32.1299, Confs: Phonetics/Online

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Subject: 32.1299, Confs: Phonetics/Online

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:33:40
From: Marcel Schlechtweg [marcelschlechtweg at gmail.com]
Subject: Interfaces of Phonetics

 
Interfaces of Phonetics 

Date: 18-May-2021 - 19-May-2021 
Location: Oldenburg (Online), Germany 
Contact: Marcel Schlechtweg 
Contact Email: marcelschlechtweg at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://interfacesofphonetics.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics 

Meeting Description: 

In several models of speech production (see, e.g., Fromkin 1971; Harley 1984;
Levelt 1989, 1995; Levelt, Roelofs, and Meyer 1999; Roelofs 1997), the role of
phonetics is rather limited and acoustic differences between phonologically
identical words are typically not expected. However, over the years, more and
more evidence has suggested that fine acoustic details play a more prominent
role within language, and that approaches permitting a more flexible
interaction between phonetic and other types of information represent a
serious alternative (see, e.g., Pierrehumbert 2001, 2002).

Evidence comes from different areas. At the morphology-phonetics interface, it
has been shown that forms (e.g., word-final s in English) are uttered
differently if they are affixal (e.g., laps) as opposed to the same form that
is non-affixal (e.g., lapse) (see, e.g., Plag et al. 2017; Seyfarth et al.
2018; Smith et al. 2012). At the syntax-phonetics interface, Sereno and
Jongman’s (1995) analysis revealed that one and the same item (e.g., answer)
is realized differently depending on whether it is used as a noun or verb (but
see Lohmann 2020 for a different conclusion). Moreover, morpho-syntactic
features like number seem to be expressed in the acoustic output as well, as
recently shown in two studies on German singular-plural syncretism
(Schlechtweg & Heinrichs 2020; Schlechtweg, Heinrichs, and Linnenkohl 2020).
Next, classical homophones such as time and thyme do not seem to be expressed
with exactly the same pronunciation in that the high-frequency meaning (time)
differs from its low-frequency counterpart (thyme) in duration (see, e.g.,
Conwell 2018; Gahl 2008; Lohmann 2018). Finally, an example at the interface
between semantics/pragmatics and phonetics is the observation that words are
articulated differently if they are mentioned, with mentioning being expressed
through the presence of quotation marks around an item, in comparison to their
simple denotational use (see Schlechtweg & Härtl 2019). 
    
(All references are listed at https://interfacesofphonetics.weebly.com)
 

Program Information: 

The program of the meeting ''Interfaces of Phonetics'' is available here:
https://interfacesofphonetics.weebly.com/program.html

If you are interested in attending (a) talk(s), please register here:
https://interfacesofphonetics.weebly.com/registration.html





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