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The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference was a major outcome of a research project on the dissemination of teaching and learning which ran from 1997 to 2000. The project, known as SIPhTrA (System for Interactive Phonetics Training and Assessment) was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department of Education of Northern Ireland under an initiative called FDTL (Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning). The SIPhTrA project was administered by the Dept. of Phonetics & Linguistics at UCL and involved collaborators from the universities of Cambridge, Central England, Newcastle, Ulster, Westminster and York. The first meeting of PTLC was at UCL on 14-15 April 1999. Seventeen papers were presented by participants from all over the world. The proceedings were published as a hard-copy booklet and also online. You can still see them here. The next meeting was 5-7 April 2001 at Royal Holloway College in Egham, Surrey, UK. Again, seventeen papers were presented and again the participants were from many countries. The online proceedings are here. PTLC2005 took place at UCL from Wed 27-Sat 30 July. This was very soon after the terrible bomb outrages in Bloomsbury and elsewhere in London. It was very gratifying that only a handful of people who had booked for the conference withdrew as a result. PTLC2005 was a great success and was the first conference to have an invited speaker. David Crystal gave a keynote address entitled You can never have too much phonetics. There were 39 papers. The proceedings can be seen online here.
David Crystal, Masaki Taniguchi & John Wells PTLC2007 again took place at UCL from 24-26 August and was organised jointly by UCL, The University of Westminster and the Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies. The keynote speaker was Beverley Collins of the University of Leiden, who spoke about Daniel Jones and UCL - a hundred years of phonetics history. There were 75 participants from 24 different countries and 38 papers were presented. The online proceedings are here. UCL again was the venue for PTLC2009, which was organised by UCL and the University of Westminster. It took place in the newly refurbished Chandler House, which is the home of UCL's Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences. The keynote speaker was John Wells, who gave a talk entitled Dear Professor Wells, concerned with the questions sent to him by readers of his Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. There were 21 presentations and around 50 participants from around the world. The proceedings are now available online here.
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