36.2571, Confs: World Congress of French Linguistics/Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française: Session 9 Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces (France)

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Date: 30-Aug-2025
From: Michela Russo [mrusso at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: World Congress of French Linguistics/Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française: Session 9 Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces


World Congress of French Linguistics/Congrès Mondial de Linguistique
Française: Session 9 Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces
Short Title: CMLF - Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces

Date: 06-Jul-2026 - 10-Jul-2026
Location: Arras, France
Contact: Michela Russo
Contact Email: mrusso at univ-paris8.fr
Meeting URL: https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition;
Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology

Submission Deadline: 19-Dec-2025

Session 9 – Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces
Chair: Michela Russo (Université de Lyon & UMR 7023 SFL/Université
Paris 8)
Vice-Chair: Rudolph Sock (Université de Strasbourg)
Other committee members: Nicolas Audibert (Sorbonne Nouvelle
University), Marie-Hélène Côté (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland),
Ivana Didirková (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry), Heather Goad
(McGill University, Montreal, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Université
de Mons, Belgium), Haike Jacobs (Radboud University, Netherlands),
Jeffrey Lamontagne (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), Kie Ross
Zuraw (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Presentation:
French phonology is currently undergoing a major renewal, combining
theoretical and empirical advances from contemporary approaches with
renewed perspectives in diachronic phonology. This session aims to
explore these recent developments by highlighting the specific
contributions of theoretical, historical, and experimental approaches
to French phonology, studied both independently and in synergy with
related disciplines. Work on Medieval French, the evolution from Latin
to Old French, as well as in-depth studies of grapheme–phonology
interactions in a diachronic perspective, are particularly encouraged.
The diachronic phonology of French has recently benefited from
innovative theoretical and methodological frameworks, particularly
stratal and cyclic approaches, which adopt representational and
computational perspectives on phonological change. These models enable
a thorough re-analysis of complex evolutionary phenomena such as vowel
nasalisation, prosodic reorganisations (stress, rhythmic structure),
and segmental dynamics in their interaction with morphological and
syntactic structure.
The session also integrates research on dialectal and regional
variation in diachrony, especially studies on medieval scriptae, whose
analysis sheds light on the complexity and diversity of French
phonological trajectories. Contributions grounded in the most recent
theoretical frameworks of contemporary phonology are also welcome,
including constraint-based phonology (Optimality Theory), Government
Phonology, and Dependency or Element Phonology, based on clearly
defined phonological primitives (elements, primitive features). These
approaches, grounded in precise formalisation of phonological
representations and their interaction with experimental phonetics,
provide robust tools for analysing current phonological phenomena of
French and their interfaces with morphology, syntax, and other levels
of language, thereby enriching theoretical and empirical understanding
of linguistic change.
Phonetics and phonology are jointly central to this session, in a
perspective articulating experimental, theoretical, and diachronic
dimensions. Phonetics is approached through its articulatory,
acoustic, and perceptual dimensions; phonology through the diversity
of its synchronic and diachronic analytical frameworks. Contributions
exploring phonetic variation in French—whether regional, stylistic,
sociophonetic, clinical, or related to acquisition—are especially
welcome. The contribution of experimental phonetics to fine-grained
modelling of phonological units, prosodic dynamics, and coarticulatory
processes is a key axis for dialogue between phoneticians and
phonologists.
Dates: July 6–10, 2026
Venue: University of Artois
Website: https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/
Responses to the call are expected by December 19, 2025. The total
number of presentations is estimated at around 200.
Timeline:
 - September 1, 2025: opening of the submission platform
 - December 19, 2025: deadline for receipt of paper proposals
 - March 13, 2026: notification of acceptance or rejection of
proposals, and guidelines for the final version
 - May 2026: submission of final texts to the publisher
 - Monday, July 6 to Friday, July 10, 2026: conference in Arras
(University of Artois)
The publication of the proceedings is handled by EDP Sciences –
http://www.edpsciences.org (proceedings published on
www.linguistiquefrancaise.org);
 - the evaluation of proposals will be carried out by experts using a
unified evaluation grid and after anonymization of submissions;
 - accepted papers will be published in full in the proceedings;
 - the proceedings and the link to abstracts will be available at the
opening of the conference.
Submission and Publication Guidelines:
Submissions must take the form of articles of 10–15 pages.
All presentations (including plenary lectures) will be published in
the form of a 10–15 page article in the online conference proceedings.
The proceedings of the nine previous conferences can be consulted at
www.linguistiquefrancaise.org



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