The Council of the IPA is establishing committees that will take on some of the tasks of running the Association, and will allow us to expand what we can do for the field of phonetics. Here are the committees currently being set up, their Council memberships, and brief descriptions. At least some committees will be adding non-Council members, including student members.

Alphabet, Charts and Fonts (Pat Keating (chair), Asher Laufer, Wai-Sum Lee, Adrian Simpson, John Wells (consulting member)) - Contact point for proposals for changes to the alphabet or chart; production of IPA charts in various fonts, file formats, and image resolutions; online distribution of these charts; liaison with SIL and Unicode Technical Committee; liaison with International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association; soliciting, vetting, and disseminating IPA charts in languages other than English and tables of correspondences between IPA and non-IPA symbols.

Conference Sponsorships and Student Awards (Pam Beddor, John Esling, Jonathan Harrington, Katerina Nicolaidis (chair), Masaki Taniguchi) - Policies for conference/workshop sponsorship; evaluation of requests to the IPA for such sponsorship. Guidelines and criteria for evaluating applications for IPA Student Awards and Gösta Bruce travel awards; solicitation and evaluation of applications for these awards. Determination and management of annual budget for awards.

Education (Patricia Ashby, Plinio Barbosa, Cecile Fougeron, Keith Johnson, Maria-Josep Sole (chair)) - Educational content of the IPA’s website and other educational outreach to students and teachers of phonetics.

History (Michael Ashby (chair), Bill Barry, Janet Fletcher, Pat Keating) - History of the Association and its journals, and of phonetics more generally. Liaison with ISCA SIG on History of Speech Communication Research, The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, and with the historical acoustic-phonetics collection (HAPS) at TU Dresden.

Phonetic Documentation of Languages (Kofi Adu Manyah, Ian Maddieson (chair), Alexis Michaud, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Daniel Recasens, Marija Tabain) - Encourage and fund phonetic fieldwork through existing organizations; offer expert advice to fieldworkers; liaison with archives of language materials.

Social Media and Outreach (Martine Grice, Jane Stuart-Smith (chair)) - Develop our social media, including our website, our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and our presence in Wikipedia, especially with a view to outreach to non-members who are interested in phonetics and the IPA.

The Journal of the IPA (JIPA) has now moved to an online submission system for all new Research Articles and Illustrations, including production files, which are to be submitted through JIPA's ScholarOne Manuscripts site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jipa.

Prior to submission, please ensure you consult the revised Instructions for Contributors PDF documents available on the CambridgeCore (Cambridge University Press) website.

Reviews, as well as revised manuscripts of Research Articles and Illustrations already with the editorial team, are to be submitted via email:

• Reviews are to be submitted to the Review Editor, Linda Shockey (l.shockey@reading.ac.uk)
• Revised versions of Research Articles and Illustrations, including final versions ready for production, are to be sent to the Editor, Amalia Arvaniti (a.arvaniti@kent.ac.uk).
  

Instructions for contributors can be downloaded from CambridgeCore (Cambridge University Press).

JIPA: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/journal-ipa

IPA Council member Marija Tabain and colleagues (to whom many thanks!) have produced a map of locations of languages for which Illustrations of the IPA have been published. Click on a language to access text and audio for its Illustration: https://richardbeare.github.io/marijatabain/ipa_illustrations_all.html.

We've noted on our charts webpage that in some fonts the Laminal diacritic is a square rather than the intended rectangle - because the official "representative glyph" in the Unicode Charts used for this character (U+033B) is a square, with the name "Combining Square Below". The Unicode Technical Committee has now approved a request by Lorna Evans of SIL International and Patricia Keating of the IPA to change the glyph to a rectangle. SIL will modify its fonts accordingly, and it is hoped that eventually other font developers will do so. Many thanks to Lorna for this initiative.

The Association is pleased to announce that Illustrations of the IPA from 2001 through 2013 are now freely available from the Journal of the IPA website,
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-pho.... Click on "Illustrations of the IPA - free content" to see a list, or access individual Illustrations from contents of back issues. Many of those who find the Illustrations useful are not members of the IPA and thus do not have members' access to the material published in JIPA. We hope that by making them freely available, they will be more widely used.