[lg policy] call: 5th Native and Non-Native English Accents Conference

[Harold Schiffman]

5th Native and Non-Native English Accents Conference
Short Title: Accents 2011

Date: 15-Dec-2011 - 17-Dec-2011
Location: Lodz, Poland
Contact Person: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents2011

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Phonetics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2011

Meeting Description:

The theme for the fifth edition of 'Accents' is 'Tools for accent
studies', which is intended to highlight the importance of methodology
in the studies undertaken both in natural and formal setting.
Continuing the tradition of converging socio-phonetic, psycho-phonetic
and pedagogical approaches to variability in speech, this conference
aims at attracting papers reporting on a variety of methods used in
the studies including, but not limited to recent developments in
accents of English around the world, spoken language corpora, changing
attitudes to accents, the role of accent models in teaching English
around the world, pedagogical applications of accent studies and
native - non-native accent studies interface.

Pleanary Speakers:

Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam
John Coleman, University of Oxford
Linda Shockey, University of Reading/ BBC Pronunciation Unit
Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
John C. Wells, University College London

Special Sessions:

Three special sessions devoted to the use of computer software for
phonetic analysis, spoken language corpora and statistics are planned
during the conference.

(1) Phonetic analysis on computers
(2) Spoken language corpora
(3) Statistics in accent studies

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for papers and workshops related to the main theme
as well as other aspects of accent studies. Please notice that each
author can propose two contributions if one is intended for the main
conference and the other one for a special session. Papers are given
20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion; workshops will
typically have 45 minute slots. Please specify the intended
presentation format in your proposal.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 30th, 2011. Please
send two copies of an abstract of up to 400 words (excluding
references) to accentsuni.lodz.pl, with the intended format, name and
affiliation written under the title in one copy. The proposals will go
through the process of peer review, after which notifications of
acceptance will be sent out by October 21, 2011.

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