Call for Papers

We are soliciting work on original and unpublished research on topics related to corpus phonetics, as well as tutorials on existing data/tools, or strong work in progress. Appropriate sub-topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Corpus phonetic studies, including studies involving smaller speech corpora, endangered/underdocumented language data, prosody, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic/dialectal variation, longitudinal data, historical data, or large-scale corpora.

• Processing tools, such as forced alignment, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, automated annotation, and automated phonetic measurement;

• Quantitative analysis (statistical methods, visualization) for corpus/observational data;

• Issues in corpus development, such as validation and quality control; issues related to data storage, management, and metadata; and ethical issues;

• Presentation of new corpora appropriate for research in laboratory phonology.

Submissions should specify whether the presentation is better suited for a standard conference talk (~20 min + 10 min questions) or a demonstration (10-min lightning talk + participation in a 1-hour walk-about session). For example, a talk could report new research using an existing corpus, summarize a “closed” corpus (e.g. co-developed with a language community), or discuss broader methodological and conceptual considerations for corpus phonetics. A demonstration could present a tool for automatic speech analysis, show a new “open” corpus, or give a quick tutorial.

Abstract format requirements:

• Written in English

• Maximum of one page of text; references, examples, and/or figures may be included on a second page

• Submitted as a PDF file

• Times New Roman font, size 12, single spacing, 1-inch margins

• Filename format: Paper_title.pdf (e.g., Looking_back_and_looking_forward.pdf)

• Do not include author names or affiliations in the filename or in the abstract itself

Link for Submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CPLP2026