PAC Aix 2025
18-20 juin 2025
Laboratoire Parole et Langage - Aix-en-Provence (France)
The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure) can be summarized as follows: to give a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic); 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 and in phonological theory; and to provide corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language. The 17th edition of the PAC international conference will focus on perception and representations of spoken English varieties, both native and non-native, from a phonetic and phonological point of view. People working in the framework of the PAC programme are used to following a field approach, which is production-oriented. We would like to broaden our perspective by using our data to test perception and representations. The idea is to open the conference to researchers specialized in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics as applied to phonetics and phonology. Indeed, the term perception can be understood in two senses.
Discipline scientifique :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société
Lieu de la conférence