<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages)</b></div><div><br></div><div>which will be held on<b> </b>September 18–19, 2025. </div><div><br></div><div>The event will take place in a hybrid format—both on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, and classification of under-documented languages. It features contributions on topics such as articulatory–acoustic correlations, voice quality, tone and prosodic systems, field-based phonetic technologies, and the development of phonological typologies.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Dates</b> </div><div><br></div><div>September 18-19, 2025, from 09:30 to 17:00</div><div><br></div><div><b>Location</b></div><div><br></div><div>Bâtiment de recherche Nord, 14 Cours des Humanités, Campus Condorcet, 93322 Aubervilliers Cedex</div><div><br></div><div><b>Programme</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are pleased to share a rich and diverse programme featuring:</div><div><br></div><div>- Keynote Speakers:</div><div><br></div><div><b>John Esling</b> (University of Victoria) </div><div><br></div><div>"What Polynesian, Iroquoian, Semitic/Cushitic, Nilotic, West African (ATR), Tibeto-Burman and Germanic Languages Share in Laryngeal Articulation"</div><div><br></div><div><b>Marc Garellek</b> (University of California San Diego)</div><div><br></div><div>"Best Practices for Language Description and a Case Study of Highland Totonac"</div><div><br></div><div>- Sessions Include:</div><div><br></div><div>Session A: Laryngealized Vowels in Western Sichuan Qiangic – September 18, 11:00 to 12:30</div><div><br></div><div>Session C: Register Contrasts in Austroasiatic and Beyond - September 18, 15:30 to 17:00</div><div><br></div><div>Session E: Instrumental Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages - September 19, 13:30 to 15:00</div><div><br></div><div>You can also view or download the full programme here:</div><div><br></div><div>https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10</div><div><br></div><div><b>Conference Poster</b></div><div><br></div><div>Help us spread the word! You can download and share the conference poster here:</div><div><br></div><div>https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/resource/page?id=9&forward-action=page&forward-controller=resource&lang=en</div><div><br></div><div><b>Registration</b></div><div><br></div><div>Attendance is free. Please register via:</div><div><br></div><div>https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/registration?lang=en</div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at phon-udl@proton.me.</div><div><br></div><div>We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this announcement among your networks. We hope to see many of you there!</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Katia Chirkova</div><div>On behalf of the Phon-UDL Organizing Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Phon-UDL website: https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/</div><div><br></div><div>
Katia Chirkova<br>CRLAO-EHESS-INALCO<br>Campus Condorcet<br>5 cours des Humanités n°5181<br>93322 Aubervilliers CEDEX<br>France<br><br>katia.chirkova@gmail.com<br>www.katia-chirkova.info<br><br><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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