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We are pleased to announce that the PAC annual conference "Spoken English corpora: from annotation to interphonologies" is due to take place from Thursday May 30 to Saturday June 1, 2013 and will be hosted by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~PAC2013 , available soon) and the Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence.ArgumentThe PAC Project (http://www.projet-pac.net), "La Phonologie de l&#8217;Anglais Contemporain: usages, vari&#233;t&#233;s et structure; The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure" is coordinated by Anne Przewozny, Philip Carr and Jacques Durand. Among other things it aims at:&#160;giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic);&#160;testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation,&#160;favouring communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory,&#160;providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English.For the 2013 conference, we would particularly welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets. One afternoon will be dedicated to a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi will present SPPAS, a tool to produce automatically phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its orthographic transcription (aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~bigi/sppas), and Sophie Herment will do a demo on Momel and Intsint for prosodic annotation.We would also like to open perspectives on L2 research, with papers dealing with interphonologies and will organize a special session on this issue (see below).Special session on interphonology(organisers: V. Lacoste, N. Herry-B&#233;nit and T. Kamiyama)This special session offers to investigate the phonetic and phonological systems developed by non-native speakers/learners of English who have command of English either as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL) in various parts of the world and in different contexts of communication. Interphonology will be discussed both as a theoretical, linguistic construct and empirically by looking into aspects of the learners&#8217;&#160;new&#160;phonological system, while in the process of establishing itself or when it has already been stabilised and/or regularised. Inter-speaker and intra-speaker variation will also be central to our study of interphonology to understand, for instance, how segmental variability is integrated in the newly developed phonological system and how the phonologies of two (or more) languages at work mutually influence each other. Finally, this panel hopes to bring together scholars from the field of variationist sociolinguistics and scholars from a more formal linguistic tradition to deepen our appreciation of interphonology as a phenomenon specifically from a learner&#8217;s perspective.Submission guidelinesThe deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is extendedto 22 February 2013.Please send your proposal in 2 files, one in .doc with name and affiliation, the other anonymous in .pdf to:gabor.turcsan@univ-amu.fr&#160;sophie.herment@univ-amu.frPlease indicate whether you would prefer 1. oral, 2. poster or 3. any type of presentation. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid March.Local organisation teamCarine Andr&#233;,Laurence Colombo,St&#233;phanie Desous,Sophie Herment,Val&#233;rie Kerfelec,Jo&#235;lle Lavaud,Claudia Pichon-Starke,Gabor Turcsan.Scientific committeeCyril Auran, Universit&#233; de Lille 3, FranceNicolas Ballier, Universit&#233; Paris 7 Diderot, FranceJoan Beal, University of Sheffield, EnglandRicardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester, EnglandBrigitte Bigi, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, FrancePhilip Carr, University of Montpellier III, FranceSylvain Detey, Waseda University, JapanJacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse II, FranceJean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, FranceMartine Faraco, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, FranceM&#233;d&#233;ric Gasquet-Cyrus, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, FranceUlrike Gut, M&#252;nster University, AllemagneSilke Hamann, D&#252;sseldorf University, AllemagneSophie Herment, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, FranceNadine Herry-B&#233;nit, Universit&#233; Paris 8, FranceDaniel Hirst, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, FrancePatrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, ScotlandTakeki Kamiyama, Universit&#233; Paris 8, FranceMariko Kondo, Waseda University, JapanV&#233;ronique Lacoste, University of Freiburg, GermanyNo&#235;l Nguyen, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, FrancePeter Prince, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, FranceAnne Przewozny, Universit&#233; Toulouse II, FranceJane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, ScotlandGabor Turcsan, LPL, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233; &#38; CNRS, France