Cet article présente les résultats préliminaires d’un projet de recherche appliquée longitudinal dénommé PICL!. Les apprenants français peuvent avoir des difficultés à discriminer un système phonologique natif de l’anglais, à l’adopter comme cible d’apprentissage et à développer des compétences de p...
Discourse is a representation of reality to be shared with others but there are times when such a representation fails to provide an accurate evaluation of it. That is typically the case with quantitative numerical assignment, either because the speaker is (temporarily) unable to come up with an ade...
This paper addresses the question of the interface between prosody and syntax through the analysis of a few non canonical syntactic structures taken from corpora of spoken English. It-clefts, extrapositions, right noun-phrase dislocations and the insertion of auxiliary do in an assertive context are...
21st Villetaneuse Conference on Spoken English - 29-30 March 2024 ALOES 2024 Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Pléiade - UR 7338) and ALOES Prominence in spoken English Invited speaker: Rory Turnbull (Newcastle University) According to Cangemi and Bauman (2020), “few concepts in phonetics and phonolog...
Origins The SEC (Spoken English Corpus) is a collection of BBC recordings from the 1980s, grouping eleven different radio speech styles ranging from news and interviews to poetry reading. The data represents over five hours of natural-sounding British English from 53 different speakers (17 male and...
Even at the higher proficiency levels, many learners continue to rely on the same limited range of basic expressions to express opinions, persuade and present arguments (e.g., I think, X is very important, because of this…) or are not aware of register differences and thus frequently use words and p...
Even at the higher proficiency levels, many learners continue to rely on the same limited range of basic expressions to express opinions, persuade and present arguments (e.g., I think, X is very important, because of this…) or are not aware of register differences and thus frequently use words and p...
Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of Eng lish (including nee-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter."Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dia...
Humans share the ability to intuitively map ‘sharp’ or ‘round’ pseudowords, such as ‘bouba’ versus ‘kiki’, to abstract edgy versus round shapes, respectively. This effect, known as sound symbolism, appears early in human development. The phylogenetic origin of this phenomenon, however, is unclear: a...
talianL1 speakers of EnglishL2 produce the same English sound as longer if spelled with two than with one letter, following Italian grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. Do Italian listeners perceive short and long sounds in English homophonic word pairs that are spelled with a single letter or a digra...
The Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) Administrative Unit is looking for an Initiative Coordinator to join the team. The successful candidate will have project management experience, be knowledgeable about counterterrorism, and have familiarity with multilateral work environments. Excellent writt...
This 2021 thematic issue of Anglophonia springs from what would have been the 20th Villetaneuse Conference on Spoken English. The conference was organised by ALOES and PLEIADE and was due to be hosted by the University of Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité in March 2020. On account of the Covid-19 pande...
This book offers a collection of 13 chapters written by 19 international scholars on spoken corpora and variation with different methodological approaches, theoretical stances and analytical treatments of several phenomena in the varieties of contemporary English. These approaches range from descrip...
This 2019 thematic issue of Anglophonia is dedicated to Voice Quality in English. It follows the 19th Villetaneuse Conference on Spoken English, organized by ALOES and PLEIADE at the University of Paris 13 in April 2018, whose topic was Voice quality in English: from the production of a phonation ty...
This study begins with an observation based on thirty years of teaching English linguistics in higher education. 1 For many students, learning to speak English, and especially mastering the phonetics of English, is a fairly smooth process; for others, however, it is highly challenging or almost impo...
This paper presents a direct continuation of preceding corpus-linguistic research on complex sentence constructions with temporal adverbial clauses in a cognitive and usage-based framework (Diessel 2008; Hampe 2015). Working towards a more systematic construction-based account of complex sentences w...
Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Changing stress-related durational aspects of French speakers' English View project Improving university students' ability to decode authentic spoken English View project
Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Changing stress-related durational aspects of French speakers' English View project Improving university students' ability to decode authentic spoken English View project
This paper explores ways in which academics construct their image as experts and promote their research to achieve their professional objectives (e.g. disseminating knowledge and getting their projects funded) by drawing on the web-mediated genre of TED talks, popularizing speeches that are freely a...