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Schwa(s) - 5th Nantes Conference in Linguistics (JEL'2007) LLING - EA3827 Following requests from potentials participants, the deadline for submission of a proposal has been extended to ***January, 8th 2007***. Penultimate Call for Papers The 5th Journées d'Études Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007) will take place on 27th and 28th, June 2007. They will be organized by [13]Olivier Crouzet and [14]Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, LLING - EA3827). In the historical (and friendly) context of discussion that has taken place regularly in Nantes between phoneticians and phonologists, the theme and title of this workshop will be : "Schwa(s)". You're invited to submit a summary (maximum 2 pages, including references, A4 paper) about any issue related to "schwa(s)" : * Nature of schwa in French and in any other language; * Schwa and central vowels; * Schwa and "empty positions"; * "Substance" of empty positions; * Phonological change, [hi]storie(s) of schwa(s); * Dialectology, usage of schwa; * Instrumental (articulatory or acoustic) analyses of schwas and associated consonants; * Treatment of schwa(s) in speech synthesis; * Perceptual mechanisms relating to schwas and associated consonants; * Recognition of words including schwas; * etc. (this list is not restrictive). All information concerning this conference is available on the conference website: [15]http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/ Submission Send an anonymous two page abstract (A4, times 12) in PDF format including the title of the proposed communication at the following address : [16][log in to unmask] Your text will be written in either english or french with no indication of authors. This PDF document will be sent to the following email address : [17][log in to unmask], the body of your message will include : * the e-mail address to which communications should be sent; * the author(s)' name(s); * the author(s)' affiliation(s)'; * the author(s)' address; * the title of the communication. The author(s)' name(s) and affiliation(s) should only appear in the body of your e-mail, not in the PDF document. If you wish to submit several proposals, please do this in separate e-mails. The proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee. Evaluations will be sent along with the acceptance / rejection decision. For the inclusion of final papers into the conference proceedings, word processing styles (for OpenOffice / Word and LaTeX) will be provided to the authors. Schedule * Submission deadline: Extended to January, 8th 2007 * Notification of acceptation: March, 30th 2007 * Reception of final papers: May, 21st 2007 * Preliminary programme: June, 4th 2007 * Conference (JEL'2007): June, 27th-28th 2007. [This two-day conference will be followed, on Friday 29th June 2007, by the first [18]Journée d'Études Gallèses (JEG'2007) (Conference on the Gallo language). On this first edition, the scientific programme will be upon invitation only. For any information concerning this workshop on Gallo: [log in to unmask]]