27.2847, Calls: Ling Theories, Phonology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:58:36
From: Joost Kremers [joost.kremers at phil.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Prosody in Syntactic Encoding

 
Full Title: Prosody in Syntactic Encoding 
Short Title: ProsSyn2017 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Joost Kremers
Meeting Email: ProsodySyntax at gmx.de
Web Site: http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de/wordpress/en/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Theories of language production and theories of grammar agree in that they
grant syntax precedence over prosody in sentence construction. That is,
prominent models of language production consider prosody to be built on the
basis of syntactic pre-­‐ processing. Similarly, in grammatical theory, the
purpose of the phonological component is primarily in interpreting or
expressing what the syntax has already constructed. Correspondingly, syntactic
influences on prosodic structure are expectable and well documented. However,
prosody does not perfectly mirror syntactic structure, and mismatches between
prosodic domains and syntactic constituents are commonplace.

This raises the question as to what extent prosody is generated independently
from syntax. What is more, the reverse influence is also well attested:
Prosodic requirements may constrain syntax to such an extent that the default,
“unmarked” word order is not acceptable and another, ''marked'' word order is
the only viable option. Prosody may even determine the choice of a particular
syntactic construction by suppressing syntactic alternatives that are
prosodically less favorable. This kind of evidence for mutual influence of
syntax and prosody appears to be problematic for strictly modular,
unidirectional models of both grammar and language processing.

This workshop focuses on the interplay between syntax and prosody in
linguistic encoding, specifically examining the extent to which prosody
affects syntax. In light of the assumption that language production (and
perception) involves recourse to grammatical knowledge, we especially ask how
the grammar has to be conceptualized to be in a position to explain
prosodic/phonological influences on sentence structure.

Invited Speaker:
- Arto Anttila

Organisers:
- Gerrit Kentner (Uni Frankfurt) kentner at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
- Joost Kremers (Uni Göttingen) joost.kremers at phil.uni-goettingen.de


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts discussing these and related questions for 30-minute
talks. Abstracts can be submitted through EasyAbs at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ProsSyn2017.

Submission deadline: 15 August 2016




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