PAC WORKSHOP 2010 - THE PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH : USAGE, VARIETIES AND STRUCTURE
PAC WORKSHOP 2010
THE PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH : USAGE, VARIETIES AND STRUCTURE
Montpellier, 13-14 September 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to announce that the PAC annual Workshop ‘The phonology of English : usage, varieties and structure’ is due to take place from Monday 13 to Tuesday 14 September 2010 and will be hosted this year by EMMA Research Centre at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier. Our invited speaker is Jane Stuart-Smith from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK).
The PAC Project (http://w3.pac.univ-tlse2.fr/), ‘La Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain:
usages, variétés et structure; The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and
structure’ is a project coordinated by Philip Carr and Jacques Durand. Among other things
it aims at:
• giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical,
social and stylistic);
• testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point
of view, making room for the systematic study of variation,
• favouring communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory,
• providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a
foreign language.
Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English. The papers will be 30 minute long (including a 10 minute discussion period). The deadline for sending a title with a short abstract is 15/06/2010
.
Please send your proposal to :
sophie.herment@univ-provence.fr
Notification of acceptance will be sent by late July.
The PAC Workshop is jointly organised by the EMMA research centre (Montpellier 3), the
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Aix-en-Provence, CNRS UMR 6057) and the Laboratoire
CLLE-ERSS (Toulouse, CNRS UMR5263), with the support of the Institut Universitaire de
France.
Main Organisers :
Phil Carr (Montpellier) (philcarrb@yahoo.com)
Jacques Durand (Toulouse) (jacques.durand@univ-tlse2.fr)
Gabor Turcsan (Aix-en-Provence) (gabor.turcsan@univ-provence.fr)
Sophie Herment (Aix-en-Provence) (sophie.herment@univ-provence.fr)