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Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
Vol. 6:2 (2020) ► pp.133–147
Editorial

L2 pronunciation networking and conferences

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Professional conferences are a critical part of a growing and thriving field. L2 pronunciation has a growing number of dedicated conferences, and other long-standing conferences that are related to L2 pronunciation have seen greater participation from L2 pronunciation researchers as the field has grown. This article describes conferences that are of interest to the field of L2 pronunciation.

Keywords: conferences, networking, pronunciation research, pronunciation teaching
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Annual conferences
    • 2.1Pronunciation in second language learning and teaching (“PSLLT”)
    • 2.2International conference of native and non-native accents of English (“Accents”)
    • 2.3Society of anglicists of higher education (“ALOES”)
  • 3.Non-annual conferences
    • 3.1English pronunciation: Issues and Practices (“EPIP”)
    • 3.2New Sounds
    • 3.3Current approaches to Spanish and Portuguese second language phonology (“CASPSLaP”)
    • 3.4Belgrade international meeting of English phoneticians (“BIMEP”)
    • 3.5Phonology of contemporary English (“PAC”)
    • 3.6International symposium on applied phonetics (“ISAPh”)
    • 3.7Phonetics learning and teaching conference (“PLTC”)
  • 4.General conferences with pronunciation strands
  • 5.Interdisciplinary conferences
    • 5.1International congress on the phonetic sciences (“ICPhS”)
    • 5.2Conference of the international speech communication association (“Interspeech”)
    • 5.3Acoustical Society of America (“ASA”)
  • 6.Periodic conferences
  • 7.This issue of JSLP
    • 7.1Full-length articles
    • 7.2Reviews
  • Acknowledgements
  • References


This article is available free of charge.

Published online: 8 June 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20029.lev
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