[Corpora-List] CFP - PAC 2012 Toulouse: deadline extension

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PAC 2012
The Phonology of Contemporary English. Variation and change

University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail - Toulouse, France

29 Feb- 2 March 2012

In view of the number of abstracts received for the PAC Conference
taking place next March, the conference organisers have decided to
extend the length of the conference by one day (29 Feb-2 March 2012),
and the deadline for receipt of abstracts will now be 1st November.
Details of the conference are given below.

On 29 Feb-2 March 2012, the CLLE-ERSS research institute (CNRS and
University of Toulouse II) will be organizing its first international
conference on The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and
Change.

Websites:
http://w3.pac.univ-tlse2.fr (under construction)
http://w3.projet-pfc.net
http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr
http://w3.clle.univ-tlse2.fr

GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE

All papers focusing on the main theme summarized by the title of the
conference are welcome but, to contextualize this forthcoming event,
participants should be aware that PAC 2012 is a logical extension of
the open workshops that the PAC project has organized annually since
2000, on a European level, at the universities of Toulouse II,
Montpellier III and Aix-Marseille I, and reflects the developing
activities of this project.

The PAC project (Phonologie de l?Anglais Contemporain: usages,
variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage,
varieties and structure) is coordinated by Jacques Durand (University
of Toulouse II) and Philip Carr (University of Montpellier III). The
main aims of the project can be summarized as follows: to give a
better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity
(geographical, social and stylistic); to test phonological and
phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making
room for the systematic study of variation; to favour communication
between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; to provide
corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of
English as a foreign language.

To achieve these goals, the cornerstone of the PAC project is the
creation of a corpus of oral English, coming from a wide variety of
linguistic areas in the English-speaking world (such as Great Britain:
Received Pronunciation, Lancashire, York, Ayrshire, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, West Midlands: Birmingham, Black Country ; Republic of
Ireland: Limerick, Cork ; Canada: Alberta, Ontario ; Australia: New
South Wales ; New Zealand: Christchurch, Dunedin ; India: Delhi
English, Mumbai ; USA: California, West Texas, Saint Louis, Boston,
North Carolina). The protocol used is the same throughout and was
inspired by the classical methodology of William Labov. Although
significant corpora of oral English already exist, many of them have
been conceived along exclusively sociolinguistic rather than
explicitly phonological lines. In other cases, hardly any information
is available on speakers beyond gender and regional affiliation.
Furthermore, few corpora are based upon a single methodology
permitting a fully comparative analysis of the data. The approach
chosen by the PAC project is modeled on the French PFC project (La
Phonologie du Français Contemporain, coord. M.-H. Côté (Ottawa
University), J. Durand, B. Laks (Paris X) and C. Lyche (Oslo/Tromsø),
http://www.projet-pfc.net/). This parent project has demonstrated how
a corpus which was originally conceived for phonology can lend itself
to many other types of linguistic exploitation: the lexicon,
morpho-syntax, prosody, pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics and
interaction.

All contributions on the phonology and phonetics of contemporary
English are welcome. Other things being equal, papers with a focus on
variation and change within a corpus approach will be given priority.
Plenary sessions will alternate with shorter oral presentations along
with swift, five-minute presentations to accompany posters presented,
in our two Speed Postering sessions. A PAC workshop will form part of
the general programme of the conference. Papers are expected to be
delivered in English.

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Felicity Cox (Macquarie University, Australia)
Ulrike Gut (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Nicolas Ballier (University of Paris VII, France)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Maciej Baranowski, University of Manchester, England
Joan C. Beal, Sheffield University, England
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester, England
Phil Carr, EMMA, University of Montpellier III, France
Jacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse II, France
Colleen Fitzgerald, University of Texas Arlington, USA
Jean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, France
Heinz Giegerich, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Michael T. Hammond, University of Arizona, USA
Sophie Herment, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Daniel Hirst, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Wyn Johnson, University of Essex, England
Mariko Kondo, University of Waseda, Japan
Christiane Migette, University of Paris XIII, France
Monika Pukli, University of Strasbourg, France
Gabor Turcsan, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Jørgen Staun, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm margins,
single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12, and with normal
character spacing. All examples and references in the abstract should
be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring
to previous work, to cite "Author (Date)" in the body of the abstract
- you do not need to include the full reference. Please send two
copies of your abstract - one of these should be anonymous and one
should include your name, affiliation and email at the top of the
page, directly below the title. All abstracts will be reviewed
anonymously by members of the scientific committee or other experts in
the field. The named file should be camera-ready, as it will be used
in the abstracts booklet if the proposal is accepted.

Abstracts both for talks and posters should be submitted in the same
form, in a PDF file, by email to Anne Przewozny-Desriaux
anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr with copy to Steven Moore
steven.moore at univ-tlse2.fr. The scientific committee will decide the
final format of each accepted abstract.

Time for papers: 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions.

DATES AND DEADLINES
Conference: 29 Feb-2 March 2012
Final deadline for submissions: 1st November 2011
Results of refereeing of abstracts: 15th December 2011

Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr
Steven Moore, steven.moore at univ-tlse2.fr
PAC 2012 organizers

PAC

PAC "La Phonologie de l?Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et
structure: The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and
structure" is a project coordinated by Philip Carr and Jacques Durand
from France. Among other things it aims at:
- giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity
(geographical, social and stylistic);
- testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and
diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of
variation;
- favouring communication between specialists in speech and in
phonological theory;
- providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of
English as a foreign language.

To achieve these goals our project is involved in the construction of
a corpus of spoken English from a wide variety of locations in the
English-speaking world on the basis of a common protocol. While there
are important corpora of spoken English, most of them have been
devised on sociolinguistic (rather than explicit phonological)
principles and they do not always offer a uniform methodology allowing
for a comparison of results and comparable studies of selected problems.

The approach adopted within PAC is a well tested one since it has been
followed in the international project ?La Phonologie du Français
Contemporain? (PFC) coordinated by Marie-Hélène Côté (Ottawa
University), Jacques Durand (Toulouse II), Bernard Laks (Paris X) and
Chantal Lyche (Oslo/Tromsø): for more information see Durand, Laks &
Lyche (2002) and the internet site: http://www.projet-pfc.net/.

The methodology is inspired by the classical work of Labov in that,
for each selection of speakers, it involves the reading of a word list
and a passage as well as formal and informal conversation (cf. section
2). But in each area surveyed, the speakers (usually groups between 10
and 20 informants) are selected on a network principle well known in
the United Kingdom, particularly from the work of the Milroys and
their associates (see Milroy 1980).

In the initial phase of the project we favour geographical variation,
that is the recording and analysis of cohorts of speakers from as many
different locations as possible in the English-speaking world. Within
each location, however, we require that the groups include an equal
number of men and women and well defined age ranges (e.g. 70+, 40+,
20+). Social diversity is less easy to achieve with small groups of
speakers and it has been found profitable to study family networks
which allow for better comparison of age-grading especially when the
social world of the informants has remained stable.

In terms of linguistic study, the recordings obviously lend themselves
to various types of exploitation (including syntax and pragmatics).
However, all participants in the project commit themselves to studying
three areas: 1) Phonological inventories (oppositions and main
variants), 2) Rhoticity (Is the accent rhotic / non rhotic? Does it
have /r/ intrusion? How is /r/ phonetically realized in different
positions? etc.), 3) T/D (How is the contrast between /t/ and /d/
phonetically realized in different contexts? Is it ever neutralized?
Is there a process of tapping? etc.). Beyond these questions,
researchers will obviously pursue their own interests (fast speech
processes, stress, rhythm, intonation, etc.).

It should be noted that the protocol is neutral as to the selection of
informants and it is intended that, after this initial phase, some
locations will be analysed from a stricter sociolinguistic
perspective. In this initial stage, we control the parameters
mentioned above (location, gender, age) and carefully record as much
information as possible about the speaker (education, professional
status, ethnicity, other languages spoken within the community, etc.).
We should stress however that colleagues who, because of limited time
and resources, can only study individual speakers on the basis of our
protocol are welcome to join the project and contribute to the setting
up of our database.

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