29.4044, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/Brazil

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4044. Thu Oct 18 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4044, Confs: Phonetics, Phonology/Brazil

Moderator: linguist at linguistlist.org (Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté)
Homepage: https://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:39:19
From: Eleonora Albano [albano at unicamp.br]
Subject: Laboratory Phonology

 
Laboratory Phonology 

Date: 07-May-2019 - 07-May-2019 
Location: Maceió. Alagoas, Brazil 
Contact: Eleonora Albano 
Contact Email: albano at unicamp.br 
Meeting URL: https://www.abralin.org/abralin50/inicio/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

(Session of ABRALIN50)

This thematic symposium addresses research into the phonological grammar – its
structure, acquisition, variation and change – of spoken and sign languages,
conducted from the perspective of Laboratory Phonology. 

Laboratory Phonology has made giant strides since its emergence in the late
80s. It does not represent a specific theory, but brings together multiple
aspects of the experimental method, usually including laboratory data
collection and quantitative analysis, always aiming at testing hypotheses
firmly based on previous qualitative analyses. During the past thirty years,
this way of doing phonology has undeniably contributed to the understanding of
the phonological grammars of the world’s languages, and, therefore, for the
advancement of phonological theory. The multidisciplinary aspect of the
approach is based on the use of foundational theories, concepts of the
cognitive and natural sciences, and computational tools for recording and
analyzing data. Access to acoustic and articulatory tools, for example,
provides empirical results that sometimes trigger substantive theoretical
changes. According to PIERREHUMBERT, BECKMAN & LADD (2000), research based on
this approach can use different phonological theories, as long as it is geared
to strengthen the scientific foundations of phonology through innovative
objective methodology. Methodological and theoretical advances are thus
equally important and closely related. 

Throughout the last 50 years, the ABRALIN International Congress staged the
discussion of different phonological theories, from Standard Generative
Phonology (CHOMSKY & HALLE, 1968) to Articulatory Phonology (BROWMAN &
GOLDSTEIN, 1986, 1989; ALBANO, 2001) , together with non-linear models,
Optimality Theory (PRINCE & SMOLENSKY, 1996), Usage-based Phonology (BYBEE,
2001), and Harmonic Grammar (SMOLENSKY & LEGENDRÉ, 2006). It also gave space
to Prosodic Phonology and related theories (NESPOR & VOGEL, 1986). Lately it
has given voice to the Phonology of Sign Languages (SANDLER, 2012). The
theoretical plurality of the research discussed in events and publications
sponsored by ABRALIN reveals the continuous advancement of phonological
studies in Brazil, which not only follow up on international methodological
trends and positions but also innovate them, with increasing emphasis on
Laboratory Phonology. Thus, research consistent with this avant-garde trend
spans not only Articulatory Phonology and Exemplar-based Phonology, which
emerged under its auspices (ALBANO, 2017, HORA & MATZENAUER, 2017), but also
nonlinear phonological theories, sociophonetics (THOMAS, 2010), and first and
second language acquisition models (ARCHIBALD, 1998). There is no doubt that
today Laboratory Phonology is present in a significant part of the Brazilian
research on the structure and functioning of the phonological grammar, and has
instigated changes in the conception of the relation between Phonetics and
Phonology by a whole new generation of linguists. 

In this symposium, we welcome experimental contributions, based on laboratory
data collection and quantitative data processing – acoustic and/or
articulatory and/or perceptual measures – that investigate the phonological
systems of Portuguese and other languages from the perspective of a specific
phonological theory. In this sense, discussion of acquisition, variation and
change of the phonological grammar is also welcome. We particularly encourage
the submission of proposals reflecting on how the Laboratory Phonology
approach provides new insights into the phonological structure of languages
and/or the relationship between theoretical and methodological questions.

Organizers: 
Giovana Ferreira-Gonçalves (giovanaferreiragolçalves at gmail.com)
Eleonora Albano (albano at unicamp.br)
 






------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4044	
----------------------------------------------------------