30.3634, Calls: Language Acquisition, Phonology, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.3634, Calls: Language Acquisition, Phonology, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:04:48
From: Marzena Zygis [zygis at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Workshop: Prosody in Speech Signal, Perception and Gesture

 
Full Title: Workshop: Prosody in Speech Signal, Perception and Gesture 

Date: 31-Mar-2020 - 31-Mar-2020
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Marzena Zygis
Meeting Email: zygis at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/glow43/workshops/prosody-in-speech-signal-perception-and-gestures?authuser=0 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

(Workshop at 43rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World)

Prosody plays a critical role in communication of all types. First, by
structuring speech flow, it helps to identify the boundaries of words and
sentences, thereby making a vital contribution to speech comprehension.
Furthermore, by means of prosodic cues, speakers are not only able to produce
the intended sentence type, e.g. question or statement, but they can also
highlight the most important piece of information in a given phrase.
Individual characteristics of speakers’ emotions, attitudes or intentions are
also encoded in prosodic cues (Ladd 1996) which are not only acoustic but also
gestural. However, even though there is voluminous evidence that visual
signals including oro-facial expressions (Krahmer & Swerts 2007), head
movement (Cvejic et al. 2010) and hand gestures (Guellaï, Langus & Nespor
2014) contribute essentially to the execution of prosody, the exact nature of
the gestural-acoustic relationship is far from being well understood (see also
Wagner et al. 2014 for an overview). Similarly, our understanding of
articulatory gestures and their role in executing prosody is still very
limited.


Call for Papers:

This workshop sets out to further explore the complex nature of prosody from a
multivariate perspective. We invite papers revealing the role it plays in:

- language systems at different levels, e.g. syllable, prosodic word, phrase,
utterance;
- language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism, language interference and
code switching;
- sign language;
- sociolinguistics (social markers, identity, sociolects).

Of particular interest are experimentally oriented studies.

Please submit abstracts via the Workshop's EasyChair page no later than
November 1, 2019, 23:59 Berlin time.

For further details see:
https://sites.google.com/view/glow43/workshops/prosody-in-speech-signal-percep
tion-and-gestures?authuser=0




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