27.1253, Calls: English, Phonetics, Socioling/Australia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1253. Fri Mar 11 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1253, Calls: English, Phonetics, Socioling/Australia

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:47:10
From: Gerry Docherty [gerry.docherty at griffith.edu.au]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia

 
Full Title: 1st Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia 
Short Title: SocioPhonAus2016 

Date: 04-Jul-2016 - 05-Jul-2016
Location: Brisbane - Queensland, Australia 
Contact Person: Gerry Docherty
Meeting Email: sociophonaus at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/sociophonaus2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this Workshop is to enable the growing community of researchers
undertaking work on sociophonetic properties of varieties of English spoken in
Australia to share findings, to discuss methodological issues, and to debate
the theoretical implications of their work.

Dominated for many years by the Mitchell & Delbridge typology, our
understanding of the nature of sociophonetic variability in Australian English
has until recently lagged considerably behind that of other varieties of
English. However, this situation is in the process of evolving rapidly, not
least with the release of the AusTalk corpus and the launch of the ARC Centre
for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language which are creating exciting
opportunities to investigate the phonetic characteristics of new and evolving
varieties of English from across the continent; e.g., contact varieties from
the Northern Territory, Aboriginal English spoken in Victoria as a first
language, and innovative urban varieties emerging from the complex ethnic mix
of Australian cities. Developments such as these have created a new frame of
reference within which to consider the phonological characteristics of the
varieties of English in Australia, and the rich and complex dimensions of
phonological variation within and across the nation’s speech communities.

Keynote speakers:
Associate Professor Felicity Cox: Macquarie University, Sydney
Professor Jonathan Harrington: Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Muenchen
Associate Professor Paul Warren: Victoria University of Wellington


Call for Papers: 

Submissions of abstracts: 

We invite the submission of abstracts for paper presentations. Talks are
allocated slots of 25 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts
should be a maximum of 400 words (excluding references) and may be submitted
from 1 March using EasyAbstracts provided by LinguistList at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/SocioPhonAus2016.

Key Dates: 
The deadline for abstract submission is midnight March 31, 2016. Abstracts
will be reviewed by the Workshop Scientific Committee and a decision about
acceptance or otherwise for the Workshop will be made by 15 April. The
programme for the Workshop will be publicised by the end of April.

The members of the Scientific Committee are: Gerry Docherty (Griffith), Janet
Fletcher (Melbourne), Debbie Loakes (Melbourne), Jason Shaw (Western Sydney)
and Anita Szakay (Macquarie).




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