Update 18/10/2001

• Esther Grabe and Brechtje Post have submitted one paper on intonation in the British Isles to Prosody 2002 in Aix-en-Provence and Grabe has submitted another.
  
  
• Grabe taught a course on the IViE system for prosodic annotation at the 9th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication in Prague. The PowerPoint slides from her course can be downloaded from the web.
  
  
• In October, Grabe gave a talk on intonational variation in English in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at the Unversity of Lund in Sweden. She presented new evidence on tonal phonotactics in different varieties of British English.
  
  
• Grabe has been invited to give a talks on the IViE project at a German Science foundation workshop on regional and social variation in prosody in February 2002 and at the Applied Linguistics Centre at the University of Cambridge, also in February. She will be a discussant at Prosody 2002 in Aix-en-Provence in April 2002 (Keynote lecture by Franck Ramus). She will talk about intonation typology.