Paris Cologne Collaborative Meeting
The Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meeting (PCCM) is a workshop series and joint initiative of the Atelier de Recherche sur la Parole (ARP) at Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), and the Institut für Linguistik – Phonetik (IƒL) at the University of Cologne, capitalizing on the shared interests of the two departments in phonetics and phonology, with an emphasis on laboratory phonology.Aim
Laboratory phonology is the connecting research program in Europe, very strong in France and Germany. We have been building a strong training program for young scholars through and for research, in national contexts which are otherwise very different. The proposed workshops will contribute to putting our strengths together and building a core of excellence in laboratory phonology, with a particular emphasis on Articulatory Phonology.Follow-up to PCCM 7: Workshop Voices in Context
This workshop was organised by participants of PCCM 7 from Cologne, with the aim of bringing together early career researchers who are working on topics related to prosody, pragmatics and especially their interfaces in order to exchange ideas, identify common topics, discuss new methods, and provide networking opportunities with other researchers in this field. This workshop was open to researchers internationally, and not restricted to Paris and Cologne.
Joint research from Paris and Cologne, stemming from discussion of experimental and statistical methods at PCCM 7, in particular incorporating recent developments in Bayesian approaches to cross speaker variability, was presented at this workshop and commented on by Bodo Winter.
PCCM 7
The 7th Paris-Cologne Cologne Collaborative Meeting took place from October 5-8, 2021 at Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7). PCCM7 was the first of a two-part workshop series on "Quantifying and interpreting variability in speech", with the second workshop scheduled for 2022 in Cologne (further details below). Thanks to Bodo Winter for a great and insightful workshop, and to all participants for their contributions!
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We now have funding from Franco-German University for PCCM 7 to be held from 5th to 8th October 2021 PCCM 7 "Quantifying and interpreting variability in speech" as the first of two related workshops over the course of one year (2021-2022).
The first workshop, PCCM 7, will be held in Paris at the Université de Paris in the Olympe de Gouges building and is is led by Bodo Winter, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and Editor-in-Chief of Language & Cognition.
PCCM 7 aims to provide targeted technical training to students in experimental design and statistical analysis, including Bayesian modelling, applied to variability in speech. By the end of the first workshop, young researchers will have formed mixed (French / German / Spanish) groups, each of which will put forward an idea for a study, to be carried out by each group. The outcome of the first workshop is a well-designed study per group. In the year separating the two workshops, experiments for each study will be carried out by each group. The groups will reconvene in 2022 at PCCM 8 at the University of Cologne, and each group will present the results of their study. The groups will give critical feedback to one another, and the participants will decide together what the next steps are for completing the studies.
PCCM 6
From 02.06 to 05.06 the 6th Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meeting took place here at the IfL Phonetics Lab. We want to thank everyone for attending and contributing to this great workshop series. Thank you for the great talks held by our main speakers Alice Turk and Leo Lancia, as well as the amazing presentations given by students and researchers. See you next time!
Previous PCCM Workshops
May 2018
Workshop on “Language and Dynamic Representations ”: The 5th PCCM was held on 29 - 31 May 2018 in Paris at University Paris Diderot. Main emphasis was placed on the theory and implementation of the Articulatory Phonology (AP) Framework. The program included introductory talks to AP as well as examples of linguistic research and visualization of articulatory data. An esteemed guest was Prof Louis Goldstein.
The Program can be found here.
December 2017
PCCM 4 - December 04-06 - Universität zu Köln
Workshop on linear and generalised additive mixed models
The workshop provided a hands-on introduction to linear and generalised additive mixed models (LMMs and GAMMs).
The workshop was funded by the SFB 1252 - Prominence in Language
November 2016
PCCM 3 - November 22-23 - Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
2-day mini-marathon of presentations of current research conducted by the graduate students of both departments, University of Cologne and Paris Diderot.
May 2016
PCCM 2 - Universität zu Köln
Excerpt:
"This short course will train students on the relationship between speech articulation and speech acoustics. The goal is for the student to conceptualize the underlying physical laws, and then to comprehend the mathematical statements enough to understand how simulations of the acoustic behavior of the vocal tract are performed. No programming knowledge is necessary, and all programming will be performed in R. The course will proceed from phonation and vowels to nasals and liquids. If time allows fricatives and stops will also be explored."
November 2015
PCCM 1 - November 23. - 25. Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Articulatory-acoustic relations: From (very) basic principles to simulation
A lecture Series by Dr. Khalil Iskarous - University of Southern California
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Voices in Context
As a follow-up to PCCM 7, joint research from Paris and Cologne is to be presented in the workshop "Voices in Context" on 12th-13th October 2023 with comments from Bodo Winter. This workshop is organised by and for early career researchers internationally. See https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/workshop-voices-in-contextPCCM 7
PCCM 7 updated programme (as of 3.10.2021) – See the link belowCongratulations
to Anne Hermes, now at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie in Paris. She will be joining us for PCCM 7.PCCM Principal Investigators:
- Martine Grice (University of Cologne), with Anne Hermes up to PCCM 6
- Ioana Chitoran (University Paris Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP)
External Funding:
- PCCM 5 and PCCM 6: Deutsch-Französische Hochschule/Université franco-allemande
- PCCM 4: SFB 1252 - Prominence in Language