32.411, Calls: Lang Acquisition/Online

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Subject: 32.411, Calls: Lang Acquisition/Online

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:12:15
From: Núria Esteve-Gibert [nesteveg at uoc.edu]
Subject: Acquisition at the interface between prosody, gesture, and pragmatics

 
Full Title: Acquisition at the interface between prosody, gesture, and pragmatics 

Date: 23-Jun-2021 - 23-Jun-2021
Location: (Virtual) Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Núria Esteve-Gibert
Meeting Email: nesteveg at uoc.edu
Web Site: https://pape2021.upf.edu/session/creativity-and-variability-prosody-and-information-2-2/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

ORGANIZERS:
Núria Esteve Gibert (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Aoju Chen (Utrecht University)
Pilar Prieto (ICREA – Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:
Speakers use speech prosody to structure information in the discourse and to
express their pragmatic intent (i.e. illocutionary force, epistemic stance,
appropriate register, non-literality, turn-taking). Body gestures seem to
serve parallel discourse and pragmatic functions, and they are temporally
synchronized with prosodic structure. In development, the role of prosody has
been studied mainly at early stages, where infants use their early sensitivity
to prosodic features to parse words and phrases from the speech stream. Body
gestures (like pointing gestures) are also found to be important in early
communication, especially during the pre-lexical stage. Despite the common
idea that prosody and body gestures are relevant in (and for) language
development, we still lack a comprehensive description of how prosody and body
gestures jointly work in the development of pragmatics, at various
developmental stages, and with distinct populations.

In this workshop we intend to contribute to the discussion of how speech
prosody and body gestures develop, and to the possibility that prosody and/or
gestures are driving forces in language acquisition. Ultimately, present and
future empirical evidence should be used to consider the potential inclusion
of speech prosody and body gestures in language acquisition models.

TOPICS AND AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Infants’ and children’s use of prosody and/or body gestures in pragmatic
development and, more broadly, in L1 and L2 language development
- The integration of prosody and gestures in populations with language and
communication disorders
- Individual differences in infants’ and children’s use of prosody and/or
gestures in language and communication
- The preceding and predicting value of speech prosody and/or body gestures in
the development of other linguistic milestones, especially pragmatic
milestones
- Cross-cultural differences in infants’ and children’s use of prosody and/or
body gestures

REGISTRATION:
Registration is free of charge by filling-in this online form: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekq0dw83l5_Z0vRTTBZewPHo8RK2WDwt26fs
vAf1zps8lzgA/viewform


Second Call for Papers: 

- Submission information is the same as for the general PaPE conference (more
info here: https://pape2021.upf.edu/submission-information/)
- All abstracts will be reviewed by two members of the scientific committee.
The scientific committee will be experts in the field of prosody and/or
gesture and/or pragmatics.
- Please send your contributions to the following email no later than 14
February, 2021 at the following email: prosodygesturepragmatics at gmail.com.




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