Accents in Contact <br>
Short Title: Accents 2012 <br>
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Date: 06-Dec-2012 - 08-Dec-2012 <br>
Location: Łódź, Poland <br>
Contact Person: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak<br>
Meeting Email: <a>< click here to access email > </a><br>
Web Site: <a href="http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents">http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents</a> <br>
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics<br><br>
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2012 <br><br>
Meeting Description:<br><br>
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English
Grammar and Phonetics at the University of Łódź, Poland. It brings
together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native
accents of English approached from a theoretical and practical
perspective. Among many issues discussed each year, the characteristics
and the dynamism of accent usage in natural as well as formal teaching
contexts come into the foreground, with a growing interest in the
methodology and tools for accent studies. The main focus so far has been
on accents of English; this year, while continuing to discuss accents
from the sociophonetic, psychophonetic and didactic perspectives, we
propose to widen the scope of our discussion to include the effects of
accent contact not only on English, but also other languages, with the
leading theme of 'Accents in Contact'. <br> <br>Keynote speaker: James E. Flege, University of Birmingham, Alabama, USA <br>Special session: English accents in Europe: Euro-English(s)? <br>Convenor: Una Cunningham, University of Stockholm, Sweden<br>
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Call for Papers: <br> <br>We invite proposals for papers, workshops and
posters related to the main 'Accents in Contact' theme as well as other
issues related to native and non-native accents of English, including,
but not limited to the ones mentioned below: <br> <br>- The effect of other languages on the acquisition and usage of English <br>- The effect of English accents on the acquisition and usage of other languages <br>- Accents in English around the world, 'New Englishes', 'Euro-Englishes', etc. <br>
- Variability in accents of English <br>- Native- non-native accent continuum <br>- Accents in EFL/ESL/ELF <br>- Methodology and tools for accent studies <br>- Teaching accents/the pronunciation of English <br> <br>Please
notice that each author can propose two contributions if one is
intended for the main conference and the other one for a special
session. Papers are given 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for
discussion, workshops will typically have 45 minute slots. Please
specify the intended presentation format in your proposal. <br> <br>The
deadline for abstract submission is September 30, 2012. Please send two
copies of an abstract of up to 400 words (excluding references) to
accents<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absbottom"><a href="http://uni.lodz.pl">uni.lodz.pl</a>,
with the intended format, name and affiliation written under the title
in one copy. The proposals will go through the process of peer review,
after which notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 21,
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