27.4580, Calls: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Netherlands

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Subject: 27.4580, Calls: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:52:04
From: Lisa Cheng [L.L.Cheng at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: The Interface Within

 
Full Title: The Interface Within 

Date: 13-Mar-2017 - 13-Mar-2017
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Edoardo Cavirani
Meeting Email: edoardo.cavirani at meertens.knaw.nl
Web Site: http://www.phonology.eu/interfacewithin/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

What Relationships Hold between Prosody and Melody?

It has been long known that suprasegmental and segmental phonology are to a
large extent separate domains, playing out differently in empirical domains
such as language change and language acquisition, in their interaction with
other modules (there is more mutual visibility between prosody and syntax,
whereas segmental phonology seems to interface more clearly with phonetics).
Also, in many frameworks, they are represented with different formal tools
(e.g. metrical vs. autosegmental phonology).

At the same time, the two dimensions of phonology clearly sometimes interact,
as in phenomena as diverse as vowel reduction, formation at foot boundaries,
most phenomena related to sonority, etc. To the extent we can therefore break
up the two into different ‘modules’ of grammar, they need to interface at some
point. 

What is the nature of this interface? Is it the traditional skeleton, under
one of its guises (moras, x-slots, …)? Is there not really an interface and
are there two sides of one coin? Is prosody merely a projection of segmental
content?

We would like to promote a discussion on the insights of various approaches to
this issue with respect to both (observational/descriptive/explanatory)
adequacy and theoretical consistency/elegance. Hence, the following are among
the questions we invite the participants to discuss:

- Which are the relevant empirical generalisations to be taken into account
and how do theories fare with respect to these? 
- Which is the most elegant theory and what does elegance mean in this domain?
- What are the consequences of the choice being made for theories of the
interface with morphosyntax, language aquisition, language change, etc.?

Among the empirical battlefields on which to test the approaches just
mentioned, (in)visibility could play a decisive role. E.g. what are the
melodic properties that are relevant/visible to prosody? Why is it that stress
cares about vowel height but not about place (the difference between /i/ and
/e/ is important but not the difference between /i/ and /u/)? Why is it that
tone can easily see laryngeal features but hardly any other feature? And
where, for that matter, does a phenomenon such as tone fall under this
division?

Organisers:

Bert Botma (Leiden University), Edoardo Cavirani, Ben Hermans, Marc van
Oostendorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam), Francesc Torres-Tamarit (CNRS)

This workshop is a GLOW Workshop. Please note that the GLOW Conference takes
place in Leiden in the week immediately following March 13; the program
includes a workshop on the phonology-syntax interface on March 14. See the
conference website for details (https://glow2017.wordpress.com/). The workshop
we are proposing here takes place at the Meertens Institute, in Amsterdam. By
locating this workshop at the Meertens Institute the Meertens-organizers want
to inaugurate the institute’s new building. The trip from Amsterdam to Leiden
takes approximately 30 minutes by train.


2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts for 30 minutes talks (followed by 15 minutes of discussion) and/or
posters should be submitted to Edoardo.Cavirani at meertens.knaw.nl before
January 1, 2017. There is no page limit for the abstracts, although 500 page
abstracts might have a slightly lower chance of being accepted. Please
indicate if you have a preference for a handout or a poster, or don’t care.

We require all accepted speakers to submit an extended handout or slides to us
before March 1, 2017, so that participants can prepare themselves for the
discussion.




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