[Corpora-List] CFP: PAC 2015: Variation, change and spoken corpora. Advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English
Anne Przewozny
anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr
Mon Dec 29 14:03:55 UTC 2014
PAC 2015 Conference ? Final call for papers and deadline extension
Conference Title: PAC 2015
Full title: Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the
phonology and phonetics of contemporary English
Location: Toulouse, France
Dates: 9-13 April 2015
Venue: Maison de la Recherche, University of Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès
Contact: Anne Przewozny anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr
This is the final call for PAC 2015. Please note the deadline
extension (9 January 2015) and the structure of the workshops. We wish
to thank the authors who have already submitted a paper. Their
abstracts are under review by the members of our scientific committee,
and they will receive notice of acceptance or rejection shortly.
We are very pleased to announce the 11th ?Phonology of Contemporary
English? conference, to be held at the University of Toulouse 2 - Jean
Jaurès, Toulouse France, from 9 to 13 April 2015 (Thursday-Monday).
Our keynote speakers will be (in alphabetical order):
Maciej Baranowski (University of Manchester, England)
Gerard Docherty (Griffith University, Australia)
Mariko Kondo (Waseda University, Japan)
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Eiji Yamada (Fukuoka University, Japan)
The conference will be structured in plenary sessions, thematic
workshops, open parallel sessions and poster sessions over four days.
The thematic workshops are:
o Word-stress in English: empirical and theoretical issues
(organizers: P. Carr, J. Durand, E. Yamada; contact:
jdurand at univ-tlse2.fr). English word-stress has been the focus of a
great deal of attention in modern phonology and phonetics. The aim of
this workshop is to encourage a comparison and confrontation of points
of view on this issue. Among the questions to be dealt with are the
following (which do not constitute a closed list):
- Is the division between lexical and functional categories in dealing
with word-stress motivated?
- What are its consequences for a theory of word-stress?
- While there are undoubted generalizations due to morphological
structure and more controversially syllabic structures, are these
generalizations best captured by rules, constraints or other mechanisms?
- Can "parallelism" and "serialism" in the treatment of stress be
merged into a single mechanism?
- Is the stress of polysyllabic monomorphemic roots predictable or
entirely lexicalized?
- How do syllabic structures, morphological and syntactic information
interact in stress generalizations (including compounds)?
- Does the splitting of the English lexicon into different strata
allow for a better treatment of stress?
- What is the optimal methodology for studying lexical stress:
dictionaries based on judgements by authors (constituted as searchable
data-bases) or large spoken corpora?
- If the latter, how does one handle differences due to the prosodic
structure of utterances (e.g. nuclear vs. non nuclear stresses)?
- What can we learn from the acquisition of stress by children and its
possible destructuring within various types of aphasia?
- What do psycholinguistic experiments tell us about stress?
- How many degrees of stress should be posited for English?
- What are the physiological or acoustic correlates of the degrees of
stress postulated by most modern accounts of stress?
o The prosody of contemporary English: analyses, interfaces and
annotation (organizers: S. Herment, G. Turcsan, C. Bouzon, S. Wilhelm;
contact: sophie.herment at univ-amu.fr). For this workshop, the aim of
the PAC Prosody group is to gather colleagues working in prosody
and/or related fields (discourse, syntax, pragmatics, etc.) in and out
of the PAC project. We invite papers dealing in particular with the
post-lexical level, our questionings including the following (non
exhaustive) list of issues:
- Intonation contours: phonetic implementation and phonological
distribution based on meaning in discourse;
- General temporal organisation: tempo, chunking & prosodic phrasing;
- Context-based sentence stress;
- Voice quality;
- Prosodic annotation and tools: parsing at the segmental level,
modeling of the melodic curve, representation of prosodic form.
o Interphonology in English-learning contexts : new perspectives from
EFL and ESL research (organizers: V. Lacoste, N. Herry-Bénit, T.
Kamiyama; contact: veronique.lacoste at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de). This
workshop offers to look into various aspects of the phonetic and
phonological systems developed by learners of English in the context
of foreign language learning (EFL) and English as a second language
(ESL) in various parts of the world. Interphonological phenomena at
the segmental and suprasegmental level will be explored in the
learners? phonological repertoires at different stages of their
development. Variation will be of particular interest in this
workshop: inter-speaker and intra-speaker variation not only will be
examined within the learners? developing phonological system but also
across English learning situations, i.e. in EFL and ESL contexts. One
may ask, for instance:
- Do interphonological phenomena surface in the same way and to the
same extent in situations of EFL and ESL?
- In other words, are the features developed by learners the same
whether they are EFL learners or ESL learners? If not, how different
are they and which extra-linguistic factors are involved?
- To what extent is such comparison tenable altogether, both
theoretically and empirically?
- What is the role of input in contexts where different varieties of
English are spoken?
While promoting interdisciplinary research, this workshop aims at
bringing together scholars from a formal linguistic tradition and
variationist sociolinguists interested in learner phonology to deepen
our understanding of interphonological systems where variation is also
taken to be an integral part of the learning process. We also welcome
specialists exploring applied linguistic issues and didactics in both
EFL and ESL situations to further help investigating learner
interphonology in English-learning contexts.
Papers on these topics are therefore welcome. Nevertheless, papers can
be submitted on all other aspects of the phonology and phonetics of
contemporary English ranging from a theoretical to a practical
perspective. As modern spoken corpora allow exploitations from a
variety of angles, we also welcome papers which explore the interface
between phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics or pragmatics.
PAC 2015 Scientific Committee:
- Martin J. Ball, Linköping University of, Sweden
- Nicolas Ballier, University of Paris-Diderot Paris 7, France
- Maciej Baranowski, University of Manchester, England
- Joan Beal, University of Sheffield, England
- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Manchester, England
- Caroline Bouzon, University of Lille 3, France
- Ines Brulard, University of Toulouse, France
- Laurie Buscail, University of Perpignan, France
- Basilio Calderone, University of Toulouse, France
- Philip Carr, University of Montpellier 3, France
- Jack Chambers, University of Toronto, Canada
- Peter Collins, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Felicity Cox, Macquarie University, Australia
- Sylvain Detey, University of Waseda, Japan
- Gerard Docherty, Griffith University, Australia
- Jacques Durand, University of Toulouse, France
- Karine Duvignau, University of Toulouse, France
- Dominique Estival, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Emmanuel Ferragne, University of Paris-Diderot Paris 7, France
- Colleen Fitzgerald, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Jean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, France
- Heinz Giegerich, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Hélène Giraudo, University of Toulouse, France
- Olivier Glain, University of Saint-Etienne, France
- Ulrike Gut, University of Münster, Germany
- Michael T. Hammond, University of Arizona, USA
- Sophie Herment, University of Aix-Marseille 1, France
- Nadine Herry-Bénit, University of Paris 8, France
- Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- David Hornsby, University of Kent, England
- Daniel Huber University of Toulouse, France
- Manuel Jobert, University of Lyon 3, France
- Wyn Johnson, University of Essex, England
- Takeki Kamiyama, University of Paris 3, France
- Mariko Kondo, University of Waseda, Japan
- Véronique Lacoste, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Steven Moore, University of Toulouse, France
- Sylvain Navarro, University of Toulouse, France
- Anne Przewozny, University of Toulouse, France
- Monika Pukli, University of Strasbourg, France
- Jørgen Staun, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Jean-Michel Tarrier, University of Toulouse, France
- Gabor Turcsan, University of Aix-Marseille 1, France
- Eiji Yamada, Fukuoka University, Japan
- Stephan Wilhelm, University of Burgundy, France
Guidelines for abstracts (oral presentations as well as posters):
The extended submission deadline is 9 January 2015. Three peers from
the PAC international scientific committee will review each abstract
anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be sent by email until 2
February 2015. Please submit a fully anonymised abstract through the
Easy Abstracts facility of the Linguist List at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/PAC2015. Abstracts should be in PDF
format, they should be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or
one inch margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12,
and with normal character spacing. Please state the category of
presentation for which you wish to apply (oral, poster, oral or poster).
For more information about the conference, please contact Anne
Przewozny at anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr. Soon you will be able to
check the website at http://www.projet-pac.net
Dates to be remembered:
Initial call for papers: 10 August 2014
Last call for papers: 27 November 2014
New deadline for abstracts: 9 January 2015
Final Notification of acceptance: 2 February 2015
Main organisers of the conference:
Anne Przewozny (main organiser)
Jacques Durand
Philip Carr
Steven Moore
Local organisation committee (Toulouse 2):
Daniel Huber, Amélie Josselin-Leray, Jean-Michel Tarrier, Willy
Beaujean, Hugo Chatellier, Léa Courdès-Murphy, Cécile Viollain.
Language of the conference: English
The PAC conferences have been organized each year in Toulouse,
Montpellier or Aix-en-Provence since 2004. PAC "La Phonologie de
l?Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure / The Phonology
of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure" is a
programme coordinated by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Anne
Przewozny. Its main aims have been to provide 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 data and analyses which will help
improve the teaching of English as a foreign language. We have been
involved in the construction of a corpus of spoken English from 31
locations in the English-speaking world. In terms of linguistic study,
the recordings lend themselves to various types of exploitation,
including syntax and pragmatics. The PAC programme has developed into
a variety of thematic research groups with dedicated research
interests:? ICE-IPAC (the Interphonology of Contemporary English),
PAC-Syntax (the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of contemporary
spoken English), PAC-Prosody (analysis of speech prosody and tools),
PAC-Research (annotation issues and tools), PAC-EFL (the teaching of
English as a second language and pedagogical tools), LVTI (Language,
Urban life, Work, Identity) on the study of English in urban contexts.
http://www.projet-pac.net
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