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The University of Turin (Laboratorio Sperimentale di Fonetica ’Arturo Genre’) and the University of
Paris 8 (Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage) are pleased to announce that the L2PHROL
workshop (L2 Phonetics and Phonology of L1 Romance Learners) will be held in Turin (Italy) on 16-17
November 2017. The L2PHROL workshop is jointly organized by universities in France and Italy and
aims at bringing together researchers working on the L2 phonetics and phonology of Romance L1
learners.
Topics of the workshop :
We welcome contributions focusing on Romance L1 learners of any L2, involving any of the following
5 broad themes :
1) The acquisition of new phonological/phonetic/prosodic features in production and/or
perception by speakers of a Romance L1, or by simultaneous bilinguals with at least one
Romance language.
2) Common characteristics and common difficulties encountered by Romance native speakers
learning an L2, such as tense-lax vowel contrasts, glottal fricative /h/, aspirated stops, stress-
timed rhythm, phonological vowel length, lexical tones, prosodic realization of contrastive
focus.
3) Other phonetic characteristics of L2 speech by L1 Romance speakers.
4) The validation of phonetic/phonological theories in the light of L2 data by speakers whose L1
is a Romance language, or by simultaneous bilinguals with at least one Romance language.
5) Teaching techniques or materials addressing L2 pronunciation and phonological awareness
for Romance L1 learners of any L2.
Abstract submission
We invite abstracts in English (Times New Roman, 12-point font size, max. 1 page in A4 size plus
optionally a second page for references and figures). Anonymous abstracts must be submitted by 1st
September 2017 and will be peer-reviewed by members of the scientific committee (see
http://www.lfsag.unito.it/ricerca/L2PHROL/committees.html). More details about the submission
procedure will be published on the website.
Registration
Registration will open on 16th September 2017. There will be no registration fee.
Important dates :
• 1 September 2017 : abstract submission deadline.
• 16 September 2017 : evaluation of abstracts will be sent to authors and registration will open.
• 16-17 November 2017 : workshop in Turin.
L2PHROL organizing committee :
Paolo Mairano, University of Turin Fabian Santiago, Université Paris 8
Antonio Romano, University of Turin Giuseppina Turco, Université Paris 3
Valentina De Iacovo, University of Turin Takeki Kamiyama, Université Paris 8
Marzena Watorek, Université Paris 8
For further information, visit our workshop website www.lfsag.unito.it/ricerca/L2PHROL/, or contact
L2PHROL2017@gmail.com.