28.963, Confs: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Netherlands

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Subject: 28.963, Confs: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Netherlands

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:44:43
From: Edoardo Cavirani [edoardo.cavirani at meertens.knaw.nl]
Subject: The Interface Within

 
The Interface Within 

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

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

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.
 

Program: 

9:30-10:15:
H. van der Hulst  (invited - University of Connecticut) 
The integration of segmental and syllabic structure in Radical CV Phonology

10:15-11:00:
E. Rasin (MIT) 
Predictions of a phonological architecture with stress encapsulation

11:00-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-12:00:
M. Kramer1 & D. Zec2 (1University of Tromsø, 2Cornell University) 
Think positive: Manners at the interface to suprasegmental phonology

12:00-12:45:
V. Martínez-Paricio (invited - University of València) 
The relationship between melody and prosody in a framework with internally
layered feet

12:45-14:30: Lunch break & poster session

14:30-15:15:
N. Faust & J. Brandão de Carvalho (University Paris 8) 
Vocalic templates and the structure/melody distinction

15:15-16:00:
D. Passino (Nice Sophia Antipolis University) 
Prosody is not a projection of segmental content

16:00-16:15: Coffee break

16:15-17:00:
S. Ulfsbjorninn (invited - University of Lyon) 
Melody and Prosody in Strict CV Metrics

17:00-17:45:
T. Scheer (Nice Sophia Antipolis University) 
Dual Phonology

17:45-18:30:
B. Köhnlein (Ohio State University) 
Towards a unified analysis of interactions between foot structure, tone,
duration, and segmental structure

18:30: Drinks

Posters:

G. Enguehard (University Paris 7) 
Tonic Lengthenings and the «melodic nature» of the skeleton

F. Mutlu (Bogazici University) 
Place asymmetries: Onset head vs domain head

G. Schwartz (alternate - Adam Mickiewicz University) 
When manner is prosody, the interface defines itself 

L. Xiaoxi (University of Essex) 
An element geometry account of depression in Bantu and Shanghainese

M. Sloos1, Y. Ran2 & J. van de Weijer3 (1Fryske Akademy, 2,3Shanghai
International Studies University) 
Tone-segment interaction in Huangyan Taizhou (Wu)

A. Revithiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 
When not everything fits: Pitch-accent and lexical stress systems in
phonological typology





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