35.561, Calls: How Much Is Too Much? The One-New-Idea Constraint and Related Phenomena at the Information-Intonation Interface

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Subject: 35.561, Calls: How Much Is Too Much? The One-New-Idea Constraint and Related Phenomena at the Information-Intonation Interface

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Date: 16-Feb-2024
From: Naomi Peck [naomi.peck at linguistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: How Much Is Too Much? The One-New-Idea Constraint and Related Phenomena at the Information-Intonation Interface


Full Title: How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and
related phenomena at the information-intonation interface

Date: 12-Jul-2024 - 13-Jul-2024
Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Contact Person: Naomi Peck
Meeting Email: naomi.peck at linguistik.uni-freiburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Date: 12th-13th July 2024
Location: University of Freiburg, Germany
Organizers: Uta Reinöhl, Naomi Peck

This workshop invites contributions researching the packaging of
information relative to intonation units. Seminal studies including
Chafe (1979, 1994), Givón (1983), and Pawley & Syder (1983) have
suggested universal cognitive constraints on how much new information
may be expressed in a prosodic chunk, e.g. Chafe’s “one new idea
constraint”. Despite their wide-reaching implications, and their
impact on fields including discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and
typology, these claims still largely await testing for more languages
as well as discourse types.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers empirically testing
the one-new-idea constraint and related topics at the
information-intonation interface. This may include research on
information packaging in prosodic units other than the intonation unit
or on types of information that have received less attention in the
literature. We particularly welcome contributions on lesser studied
languages in an effort to probe the claimed universality of the
proposed constraints. We also welcome diverse methodological
approaches including, but not limited to, corpus-linguistic,
experimental, discourse-analytic or interactional-linguistic
approaches.

Invited researchers include Nikolaus Himmelmann (Cologne), Pavel
Ozerov (Innsbruck) and Stefan Schnell (Zurich).

References
Chafe, Wallace. 1979. The flow of thought and the flow of language. In
Talmy Givón (ed.), Discourse and syntax, 159–181. New York: Academic
Press.
Chafe, Wallace. 1994. Discourse, consciousness, and time: the flow and
displacement of conscious experience in speaking and writing. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Givón, Talmy (ed.). 1983. Topic continuity in discourse: a
quantitative cross-language study. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: J.
Benjamins Pub. Co.
Pawley, Andrew & Frances Hodgetts Syder. 1983. Two puzzles for
linguistic theory: nativelike selection and nativelike fluency. In
Jack C. Richards & Richard W Schmidt (eds.), Language and
communication, 191–225. London: Longman.

Call for Papers:

Please submit your abstract by March 15 to the contact email.
Notification of acceptance to the workshop will be sent out by April
05.



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