*** Nordic Prosody XIV · 18–20 August 2026 · Stockholm *** General information =============== All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch) Abstract submission: 21 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026 Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted contribution) Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). ISCA members pay EUR 180 and 90, respectively. Full paper submission (optional): November 2026 Templates: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/templates/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np14 Scope ===== We invite submissions for papers on all aspects of prosodic research concerning Nordic languages and languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. We welcome papers on both phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody, including but not limited to: perception and production of prosody, rhythm and intonation, prosody in speech synthesis and speech recognition, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition of prosody, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody. Invited speakers ============= ** Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University ** Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where she served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and spent the following eighteen years at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs Research, where she worked on prosody for text-to-speech synthesis and created the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She joined Columbia in 2002. Her research spans prosody, spoken dialogue systems, and the automatic detection of emotion, deception and charisma in speech. She served as President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2005 to 2007 and is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, ACM and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and holds honorary doctorates from KTH Stockholm (2007) and Tilburg University (2018). She received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, both in 2011. ** Tomas Riad, Stockholm University ** Tomas Riad is Professor of Nordic Languages at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Academy. Born in Uppsala in 1959, he spent his early childhood in Egypt before returning to Sweden. He completed his doctorate at Stockholm University in 1992 with a dissertation on prosodic change across the Germanic languages, subsequently held a position at Stanford, and has been a guest researcher at universities in Vilnius, Paris and Berlin. His research covers phonology, prosody, verse metrics, historical linguistics and morphology. He is among the foremost authorities on Scandinavian tone accent: its origins, its typological variation across dialects, and its role in regulating Swedish morphology. His monograph The Phonology of Swedish (Oxford University Press, 2014) remains the definitive account of the sound structure of the language. He has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 2011. Participation ========== The conference will be held in person only. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present at the conference venue. Submissions ========== Abstracts may be up to two pages long and must follow the templates that are available on the conference website's submissions page. Proceedings ========== There will be an opportunity to submit a full paper in the conference proceedings volume after the conference. Since 2022, full papers are published with open access (in 2022 with Gruyter/Sciendo). Further information will be provided on the website. Contact ======= npxiv(a)nordicprosody.org