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1) Subject:Intonational Variation in Arabic Conference program and  
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Date: 27 Aug 2009
From:Sam Hellmuth <sh581 at york.ac.uk>
Subject:Intonational Variation in Arabic Conference program and  
registration

Intonational Variation in Arabic conference - programme and registration

The first international conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic  
will
be held on 28th and 29th September 2009 at the University of York, UK.  
The
aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on Arabic
prosody and intonation, and together to explore the range of prosodic
variation observed in spoken varieties of Arabic.

Programme (with abstracts): http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/prog.htm
Venue & registration: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09
For information contact: sh581 at york.ac.uk


Monday 28th September

12.00-13.00 Registration

13.00-13.15
Sam Hellmuth & Dana Chahal
Welcome from the conference organisers

13.15-14.00
Invited speaker:Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
Theoretical and practical aspects of studying intra-language  
intonational
variation

14.00-14.30
Daniel Newman (University of Durham) & Jo Verhoeven  (City University):
Cross-dialectal intonation contours in Arabic

14.30-15.00
Andrew Dilbert (American University in Cairo)
Colloquial Damascene Arabic Intonation: A description of contours in  
four
syntactic categories

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30-17.00
Intonational Transcription Workshop
Sam Hellmuth (University of York) & Dana Chahal (University of  
Melbourne)
- transcription systems and how to map between them
- using transcription to establish an intonational phonological  
inventory
- practical exercises and data samples

17.00-17.30
Discussion

19.00-22.00 Conference Dinner (included in conference registration fee)


Tuesday 29th September

9.30-10.00
Dina El Zarka (Universität Graz)
The representation of focal accents in Egyptian Arabic

10.00-10.30
Raya Kalaldeh (Trinity College, Dublin)
Peak alignment in Jordanian Formal and Colloquial Arabic

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-11.30
Hanady Mansour (Qatar University)
Intonation and stress generator for Arabic text-to-speech

11.30-12.00
Droua-Hamdani, G. (CRSTDLA, Algiers), Selouani, S.A. (University of  
Moncton,
Canada), Boudraa, M., Boudraa, B. (USTHB, Algiers)
ALGASD PROJECT: statistical study of vocalic variations according to
education levels of Algiers speakers

12.00-12.30
Bouchhioua, Nadia (University of 7th November, Carthage, Tunisia)
Stress and accent in Tunisian Arabic

12.30-13.45 Sandwich lunch (included in conference registration fee)

13.45-14.15
Abdel-Fattah Moftah (Suez Canal University, Ismailiya)
Stress timing of tone groups in Arabic

14.15-14.45
Mohammed Hafiz (University of Melbourne)
An account of tonicity and intonation of West African Spoken Standard
Arabic: a case study of Ghanaian muslim scholars

14.45-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.00
Invited speaker: Judith Rosenhouse (Swantech Ltd)
A phonetic delineation of pragmatic features in male Bedouin narratives

16.00-16.15 Closing greetings
16.15-17.00 Closing reception

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Sam Hellmuth
Department of Language & Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

email: sh581 at york.ac.uk
tel: 01904 432657
fax: 01904 432673

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hellmuth.htm

Intonational Variation in Arabic 28-29th September 2009
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09

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