33.2565, Calls: Language Acquisition, Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology/Switzerland
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Subject: 33.2565, Calls: Language Acquisition, Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology/Switzerland
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:22:16
From: Morgane Jourdain [morgane.jourdain at uzh.ch]
Subject: Speech Units Workshop
Full Title: Speech Units Workshop
Short Title: SUW23
Date: 17-Apr-2023 - 19-Apr-2023
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Contact Person: Morgane Jourdain
Meeting Email: morgane.jourdain at uzh.ch
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/speechunitsworkshop/call-dates?authuser=0
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Language Documentation; Phonetics; Phonology
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
Language endangerment is a topic of concern and the interest in language
documentation has grown (Himmelmann 1998, 2006; Thieberger 2020). With the
technological advent language documentation has extended to include more
speech data. However, the number of instrumental studies dealing with the
acoustic characteristics of under-documented languages remains relatively
small. This workshop offers a forum for the discussion of the experimental
study of Speech Units and aims at providing training for those interested in
engaging with the topic.
Instrumental studies in intonational phonology have shown that languages vary
in how they phonetically encode units of different sizes, such as the prosodic
word, the accentual phrase, or the intermediate phrase (Jun 2006, Jun 2014).
Despite great advances contributing new insights into the field of prosodic
typology, studies dealing quantitively with more diverse languages remain
under-represented. There is a need for more data and studies from more diverse
languages to better understand typological variability and e.g., why some
languages mark units on metrically strong heads, while others prioritise edges
of larger units and whether this has an impact on language segmentation
processes or first language acquisition.
>From an acquisition perspective, studies on several Western-European languages
have shown that children can package and process their input into larger units
such as clauses at around 6 months of age (Nazzi et al. 2000 for English,
Schmitz et al 2003 for German, Johnson & Seidl 2008 for Dutch). Later,
children are able to segment the speech stream into smaller speech units such
as words, using the salience of utterance edges (Seidl & Johnson 2006) and the
rhythm, i.e., syllable vs foot, and phonotactic properties, such as vowel
harmony (Nihan Ketrez 2014), of their target language. This order of
segmentation from larger clauses to smaller units, and the types of cues
identified remain to be investigated in more typologically diverse languages.
The whole-word phonology approach (Vihman & Croft 2007) is an emergentist
approach to early phonological development, according to which children do not
first learn the individual elements composing words, such as morphemes or
affixes etc., but instead start by trying to produce whole words. To date,
most studies were carried out on speech production of European languages (but
see Khattab and Al-Tamimi 2013 for Arabic, and Ota 2013 for Japanese), and
data is still lacking on other languages.
Call for Papers:
This workshop invites contributions for 30-minute presentations (20+10)
dealing with the speech production and structure of word, word-like, and
intonational units in child and adult speech from diverse languages and
language varieties. Contributions discussing aspects in relation to bi- or
multilingual speakers are also encouraged, as are studies dealing with
experimental data collection and corpus-based investigations.
Potential research questions include (but are not limited to):
How are speech units marked phonetically and phonologically in diverse
languages?
What prominence patterns are found cross-linguistically? (e.g., head or edge
marking)
How do children acquiring typologically diverse languages identify speech
units of different sizes from their input? Do they use different cues from
those identified in English?
Do children initially segment larger units (clauses before words) in all
languages?
Does the whole-word phonology approach hold across typologically diverse
languages?
How do children learn to segment and produce syllables in foot and
syllable-timed languages?
Are there phonetic properties of CDS that enhance the segmentability of speech
units by infants?
Abstract Format:
Abstracts for the Speech Units Workshop should be up to 1 page of text (max
500 words), plus one page (maximum) for references and figures only. The
conference will be conducted in English and abstracts must be written in
English.
All submissions must be done via the easychair platform :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=suw23
In addition to presentations scheduled on the first two days, the workshop
invites to a third full-day hands-on workshop specifically aimed at (junior)
researchers and fieldworkers interested in acquiring methods and best practice
in phonetic data collection. This workshop is tailored to provide knowledge
for researchers working in field conditions and will provide support for the
development of elicitation materials, and data management. The number of
participants is limited, and applicants are kindly requested to express their
interest to participate by 15th January 2023.
It is not mandatory to present a paper if a participant wishes to be part of
the hands-on session.
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