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Collective publication with EUP

Cécile VIOLLAIN — 2019-04-20T12:36:00Z

The collective volume, New Perspectives on English Word Stress, edited by Eiji Yamada et al., has been published by Edinburgh University Press in June 2023. It materializes the many exchanges that took place during the PAC international conference entitled “Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English” at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France in 2015.

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PAC 2019 - Phonetic and phonological variation in contemporary English: Xperience-Xperimentation

Cécile VIOLLAIN — 2018-12-19T12:05:49Z

Our 2019 conference Phonetic and phonological variation in contemporary English: Xperience-Xperimentation will take place in Aix-en-Provence from Tuesday June 4 to Wednesday June 5 2019.

International conference

Guest Speakers:
Emmanuel Ferragne, Université de Paris
Dominic Watt, University of York

The conference programme is available here.

For more information, visit https://pacaix2019.sciencesconf.org

PAC-Prosody

Cécile VIOLLAIN — 2018-12-19T11:55:16Z

PAC-Prosody (Aix-Marseille Université) is coordinated by Sophie Herment, Aix-Marseille Université. The project, launched in 2013, is dedicated to the study of the rhythm and intonation of the varieties of English, at the interface with acoustics and syntax, and is designing tools for the semi-automatic annotation of prosody.

Methodology
The core protocol for the PAC-Prosody surveys is the PAC-LVTI one.
Additional tasks for the study of prosody have been conceived and constitute the PAC Prosody extension (which comes in addition to the original protocol):
– a list of sentences to be read (declaratives, questions, emphasis and enumerations)
– a map-task (specifically created for each survey location)
– an image described by the speaker

If you are interested in using the copyrighted PAC protocol and its Prosody extension for your fieldwork, feel free to contact us to enquire about PAC membership.

Members:
Julia Bongiorno, Aix-Marseille Université
Caroline Bouzon, Université de Lille
Sophie Herment, Aix-Marseille Université
Airelle Théveniaut, Université de Bretagne Sud
Anne Tortel, Aix-Marseille Université
Gabor Turcsan, Aix-Marseille Université
Stephan Wilhelm, Université Grenoble Alpes

Doctoral students:
Raphaëlle Magnin, Aix-Marseille Université
Marine Mouquet, Aix-Marseille Université
Aïcha Rahal, Aix-Marseille Université

IPCE-IPAC

Cécile VIOLLAIN — 2018-12-19T11:52:17Z

IPCE-IPAC (InterPhonology of Contemporary English) is devoted to the study of variation on the basis of learner corpora of English, and consequently concerned with the acquisition and teaching of English as a foreign language. It is coordinated by Paolo Mairano, Université de Lille, and Caroline Bouzon, Université de Lille.

Goals
– to provide an international database of L2 English interphonology comprising learners with different L1 varieties as well as different L2 varieties as their targets/models (and not simply General British or General American);
– to provide data and analyses for phonologists, psycholinguists, education science specialists and trainers interested in the teaching/learning of English as a foreign/second language (PAC-ToE);
– to give a better picture of English spoken by non-natives in its unity and (geographical, social, educational and stylistic) diversity;
– to develop multi-level analyses of spoken non-native English: phonology, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.

Originality
There are many learner corpora of English, but they typically focus on grammar, vocabulary and, more generally, written forms rather than explicitly/exclusively on phonology, they do not necessarily share a common protocol which allows the comparison of results and the cross-linguistic study of selected difficulties.
IPCE-IPAC's originality notably relies on building comparable data, including with the PAC native speaker corpora.

Methodology
It is inspired by both the PAC and the IPFC (Interphonologie du Français Contemporain) protocols and is built with a modular structure. The core of the protocol revolves around:
– 2 wordlists (used for a repetition task and for a read-aloud task);
– a read-aloud task of the PAC text, as well as its version in the L1 (providing a baseline against which we compare the acquisition of L2 phonology);
– a read-aloud task of some sentences explicitly targeted towards eliciting different intonation patterns;
– a formal conversation with a teacher.

Other supplementary modules include:
– a L1-specific wordlist used to test specific difficulties observed for a given L1;
– a map-task and an informal conversation (in pairs with another learner);
– a picture description task.

The general proficiency level of learners who are invited to participate in the study ranges from A2 to C2 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, 2001).

Latest news
To date, four L1s are represented in the project:
– French (Paris, Lyon, Lille): 25 speakers
– Italian (Torino): 12 speakers
– Chinese (Xi'an): 12 speakers
– Spanish (Chile & Colombia): 10 speakers

If you are interested in using the copyrighted IPCE-IPAC protocol for your fieldwork, feel free to contact us to enquire about PAC membership.

Members:
Maxim Barkov, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Caroline Bouzon, Université de Lille
Leonardo Contreras Roa, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Sophie Herment, Aix-Marseille Université
Nadine Herry-Bénit, Université Paris Nanterre
Takeki Kamimaya, Université Paris 8
Paolo Mairano, Université de Lille
Jeff Tennant, University of Western Ontario
Ioana Trifu-Dejeu, Université de Lille

Doctoral students:
Léo Clerc, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne
Audrey Gros-Bonfiglioli, Université Paris Nanterre
Raphaëlle Magnin, Aix-Marseille Université
Dylan Michari, Aix-Marseille Université
Marine Mouquet, Aix-Marseille Université
Victoria O'Callaghan, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Aicha Rahal, Aix-Marseille Université

PAC-LVTI

Cécile VIOLLAIN — 2018-12-19T11:50:33Z

PAC-LVTI (Langue, Ville, Travail, Identité / Language, City, Work, Identity) is coordinated by Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. The project, launched in 2011, aims at the sociolinguistic description of language in urban and post-urban contexts, notably in Toulouse (FR), Marseille (FR), and Manchester (GB), three urban centers that have a similar aura/influence in France and England respectively. Sydney (Aus), Brisbane (Aus), Ipswich (Aus), Caloundra (Aus), Montreal (Can), Ontario (Can), Trenton (NJ, USA), Ithaca (NY, USA), Murfreesboro (TN, USA), Dublin (Irl), and County Galway (Irl) are currently under study.

Methodology
The PAC-LVTI protocol is now the common protocol for all the PAC surveys as it notably includes a questionnaire about language, city, work and identity which can be used as a basis for the formal/semi-guided interview.

If you are interested in using the copyrighted PAC-LVTI protocol for your fieldwork, feel free to contact us to enquire about PAC membership.

Members:
Julia Bongiorno, Aix-Marseille Université
Marc-Philippe Brunet, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Hugo Chatellier, Université Paris Nanterre
Christophe Coupé, CY Cergy Paris Université
Léa Courdès-Murphy, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Julie Dallinges, Aix-Marseille Université
Sophie Herment, Aix-Marseille Université
Amélie Josselin-Leray, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Filip Miletic, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Sylvain Navarro, Université Paris Cité
Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Monika Pukli, Université de Strasbourg
Julie Rouaud, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Jeff Tennant, University of Western Ontario
Airelle Théveniaut, Université de Bretagne Sud
Cécile Viollain, Université Paris Nanterre

Doctoral students:
Houda Bekkaoui, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Erwanne Mas, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Manon Toularhoat, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès