32.334, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 32.334, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:27:56
From: Jutta Hartmann [jutta-maria.hartmann at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: Creativity and Variability: Prosody and Information Structure

 
Full Title: Creativity and Variability: Prosody and Information Structure 

Date: 23-Jun-2021 - 23-Jun-2021
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Jutta Hartmann
Meeting Email: jutta-maria.hartmann at uni-bielefeld.de
Web Site: https://tinyurl.com/y3nuxknl 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

Creativity is one of the defining features of human interaction. Linguistic
creativity may manifest itself in terms of innovative novel forms and/or the
suppression & eventual abandonment of existing structure in a language. Thus,
phonetic and prosodic variation might be considered linguistic creativity. It
also shows the production of novel forms that are either discarded or subsumed
into a general analysis based on the most frequent forms. Such variation has
also been found in the prosodic marking of information-structure making it
especially difficult to determine the deviant vs. convention status of a form.
Such phonetic and prosodic variability may result from a number of factors
including speaker, context as well as linguistic and dialectal structures.
Yet, there are few existing attempts aiming to model this variation. Empirical
studies generally do not clarify the processing of a novel and ‘deviant’ form
in contrast to a ‘canonical’ or ‘non-deviant’ form in their data.

Aim of the workshop: 
In this workshop, we aim to look at phonetic and prosodic variability as
potential linguistic creativity. We are interested in investigating variable
phonetic and prosodic realizations in different information-structural
contexts with a special focus on the creative aspects of such use and
interpretation of variable forms. The overall aim is to develop a better
understanding of phonetic and prosodic variability caused by the above
mentioned (and hitherto undiscussed) factors and how it manifests itself in
the context of variable information structure (IS).


Final Call for Papers: 

We invite papers that address the topic of the workshop, especially
considering the following research questions:
- What are the factors resulting in systematic phonetic variability in the
encoding of IS?
- How do dialogue partners ‘handle’ variability in production and/or
perception of linguistic forms in a given IS notion? To what extent can this
handling be called creative?
- What is a ‘deviant’ form? How is its deviance determined and integrated in
an analysis?
- How can we model variability, including grammatical, prosodic, computational
and statistical approaches to modeling variation? Comparisons and critiques of
existing models and proposals for new ones are highly welcome.
- How to model the interface between phonetic and prosodic variability and IS?
How does a given model fit with the current approaches to IS and phonetic and
prosodic variability?

Submission Guidelines:
We invite abstracts related to the above-mentioned areas of interest. Single
page (A4) abstracts should be written in English and submitted as a pdf file
on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cvpi2021). Examples,
figures, tables, and references may be added on the second page. All the
abstracts will be peer-reviewed.

Organizational Details:
This two-hours (16:00-18:00 CET) workshop is part of the 4th PAPE Conference
(https://pape2021.upf.edu/) hosted by Pompeu Fabra University , Barcelona. It
comprises talks of 15-minutes (plus 5 minutes for Q/A). This is a tentative
schedule subject to change on the basis of number of submissions and accepted
abstracts. The workshop is intended to offer only oral presentations.

Important Dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: 1 February 2021
- Acceptance notification: 28 February 2021
- PaPE Conference: 21 - 23 June 2021
- Workshop: 23 June 2021

Organizers:
- Jutta Hartmann (Bielefeld University)
- Farhat Jabeen (Bielefeld University)
- Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University)




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