FRANCQUI INTERNATIONAL PROFESSORSHIP SYMPOSIUM
DIVERSITY AND DOCUMENTATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS IN LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
Date: 9th December 2022
Location:
Antwerp University, Klooster van de Grauwzusters, Building S
Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerpen
Room: S.004
PROGRAMME
10.00
Welcome and formal opening by the Symposium Chair
Jo Verhoeven
City, University of London, UK
Promotor of the Francqui International Professorship
10.15
Opening address by Prof. Dr Bruce Connell, International Francqui Professor
Requirements for Documenting Phonetics
Bruce Connell
International Francqui Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium
11.00
Typological features of Consonants in Khoisan languages of the Kalahari Basin Area
Lee Pratchett1, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich2, Linda Ammann3, Daniel Auer3, Anne-Maria Fehn4,5, Tom Güldemann 3,5, Sylvanus Job6, Florian Lionnet7, Christfried Naumann3, Hitomi Ono8, Hirosi Nakagawa9
1 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany; 2 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; 4 CIBIO, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; 5 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; 6 University of Namibia, Namibia; 7Princeton University, USA; 8 Reitaku University, Japan; 9 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
11.30
Labial-velar consonants in Sakata (Bantu C34): preliminary phonetic and phonological observations
Lorenzo Maselli
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen; University of Ghent; Université de Mons, Belgium.
12.00
Retroflex nasals in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC): the case of nasals in North Boma B82 and Nunu B822
Lorenzo Maselli1,2,3,4, Véronique Delvaux4, Jean-Pierre Donzo5, Sara Pacchiarotti1,2,3, Koen Bostoen1,2
1Universiteit Gent, 2BantUGent, 3Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, 4Université de Mons, 5Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de la Gombe, DRC.
12.30 Lunch break
14.00
A phonetic analysis of breathy voicing in Dza
Nlabephee Kefas Othaniel
Institut National des Languages et Civilisations Orientales, Languages and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, Paris, France
14.30
Phonetics and phonology of the Asua and Efe languages: Aspects of description and documentation
Didier Demolin
Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologie, UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3, France.
15.00
Shared phonetic features in newly documented hunter-gatherer Bantu languages in the southern fringe of the Congo rainforest (DRC)
Jean-Pierre Donzo1, Lorenzo Maselli2, Marie-Faustine Beloko1, Sara Pacchiarotti2 & Koen Bostoen2
1ISP de la Gombe, DRC; 2 UGent Centre for Bantu Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.
15.30
Downstep and H tone raising in Kugama
Lora Litvinova
Institut National des Languages et Civilisations Orientales; Language, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique, Paris, France
16.00
Towards a prosodic classification of a Himalayan language isolate
J. Kudera
Trier University, Phonetics, Germany
16.30
Concluding discussion
17.00
Reception
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