28.4117, Calls: English, Phonetics, Phonology/France

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Subject: 28.4117, Calls: English, Phonetics, Phonology/France

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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:51:18
From: Pierre Fournier [pierre.fournier at univ-paris13.fr]
Subject: 19th Conference on Spoken English at Villetaneuse

 
Full Title: 19th Conference on Spoken English at Villetaneuse 
Short Title: ALOES 2018 

Date: 06-Apr-2018 - 07-Apr-2018
Location: Paris 13 University - Villetaneuse, France 
Contact Person: Pierre Fournier
Meeting Email: pierre.fournier at univ-paris13.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

Voice quality in English: from the production of a phonation type to the
perception of a social variable.

Invited speaker: Professor Richard Wright, Washington University: Voice
quality types and uses in North American English.

For its 19th edition, the Villetaneuse Conference on Spoken English, organized
by ALOES and Université Paris 13, is honoured to welcome Professor Richard
Wright, from the University of Washington. As is the custom, the conference
will take place at Villetaneuse (Université Paris 13).

Professor Wright is Director of the Linguistic Phonetics Laboratory and Chair
of the Department of Linguistics. His primary research interest is in
understanding sources of systematic variation in the production and perception
of language, and how it relates to language universals and language structure,
prosody, and discourse. As part of this research he is interested in
describing the phonetics of endangered and under-described languages. He is
currently working on voice quality and will give a conference on voice quality
types and uses in North American English.

Contact person: Pierre Fournier: pierre.fournier at univ-paris13.fr

Organizing committee: 
Viviane Arigne (Paris 13 University), Nicolas Ballier (Paris 7 University),
Pierre Fournier (Paris 13 University), Yann Fuchs (Paris 13 Unversity), Sophie
Herment (Aix-Marseille University).

Scientific committee: 
Viviane Arigne (Paris 13 University), Nicolas Ballier (Paris 7 University),
Pierre Fournier (Paris 13 University), Mark Gray (Paris 12 University), Sylvie
Hanote (University of Poitiers), Sophie Herment (Aix-Marseille University),
Christiane Migette (Paris 13 University), Susan Moore (University of Limoges),
Jennifer Vince (Paris 3 University).


Call for Papers:

The topic for the conference will therefore be voice quality in English, from
both perspectives of production and perception. Submissions dealing with the
way voice quality can be measured (articulatory, acoustic and/or perceptual
methods), with the various corpora that can be used for these purposes, with
the different types of phonation that can be encountered and what
physiological or acoustic criteria they relate to will be most welcome. The
stylistic and social aspects of voice quality will also be most interesting
issues: if voice quality is not part of the sound system of English, it can be
used for social and stylistic purposes. The most striking example lately is
probably the widespread use of creaky voice among young people, and more
particularly young women. The social significance of voice quality features in
English will be questioned. What do we mean when we use a particular type of
phonation? Can we find geographical variation? What are the social
implications, the identity issues? These are a few questions, amongst others,
that might be raised during the conference. We will give priority to papers
dealing with voice quality, but will also consider submissions on other topics
in the field of spoken English.

Each talk will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Posters might also be a possibility. 
Anonymous abstracts (400 words maximum), along with a separate document
containing the author’s name and affiliation, should be sent, before January 4
2018, to the following address: pierre.fournier at univ-paris13.fr




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