionistic phonetician as anyone who observed him working with language consultants will testify. He was also an innovative and creative phonologist working in the framework of Firthian Prosodic Analysis. He published on a variety of African languages including Swahili, Fang, Xhosa and Urhobo as well as North Welsh and English dialects. He was the driving force behind the series of York Colloquia in Prosodic Analysis and the creation of the Firthian Prosodic Archive at York. He had a longstanding interest in the History of Phonetics and in his retirement he was working on a study of the early phonetician Alexander Ellis.

A gentle, wise and caring man. He is greatly missed.

Obituary by John Local

The IPA is co-sponsoring Speech Prosody 2024, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, 02–05 July 2024. IPA is offering up to six Awards covering the student early-bird registration fees. Applicants for these Awards must be:

• sole author or first and presenting author of an oral or poster presentation accepted by SP2024, and
• 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 22 April 1st, 2024. 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.