35.3469, Calls: Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain - Phonology of Contemporary English 2025

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Date: 04-Dec-2024
From: Sophie Herment [sophie.herment at univ-amu.fr]
Subject: Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain - Phonology of Contemporary English 2025


Full Title: Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain - Phonology of
Contemporary English 2025
Short Title: PAC 2025

Date: 18-Jun-2025 - 20-Jun-2025
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Contact Person: Sophie Herment
Meeting Email: pac2025 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics;
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): English based; New English

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain:
usages, variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English:
usage, varieties and structure) can be summarized as follows: to give
a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity
(geographical, social and stylistic); to test existing theoretical
models in phonology, phonetics and sociolinguistics 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; and to provide corpus-based data and analyses
which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.
To learn more about us, you can visit the programme’s website:
https://www.pacprogramme.net/?lang=en.

Call for Papers:

The 17th edition of the PAC international conference will focus on
perception and representations of spoken English varieties, both
native and non-native, from a phonetic and phonological point of view.
People working in the framework of the PAC programme are used to
following a field approach, which is production-oriented. We would
like to broaden our perspective by using our data to test perception
and representations. The idea is to open the conference to researchers
specialized in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics as applied to
phonetics and phonology. Indeed, the term perception can be understood
in two senses.

First, perception is considered in a psycholinguistic sense here: we
would be happy to welcome papers dealing with spoken word recognition
in relation to allophonic variation for example (Luce at al., 2003;
Ranbom & Connine, 2007; Connine et al., 2008, amongst others). Papers
could also examine the processing of phonological contrasts, which may
exist in a variety of English and not in another. When a word can be
pronounced with two different phonemes, do speakers encode two forms
as distinct lexical representations, even if they are associated to
the same meaning (see Dufour et al., 2019 on French)? Does the answer
depend on the exposure to several varieties (Sumner & Samuel, 2009)?
Psycholinguistic perception protocols can also be used to better
understand non-native speech. Among other issues, the following could
be tackled: Do L2 learners use reconstruction processes to recognise
reduced speech (Morano et al., 2023)? How does orthography affect L2
perception and phonological representations (Bassetti et al., 2021;
Stoehr & Martin, 2022)? How do L2 learners perceive English prosodic
patterns (Michelas et al., 2016)?

Second, the term perception leads us inevitably to question
representations. Attitudinal perception studies such as surveys,
interviews, or dialect questionnaires (Llamas, 2017) are often used
when dealing with varieties. Other more indirect methods like the
Implicit Association Test can also be helpful (McKenzie & Carrie,
2018) to try and answer the following, non-exhaustive questions: What
can variation tell us about cognitive and social systems? What is the
relationship between accent, identity and social attitudes? What are
the natives’ attitudes towards foreign-accented speech (Pantos &
Perkins, 2013)? Can adaptation for foreign-accented speech resemble
perceptual learning for native accented speech (Bradlow & Bent, 2008)?
How can sociolinguistic factors influence the way natives and
non-natives perceive speech (Clopper & Bradlow, 2009)? Can it bias
perception (Baquiran & Nicoladis, 2019)? Have attitudes to accents and
representations changed over time (Sharma et al., 2022)? Can they
change over the time course of an interaction (Levon et al., 2022)?

These are not exhaustive issues but only represent a small part of
avenues of research that we would like to explore. We would be
delighted to receive propositions dealing with related or different
subjects that are not mentioned here.

The deadline for sending a title with a one-page anonymous abstract
(excluding references) is January, 5 2025. Please visit the conference
website, where you can find a template for abstracts and upload your
submission: https://pac2025.sciencesconf.org/ (you will need to create
a scienceconf account if you don’t already have one).



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