Full Title: New Sounds 2025, the 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech
Short Title: NS2025

Date: 23-Apr-2025 - 25-Apr-2025
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Jeffrey Steele
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The University of Toronto is pleased to host New Sounds 2025, the 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, on its downtown campus in Toronto, Canada, April 23-25, 2025. The conference will be preceded by a Doctoral Workshop on April 22.

Call for Papers:

New Sounds brings together researchers, teachers, and learners interested in second/third language phonetics and phonology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to
• Theories and models of L2 speech learning
• Speech perception and production
• Phonetics and phonology in SLA
• Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic aspects of L2 speech learning
• Multilingualism and the acquisition of additional languages
• The effects of and best practices in pronunciation instruction & training
• The use of technology for L2 speech research, instruction & training

The organizers invite proposals involving original research for the following:

Doctoral Workshop Presentation
The Doctoral Workshop will take place on the Tuesday (April 22) preceding the main conference. This is an opportunity for PhD students to make a 15-minute presentation on their dissertation project (research problem, methodology) followed by 15 minutes of feedback from a discussant.

Paper
20-minute oral presentation followed by a 10-minute question period

Poster
A poster session will take place on two of the three days of the conference. Posters will be displayed and presented by their authors for the length of their session.

Thematic Session
Thematic sessions will be included on two of the three days of the conference. These should be structured around a particular theme proposed by the sessions’ organizers including 4-5 papers and a final discussion.
Proposal formats for presentations are as follows:

• Thematic sessions: a 100-to-150-word overview of the topic as well as the names of the authors & titles of the papers to be presented within the session should be sent to [email protected] by July 19, 2024 with the subject line ‘New Sounds 2025 – Thematic Session Proposal’. Proposals will be assessed by the conference’s Scientific Committee. Papers within each thematic session will be assessed subsequently alongside paper & poster abstracts for the non-thematic sessions; inclusion of a paper within a thematic session proposal does not guarantee acceptance. Notification of thematic session acceptance will be sent by August 1, 2024.

• Doctoral workshop: a 300-word text + reference list outlining the research problem and methodology submitted via Microsoft CMT (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NewSounds2025/) by September 15, 2024. Please note that accepted presentations will need to be submitted two weeks prior to the workshop (by April 8, 2025) in order to provide discussants sufficient time to review & prepare feedback.

• Proposals for papers (including those for a thematic session) and posters: a 300-word text + reference list outlining the research problem, methodology, results, and contributions. All proposals will be assessed considering the following criteria: presence of a motivated research problem with links to previous research; methodological soundness; quality of the analysis including evidence of data having already been collected (authors should indicate the number of participants on which the analysis presented in the proposal is based); contribution to the field; appropriateness of the topic for the conference. These should be submitted via Microsoft CMT (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NewSounds2025/) by September 15, 2024 and will be assessed via triple peer review.

Please note that the conference Microsoft CMT system will not be available for submissions before August 1, 2024. Notices of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2024.

This is an in-person only conference and all presentations are to be in English.