32.3428, Calls: Phonetics/Romania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3428. Sun Oct 31 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3428, Calls: Phonetics/Romania

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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:26:30
From: Mirena Patseva [mirena.patseva at gmail.com]
Subject: 'Lexical and Fixed Word Stress: Representation, Production and Perception'

 
Full Title: 'Lexical and Fixed Word Stress: Representation, Production and Perception' 

Date: 24-Aug-2022 - 27-Aug-2022
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Mirena Patseva
Meeting Email: mirena.patseva at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics 

Call Deadline: 14-Nov-2021 

Meeting Description:

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a workshop ‘Lexical and fixed word stress: Representation,
Production and Perception’ as a session of the 55th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2022), to be held in Bucharest, 24–27
August 2022. 

Linguistic Fields: prosody, word stress, phonetics, phonology,
prosody-morphology interface, production, perception, L2

Workshop Description:

The workshop is aimed at bringing together research on the phonetics and
phonology of word-level stress to substantially deepen our understanding of
the role of stress in the production and perception of speech. Languages
differ with respect to the representation and implementation of stress. Among
the languages with word‐level stress, two groups are distinguished: fixed
stress languages which do not allow stress placement to vary within the word
and lexical stress languages where stress placement occurs in random positions
within the word. In the first group of languages stress always falls on the
same, language‐specifically defined place in the world, constructed on the
basis of purely phonological principles (e.g. edgemost rules, feet, syllabic
structure, vocalic peaks, etc.). In the second group of languages the primary
stress occurs on the proper syllables, which are determined in the lexicon.
The relative stress level of syllables can convey lexical distinctions, there
are minimal pairs that only differ in stress pattern and morphemes may have a
lexical mark which affects the stress location (van der Hulst 2014: 21,
Revithiadou 1999, Alderete 2001). However, most languages display elements of
both stress categories. So the two categories (lexical stress vs. fixed
stress) should be considered the two endpoints of a stress continuum along
which different languages can be placed relative to each other (Gordon, van
der Hulst 2020). The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is
realized in several acoustic dimensions: duration, intensity, fundamental
frequency (f0), and spectral properties of the (vocalic) unit (Fry 1958,
Bolinger 1961, Lehiste 1970). Stressed syllables are longer and louder, and
present more f0 movement. Additionally, stressed vowels show increased vowel
dispersion and magnitude of formant change. These differences are less
pronounced in fixed stress languages (Suomi, Toivanen, Ylitalo, 2003, for
Finnish; Dogil, 1999). Compared with speakers of lexical stress languages,
speakers of fixed stress languages have difficulties in distinguishing
non-words that differ only in stress pattern (Dupoux et al. 1997, 2001, 2008;
Peperkamp et al. 2010; Domahs et al. 2012).


Call for Papers:

Organizers: Bistra Andreeva (Saarland University), Mirena Patseva (Sofia
University)
Contact Email: sle2022wordstress at gmail.com
Call Deadline: 14-Nov-2021

We invite submissions for talks (20 min. presentations + 5 min. discussion).
Abstracts must be no longer than 300 words.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- acoustic-phonetic correlates of word stress
- word stress in speech perception
- word stress in L2
- effects of word stress on segments, phonotactics, and phonological processes
- lexical stress and the vocabulary
- prosody-morphology interface
- morphologically governed stress and predictable metric tendencies

Confirmed invited speaker:
Anthy Revithiadou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Important Dates:

Nov 14, 2021: deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts to the workshop
organizers
Nov 20, 2021: notification of acceptance by the workshop organizers,
submission of the workshop proposal to SLE
Dec 15, 2021: notification of acceptance of workshop proposals by SLE
Aug 24–27, 2022: SLE Annual Meeting




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