arisPhonetics, Phonology and language contact

  The conference PPLC 13 'Phonetics, Phonology and language contact'  is a satellite event of Interspeech 2013 (http://www.interspeech2013.org/) which aims to bring together students and researchers working in the field of language acquisition, bilingualism and language contact situations.  It distinguishes itself from other conferences addressing these issues by wanting to provide a forum for dialogue and exchange between researchers working on second language acquisition, on the one hand, and researchers interested in multilingualism or in language varieties used in contact situations (for example, English or French spoken in Africa) on the other hand.  The possibility of comparing the characteristics of varieties emerging from language contact with the characteristics of varieties used by language learners will allow us to gain new insights on a range of linguistic questions, including among others: Which linguistic elements are acquired most easily, which elements are the ones most likely to disappear in contact situations or in cases of attrition, how to evaluate the complexity of the languages of the world, what impact can this knowledge have for teaching foreign languages?

  The conference will be held at the General Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Paris (274, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris), and will take place from Wednesday, August 21, 2013 (2:00 p.m.) to Friday, August 23, 2013. The conference will include several oral and poster sessions as well as a half-day tutorial focusing on topics related to the development of resources for working on the phonology and phonetics in language contact situations (tools, transcription systems, construction of corpora, etc.). Information relative to the program and the registration procedure are available at the conference website : https://sites.google.com/site/ppcpinterspeech2013/home

The keynote speakers of the conference are:

- Catherine BEST,  University of Western Sydney

-  Ulrike GUT, University of Münster

- Paul IVERSON, University College London

-  Sabine ZERBIAN, University of Potsdam

The program is given below:

Wednesday, August  21^st , 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

Thursday, August  22nd, 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

Friday, August  23rd, 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

As for registration, note that it has to be done before the 20^th of july. To do so, you have to follow the instructions given in the attached document or on the website.

Organizing committee

The PPLC 13 is being organized conjointly by members of the Labex ‘Empirical Foundations of Linguistics’ (Sorbonne Paris Cité) and members of the University of Mons and the Free University of Brussels.

Elisabeth DELAIS-ROUSSARIE, UMR 7110 – Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS/Paris Diderot University

Barbara KÜHNERT, Institut du Monde Anglophone & UMR 7018 - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/University of Paris 3

Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU, ILPGA & UMR 7018 - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/University of Paris 3

Mathieu AVANZI, UMR 7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS/ Paris Diderot University & University of Neuchâtel

Véronique DELVAUX, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Bernard HARMEGNIES, Laboratoire de Phonétique & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Kathy HUET, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Myriam PICCALUGA, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Dan VAN RAEMDONCK, Centre de Linguistique, ULB-Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique.