Professor Amalia Arvaniti and Dr Tamara Rathcke from the Department of English Language & Linguistics have secured funding from the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) to organise the 7th international conference on ‘Tone and Intonation in Europe’ (TIE 7) at Kent’s Paris centre in September 2016.
TIE is a series of biennial international conferences that started in 2004, the culmination of a European Science Foundation-funded research network, where Amalia Arvaniti served as one of the main coordinators. TIE7 will focus on two themes: (i) the interaction of tone and intonation with other components of prosody, such as rhythm, and (ii) the relevance of prosody for the learning and teaching of a second language. The conference will be sponsored by the Association for Laboratory Phonology and the International Phonetic Association.
The exact dates of the conference are yet to be confirmed; a call for papers will be released in the future.
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