Below please find information about a conference in Lodz, Poland, which may
be of interest to many List members,
Iwona Plisiecka,
Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics
University of Lodz, Poland
e-mail: wipiw@uni.lodz.pl; iw.plisiecka@gmail.com
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
5th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English
ACCENTS 2011
to be held 15-17 December 2011; University of Lodz, Poland
www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents2011
The theme for this edition is "Tools for accent studies", which is intended
to highlight the importance of methodology in the studies undertaken both in
natural and formal setting. Continuing the tradition of converging
socio-phonetic, psycho-phonetic and pedagogical approaches to variability in
speech, this conference aims at attracting papers reporting on a variety of
methods used in the studies including, but not limited to recent
developments in:
* accents of English around the world,
* spoken language corpora,
* changing attitudes to accents,
* the role of accent models in teaching English around the world,
* pedagogical applications of accent studies and native - non-native
accent studies interface.
Plenary speakers
Paul Boersma University of Amsterdam
John Coleman University of Oxford
Linda Shockey University of Reading/ BBC
Wodzimierz Sobkowiak Adam Mickiewicz University
John C. Wells University College London
Special sessions
(1) Phonetic analysis on computers
(2) Spoken language corpora
(3) Statistics in accent studies
(4) Recent development in London English
Call for Proposals
We invite proposals for papers and workshops related to the main theme as
well as other aspects of accent studies. The deadline for abstract
submission is September 30th, 2011. Please send two copies of an abstract of
up to 400 words (excluding references) to accents@uni.lodz.pl, with the
intended format, name and affiliation written under the title in one copy.
The proposals will go through the process of peer review, after which
notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 21, 2011.
Organisers
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (ewaklim@uni.lodz.pl), the head of the Department of
English Grammar and Phonetics, University of d, Anna Graliska-Brawata (
agrabra@uni.lodz.pl), Anna Cichosz, Adam Dudziski and Przemysaw Ostalski.
For more information please contact the organisers at:
accents@uni.lodz.pl(conference contact e-mail)
Prof. Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (ewaklim@uni.lodz.pl)
(Conference convener)
Mr. Anna Graliska-Brawata (Conference secretary)
Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
University of Lodz
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz, Poland
tel/fax +48 42 6655220
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