31.1719, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1719. Thu May 21 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1719, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling/Online

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Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 11:54:45
From: Gorka Elordieta [gorka.elordieta at ehu.eus]
Subject: Intonation, language contact and social factors

Full Title: Intonation, language contact and social factors 
Short Title: ILCSF20 

Date: 23-Oct-2020 - 24-Oct-2020
Location: University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 
Contact Person: Gorka Elordieta
Meeting Email: gorka.elordieta at ehu.eus
Web Site: https://ilcsf.netlify.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2020 

Meeting Description:

***Given the uncertainties caused by the worldwide covid-19 crisis, the
conference will be held in on-line mode, on the same dates: Oct. 23-24, 2020.
Further details about platforms to be used, instructions to present, etc. will
be provided in the next months. Abstracts and presentations will be uploaded
in the conference’s webpage, https://ilcsf.netlify.app/*** 

Three important changes to be taken into account:
a) The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to June 30, 2020
b) The notification of acceptance will now be July 31, 2020
c) There will be no registration fee
d) The new email address for general contact regarding the conference is
ilcsf20 at ehu.eus

Conference Description: 
There is a growing field of research on phonetic and phonological issues of
language contact and bilingualism/multilingualism, showing the influence of
one language or language variety over another (henceforth LV-A and LV-B).
Aspects of suprasegmental phonology have started receiving more attention,
especially in prosody and intonation. However, the presence of features of
LV-A in LV-B is variable within the contact population. That is, speakers of
LV-A may present different frequencies of occurrence of a given feature of
LV-B, or, in other words, not all speakers of LV-A may adopt the feature or
show its presence with the same consistency. Age, gender and educational level
may play a role in such differences, but recent work reveals the importance of
other social factors as well. On the one hand, the degree of contact of
speakers of LV-A with speakers of LV-B. On the other, the attitudes of
speakers of LV-A towards LV-B or the LV-B ethnolinguistic group. These factors
may correlate with differences in the degree of presence of features of LV-B
in LV-A.

For instance, Romera & Elordieta (2013) show that in the Catalan-speaking
island of Majorca monolingual speakers of Iberian Spanish adopt intonational
features of the variety of Spanish with influence from Catalan spoken by
Majorcans. However, the presence of such features (nuclear configurations in
yes/no questions) is heterogeneous among non-Majorcans. The authors show that
the differences in degree of adoption of the features are related to the
attitudes of non-Majorcan Spaniards towards (Majorcan) Catalan and the
Majorcan ethnolinguistic group. Speakers with more positive attitudes had
higher frequencies of nuclear configurations similar to those of Majorcan
Catalan. In a similar fashion, it is argued in Romera & Elordieta (2019) eta
Elordieta & Romera (to appear) that the variety of Spanish spoken in the
Basque Country presents final contours in yes/no interrogative utterances that
resemble those of Basque, but with inter-speaker differences in frequency of
occurrence of such contours. On the one hand, speakers that have more contact
with Basque itself or with native speakers of Basque have higher percentages
of Basque-like rising-falling circumflex contours. On the other hand, those
speakers with more positive attitudes towards the Basque language and the
Basque ethnolinguistic group also present higher frequencies of such contours.
The two factors taken together (degree of contact and attitudes) were strong
predictors of the variation. As a last example, Kozminska (2019) finds
different intonational behaviors in English among native Polish speakers who
moved to Great Britain to study and then work. Speakers who had a more
Cosmopolitan view of life and were more oriented towards the English-speaking
world showed higher percentages of use of final intonational contours in
declarative utterances that were closer to native British English-like
contours (the fall-rise). By comparison, speakers with a stronger Polish
identity had lower frequencies of such final contours.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr Mary Baltazani

Call for Papers: 

The goal of the conference “Intonation, language contact and social factors”
is to gather researchers working on phonological issues of language contact
and bilingualism, with a special focus on the interaction between social
factors and intonation. The languages in contact may be of any family or area
in the world.

Abstracts can be written in English, Spanish, or Basque. They must be
anonymous, and must have a maximum length of 2 pages (including references,
examples, tables and figures), with margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch) on all sides
and in Times New Roman 12pt font. Submissions are limited to two per author,
and only one of the abstracts can be single-authored. Abstracts must be in PDF
format.

UPDATED Deadline for submission: June 30, 2020

Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilcsf2020

Important dates UPDATED:
Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2020
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2020
Conference dates: October 23-24, 2020

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