Year 2017 is the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Our Conference «Phonetics without Borders» sees its mission in promoting the development of the Phonetic Science  through tourism and language contacts.

Year 2017 is also declared the Year of Ecology in Russia. We can contribute into the Ecology of the Language through the study of its Phonetic Level, promoting standards, caring about language identity, preserving endangered languages.

The Conference aims at pursuing international communication between specialists in different fields of Phonetics. Integration of the Russian Federation into Global Scientific and Educational Space brings new opportunities of sharing experience and enrichment of knowledge in the Theory of Phonetics and Phonology, acoustic and perceptual analysis, computer speech modeling, methods of teaching pronunciation for foreign learners, cross-language studies and in other directions. We hope that the Conference will contribute to working out more efficient ways of dealing with challenging issues in the areas mentioned. We expect that certain questions will be answered and even more — asked.