34.785, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology / Languages (Jrnl)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-785. Wed Mar 08 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.785, Calls:  Phonetics, Phonology / Languages (Jrnl)

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From: Rajiv Rao [rgrao at wisc.edu]
Subject:  Phonetics, Phonology / Languages (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Special issue on "Prosody and Immigration"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/DTB64LM303

Dear Colleagues,

Research on minority immigrant languages has gained significant
traction in the last decade-plus, primarily due to a significant body
of research on heritage languages (e.g., Montrul, 2015; Polinsky,
2018; Polinsky & Montrul, 2021; among many others). Developments in
the phonetics and phonology of heritage languages have lagged behind
those in other linguistic areas, but recent years have seen
significant growth in work on sound systems as well (see, e.g., Chang,
2021; Rao, 2016, in press), especially in North America, thanks in
large part to research on Spanish in the US (for an overview, see Rao,
2019) and studies based on the Heritage Language Variation and Change
Corpus in Toronto (Nagy, 2011). However, within the fields of heritage
(and, in general, minority immigrant language) phonetics and
phonology, prosody remains relatively understudied, and within the
realm of immigrant language prosody, we still know very little about
issues such as cross-generational change, longitudinal outcomes, child
versus adolescent versus adult data, older first-generation immigrants
who have resided in the host country for multiple decades versus
monolingual homeland speakers, the role of source input varieties, the
influence of a wide range of social (level of education, age, gender,
rural versus urban settings, etc.) and affective (e.g., attitudes,
emotions, motivation) variables, speech rhythm, intonation across a
variety of pragmatic contexts, variation in lexical tone, speakers of
such languages outside of North America, and the effects of minority
language prosody on local majority varieties (by no means is this an
exhaustive list).

The goal of this Special Issue is to fill existing holes in the
literature on prosody by addressing the topics listed above (among
other possibilities), while highlighting the need for increased
comparisons between first-generation immigrants and homeland speakers,
as well as a wider range of coverage of languages and geographies in
general (e.g., Calhoun, 2015 versus Calhoun et al., in press for data
based in Oceania). Finally, this special issue complements other ones
hosted by Languages:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/Immigrant_Refuge
e_Languagees
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/multilingualism_
migrant

Given that prosody is a key component of human communication (e.g.,
Gussenhoven & Chen, 2020) and that language and cultural contact
caused by international movement are pervasive in many regions of the
world, learning more about the interaction of these two concepts is
important, not only to expand on the recent growth in heritage
language sound systems, but also to gain a deeper understanding of the
underpinnings of prosodic variation (for a recent contribution to this
area, see Armstrong et al., 2022).

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words
summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest
Editor (Rajiv Rao; rgrao at wisc.edu) or to the Languages Editorial
Office (languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest
Editor for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the
Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Tentative completion schedule:

- Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2023
- Notification of abstract acceptance: May 31, 2023
- Full manuscript deadline: August 31, 2023

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