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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There is good news for those of you working on rhotic sounds. There will be another edition of the r-atics conference in 2025. For the details of the call see below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eva Reinisch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers for ‘r-atics 8</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Call Deadline: 14-January-2025</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are pleased on announce that ‘r-atics 8 will be held in Valletta, Malta, 23-23.05.2025, organized by the Department of Cognitive Science at the Università ta' Malta.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">‘r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds and has been previously organized in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), Bozen (Italy), Grenoble (France),
Leeuwarden (The Netherlands), Paris (France), and Lausanne (Switzerland). This is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of
rhotics. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For more information, see </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/research/cognitivescience/ratics8/" title="https://www.um.edu.mt/research/cognitivescience/ratics8/">https://www.um.edu.mt/research/cognitivescience/ratics8/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers:<br>
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We invite contributions on any theme concerning rhotic sounds, including but not limited to:<br>
- the diversity of r realizations in the world’s languages <br>
- the socio-phonetic aspects of r realizations <br>
- the production and perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family <br>
- the phonological status of r sounds <br>
- diachronic aspects of r sounds <br>
- the acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2 <br>
- aspects of corrective phonetics in the pronunciation of r sounds <br>
- phenomena of r sandhi <br>
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Anonymous abstracts of 500 words should be submitted in rich text format to <a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77104/submitter" title="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77104/submitter">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77104/submitter</a>
by January 14th, 2025 (authors will be notified by February 3). We plan to have oral communications (20+10 minutes) in non-parallel sessions plus a poster session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. habil. Eva Reinisch</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Leiterin Arbeitsgruppe Phonetik | Head of the Phonetics Cluster<br>
Institut für Schallforschung | Acoustics Research Institute<br>
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Österreich | Vienna, Austria</span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:eva.reinisch@oeaw.ac.at"><span style="color:#0047BB">eva.reinisch@oeaw.ac.at</span></a> | <a href="http://www.oeaw.ac.at/isf"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.oeaw.ac.at/isf</span></a>
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