27.3434, Calls: French, Phonology/France

Tue Aug 30 17:15:42 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3434. Tue Aug 30 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3434, Calls: French, Phonology/France

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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:15:14
From: Helene N. Andreassen [helene.n.andreassen at uit.no]
Subject: French Schwa: Old Stories, New Ideas?

Full Title: French Schwa: Old Stories, New Ideas? 

Date: 17-Nov-2016 - 17-Nov-2016
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Helene N. Andreassen
Meeting Email: helene.n.andreassen at uit.no
Web Site: http://projet-pfc.net/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Thematic day: French schwa: Old stories, new ideas?

Ever since 2002, the international research programme PFC (Phonologie du
français contemporain), which brings together linguists working on French
corpus phonology, has been organising an annual conference in Paris. The event
has become known for its strong commitment to moving the field forward in a
welcoming, but scientifically critical environment, and the conference thus
creates a venue for new as well as experienced researchers who want to discuss
ongoing research – be it on little known or well-known phenomena in, or
relating to, French phonology. 

At this year’s conference (17-19 November), the first day will be fully
devoted to schwa, which, next to liaison, constitutes one of the most widely
discussed phenomena in French phonology. Being defined as a phonetically
variable vowel (often mid front rounded) that alternates with zero, schwa’s
many-faceted nature presents aspects best explained with reference to
phonetics, morphology, lexicon, and orthography. In addition, its
alternations, as well as its temporal and spectral characteristics, have
proven subject to regional, social, stylistic, situational and medial
variation. Nevertheless, whereas the study of large spoken corpora in the last
decades has led to a complete revision of the analysis of French liaison,
finely documenting its complex variation, an overall, data-driven debate on
how to formally account for the rich complexity of French schwa still
constitutes a lacuna in the literature.

Please do not hesitate to diffuse the invitation to other linguists who might
be interested in participating. 

This year, the conference is held at Cité universitaire internationale, Maison
de Norvège, on 17-19 November. It is organised in collaboration with ESLO
(Enquête Socio-Linguistique à Orléans), with whom PFC entered a cooperation in
2014. Since then, the official name of the annual conference and the research
programme is FLORAL-PFC (Français Langue ORAle et Linguistique). 

For more information about the research programme and the conference, cf.
www.projet-pfc.net. 

Welcome to Paris!

Call for Papers:

The thematic day aims at filling some of the gaps in our knowledge about
schwa, and we invite abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations, followed by
10-minute discussions, that address one or several of the issues in the
conference description. Depending on the number of received abstracts, we may
be able to consider other presentation formats.

A one-page abstract, including title and references, can be sent to Helene N.
Andreassen (helene.n.andreassen at uit.no) and Elissa Pustka
(elissa.pustka at univie.ac.at). 

Deadline: Friday 30 September. 

Note that we welcome presentations in English and French.

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