Sophie Herment is the new deputy director of Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). Sophie is full Professor at the Département d’études du monde anglophone (DEMA) of Aix-Marseille University. She works mainly on prosody. Her research interests concern the interface between prosody and syntax in discourse, the intonation of English varieties, the prosody of L2 English learners and teaching/learning methods.