Senior Lecturer in Phonetics. University of Limoges, CeReS research laboratory
About
I hold a PhD in English sociophonetics, awared by the University pf Paris Cité and co-supervised by Nicolas Ballier (University of Paris Cité) and Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University). My advisor in statistics was Aurélie Fischer (University of Paris Cité).
I have taught English phonetics and linguistics at several universities in Paris including the Sorbonne, Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris Cité. I am now a senior lecturer at the University of Limoges, where I teach Phonetics and Phonology for second language learners (graduate students & postgrads) and future EFL teachers. I also organise workshops for post-graduate students in speech science and statistics.
I am dedidacted to making my teaching more inclusive (braille, dyslexia friendly approaches, kinesthetic learning, giftedness, AS…). I also supervise MA students.
As a sociolinguist, I strongly support the use of regional languages and their role in patrimonial and cultural heritage:
Les langues et cultures régionales en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Upcoming conference tALKS
Ballier, N., Méli, A., Amand, M., Yunes, J-B. (2023). Using Whisper LLM for Automatic Phonetic Diagnosis of L2 Speech, a Case Study with French Learners of English. Submitted to ICNLSP2023.
Areas of Research
- Sociophonetics for dialect archives like the DECTE : https://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/
- Second language pronunciation (perception & production)
- Second language teaching through innovative and inclusive approaches (project-based learning, Silent Way, mimes & drama, children’s books).
WORkshops
- workshops on Rstudio for linguists and arts students/researchers.
- pronunciation workshops for teachers of English or learners of French.
Research EVENTS
The University of Limoges hosts the PhonLim conference:
Recent CONFERENCE PAPERS
Kamiyama, K. & Amand, M. (2023). Revisiting ‘stress-deafness’ amongst upper intermediate learners of English in words containing stress-imposing endings. PAC conference. (Nanterre, 12-14/04/2023).
“Project-based activities for improving English pronunciation in vocational training”. JE ALOES (Lyon 31/03-01/04/2023).
Vaissière, J., Exare, C. & Amand, M. (2023). Préapprentissage des habitudes vocales de la voix neutre en l’anglais chez des jeunes enfants français, comme base à la perception des déviations pour l’expression des attitudes. Colloque Voix et émotions :
expression, interprétation, modélisation, Besançon.
”We speak the w[eː] it’s wr[oː]te!’ An apparent-time analysis of phonetic variation in the Tyneside English Survey”. Maelle Amand. New perspectives on language change and variation in the history of English. (Paris, 4/10/2019).
“Multiple Factorial Analysis of hierarchical structures in the variants of four lexical sets in the DECTE corpus “. Maelle Amand. 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE10. (Leeuwarden, 26-28/06/2019).
“Internal and external constraints on variation in the vocalic system of North-Eastern speakers in the DECTE corpus”. Maelle Amand, Nicolas Ballier, Karen Corrigan. 8th Northern Englishes Workshop. (Newcastle, 27-28/03/2018).
PUBLISHED articles
Theng Theng O., Robert M. M. & Amand, M. (2021) The narrative of human suffering: using automated semantic tagging to analyse news articles and public attitudes towards the MH370 air tragedy, Asian Englishes, DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2021.1927564
Amand, M., & Touhami, Z. (2016). Teaching the pronunciation of sentence-final and word boundary stops to French learners of English: Distracted imitation versus audio-visual explanations. Research in Language, 14(4), 377-388.
Amand, M. (2016). La constitution d’un corpus de Geordie parlé : Choix épistémologiques et réalisations empiriques. Retour sur un demi-siècle de sociophonétique anglaise. Histoire épistémologie Language, 38(2), 9-21.
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