34.2385, Calls: DGfS2024 AG: Prosody in Focus - Prominence Marking from Multiple Perspectives

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Subject: 34.2385, Calls: DGfS2024 AG: Prosody in Focus - Prominence Marking from Multiple Perspectives

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Date: 03-Aug-2023
From: Corinna Langer [langer at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: DGfS2024 AG: Prosody in Focus - Prominence Marking from Multiple Perspectives

Full Title: DGfS2024 AG: Prosody in Focus - Prominence Marking from
Multiple Perspectives

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Corinna Langer
Meeting Email: langer at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

The Workshop "Prosody in Focus - Prominence Marking from Multiple
Perspectives" will be part of next years DGfS conference in Bochum,
Germany (28 Feb-01 Mar, 2024). It aims to investigate the role of
prosodic prominence in focus marking from multiple perspectives.
Cross-linguistically, focus marking is an important function of
prosody that has been studied extensively for numerous languages (see,
e.g., Kügler & Calhoun 2020 for an overview). A higher level of
pragmatic prominence (that is, a higher notion of contrast in focus,
see Krifka 2008) is often marked by greater prosodic prominence.
Exploring prosody at its interface with various linguistic domains,
allows us to investigate prosodic focus marking in all modules of
grammar (e.g., disambiguating syntactically ambiguous sentences or
providing pragmatic discourse information).

In this workshop, we would like to look beyond what has been found on
the general interaction between prosody and focus, and explore new
perspectives on prosodic focus marking, for instance: (i) From a
typological perspective, it is interesting whether different languages
within/between language families use the same acoustic indicators to
mark focus, including differences in the marking of focus domains
(e.g., broad and narrow scope) and types of foci (e.g., contrastive
vs. selective vs. informational). (ii) At the phonetics-phonology
interface, the abstraction of continuous phonetic signals into
prosodic categories associating with focus types is an ongoing topic
for research. (iii) Prosodic focus marking can also add new
information to complement syntactically/morphologically marked foci or
offer a second, independent strategy. (iv) The marking of focus might
not solely be performed by acoustic cues but also by visual cues
resulting in multimodal marking of pragmatic prominence. Gestures have
been claimed to a) cooccur with prosody (see, McNeill 1992) and b)
make a pragmatic contribution to discourse. In what way and to what
extent these observations are sensitive to focus marking is an
objective in linguistic research and offers another new perspective to
the topic of this workshop.

Thus, our workshop goals are to look at the relation between prosody
and focus from different angles  and to tackle the multifaceted
interfaces of prosody with phonetics, syntax, pragmatics and visual
communication in focus marking. We welcome contributions that offer a
new perspective on the prosodic marking of focus: be it typological,
from a signaling point, complementing syntactic/morphological marking,
offering a multimodal approach or another perspective that sheds light
on the use of prosody and its interaction with pragmatic prominence.

References: Krifka, Manfred. 2008. Basic notions of information
structure. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55(3). 243–276. • Kügler, F. &
S. Calhoun. 2020. “Prosodic Encoding of Information Structure: A
typological perspective”. In Gussenhoven, C.  & A. Chen (eds.), The
Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, pp. 453–467. Oxford: OUP. •
McNeill, D. 1992. Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought.
Chicago: UCP.

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be anonymous and at most 2 pages in length, 12pt,
examples and references included. Please send your abstracts
electronically in PDF-format to gregori at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de and
langer at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de, and include your name, affiliation,
and the title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail. The talks
will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.

Coordinators: Alina Gregori (gregori at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de) &
Corinna Langer (langer at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de); Goethe University
Frankfurt
Deadline for Abstract submission: 15 August, 2023
Notification of acceptance until: 10 September, 2023

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