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Wednesday September 1st
13H45-14h00 Opening of the PAC Conference
14h00-15h00 Plenary Manuel Jobert
A Phonostylistic Approach to Dialect Encoding
Session 1 English Accent Variation: Perceptions and Representations
Chair: Cécile Viollain
15h00-15h30 Catherine Chauvin
Accent Representations in Comedy: the Example of the “Essex Accent” Routine by Russell Kane
15h30-16h00 Laura Goudet
Phonology as an Assessment of Dialectal Dictionaries
16h00-16h30 Coffee Break
16h30-17h00 Julie Dallinges
Ontarians’ Perceptions of Language Variation: Canadian English and Hockey English
17h00-17h30 Christophe Coupé
Perception, Variation and Representation in Contemporary Dublin English: Investigating Pleasantness and Correctness Results based on an Online Perceptual Survey
17h30-18h00 Olivier Glain
Cajun English: Representations and Performance
Thursday September 2nd
09h00-10h00 Plenary Jose Mompean
Cognitive Phonology: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice
Session 2 Theories Put to the Empirical Test
Chair: Sylvain Navarro
10h00-10h30 Coline Caillol & Emmanuel Ferragne
Me[t]al or Me[ɾ]al? The Role of Duration and Lexical Frequency on /t/ Flapping in the Singing Voice
10h30-11h00 Sarah Grech, Alexandra Vella
Capitalising on Available Resources and Tools in Work on Lesser-Known Varieties of English: Maltese English
11h00-11h30 Coffee Break
11h30-12h00 Filip Miletic
Bridging across Datasets and Disciplines: the Contribution of Corpus Phonology to the Study of Lexical Semantic Variation
12h00-12h30 Hannah King, Ioana Chitoran & Emmanuel Ferragne
Difficult to Hear but Easy to See: Accounting for the Evolution of an /r/ Specific Lip Posture in Anglo-English
12h30-14h00 Lunch break
14h00-15h00 Plenary Karen Corrigan
Hitt(ING) an Armagh Target: Newcomers Acquiring a Vernacular Universal
Session 3 Identities, Language Contact and Innovations in Native Varieties of English
Chair: Hugo Chatellier
15h00-15h30 David Hornsby
‘Plastic Northerners’? Evidence for Koineization in an East Kent Village
15h30-16h00 Jing Yan, Peggy Mok & Grace Wenling Cao
An Analysis of Palatalization in Trinidadian English Creole
16h00-16h30 Coffee Break
16h30-17h00 Florent Chevalier
Inter-Speaker Variation in Sociolinguistic Interviews: a Case Study of Dialects in Contact
17h00-17h30 Marc-Philippe Brunet
“We Have our Own Idea of Vowels in the South”: Indexicality and Stylistic Variation in Middle Tennessee
Friday September 3rd
Session 4 Suprasegmental Phonology: Variation in the English-speaking World
Chair: Sophie Herment
09h00-09h30 Janne Lorenzen & Baris Kabak
Forestressing in African American English: Social and Structural Factors
09h30-10h00 Marjolaine Martin & Anne Przewozny-Desriaux
Lexical Stress in Standard Aboriginal English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Account of Dictionary and Spoken Data
10h00-10h30 Eiji Yamada, Sachio Hirokawa & Chao Zeng
Assessment of a Subsidiary Stress Rule for English Words Based on a Linguistic Corpus
10h30-11h00 Coffee Break
11h00-11h30 Véronique Lacoste, Jeff Tennant & Damaris Holmes
Application of Rhythm Metrics to Toronto Haitian English
11h30-12h00 Julia Bongiorno
PAC Dublin: an Inventory of the Intonation System in the South of Dublin
12h00-12h30 Alexandra Vella
The “Sing-Song” Intonation of Maltese English: The Contribution of Early Highs and Final (Continuation) Rises
12h30-14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-15h00 Plenary Chantal Lyche & Jacques Durand
Paul Passy and the Teaching of English in Late Nineteenth Century France
Session 5 Learner Speech Phenomena: Methods, Challenges and Norms
Chair: Gabor Turcsan
15h00-16h00 Poster Session
Poster 1: Airelle Théveniaut & Sophie Herment Falling Tones in Galway English: a Typical Irish Contour?
Poster 2: Aicha Rahal IPCE-IPAC Tunisia: a Representation of the Reality of Spoken English
Poster 3: Siham Ezzahid & Paolo Mairano Perceiving Masked Faces: Experimental Evidence from English
Poster 4: Mlada Kimto Perception and Distinction of American and British Accents by French Students Learning English (L2)
Poster 5: Quentin Dabouis, Sylvain Navarro & Olivier Glain Towards a Reassessment of the Gemination of [r] in British and American English?
16h00-16h30 Paolo Mairano, Caroline Bouzon
Implementing an L2 English Perception Module for IPCE-IPAC
16h30-17h00 Évelyne Cauvin
The “Pianist”—a Learner Profile Challenging the Prosodic Standards of the CEFR
17h00-17h30 Leonardo Contreras Roa
Unstressed Vowels in Learner Speech: Exploring the IPCE-IPAC Data
17h30 Closing remarks