<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Thu 27 Aug 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Intonational Variation in Arabic Conference program and registration</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 27 Aug 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Sam Hellmuth <<a href="mailto:sh581@york.ac.uk">sh581@york.ac.uk</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Intonational Variation in Arabic Conference program and registration</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Intonational Variation in Arabic conference - programme and registration<br><br>The first international conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic will <br>be held on 28th and 29th September 2009 at the University of York, UK. The <br>aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on Arabic <br>prosody and intonation, and together to explore the range of prosodic <br>variation observed in spoken varieties of Arabic.<br><br>Programme (with abstracts): <a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/prog.htm">http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/prog.htm</a> <br>Venue & registration: <a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09">http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09</a> <br>For information contact: <a href="mailto:sh581@york.ac.uk">sh581@york.ac.uk</a> <br><br><br>Monday 28th September<br><br>12.00-13.00 Registration <br><br>13.00-13.15 <br>Sam Hellmuth & Dana Chahal<br>Welcome from the conference organisers<br><br>13.15-14.00<br>Invited speaker:Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)<br>Theoretical and practical aspects of studying intra-language intonational<br>variation<br><br>14.00-14.30<br>Daniel Newman (University of Durham) & Jo Verhoeven (City University): <br>Cross-dialectal intonation contours in Arabic<br><br>14.30-15.00<br>Andrew Dilbert (American University in Cairo)<br>Colloquial Damascene Arabic Intonation: A description of contours in four<br>syntactic categories<br><br>15.00-15.30 Coffee<br><br>15.30-17.00<br>Intonational Transcription Workshop <br>Sam Hellmuth (University of York) & Dana Chahal (University of Melbourne)<br>- transcription systems and how to map between them<br>- using transcription to establish an intonational phonological inventory<br>- practical exercises and data samples<br><br>17.00-17.30<br>Discussion<br><br>19.00-22.00 Conference Dinner (included in conference registration fee)<br><br><br>Tuesday 29th September<br><br>9.30-10.00<br>Dina El Zarka (Universität Graz)<br>The representation of focal accents in Egyptian Arabic<br><br>10.00-10.30<br>Raya Kalaldeh (Trinity College, Dublin)<br>Peak alignment in Jordanian Formal and Colloquial Arabic<br><br>10.30-11.00 Coffee<br><br>11.00-11.30<br>Hanady Mansour (Qatar University)<br>Intonation and stress generator for Arabic text-to-speech<br><br>11.30-12.00<br>Droua-Hamdani, G. (CRSTDLA, Algiers), Selouani, S.A. (University of Moncton,<br>Canada), Boudraa, M., Boudraa, B. (USTHB, Algiers)<br>ALGASD PROJECT: statistical study of vocalic variations according to<br>education levels of Algiers speakers<br><br>12.00-12.30<br>Bouchhioua, Nadia (University of 7th November, Carthage, Tunisia)<br>Stress and accent in Tunisian Arabic<br><br>12.30-13.45 Sandwich lunch (included in conference registration fee)<br><br>13.45-14.15<br>Abdel-Fattah Moftah (Suez Canal University, Ismailiya)<br>Stress timing of tone groups in Arabic<br><br>14.15-14.45<br>Mohammed Hafiz (University of Melbourne)<br>An account of tonicity and intonation of West African Spoken Standard<br>Arabic: a case study of Ghanaian muslim scholars<br><br>14.45-15.15 Coffee<br><br>15.15-16.00<br>Invited speaker: Judith Rosenhouse (Swantech Ltd) <br>A phonetic delineation of pragmatic features in male Bedouin narratives<br><br>16.00-16.15 Closing greetings <br>16.15-17.00 Closing reception<br><br>-------------------------------------------<br><br>Sam Hellmuth<br>Department of Language & Linguistic Science<br>University of York<br>Heslington<br>York YO10 5DD<br><br>email: <a href="mailto:sh581@york.ac.uk">sh581@york.ac.uk</a><br>tel: 01904 432657<br>fax: 01904 432673<br><br><a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hellmuth.htm">http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/lang/people/pages/hellmuth.htm</a> <br><br>Intonational Variation in Arabic 28-29th September 2009<br><a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09">http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sh581/iva09</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 27 Aug 2009</div></body></html>