The call for proposals for the organization of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (19th ICPhS) is now open. The 19th ICPhS will take place in 2019, four years after the 18th ICPhS to be held in Glasgow in August 2015. Bids for the 19th ICPhS organisation need to be prepared before the 18th ICPhS Congress and defended at the 18th ICPhS venue before the Permanent Council for the Organisation of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. The deadline for the submission of bids is 30 May 2015.

Scholars interested in submitting a proposal for the organization of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences are asked to consult the guidelines available at http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/conferences.html. They can also contact the President of the Permanent Council of the ICPhS, Katerina Nicolaidis (knicol@enl.auth.gr), for further information.

The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences is held under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association and provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of basic and applied research in the phonetic sciences. The main areas covered by the Congress are speech production, speech acoustics, speech perception, speech prosody, sound change, phonology, sociophonetics, language typology, first and second language acquisition, forensic phonetics, speaking styles, voice quality, clinical phonetics and speech technology. The last three Congresses were held in Barcelona (15th, 2003), Saarbrücken (16th, 2007), and Hong Kong (17th, 2011) and each was attended by 800–1000 participants from all over the world.