28.1374, Calls: Genetic Class, Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Poland

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Subject: 28.1374, Calls: Genetic Class, Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Ling/Poland

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:03:20
From: Cormac Anderson [cormacanderson at gmail.com]
Subject: Phonological Representation in the Quantitative Era of Comparative Linguistics

 
Full Title: Phonological Representation in the Quantitative Era of Comparative Linguistics 

Date: 18-Sep-2017 - 20-Sep-2017
Location: Poznań, Poland 
Contact Person: Cormac Anderson
Meeting Email: cormacanderson at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description:

Massive cross-linguistic databases devoted to the lexicon provide a rich
source of data for comparative linguistics. However, these resources vary
greatly in the extent to which they are phonetically informative. In some
cases, highly detailed transcriptions are available, whereas in others there
are only lists of words in a conventional orthography, accompanied by glosses.
Standards for cross-linguistic data preparation and more sophisticated tools
for data handling have improved matters, but much remains to be done. This
ongoing work can be informed by contemporary theories of phonological
representation, while at the same time, cross-linguistic lexical datasets have
the potential to provide means for evaluating the adequacy of phonological
descriptions.

This workshop aims to draw together researchers interested in developing
standards for organising and annotating cross-linguistic datasets, tools for
normalising diverse orthographies, models for phonological systems, methods
for generating inferences about phonological change, and metrics for
evaluating the adequacy of phonological descriptions.


Call for Papers:

We invite papers that treat the following or similar themes:

- Standards for preparing phonological data, particularly for annotating
prosodic and morphological information
- Tools for normalising lexical datasets for phonology
- Handling different levels of description in phonological datasets
- Strategies of phonological representation for quantitative analysis
- Computational parsing of phonological feature annotation
- Metrics for evaluating the adequacy of phonological descriptions
- Phonetic and phonological data in cognate detection and linguistic
reconstruction

Please visit the main website for PLN for information on abstract submission
(http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2017/Abstract_submission).




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