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Programma provvisorio

Please consider what follows as preliminary: changes may occur in the scheduling.

Themes:

Advanced use of Tools for Phonetic Research
Scripting and/or complex procedures
Perceptual experiments, methods and tools
Data Modeling, querying and Information Retrieval
Methodology clinics: small groups discuss students' own research questions
Annotation, Labeling, Descriptive Systems

Lessons:

24 hrs of theory to be divided according to above listed themes
6 hrs practice, teachers supported by three Italian PhD students

Preliminary programme:

September 2011
Sun 25th	Mon 26th	Tue 27th	Wed 28th	Thu 29th	Fri 30th
Meeting in Naples at 5 p.m. Transfer by bus to school site(2 hrs)	4 hrs theory	4 hrs theory	4 hrs theory	4 hrs theory	4 hrs theory	8:30-13:30
	Lunch and Sea	Lunch and Sea	1 hr Lunch 2 hrs practice	Lunch and Sea	departure	13:30-16:00
	2 hrs theory 2 hrs practice	2 hrs theory 2 hrs practice	16:30 Trip to Paestum or free afternoon	2hrs practice 2hrs posters from participants		16:00-20:00
			Special Dinner

Programme

SGPW = small group practice work

event = visit to Paestum and social dinner

	monday 26	tuesday 27	wednesday 28	thursday 29	friday 30
8:30/9:30	School presentation Welcome by AISV President	mietta2 How to speed up your annotation project using Praat scripts	paul3 How to extend your analyses using Praat scripts	franco2 Semistructured Databases for Phonetics/Linguistics Information Management and retrieval: XML, XPath, XQuery	sven4 More on how to use DMDX to run more complex experiments
9:30/10:30	paul1 Acoustic and auditory events as cues to articulation and linguistic structures	sven2 DMDX introduction and how to use DMDX to run simple experiments such as lexical decision, etc.	franco1 Relational databases: generalities, E/R diagrams, SQL, representing Textgrids and phonetic data in general into relational database	mietta4 Exploiting the annotation (analysing your speech corpus with Praat)	paul4 Praat's stimulus generation and listening experiments
10:30/11:00	coffee break	coffee break	coffee break	coffee break	coffee break
11:00/12:00	mietta1 Annotation and labeling	paul2 Tricks and pitfalls in spectral, pitch, formant, intensity and harmonicity measurements	mietta3 Descriptive systems (defining the annotation units; principles and pitfalls)	sven3 More Experimental methods for perceptual testing (similar to Theory 1)	franco3 Text aligned and Time aligned data, complex linguistics data management
12:00/13:00	michele1 FDA in general	antonio Matlab and Praat	michele2 Advances in FDA (analysing speech rate with FDA, FDA for speech resynthesis)	vincenzo A trip with tricks: a journey into PHON and some tips on how to use it	SGPW
13:00/13:30	discussion	discussion	discussion	discussion	lunch & departure
13:30/16:00	lunch & sea	lunch & sea	lunch & sea	lunch & sea	=
16:00/17:00	clinics1	clinics2	clinics3 (15:30/16:30)	clinics4	=
17:00/17:30	coffee	coffee	event	coffee	=
17:30/18:30	sven1 Experimental methods for perceptual testing	SGPW- sven1 Hands-on DMDX exercises	event	SGPW - sven 2 More Hands-on DMDX exercises	=
18:30/19:30	SGPW - michele 1 FDA software in R (includes some interfacing with Praat)	SGPW	event	SGPW	=

Proporre un Gruppo di Interesse

Per proporre un Gruppo di Interesse AISV è disponibile un modulo precompilato nella categoria Modulistica della sezione Documenti che può essere scaricato da qui.

Proposing a summer school

In order to propose an AISV summer school or training school, a downloadable template model is available in the Documents section.

As a general guide, in order to propose a summer school, you need:

To specify a subject of interest to the association;
To present a detailed programme;
The programme must include lessons timetable, a name list of teachers (max 5), each providing his/her CV, and a list of minimum 20 pre-enrolments;
The main objective of the summer school is a teaching close examination; make sure on a formal written basis that teachers must be able to take part to the summer school for the entire length of the programme (generally five days) and that an adequate number of hours of practical and debate/discussion must be provided accordingly;
To subscribe the clause that teaching materials and resources (i.e. PPT, PDF, DOC, etc…) are OPENSOURCE and can be distributed by AISV according to its aims and scope;
To choose, if possible, OPENSOURCE softwares for practicals use;

To send the proposal to the summer school coordinator.

Prorogato termine invio domande di partecipazione

AISV – STELARIS summer school
“Software Tools and Methods for Advanced Research in Phonetics”

San Marco di Castellabate (Salerno, Italy) on September 25th-30th 2011.

The application submission deadline has been extended to August the 30th (August the 10th). Application form here available: https://www.aisv.it/summerschools/en/application-form-2011

Acceptance notification will be emailed to selected candidates no later than September the 1st (August the 20th) and accepted candidates will have to confirm their registration by paying the required fee no later than the 5^th September.

The AISV-Stelaris summerschool 2011 Organizing Committee