30.1088, Calls: Phonology/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1088. Mon Mar 11 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1088, Calls: Phonology/Spain

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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:19:45
From: Eduard Artés [recphon2019 at gmail.com]
Subject: Recursivity in Phonology, Below and Above the Word

 
Full Title: Recursivity in Phonology, Below and Above the Word 
Short Title: RecPhon2019 

Date: 21-Nov-2019 - 22-Nov-2019
Location: Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Eulàlia Bonet
Meeting Email: Eulalia.Bonet at uab.cat
Web Site: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/recphon2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

Recursion, i.e. unbounded nesting, has long been seen as a fundamental
cognitive property of the language faculty, usually associated with the
syntactic component of the grammar. One of the achievements of phonological
research in the previous century was the discovery of structured patterns
within the continuous flow of sounds in spoken language. In the early
eighties, the exploration of such patterns gave rise to the development of
Prosodic Phonology, whose tenet is that phonological constituency is
analogous, but not structurally identical, to morphosyntactic constituency.
According to Prosodic Phonology, the constituent structure of phonological
forms is defined in terms of the Prosodic Hierarchy, a hierarchy of a finite
set of universal prosodic categories, i.e. the syllable - the metrical foot -
the phonological word - the phonological phrase - the intonational phrase -
the utterance. In the early days of Prosodic Phonology, it was assumed that
all prosodic representations complied with the Strict Layer Hypothesis.
According to this hypothesis, a category of level i in the hierarchy
immediately dominates a (sequence of) categories of level i−1.

However recursive higher-ordered prosodic categories, such as the phonological
phrase and the intonational phrase, were promptly advocated in the literature.
With the arrival of Optimality Theory, the Strict Layer Hypothesis was relaxed
and recursive structures were posited to account for a wide range of
phonological phenomena, including the prosodification of function elements
into recursive phonological words. Recursive structures have recently been
proposed for prosodic categories below the phonological word, most notably for
the metrical foot, but also for syllables and even moras. A substantial body
of research has argued that recursive feet account for ternary stress patterns
and also facilitate a unified account of several foot-conditioned segmental
and tonal distributions. In the literature on the syntax-phonology interface,
recursivity above the phonological word has received renewed attention,
especially since the appearance of Match Theory. At the other end of the
spectrum, we find work on the syntax-phonology interface that completely
rejects prosodic constituency, and derives instead the relevant domains for
phonological computation from syntactic phases.


Call for Papers:

Research Questions

We encourage speakers to address, although not exclusively, some of the
research questions formulated below, either arguing in favor or against
recursivity in phonology, and from any theoretical perspective and
methodology, including phonological formal analyses of particular languages,
language typology, language acquisition, laboratory phonology,
psycholinguistics or neurolinguistics.

- Does recursivity in phonology exist at all?
- If recursivity in phonology exists, what exactly can or cannot trigger a
recursive structure in the domain of the syntax-phonology interface?
- Is recursivity restricted to higher-ordered phonological constituents like
the phonological phrase and the intonational phrase? If so, why?
- What is the empirical evidence to posit recursive structures above the word?
- Does ternarity exist in phonology (at the level of the metrical foot or at
higher-ordered levels) or should it be derived from recursive structures?
- If recursivity in phonology also exists below the level of the phonological
word, does it show an upper bound on nesting?
- Does recursivity also exist below the level of the metrical foot, i.e. the
syllable, the mora?
- What is the empirical evidence to posit recursive structures below the word?
- What does recursivity add to the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis, the idea
that L1 learners use prosodic features as a cue to identify more abstract
properties of grammar such as syntactic constituency?
- Can neural correlates of phonological recursion be observed?

Submission of Abstracts:

The workshop will feature 45 minute talks (30-35 minutes followed by 15-10
minutes for comments and questions). Abstracts must be submitted through
EasyChair by the 1st of June, 2019. Abstracts will be reviewed by 3 anonymous
reviewers.

Abstract Guidelines:

Abstracts must be anonymous, maximally 1 page long (A4), with an extra page
for figures, examples, tables and references, 12 pt Times New Roman, with
one-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides, and written in English, PDF format.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2019
Program announcement: September 15, 2019
Registration: October 1 - November 1, 2019




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