25.4741, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 25.4741, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:50:11
From: Ingo Feldhausen [feldhausen at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Methods in Empirical Prosody Research

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Full Title: Methods in Empirical Prosody Research 

Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 29-Jul-2015
Location: Mannheim, Germany 
Contact Person: Ingo Feldhausen
Meeting Email: feldhausen at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: http://methodenromanistentag2015.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Our session seeks to collect, compare, and verify the validity of different methodological practical experiences in current research on prosody. Due to this focus, many questions will arise. One important question will be how to choose the optimal procedure for collecting adequate data. This is a difficult question since many contextual factors (e.g. language contact, L2, information structure) can influence prosodic realization. Questions will also arise about the adequacy of a specific method, since different methods produce different results.

(Please see homepage or call for further details)

Call for Papers:

Methods in empirical prosody research
Ingo Feldhausen_1, Uli Reich_2 and Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch_2 
1_Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany), 2_Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) 

Hardly any other linguistic subdiscipline has developed as rapidly as prosody in recent decades. This is due to the appreciation it has received in grammatical theoretic research but also to the technological revolution that has resulted in the widespread availability of dedicated software to conduct analysis and statistics. All stages of experimental work have been affected: data collection, data processing, acoustical and statistical analysis, as well as the development of stimuli for perceptual experiments. Carefully controlled methodologies have become a standard in linguistic research in order to gather empirical evidence, and their development plays an increasing role in Romance linguistics. A number of recent publications document this development and show how this field of research is becoming ever more dynamic and innovative (see e.g. Sudhoff et al. 2006, Cohn et al. 2012 for a general overview, and Meisenburg & Selig 2004, Gabriel & Lleó 2011 for the field of Romance studies in the German-speaking regions). 

We particularly welcome papers on the following methods and issues:

- Methods for setting up specific discourse patterns in order to elicit utterances with specific discourse functions (see Skopeteas et al. 2007, Prieto & Roseano 2010, Armstrong accepted)
- Direct measurements of articulatory movements (see Fougeron & Keating 1997)
- Collection of judgments and reaction time measurements in identification and discrimination experiments (see Vanrell 2011, Feldhausen et al. 2011 or Prieto 2012, among others)
- Presentation techniques and measurement procedures in psycholinguistic experimentation (i.e., DMDX)
- Methods for data manipulation and resynthesis (see Dufter & Reich 2003, Moraes 2008)
- Possibilities and potential problems of rating-scale formats (see Swerts & Krahmer 2008, Nadeu & Prieto 2011)
- Multimethodological approaches, also known as mixed-methods research or triangulation (see Hudson et al. 1995, Gerrits & Schouten 2004 or Félix-Brasdefer 2010)
- Methods to detect diachronic developments in prosody (see Pešková et al. 2012)

We welcome contributions considering all (and especially the less studied) Romance languages, dialects, and varieties. All linguistic schools and theoretical backgrounds are invited. Abstracts no longer than 1 page (+ references) should be sent by January 15, 2015 at the latest to: feldhausen at em.uni-frankfurt.de

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