[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages – Join Us on September 18-19, 2025; Programme & Poster Inside

[Katia Chirkova]

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference

Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages)

which will be held on September 18–19, 2025. 

The event will take place in a hybrid format—both on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world.

This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, and classification of under-documented languages. It features contributions on topics such as articulatory–acoustic correlations, voice quality, tone and prosodic systems, field-based phonetic technologies, and the development of phonological typologies.

Dates 

September 18-19, 2025, from 09:30 to 17:00

Location

Bâtiment de recherche Nord, 14 Cours des Humanités, Campus Condorcet, 93322 Aubervilliers Cedex

Programme

We are pleased to share a rich and diverse programme featuring:

- Keynote Speakers:

John Esling (University of Victoria) 

"What Polynesian, Iroquoian, Semitic/Cushitic, Nilotic, West African (ATR), Tibeto-Burman and Germanic Languages Share in Laryngeal Articulation"

Marc Garellek (University of California San Diego)

"Best Practices for Language Description and a Case Study of Highland Totonac"

- Sessions Include:

Session A: Laryngealized Vowels in Western Sichuan Qiangic – September 18, 11:00 to 12:30

Session C: Register Contrasts in Austroasiatic and Beyond - September 18, 15:30 to 17:00

Session E: Instrumental Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages - September 19, 13:30 to 15:00

You can also view or download the full programme here:

https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10

Conference Poster

Help us spread the word! You can download and share the conference poster here:

https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/resource/page?id=9&forward-action=page&forward-controller=resource&lang=en

Registration

Attendance is free. Please register via:

https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/registration?lang=en

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at phon-udl at proton.me.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this announcement among your networks. We hope to see many of you there!

Best wishes,

Katia Chirkova
On behalf of the Phon-UDL Organizing Committee

Phon-UDL website: https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org/

Katia Chirkova
CRLAO-EHESS-INALCO
Campus Condorcet
5 cours des Humanités n°5181
93322 Aubervilliers CEDEX
France

katia.chirkova at gmail.com
www.katia-chirkova.info



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