June 2018
SPADE features in the poster The fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in contemporary Scottish English presented at the 5th Workshop on Sound Change held at the University of California, Davis, June 21-23 2019.
Three SPADE papers accepted for oral presentations at ICPhS 2019
Feb/March 2019
Three SPADE project papers will be given as oral presentations at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) to be held from 5th-9th August 2019 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia:
SPADE at NWAV 47 (2018)
October 2018
SPADE features in two presentations: Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for North American and Scottish English vowel formants and Dialectal and social factors affect the phonetic bases of English /s/-retraction given at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV47) conference held at New York University, USA, 18th-21st October 2018.
ISCAN presentation and tutorial at NWAV 2018
October 2018
The ISCAN software being developed for the SPADE project was presented in a workshop at NWAV 2018. In addition to a talk (slides: iscan-nwav-2018), participants worked through a detailed tutorial demo’ing ISCAN’s current functionality for analyses of duration, vowels, and sibilants.
SPADE at the WYRED Project Data Sharing Event
August 2018
The SPADE project is the key focus of the talk Developing tools for data sharing: Polyglot + ISCAN (Integrated Speech Corpus ANalysis) given at the WYRED project Data Sharing Event held on 2nd August at the University of Huddersfield. This was a satellite event of the 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA).
SPADE at LabPhon16
June 2018
SPADE is a key feature in two poster presentations Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English and Dialectal and social factors affect the phonetic bases of English /s/-retraction given at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16) held at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 19th-22nd June 2018.
SPADE at BAAP
April 2018
SPADE is a key feature of the presentation Cross-dialectal variation in /s/-retraction in English given at the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) Colloquium held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 12th-14th April 2018.
SPADE at CLiS
December 2017
Digging into speech corpora: Introducing SPADE, a new initiative for mining spoken datasets on a large scale is the keynote presentation at the Corpus Linguistics in Scotland event Corpus linguistics and cross-disciplinarity in Glasgow.
SPADE at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
December 2017
SPADE is mentioned in the presentation Sociophonetic trends in studies of Southern English at the 174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New Orleans.
http://acousticalsociety.org/sites/default/files/fullweek.pdf
SPADE at NWAV 46
November 2017
SPADE is mentioned in the workshop Sociolinguistics and forensic speech science: knowledge- and data-sharing at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46 conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
https://dept.english.wisc.edu/nwav46/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NWAV-46-Booklet-Nov3.pdf