23.570, Confs: English, Phonology, Socioling/France

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Date: 01-Feb-2012
From: Anne Przewozny-Desriaux [anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change

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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:13:00
From: Anne Przewozny-Desriaux [anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change

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Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change 
Short Title: PAC 2012 

Date: 29-Feb-2012 - 02-Mar-2012 
Location: Toulouse, France 
Contact: Anne Przewozny-Desriaux 
Contact Email: anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr 
Meeting URL: http://w3.pac.univ-tlse2.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

PAC 2012
The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and Change
University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 29 February - 2 March 2012
Toulouse, France

On 29 February - 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.erss.univ-tlse2.fr 
http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr

Goals of the Conference:

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.

Invited Plenary Speakers:

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

PAC 2012. The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and 
change.

We are pleased to inform you that you may now register and will find 
all necessary information concerning the conference and your stay in 
Toulouse on the new PAC website at

http://www.projet-pac.net

Just click on the link which is provided on our website, or go to the 
university's registration website at

http://w3.colloquescprs.univ-tlse2.fr/spip.php?rubrique50&lang=en

Should you need any further information, please let us know by 
sending an email to anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr or 
steven.moore at univ-tlse2.fr.

If you wish to participate, you can also contact the very friendly 
members of our Research Promotion Centre (CPRS cprs at univ-tlse2.fr) 
who are in charge of registration and organization.

With our best wishes,

Anne Przewozny-Desriaux and Steve Moore.

Scientific Committee:

Maciej Baranowski, University of Manchester, England
Joan C. Beal, Sheffield University
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

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