I C P L A

We are delighted to announce that three new ICPLA committee members were elected recently:

President: Prof Vesna Mildner, University of Zagreb

Vice President: Prof Vesna Stojanovik, University of Reading

Secretary: Dr Joanne Cleland, University of Strathclyde

We looking forward to representing the members of ICPLA over the next year. Thank you very much to the outgoing committee for their hard work over the last four years. 

Panel proposals and abstracts for individual research papers are invited for the 17th ICPLA Conference to be held in Malta between 23 and 25 October 2018.  Details and submission forms can be found on the conference website: https://www.um.edu.mt/events/icpla2018

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:

The 17th ICPLA conference will be held from 23-25 October, 2018, at the Corinthia San Gorg, St Julians, in Malta. Details of the location are here: https://www.corinthia.com/en/hotels/malta-stgeorgesbay

The conference convenor is Professor Helen Grech, University of Malta.

More details will be coming soon.

The extIPA and VoQS charts have been revised (see Journal and Publications page). The following papers describe the revisions.

• Ball, M. J., Howard, S. J. and Miller, K. (2017). Revisions to the extIPA chart. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
  Advance online publication: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/revisions-to-the-extipa-chart/06C01EA81DA2AECA2AC52AAF21556B33
• Ball, M. J., Esling, J. and Dickson, C. (2017). Revisions to the VoQS system for the transcription of voice quality. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
  Advance online publication: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/revisions-to-the-voqs-system-for-the-transcription-of-voice-quality/67662EA00A0B1D77136AF8514B6F230B

Congratulations to ICPLA's life members who were announced at the 25th anniversary celebrations in Halifax, Canada in 2016:

• Martin J. Ball
• William J. Hardcastle
• Sara Howard
• Nicole Müller
• Michael R. Perkins
• Thomas W. Powell

ICPLA celebrated its 25th anniversary in Halifax, Canada in June 2016. A PowerPoint presentation containing historical photographs can be downloaded here (Note. 33MB file)

The 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (http://icpla2016.ca) was held June 15-18, 2016 at Dalhousie University on the beautiful east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

We enjoyed hearing from the plenary speakers:

• Ellen Bialystok (York University)
• Ingrid Johnsrude (Western University)
• Sally Rice (University of Alberta)
• Janet F. Werker (University of British Columbia)

and the ICPLA presenters from across the world.

Thank you to the organizing committee:

• Conference Chair: Michael Kiefte
• Program Chair: Patricia Cleave
• Organizing Committee: Joy Armson, Elissa Asp, Patricia Cleave, Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird, Michael Kiefte, Aaron Newman, Lauren Petley, Bonita Squires. Kaitlyn Tagarelli
• Program Committee: Patricia Cleave, Kaitlyn Tagarell