I'd like to recommend to AFLS members the web site of the
Nordic research network on Spoken French:
www.hum.au.dk/romansk/fransk/parle/
The network is a small, but very dynamic group, whose
interests coincide with those of many AFLS members. Last
Friday-Saturday, I had the good fortune to attend the
second conference of this group in Copenhagen. Papers were
given by a dozen or so speakers from, or based in,
Scandinavia, plus five invited guests from France, Belgium,
Switzerland, the USA and the UK. Topics covered intonation,
conversational structure/interaction (in both L1 and L2
French), discourse phonology, functional syntax and
grammatical change and variation.
A volume based on papers given at the corresponding
conference in 1998 was published last year:
'Le francais parle: corpus et resultats', eds Hanne leth
Andersen & Anita Berit Hansen , Museum Tusculanum Press,
Copenhagen. It includes sections on 'methodes', 'phonetique
et prosodie', 'syntaxe', 'pragmatique et acquisition'.
Aidan
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Aidan Coveney
University of Exeter
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