31.2225, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 31.2225, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:23:37
From: Fabian Schubö [fabian.schuboe at ifla.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Prosodic boundary phenomena

 
Full Title: Prosodic boundary phenomena 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Fabian Schubö
Meeting Email: fabian.schuboe at ifla.uni-stuttgart.de

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The workshop ‘Prosodic boundary phenomena’ will be part of the 43rd Annual
Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), held at the University of
Freiburg, 24-26 February 2021.

https://dgfs.de/de/themen2/dgfs-2021-in-freiburg.html
https://dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de/

In spoken language comprehension, the hearer is faced with a more or less
continuous stream of auditory information. Prosodic cues, such as pitch
movement, pre-boundary lengthening, and pauses, incrementally help to organize
the incoming stream of information into prosodic phrases, which often coincide
with syntactic units. Prosody is hence central to spoken language
comprehension and is “the skeletal structure on which the rest of the
utterance depends” (Frazier et al., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006: 248).
Accordingly, some models assume that the speaker produces prosody in a
consistent and hierarchical fashion (e.g., Nespor & Vogel, Prosodic phonology,
Dordrecht: Foris, 1986; Frazier et al., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006).
While there is manifold empirical evidence that prosodic boundary cues are
reliably and robustly produced and effectively guide sentence comprehension
across different populations and languages, the underlying mechanisms and the
nature of the prosody-syntax interface are still not identified sufficiently.
This is also reflected in the fact that most models on sentence processing
completely lack prosodic information.

This workshop intends to bring together interdisciplinary researchers working
on the impact of prosody on language comprehension and production, such as
cross-linguistic variation in prosodic boundary implementation, inter- and
intraindividual differences including the ontogenetic development of prosodic
competences, and researchers who are interested in the prosody-syntax
interface from a modeling perspective or other phenomena related to prosodic
boundaries. We welcome a variety of different methodological approaches to
prosody research. 

The workshop is organized by Fabian Schubö & Sabine Zerbian, University of
Stuttgart, and Sandra Hanne & Isabell Wartenburger, University of Potsdam.


Call for Papers: 

We call for submissions for oral presentations. Please send your one-page
abstract in PDF format no later than 1 September 2020 with the subject line
‘Prosodic boundary phenomena DGfS’ to Fabian Schubö [fabian.schuboe AT
ifla.uni-stuttgart.de] AND Isabell Wartenburger [isabell.wartenburger AT
uni-potsdam.de].

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.




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