29.2434, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 29.2434, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling, Typology/Germany

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:26:54
From: Felicitas Kleber [kleber at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Factors Influencing the Stability of Phonetic Contrasts and Phonemic Oppositions

 
Full Title: Factors Influencing the Stability of Phonetic Contrasts and Phonemic Oppositions 

Date: 06-Mar-2019 - 08-Mar-2019
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Felicitas Kleber
Meeting Email: dgfs_ag6 at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de

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

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

Half-day workshop at the 41st annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society
(DGfS)

Three areas of research seem to be especially promising with regard to the
exploration of the stability of phonetic contrasts and phonemic oppositions:
1. typological deliberations and within-system oppositions; 2. category
(in-)stability in speech perception – especially in the context of
added/co-presented extra-linguistic information; and 3. intra- and
inter-speaker variability in speech production. From a typological
perspective, some phonemic oppositions are undoubtedly rarer than others but
the question as to why this is the case remains a recurring topic in the
fields of typology and phonetics/phonology. Recent advances in the testing of
phonetic explanations for diachronic sound changes that shape a phoneme
inventory have identified a link to the misparsing of coarticulation (Kleber
et al. 2012). This is related to the accumulating evidence from speech
perception research suggesting that the stability of an opposition of a
phonetic contrast is somewhat compromised because perceptual categories are
flexible and highly dependent on contextual information (Jannedy and Weirich
2014). The third area of relevance is the intra-and inter-speaker variability
among others connected to different speech registers (i.e. formal vs.
informal), addressees (i.e. child vs. adult directed speech), and speaker
characteristics such as gender, age, dialect, ethnic background etc. (Weirich
and Simpson 2017). This workshop addresses the challenge of investigating the
realization and loss of contrast and opposition in speech and the various
conditioning factors of what makes oppositions and contrasts stable or
instable. It will provide a forum for all linguists (phonetics/phonology,
typology, computational modeling, psycholinguistics, dialectology, historical
linguistics) interested in the causes (system-internal and extra-linguistic
factors) leading to phonemic stability or instability consequently influencing
the linguistic system.


Call for Papers:
 
Abstracts including figures, tables, and references should not exceed 2 pages
and should be send electronically as an attached pdf file to
dgfs_ag6 at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de. Abstracts should not contain any
information relating to the author(s). Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
should be given in the e-mail.

Submission deadline: August, 20 2018 
Notification of acceptance: September, 8 2018

Organizers:

Felicitas Kleber (LMU München), Stefanie Jannedy (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin), Melanie
Weirich (FSU Jena)




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