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The 5th Journées d'Études Linguistiques of Nantes University will take place on June, 27th-28th 2007. This conference has taken place regularly since 1998 in order to get together phoneticians, phonologists, psycholinguists, computer scientists and any other scholars interested in the relationships between speech and language in order to discuss a predefined subject of interest. The preceding conferences have focused on the following subjects : sound universals, vowels, syllables, domains.

The JEL'2007 will be organized by Olivier Crouzet and Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, LLING - EA3827). In the historical (and friendly) context of discussion that has taken place regularly in Nantes between phoneticians and phonologists, the theme and title of this workshop will be : 'Schwa(s)'.

The official languages of the conference will be french and english.

We wish to acknowledge help and funding from the following institutions:

• Nantes University;
• Région des Pays de la Loire ;
• School of Litterature and Language Studies, Nantes University;
• IFREMER ;
• Nantes Laboratory in Linguistics (LLING - EA3827) ;
• Linguistics Department, Nantes University.