- speech acquisition and use
- monolingual speech
- bilingual and multilingual speech
- child speech development
- adult and child L2 speech
- dialectal speech
- pronunciation learning and teaching
- normal and disordered speech
- language maintainance, loss and attrition
- speech perception and production
- speech recognition and processing
- atypical speech development and disorders
- speech and hearing impairment
- speech remediation

regarding phonology, phonetics, clinical phonetics, psycholinguistics, pathology, acoustics, speech  physiology, neurolinguistics, methodological advancements, computational advancements, applications of new technologies.

The language of the Symposium is English. Oral presentations will be 30 minutes long including discussion. Poster presentations will not be concurrent with oral presentations.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts consist of 350 - 450words (main body) and 3-7 keywords. They should not exceed one A4 page including references. The format is: 12 point Times New Roman font, single-lined, margins set to 2.54 cm (1 inch) all around. Doulos SIL (http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont) is to be used for phonetic symbols.

Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments in both word and pdfversions to: submit@ismbs.eu between 10 October 2014 and 24 February 2015. The word version must include name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es), while the pdf version excludes all these. Preference for oral or poster presentation is indicated at the bottom of the abstract. Previously published works, including own, must be cited using name and year in parenthesis.

Submit abstracts to: submit@ismbs.eu

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 10 October 2014 - 24 February 2015
Notification: by 10 March 2015

Full Paper Submission

Full papers for publication in the ISMBS 2015 Proceedings will be submitted after the Symposium by 30 October 2015. Selected papers will be further considered for publication in edited books and journal special issues: a collection of speech disorders-related papers will be submitted for an edited book to the series Communication Disorders Across Languages, Nicole Müller & Martin J. Ball (eds.), Multilingual Matters (here); another collection of papers will be submitted for an edited book to the series Studies in Phonetics and Phonology, Martin J. Ball & Pascal van Lieshout (eds.), Equinox Publishing (here); selected papers will be submitted for a journal special issue to Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.), de Gruyter (here).