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The 36th Finnic Phonetics Symposium (Fonetiikan päivät / Foneetika päevad) in Tallinn will take place on April 25-26, 2024 hosted by the Laboratory of Language Technology, Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology.
The 36th Finnic Phonetics Symposium (Fonetiikan päivät / Foneetika päevad) will provide a forum for scientists and students of phonetics and speech technology to present and discuss recent research and development in spoken language communication.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts on completed or ongoing research on various phonetics-related topics, such as spoken language and voice research, speech therapy, and speech technology. The scientific programme will include both oral and poster presentations.
The working languages of the symposium are Finnish, Estonian and English.
Mektory Innovation and Business Centre located on the campus of Tallinn University of Technology.
| Abstract submission opens: | December 15th, 2023 |
| Extended deadline for abstract submission: | February 10th, 2024 |
| Notification of acceptance: | February 20th, 2024 |
| Registration deadline: | April 5th, 2024 |
The abstract must be no longer than 1 page in length (including references).
Abstracts (in pdf format) should be sent by email to: fp2024 
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Abstract submission opens on December 15th, 2023.
Extended deadline for abstract submission February 10th, 2024.
FP2024 book of abstracts in [pdf] format.
Online registration from March 5th to April 5th, 2024
| Registration fee (includes access to sessions, coffee breaks and lunches, VAT) | 60 EUR |
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| Registration fee for students | 45 EUR |
| Conference dinner: | 45 EUR |
FP2024 book of abstracts in [pdf] format.
| Registration starts | 09:30 | ||
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| Opening | 09:50 | ||
| Session 1 ORAL Chair: Maija S. Peltola |
10:00 | Okko Räsänen, María Andrea Cruz Blandón, Khazar Khorrami, Daniil Kocharov | Modeling Child Language Development using Naturalistic Data at a Scale |
| 10:30 | Juraj Šimko, Benjamin Elie, Alice Turk | A model of speech articulation based on optimal control theory | |
| 11:00 | Michael O’Dell | Heterokliinisen verkoston merkitys fonetiikassa | |
| Coffee break | 11:20-11:40 | ||
| Session 2 ORAL Chair: Nele Ots |
11:40 | Martti Vainio, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko, Sofoklis Kakouros | The Power of Prosody and Prosody of Power: An Acoustic Analysis of Finnish Parliamentary Speech |
| 12:00 | Outi Tuomainen | Speakers in interaction: effortful speaking and listening in background noise across the lifespan | |
| 12:20 | Pärtel Lippus, Eva Liina Asu, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik, Liina Lindström | Alignment of prosodic prominence and gesture in marking of negation in Estonian: first insights from a multimodal study | |
| 12:40 | Eva Liina Asu, Pärtel Lippus, Heete Sahkai, Katrin Leppik | Which acoustic features contribute to the perception of surprise? | |
| Buffet lunch | 13:00-14:00 | ||
| Session 3 ORAL Chair: Paavo Alku |
14:00 | Maija S. Peltola | Kielitaidon tukeminen tienä oppimisen yhdenvertaisuuteen ja osallisuuteen (KiTu) – uusi tutkimushanke pureutuu segregaatioilmiöihin kielen oppimisen kautta |
| 14:15 | Peltola, K. U., Haapanen, K., Aerila, J-A., Gyekye, M., Kekki, N., Ruokonen, I., Thurin, N., Tyrer, M., Peltola, M. S. | KieliVertailu-työväline suomen kielen oppimisen tukena | |
| 14:30 | Heini Kallio | Englanninoppijoiden puheen prosodiset piirteet: lähtökielen vaikutusta selvittämässä | |
| 14:45 | Heini Kallio, Kamil Kaźmierski | Reduction of unstressed English vowels by L2 speakers with different language backgrounds | |
| 15:00 | Riikka Ullakonoja | Recognition of Russian accent in Finnish oral proficiency test | |
| 15:15 | Päivi Virkkunen, Minnaleena Toivola, Martti Vainio | Lukio-opiskelijoiden tunnekokemuksia ääntämisen opetuksessa saadusta palautteesta | |
| Coffee break | 15:30-16:00 | ||
| Session 4 POSTER | 16:00-17:00 | Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Maija S. Peltola | Ääntäminen ja transkriptio-kurssin vaikutus khoekhoegowabinkielisen puheen piirteiden havaitsemiseen logopedian ja fonetiikan yliopisto-opiskelijoilla |
| Henna Tamminen, Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U. Peltola, Lannie Uwu-khaeb, Maija S. Peltola | Sananalkuisten klusiilien sointi khoekhoegowabin puhujien Namibian englannissa | ||
| Antti Saloranta, Katja Haapanen, Kimmo U. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Meameno Shiweda, Napandulwe Shiweda, Maija S. Peltola | Namibianenglannin vokaalit auditiivisessa ja visuaalisessa tuottokokeessa oshiwambonpuhujilla | ||
| Kalle Lahtinen, Liisa Mustanoja, Okko Räsänen | Building a Naturalistic and Representative Affective Speech Corpus for the Finnish Language | ||
| Daniil Kocharov, Okko Räsänen | The effect of F0 measurements on prosody analysis in language development studies | ||
| Khazar Khorrami, Okko Räsänen | Computational Investigation of the Feasibility of Statistical Learning for Early Word Comprehension using Realistic Input Statistics | ||
| Liis Themas, Pärtel Lippus, Marika Padrik, Kairi Kreegipuu | Quantity perception among Estonian kindergarten children with developmental language disorder | ||
| Pärtel Lippus, Liis Kask, Sofia Lutter, Nele Põldver, Kairi Kreegipuu | Further information on the perception of Estonian long-overlong quantity boundaries | ||
| Pire Teras | The loss of word-internal laryngeal fricative in South Estonian Leivu dialect | ||
| Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Michael O’Dell, Tommi Nieminen | Russian speakers’ perception of stress in Finnish words | ||
| Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Daniil Kocharov | Turn overlaps in collaborative dialogues and the factor of social distance | ||
| Allan Vurma, Einar Meister, Lya Meister, Jaan Ross, Marju Raju, Veeda Kala, Tuuri Dede | Enhancing Plosive Recognition in Singing: The Impact of Elongated Plosive Closures in Varied Acoustics | ||
| Conference dinner | 19:00 | Conference dinner will take place in modern restaurant/bar KOHO located in Telliskivi quarter, see the map | |
| Session 5 ORAL Chair: Martti Vainio |
10:00 | Paavo Alku, Manila Kodali, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri | Machine learning-based prediction of SPL from healthy and pathological speech signals |
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| 10:30 | Mari Wiklund, Viljami Haakana, Ida-Lotta Myllylä, Martti Vainio | A Crosslinguistic Investigation of Prosodic Patterns Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder | |
| 11:00 | Alexandra Wikström, Lari Vainio, Martti Vainio | A cross-linguistic study of spatial sound symbolism | |
| Coffee break | 11:20-11:40 | ||
| Session 6 ORAL Chair: Mikko Kurimo |
11:40 | Tanel Alumäe | Language Identification is Difficult for Non-native Speech |
| 12:00 | Katri Hiovain-Asikainen, Antti Suni, Sébastien Le Maguer | Neural Text-to-Speech for North Sámi: development and evaluation | |
| 12:20 | Tuukka Törö, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko | Exploring the intersections of social dimensions and acoustics in Finnish text-to-speech synthesis | |
| 12:40 | Einari Vaaras, Manu Airaksinen, Okko Räsänen | IAR: Algoritmi epäkonsistenttien annotaatioiden siistimiseksi diskriminatiivisia luokittimia käyttäen | |
| Buffet lunch | 13:00-14:00 | ||
| Session 7 ORAL Chair: Tanel Alumäe |
14:00 | Yaroslav Getman, Nhan Phan, Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Ekaterina Voskoboinik, Tamás Grósz, Mikko Kurimo, Xinwei Cao, Giampiero Salvi, Torbjørn Svendsen, Sofia Strömbergsson, Anne Marte Haug Olstad, MInna Lehtonen, Anna Smolander, Sari Ylinen | Pronunciation Practicing App for Children Learning Nordic Languages |
| 14:15 | Anton Malmi, Katrin Leppik | Training with the Estonian pronunciation app SayEst: vowel perception and user experience | |
| 14:30 | Sofoklis Kakouros | Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition through Word Informativeness | |
| 14:45 | Xinyuan Wan, Lenka Kalvodová, Juraj Šimko | Perception and Production of Quantity in Finnish with Predictive Processing | |
| 15:00 | Marianne Kosin, Heini Kallio, Tiina Ihalainen, Nelly Penttilä | Prosodic Analysis of Speech Fluency in Finnish Speaking Elderly Women: Exploring Acoustic Correlations and Markers | |
| Coffee break | 15:15-15:45 | ||
| Session 8 ORAL Chair: Eva Liina Asu-Garcia |
15:45 | Natalia Kuznetsova, Oscar Cornelio Tiburcio, Hiroto Uchihara | Rare stress-induced lengthening in unstressed syllables in Finnic and Tlapanec: challenges for theory and typology |
| 16:00 | Nele Ots | Utterance-initial intonation peaks in Estonian: A cognitive perspective | |
| 16:15 | Liis Ermus | Segmental an phrasal influences on the allophonic variation in short plosives in Estonian | |
| 16:30 | Kaidi Lõo, Pärtel Lippus, Benjamin V. Tucker | Part-of-speech and quantity interact in predicting acoustic durations of Estonian spontaneous speech | |
| Closing | 16:45 |
We have negotiated offers for FP 2024 participants in the following hotels from April 22 to April 28, 2024:
The other three from Unique Hotels group are also located near the center of Tallinn. On their websites when you start booking find Enter code at the top of page and enter FP2024 to get the price with discount.
The hotels are located on the side of town where you have better public transportation access to reach the symposium venue Mektory.
See the hotel locations on this google map
FP 2024 hotels (look for hotel icons on purple background).
The City of Tallinn has issued a FREE public transport QR ticket for The 36th Finnic Phonetics Symposium participants for the period 24.-27.04.2024.How to use QR tickets?
First you need to either print the
QR ticket [pdf]
or download the
QR ticket to display from mobile phone [pdf].
On every ride you take you must validate the QR ticket at the bottom of the rectangular orange validator located at the front door of the public transport vehicle:
place the QR code displayed on a smart device screen or printed on paper in front of the code reader screen situated at the lower part of the rectangular validator.
Check Tallinn Transport Journey Planner to plan your rides.
Travel information
For ferry connections from/to Helsinki and Stockholm, see the web pages of Tallink, Viking Line and Eckerö Line.
There are direct flights to Tallinn from Helsinki Vantaa, Stockholm Arlanda, Copenhagen and many other airports. For information on the connections, see the web homepages of Tallinn Airport.
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