The Department of English Language & Linguistics is delighted to be hosting the 2018 colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), taking place at our Canterbury campus on 12-14 April 2018.
BAAP is the professional organisation for phoneticians. Its members are involved in research, in teaching in higher education, and in the application of phonetic knowledge in areas such as speech and language therapy, speech technology and forensic science.
The association holds a colloquium every two years. This provides an opportunity for members and invited participants to meet, present their research, and discuss issues of concern to the academic community
The 2018 colloquium at Kent has attracted 116 attendees from all over the UK, as well as BAAP members and affiliates from abroad. The conference has three full days of programme, with 39 oral and 59 poster presentations.
Several members of the Department will be presenting. Professor Amalia Arvaniti will be co-presenting a talk on ‘Politeness- and Tune-Induced Variation in the Realization of Prosody’ on Thursday 12 April; PhD student Ishrat Rehman will be presenting ‘Phonetic Investigation of Six Diphthongs in Punjabi-Urdu‘ on Friday 13 April; Dr Angelos Lengeris will present ‘The Hyperspace Effect in Standard Modern Greek and two Greek Dialects’ on Saturday 14 April and Dr Tamara Rathcke will be chairing the session on Intonation also on Saturday.
For full details, please see the page here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/baap/