L2 Prosody Workshop

L2 Prosody Workshop dates and information.

Date:    29 March, 2012

Venue: ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism
           41 College Road
           Bangor, Gwynedd
           LL57 2DG

Map:     http://g.co/maps/guacx

Registration:

Registration fees are as follows - £35 (£10 for Bangor University staff and students).

This fee includes tea & coffee, refreshments and lunch (including vegetarian options; please inform us if you have any other dietary requirements).

The registration fee can be paid in cash on the 29 March during the morning registration period.

To confirm registration for the conference please send an email to kelly.webb@bangor.ac.uk by 4:00pm GMT on Friday 17th February 2012 stating name and affiliation (if you have previously confirmed attendance please do so again, as this will be an official record of your intention to register).

We are currently looking into organising a post-workshop dinner/get-together, and we will announce this when plans are finalised. The cost of this is not included in the registration fee, and you will be asked to register for this in due course.

Please click here to view the workshop programme.

Travel:

Arriving by air - The closest airports are Manchester Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport, from which you can you can travel to Bangor by train (approx. 3½ hours or 2½ hours respectively).

There are also daily flights between Cardiff and Anglesey - see http://www.visitanglesey.co.uk/en-GB/by_air-188.aspx for more information (approx. 1 hour).

Arriving by train - Bangor Railway Station is only a 15 minute walk from the University, or a few minutes by taxi (approx. £3-£5). If you are traveling from London trains leave from Euston Station and traveling time is approx. 3½ hours. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk.

Arriving by car - Please use this interactive map to calculate your route and approximate traveling time - http://g.co/maps/wt4dr (Google Maps). Simply click the ‘Get directions’ button and input your starting location/postcode. If you have a satellite navigation system in your car then please input the postcode destination as LL57 2DG.

Arriving by sea - There are frequent ferries from Ireland to the nearby port at Holyhead. Please see these websites for details http://www.irishferries.com & http://www.stenaline.com. It then takes 30 minutes to reach Bangor from Holyhead by train.

Accommodation:

There are various hotels and bed & breakfast accommodation surrounding Bangor. The closest accommodation to the workshop location is the University’s Management Centre - http://themanagementcentre.co.uk - however if you are planning on staying here we suggest you book as soon as possible as there may be other conferences being held at the same time, and rooms here may fill up quite quickly.

Below are some websites that may help with your search for accommodation:

http://www.bnbselect.com/bnbs-in-bangor.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g186430-Bangor_Gwynedd_North_Wales_Wales-Hotels.html.

The L2 Prosody Workshop.

The Speech Research Group at the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Bangor University will organize a 1-day workshop on the production and perception of second language (L2) prosody. This workshop will take place in Bangor, North Wales, UK, on the 29th of March 2012, immediately preceding the International conference ‘Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction’ (Bangor, 30 March to 1 April 2012).

There is a general bias in L2 research towards investigations of segmental aspects of speech learning, with only limited attention to prosody. This is reflected in current L2 speech models (e.g. Flege’s Speech Learning Model, Best’s Perceptual Assimilation Model) which rely on the cross-language phonetic similarity of segments to predict the relative difficulty or ease of perception/production of non-native speech, and ignore prosodic aspects of cross-language similarity.

This workshop aims to promote research into prosodic aspects of L2 speech learning and the role of prosody in cross-language similarity. We invite abstracts for talks and posters on the production and perception of all aspects of prosody (e.g. intonation, rhythm, stress, loudness, tempo) in L2 learners or bilinguals.

Keynote speaker: Sharon Peperkamp, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris.

Organisers:
Ineke Mennen
Kelly Webb

Scientific Committee:

Ocke-Schwen Bohn - Aarhus University
Gracia Busa - University of Padova
Ulrike Gut - Münster University
Matthias Jilka - University of Stuttgart
Paul Iverson - UCL
Esther de Leeuw - Queen Mary University London
Brechtje Post - Cambridge University
Christiane Ulbrich - University of Ulster
Maria Uther - Brunel Univerisity

Important Dates:

Workshop: 29 March 2012

Meeting Location:
Bangor, Wales (UK)

Contact Information:
Kelly Webb

bilingualism@bangor.ac.uk

Meeting Dates:
The L2 Prosody will be held on the 29 March 2012.