35.332, Calls: Prosodic Features of Language Learners' Fluency

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Subject: 35.332, Calls: Prosodic Features of Language Learners' Fluency

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Date: 29-Jan-2024
From: Jürgen Trouvain [trouvain at lst.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Prosodic Features of Language Learners' Fluency


Full Title: Prosodic features of language learners' fluency

Date: 01-Jul-2024 - 01-Jul-2024
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Contact Person: Jürgen Trouvain
Meeting Email: trouvain at lst.uni-saarland.de
Web Site: https://l2fluency.lst.uni-saarland.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Phonetics

Call Deadline: 08-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

Satellite Workshop of "Speech Prosody", Leiden (The Netherlands), 1
July, 2024

The aim of this event is to bring together colleagues from two
research communities to focus on speech fluency: spoken second/foreign
language (L2) on the one hand and speech prosody on the other.

In the past, fluency was often ignored in speech prosody research (as
reflected in the Handbook of Language Prosody (2022) and also in the
Speech Prosody conferences). Moreover, fluency and timing are only
rarely treated together with intonation-related aspects in L2
research. However, a broader ranging view on L2 sentence prosody would
be beneficial to the construction of theories concerning the
acquisition of L2 prosody and applications such as assessments in
teaching, exercises for individual learning, assessments and automatic
testing of spoken performances. Likewise, research of language
learning does not seem to be very much integrated into speech prosody
research. This concerns both theoretical and methodological aspects
but also acquisition and annotation of learner data, e.g. in learner
corpora.

Thus, the scope of the workshop includes:

    measuring fluency,
    assessment of fluency by human experts, non-experts, and machines,
    learner corpora and annotation of disfluencies,
    elements and combinations of disfluencies (e.g. filler particles,
disfluent pauses, lengthenings, repetitions, repairs),
    varying degrees of fluency in different speech styles and tasks,
    fluency and L2 proficiency levels,
    intonational aspects of fluency,
    visual aspects of fluency (e.g. hand-arm gestures, eye-gazing,
torso movement),
    teaching methods for fluency improvement in L2 speech production
and perception.

Interested colleagues are invited to submit a two-page abstract (first
page for text, second page for illustrations, tables, and references)
to be reviewed by an expert committee. Only oral presentations are
planned. In addition to this workshop, we are discussing the
possibility of editing a special (open) issue in a recognised journal
(e.g. "Journal of Second Language Pronunciation" or "Studies in Second
Language Acquisition") to which we would encourage presenters of
workshop papers to contribute.

Keynote speakers are Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University
Nijmegen) and Malte Belz (Humboldt University Berlin).

Organisers are Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University), Bernd Möbius
(Saarland University) and Nivja de Jong (Leiden University).

Call for Papers:

Please submit your abstract, following the guidelines below, as a PDF
file attached to an e-mail to l2fluency at lst.uni-saarland.de.
Important dates

8 April, 2024 Abstract submission deadline
1 May, 2023 Notification of acceptance
Abstract submission guidelines

    Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed one page of
text.
    References, examples and/or figures can optionally be included on
a second page.
    Submitted abstracts must be in .pdf format, with Times New Roman
font, size 12, 1 inch margins and single spacing.
    The filename must be in the form ''Paper_title.pdf'' (e.g.,
speech_fluency.pdf).
    Do not include author names or affiliations in either the filename
or the abstract itself.

Publication
Papers will be invited for submission to a special journal issue; the
call will be open.



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