Intonational Variation in Arabic

Provisional programme

Venue: Room V120 Vanbrugh College, University of York

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Pdf handouts of many of the talks are now available to download. If you wish to have a copy with embedded soundfiles please contact the relevant author direct (or the conference organisers, who can put you in contact with authors).

Monday 28^th September

12.00-13.00	Registration (lunch available to buy at nearby Freshers coffee shop)
13.00-13.15	Sam Hellmuth & Dana Chahal Welcome from the conference organisers
13.15-14.00	Invited speaker:Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge) Theoretical and practical aspects of studying intra-language intonational variation [pdf of talk]
14.00-14.30	Daniel Newman (University of Durham) & Jo Verhoeven (City University): Cross-dialectal intonation contours in Arabic [pdf of talk]
14.30-15.00	Andrew Dilbert (American University in Cairo) Colloquial Damascene Arabic Intonation: A description of contours in four syntactic categories [pdf of talk]
15.00-15.30	Coffee
15.30-17.00 17.00-17.30	Intonational Transcription Workshop [pdf of talk] Sam Hellmuth (University of York) & Dana Chahal (University of Melbourne) - transcription systems and how to map between them - using transcription to establish an intonational phonological inventory - practical exercises and data samples Discussion
18.30	Meet to catch bus into York for conference dinner
19.00-22.00	Conference Dinner (included in conference registration fee) (vegetarian (thus halal!) buffet in the Moroccan Room at El Piano, central York)

Tuesday 29^th September

9.30-10.00	Dina El Zarka (Universität Graz) The representation of focal accents in Egyptian Arabic [pdf of talk]
10.00-10.30	Raya Kalaldeh (Trinity College, Dublin) Peak alignment in Jordanian Formal and Colloquial Arabic [pdf of talk]
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.30	Hanady Mansour (Qatar University) Intonation and stress generator for Arabic text-to-speech
11.30-12.00	Droua-Hamdani, G. (CRSTDLA, Algiers), Selouani, S.A. (University of Moncton, Canada), Boudraa, M., Boudraa, B. (USTHB, Algiers) ALGASD PROJECT: statistical study of vocalic variations according to education levels of Algiers speakers
12.00-12.30	Bouchhioua, Nadia (University of 7th November, Carthage, Tunisia) Stress and accent in Tunisian Arabic [pdf of talk]
12.30-13.45	Sandwich lunch (included in conference registration fee)
13.45-14.15	Abdel-Fattah Moftah (Suez Canal University, Ismailiya) Stress timing of tone groups in Arabic
14.15-14.45	Mohammed Hafiz (University of Melbourne) An account of tonicity and intonation of West African Spoken Standard Arabic: a case study of Ghanaian muslim scholars
14.45-15.15	Coffee
15.15-16.00	Invited speaker: Judith Rosenhouse (Swantech Ltd) A phonetic delineation of pragmatic features in male Bedouin narratives [pdf of talk]
16.00-16.15	Closing greetings
16.15-17.00	Closing reception

For further information please contact the conference organisers.

We are grateful for financial support from:

The University of York ~ The Linguistics Association of Great Britain ~ The Council for British Research in the Levant