PAC programme

Presentation

Guillaume Wauquier — 2018-10-12T14:26:28Z

The PAC programme (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure) is an interdisciplinary linguistic research programme coordinated by Sophie Herment (Aix-Marseille Université), Sylvain Navarro (Université Paris Cité), Anne Przewozny-Desriaux (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) and Cécile Viollain (Université Paris Nanterre).

The main aims of the programme can be summarized as follows:
– to give a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social, and stylistic) on the basis of native and learner corpora;
– 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, phonological and sociolinguistic theory;
– and to provide corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.

Since 2004, what started as Jacques Durand's idea for a local team project in Toulouse has developed into a research programme with a national and international scientific community of senior and junior (PhD and Master's students) researchers, and regular international conferences and summer workshops.

It has done so by setting collaborative goals for the creation of a large database on contemporary oral English, including native corpora from a wide variety of linguistic areas in the English-speaking world, such as:
– the United Kingdom – Lancashire, Ayrshire, Birmingham, Manchester...
– the Republic of Ireland – Donegal, Dublin, Galway...
– Canada – Ontario, Quebec...
– Australia – New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland...
– New Zealand – Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington...
– India – New Delhi...
– the USA – California, Boston, Michigan, Connecticut, Trenton, Murfreesboro, Ithaca...
as well as learner corpora from France, China, Italy and Spain.

The protocol used is shared by all researchers in every survey location and was inspired by a classical Labovian methodology. It revolves around reading tasks and conversational tasks. Each thematic research group can then add extra tasks to that common protocol.

Although significant corpora of oral English already exist, many of them have been conceived along exclusively sociolinguistic rather than explicitly phonological lines. In other cases, hardly any information is available on speakers beyond gender and geographical origin. And few corpora are based on a single methodology allowing for a fully comparative analysis of the data.

The approach chosen by the PAC programme was originally modelled on the French PFC programme (Phonologie du Français Contemporain – http://www.projet-pfc.net), founded by Jacques Durand (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Bernard Laks (Université Paris Nanterre) and Chantal Lyche (University of Oslo), and has demonstrated how a corpus which was originally conceived for phonology can lend itself to many other types of linguistic exploitation: the lexicon, morphosyntax, prosody, pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, interactionism, natural language processing, perception studies, and cognitive psychology.

PhDs in preparation

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– Bekkaoui, H. (in prep.). "Conditions d'émergence et de variabilité du short-a system en contexte transdialectal nord-américain : le cas de Trenton". Thèse de doctorat. Sup. Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, CLLE & U. Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Magnin, R. (in prep.). "Origines et acquisition des schémas intonatifs montants en prosodie anglaise : le cas des apprenants français". Thèse de doctorat. Sup. Sophie Herment, LPL & Aix-Marseille Université.

– Mas, E. (in prep.). "Variation linguistique en anglais australien contemporain : Étude systématique de la dynamique du changement vocalique". Thèse de doctorat. U. Toulouse-Jean Jaurès & ENS Lyon. Sup. Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, CLLE & U. Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Michari, D. (in prep.), "L'interaccent et son développement chez les apprenants francophones en anglais L2". Thèse de doctorat. U. Aix-Marseille. Sup. Sophie Herment, LPL & Aix-Marseille Université.

– Mouquet, M. (in prep.). "How do L1 French learners perceive, pronounce and process L2 English variants? A focus on English syncopes". Thèse de doctorat. Sup. Paolo Mairano, BCL & U. Lille & S. Herment, LPL & Aix-Marseille Université.

– O'Callaghan, V. (in prep.). "Les erreurs de prononciation des locuteurs français en anglais L2 en contexte de communication scientifique : entrave ou facilitation de l'intelligibilité et de la compréhensibilité du discours ?" Thèse de doctorat. U. Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. Sup. Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, CLLE & U. Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Research Ethics Board approval n°2021-368.

– Rahal, A. (in prep.), "L'anglais en tant que lingua franca dans le contexte tertiaire tunisien: caractéristiques, perception et pédagogie". Thèse de doctorat. Sup. Sophie Herment, LPL & Aix-Marseille Université.

PhDs

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– Bongiorno, J. (2021), "Étude du système intonatif de l'anglais parlé à Dublin". Thèse de doctorat. Aix-Marseille Université.

– Brunet, M.-P. (2023), “L'évolution vocalique du sud des Etats-Unis (Southern American English) comme symptôme d'une identité naissante ?”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Buscail, L. (2013). “Étude comparative des pronoms démonstratifs neutres anglais et français à l'oral : référence indexicale, structure du discours et formalisation en Grammaire Notionnelle Dépendancielle”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Chatellier, H. (2016). “Nivellement et contre-nivellement phonologique à Manchester : étude de corpus dans le cadre du projet PAC-LVTI”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Coupé, C. (2022). "Étude sociophonologique et acoustique de l'anglais dublinois contemporain". Thèse de doctorat. Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.

– Courdès-Murphy, L. (2018). “Nivellement et Sociophonologie de deux grands centres urbains : le système vocalique de Toulouse et Marseille”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Miletic, F. (2022). "An investigation into contact-induced semantic shifts in Quebec English: conciliating corpus-based vector models and variationist sociolinguistic inquiry". Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Navarro, S. (2013). “Rhoticité et ‘r' de sandhi en anglais : du Lancashire à Boston”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Pukli, M. (2006). “Investigation sociophonétique de l'anglais en Ecosse : le cas de l'Ayr”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Rouaud, J. (2019). “Emprunts français en anglais canadien du XVIIIe au XXIe siècles. Comparaison avec l'anglais britannique standard”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

– Theveniaut, A. (2023), "L'intonation de l'anglais du comté de Galway : comparaison est-ouest d'une variété au contact de la langue irlandaise". Thèse de doctorat. Aix-Marseille Université.

– Trifu-Dejeu, I. (2024), “Rhoticité en anglais : le cas des apprenants francophones”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris Nanterre.

– Viollain, C. (2014). “Sociophonologie de l'anglais contemporain en Nouvelle-Zélande : corpus et dynamique des systèmes”. Thèse de doctorat. Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

Selected collective publications

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– Bongiorno, J. & S. Herment (2022). "High Rising Terminals in Dublin: forms, functions and gender", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 23-26 May 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.

– Bongiorno, J. & S. Herment (2018). "A qualitative analysis of rising tones in Dublin English", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 13-16 June, Poznan, Pologne.

– Bongiorno, J., Herment, S. & A. Théveniaut (to appear), "The PAC-prosody protocol: eliciting speaking styles for prosodic analysis. The example of Irish English", In Przewozny, A., Rouaud, J. & A. Josselin-Leray, Description, Models and Representations of Contemporary English-Speaking Communities, Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi.

– Brulard, I., P. Carr & J. Durand (eds.) (2015). La prononciation de l'anglais contemporain dans le monde : Variation et structure. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi.

– Carr, P., S. Detey & C. Lyche (eds.) (2013). Universalism and variation in phonology: papers in honour of Jacques Durand, Language Sciences, 39.

– Carr, P., J. Durand & M. Pukli (2004). “The PAC project: principles and methods.” La tribune internationale des langues vivantes, 36, 24-35.

– Carr, P. & I. Brulard (2006). "Anglo-English Influences on Standard Scottish English Speakers: trap/bath/palm/start and lot/cloth/thought/north/force." Scottish Language, 25, 31-45.

– Carr, P., J. Durand & M. Pukli (eds.) (2004). “La prononciation de l'anglais : accents et variation.” La Tribune Internationale des Langues Vivantes, 36.

– Chatellier, H. & S. Moore (2015). “L'anglais de Manchester”, in I. Brulard, P. Carr & J. Durand (eds.) La prononciation de l'anglais contemporain dans le monde : Variation et structure. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 265–283.

– Contreras-Roa, L., Mairano, P., Bouzon, C. & M. Capliez (2020). "Voice assimilation of morphemic -s in the L2 English of L1 French, L1 Italian and L1 Spanish learners". Anglophonia, 30.

– Durand, J., S. Navarro & C. Viollain (2014). “Le ‘r' de sandhi en anglais : corpus et méthodologie”, in C. Soum-Favaro, A. Coquillon & J.-P. Chevrot (eds.), La liaison : approches contemporaines, Berne: Peter Lang, 317-344.

– Durand, J., S. Navarro & C. Viollain (2015). “R-sandhi in English: how to constrain theoretical approaches.” Global Communication Studies, vol.2, World Englishes. Global Communication Institute: Kanda University of International Studies, Japan, 103-132.

– S. Navarro & C. Viollain (2020). “R-sandhi in English and liaison in French: two phenomenologies in the light of the PAC and PFC data”, in A. Przewozny, C. Viollain & S. Navarro (eds.), The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

– Durand, J. & A. Przewozny (2012). “La phonologie de l'anglais contemporain : usages, variétés et structure.” Revue française de linguistique appliquée 17(1): 25-36.

– Durand, J. & A. Przewozny (2015). “La variation et le programme PAC”, in I. Brulard, P. Carr & J. Durand (eds.), La prononciation de l'anglais contemporain dans le monde : Variation et structure. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 55-91.

– Durand, J. & M. Pukli (2004). “How to construct a phonological corpus: PRAAT and the PAC project”. La tribune internationale des langues vivantes, 36: 36-46.

– Kamiyama, T., Herry-Bénit, N., Trifu-Dejeu, I. & A. Gros-Bonfiglioli (2018). "L'opposition fortis / lenis des occlusives en fin de mot en anglais : Liste de mots isolée lue par les apprenants francophones", XXXIIe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP), 4-8 June, Aix-en-Provence, France.

– Mairano, P., Contreras-Roa, L., Capliez, M. & C. Bouzon (2021). "The /s/ /z/ voice contrast in L1 French, L1 Spanish and L1 Italian learners of L2 English". LIA - Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 12(2).

– Mairano P., Bouzon C., Capliez M. & V. De Iacovo (2019). "Acoustic distances, Pillai scores and LDA classification scores as metrics of L2 comprehensibility and nativelikeness", in S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19 th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.

– Przewozny, A., Viollain, C. & S. Navarro (eds.) (2020). The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

– Przewozny, A. & C. Viollain (2016). “On the representation and evolution of Australian English and New Zealand English”. Anglophonia - French Journal of English Linguistics, 21, Presses Universitaires du Midi.

– Rodrigues Da Mota, C., & S. Herment (2016). “The pragmatic functions of the final particle eh and of High Rising Terminals in Canadian English: quite similar, eh!.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 31 May-3 June, Boston, USA.

– Rouaud, J., Huet, N., Przewozny, A. (2022). “Assessing spoken English performance and self-efficacy beliefs in the classroom: some considerations on the value of an interdisciplinary embodied methodology for French Learners of English”, RANAM, Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines, vol.55, Pronunciation matters: Current perspectives on teaching and learning L2 phonology.

– Théveniaut, A. & S. Herment (2023). "Phonetics or phonology? The case of falling contours in County Galway English". Anglophonia - French Journal of English Linguistics, 35, Presses Universitaires du Midi.

– Viollain, C. & H. Chatellier (2018). “De petits corpus pour une grande base de données sur l'anglais oral contemporain : quels enjeux à la lumière du programme PAC ?” Les petits corpus, Corpus 18.

– Viollain, C. & J. Durand (2020). “On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift”, in A. Przewozny, C. Viollain & S. Navarro (eds.), The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Selected individual publications from PAC members

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– Carr, P. (2004). “London English and its influence on varieties of British English.” La Tribune Internationale des Langues Vivantes, 36: 70-73.

– Chatellier, H. (2020). “Levelling in a northern English variety: the case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester”, in A. Przewozny, S. Navarro & C. Viollain (eds.) The Corpus Phonology of English: multifocal analyses of variation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

– Navarro, S. (2018). “Phonétique et phonologie du /r/ : la rhoticité revisitée”, in O. Glain & M. Jobert (eds.), Phonologies de l'anglais : théories et applications. Limoges: Editions Lambert Lucas

– Navarro, S. (2018). “Rhotics and the derhoticization of English: A Dependency Phonology Analysis”, in H. van der Hulst & R. Böhm (eds.), Substance-based Grammar - The (ongoing) Work of John Anderson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

– Navarro, S. (2016). Le /r/ en anglais : histoire, phonologie et variation. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon.

– Przewozny, A. (2004). “Variation in Australian English.” La Tribune Internationale des Langues Vivantes, 36, 74-86.

– Przewozny, A. (2006). “Quelles variations sociophonologiques pour l'anglais australien ?”, in G. Girard-Gillet (ed.), Aux Marges du texte : texte et co-texte, actes du XLe Congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, mai 2005, Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, C.I.E.R.E.C., Travaux 128, 163-177.

– Przewozny, A. (2006). “Perspectives sur l'anglais australien dans le projet PAC : l'exemple de la longueur de /æ/.” Cahiers de grammaire, 30, 359-372.

– Przewozny, A. (2016). La langue des Australiens. Genèse et description de l'anglais australien contemporain. Limoges: Editions Lambert-Lucas.

– Viollain, C. (2018). “Variation et changement : le Short Front Vowel Shift et le NEAR/SQUARE merger à la lumière du corpus PAC Nouvelle-Zélande”, in O. Glain & M. Jobert (eds.), Phonologies de l'anglais : théories et applications. Limoges: Editions Lambert Lucas.

– Wilhelm, S. (2015a). “Quand les paroles s'envolent : réflexions sur les caractéristiques et la forme phonétique du High Rising Terminal en anglais contemporain”. Anglophonia - French Journal of English Linguistics, 20, Presses Universitaires du Midi.

– Wilhelm, S. (2015b). “Urban North British Intonation — Le système intonatif des accents de l'anglais du nord du Royaume-Uni.” Actes du Colloque du Crelingua du 17 mai 2014. Paris: Les Amis du Crelingua, 72–88.

– Wilhelm, S. (2016). “Towards a typological classification and description of HRTs in a multidialectal corpus of contemporary English.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 31 May-3 June, Boston, USA.

Management Board

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Jacques Durand Honorary President

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Jacques Durand is Emeritus Professor of English linguistics at the University Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. He specializes in phonology and has published extensively on English and French. He is the co-founder of the PFC (Phonologie du français contemporain), PAC and LVTI research programmes. His recent collaborative publications include The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology (OUP), La prononciation de l'anglais contemporain dans le monde: variation et structure (PUM) and Varieties of Spoken French (OUP). He is the director of the Oxford series The Phonology of the World's Languages (OUP).

Sophie Herment

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Sophie Herment is full Professor in the department of English studies at Aix-Marseille University, France. She has taught English phonetics and phonology to French students at all levels of the university curriculum, including the teacher training programme, for 25 years. As a member of the speech and language lab (LPL, under the co-funding of the French national centre for research and the university), of which she is deputy director, she works mainly on prosody and her research interests concern L2 prosody, the varieties of English, the prosody/syntax interface and corpus prosody.

Sylvain Navarro

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Sylvain Navarro has been Associate Professor in English linguistics at the University of Paris Cité since September 2015. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “Rhoticity and ‘r'-sandhi in English: from Lancashire to Boston” at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès in September 2013. His research focuses on English phonology and the study of variation using large oral corpora. He has published a book on the phonology, history and variation of English /r/.

Anne Przewozny-Desriaux

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Anne Przewozny-Desriaux is Full Professor in English phonology at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. As a phonologist and a specialist in Australian studies, her research interests include sound change and variation, sociohistorical reconstructions of Australian English, dialectology and variationist sociolinguistics as applied to contemporary English and Australian varieties, and a comparative sociophonological interpretation of English and French varieties towards a refined definition of contemporary linguistic communities.

Cécile Viollain

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Cécile Viollain is holder of an agrégation and Associate Professor in English linguistics at Paris Nanterre University. Her research interests include the sociolinguistic, phonological, and phonetic characteristics of the varieties of English spoken worldwide, notably in New Zealand, the epistemological and methodological issues relating to corpus phonology, and what is at stake with the representations of accents in TV series and movies.

PAC 2017 - Phonology and interphonology of contemporary English: from native corpora to learner corpora

Guillaume Wauquier — 2017-09-28T09:00:00Z

PAC 2017 – Phonology and interphonology of contemporary English: from native corpora to learner corpora

Guest Speakers :
Nicolas Ballier, Université Paris Diderot
Jacques Durand, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh

For more information, visit https://crea.parisnanterre.fr/pac-2017-conference-phonology-and-interphonology-of-contemporary-english-from-native-corpora-to-learner-corpora-777108.kjsp?RH=1455273004678