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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-GB">Information Structure in Spoken Language
Corpora (ISSLaC)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">10-12 June 2013</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">, Bielefeld, Germany </span></div>
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normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">
<span class="IntensivesZitatZchn"><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meeting
Description</span>:</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Recent developments in technology have made
it possible for linguists to create spoken language corpora on a hitherto
unprecedented range of languages, including several lesser-studied
languages.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For languages without a
written tradition, spoken corpora assume an even greater value since they
document the only mode of communication.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Data obtained from corpora are increasingly used in linguistic research,
reflecting a more usage-based orientation on the part of linguists on the one hand,
and making analyses verifiable on the other.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Spoken language corpora are promising to be
particularly useful to the study of information structure (IS). IS often
involves complex correspondences between communicative goals and marking
strategies, encompassing prosody, morphology, and syntactic structure, the full
range of which can best be observed in naturally occurring data (Brunetti et
al: 2011). However, the investigation of IS in spoken corpora still has many methodological
obstacles to overcome, ranging from those related to the prosodic analysis of
spontaneous speech to those relating to the very identification of IS
categories in such spontaneous data. These challenges explain why much research
on IS continues to rely on introspection or on experimental research. These
techniques are rarely available to linguists working with lesser-known
languages: they are usually not native speakers, making introspection
impossible; further, many types of experiments are not applicable in
non-literate and/or non-western cultural contexts. Thus analysing spoken
corpora is the only means to get insights into the encoding of IS in these
languages, and indeed it is only through the study of spontaneous data that it
is possible to gather inventories of the full range of IS categories and understand
how they are employed in discourse.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">The goal of this workshop is to discuss both
research findings on information structure based on spoken corpora, and
methodological issues arising in such investigations, in a cross-linguistic
perspective. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">This workshop is part of the project <span class="ZitatZchn"><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Discourse and
prosody across language family boundaries: two corpus-based case studies on
contact-induced syntactic and prosodic convergence in the encoding of information
structure</span></span>, funded by DoBeS (VolkswagenStiftung Funding
Initiative “Documentation of Endangered Languages”).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Invited
Speakers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Evangelia Adamou (CNRS – LACITO, Villejuif,
France)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Lisa Brunetti (CNRS – DLD, Lyon, France)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Yiya Chen (Leiden University, The
Netherlands)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Dejan Matic<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Amina Mettouchi (CNRS – LLACAN, Villejuif,
France)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Antje Muntendam (Radboud University Nijmegen,
The Netherlands)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Patrizia Paggio (University of Copenhagen,
Denmark; University of Malta)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Arndt Riester (Universit</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
mso-ansi-language:DE">ät Stuttgart, Germany</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Dina El Zarka (Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz, Austria)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Sabine Zerbian (Universität Potsdam, Germany)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Organisers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1" lang="EN-GB">: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Claudia Wegener, University of Bielefeld</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Candide Simard, SOAS, London</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Eva Schultze-Berndt, University of Manchester</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><i><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="IntensivesZitatZchn"><span style="font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><i><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">We invite
submissions for 30 min talks (plus 10 min for discussion) on any</span></i><i><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"> of
the following aspects: </span><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1" lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">We invite submissions for 30 min talks (plus 10 min for discussion) on any of the following aspects: <br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">- Which prosodic and/or syntactic features of
information structure have been identified on the basis of corpora of
(naturalistic) spoken discourse, both for better-known and lesser-known
languages? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">- How do these findings compare with findings
based on experimental research or non-corpus data?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">- What are the methodological issues and
advances associated with research on information structure in spoken language
corpora?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">- How do findings based on spoken corpora
contribute to our knowledge of a cross-linguistic inventory of information
structure categories?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">- What evidence is there for convergence in
information structure categories and the strategies for their expression in
situations of language contact?<i></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Abstracts should be submitted anonymously online
under the following link: </span></div>
<a href="http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/ISSLaC2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;" lang="EN-GB">http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/ISSLaC2013
</span></a>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Please include only the title of your talk in
the abstract. You should then give your title as well as your name and
affiliation on the abstract submission page. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Abstracts should not be longer than one A4
page including references, plus half a page for examples if applicable (Times
New Roman font, 12 pt, single-spaced). Please upload your abstract as a PDF- or
DOC-file as instructed by the submission system. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Deadline for abstract submission: December
15, 2012 </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2013</span></div>
<br>If you have any questions regarding this workshop you can contact the organizers by email: <br><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1351499397419_183" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-GB">lsslac@uni-bielefeld.de</span>
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