Workshop on Metrics, Phonology, Acquisition (27-28 June, Paris)

[Jean-Louis Aroui]

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to inform you about the First International Workshop on Phonology,
Metrics and Acquisition, which will be taking place in Paris on 27th and
28th June, hosted by the UMR 7023 (Paris 8/CNRS).

May we ask you to relay the information attached herewith?

Yours sincerely,

The Organising Committee


INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON METRICS, PHONOLOGY AND ACQUISITION
PARIS, 27-28 JUNE 2011
Université Paris 8 & Unité Mixte de Recherche 7023
Structures Formelles du Langage (CNRS)
CNRS Pouchet
Salle de Conférences, 59/61 rue Pouchet, 75849 Paris cedex 17
 Le but de ces deux journées d'étude est de réunir des chercheurs autour de
questions de phonologie, d'acquisition et de métrique, et des liens
possibles entre ces disciplines. Seront discutés entre autres des
problèmes de phonologie, de métrique et d'acquisition du langage, ainsi
que l'interface entre phonologie prosodique, métrique et musique.
The two-fold workshop aims at bringing together specialists, researchers and
graduate students generally interested in Phonology and Metrics, as well
as the possible connections between those two disciplines. A broad range
of topics will discussed, including issues in phonological and metrical
theory, aspects of phonological acquisition, the interface between
prosodic phonology, metrics and music, and the description of sung and
chanted verse.

FIRST SESSION (27TH JUNE)
Metrics and Aquisition: Must We End up with Binary Feet in French?
In the literature on phonological acquisition, French is frequently
described as an "iambic language" whose metrical structure determines
children's production (Rose 2000; Dos Santos 2007; Demuth 2001). Works in
metrics present French verse as syllabic or as segmented into sequences of
week and strong positions (see Verluyten 1989). Finally, Selkirk (1978)
and others following her analysis (see Tranel 1987), have proposed a
trochaic foot in French to account for the schwa/0 alternation.
This workshop aims to revisit these arguments in light of French data in
metrics and acquisition to examine the empirical and theoretical need to
assume a binary foot in French, and whether the parameterization of such a
binary foot (iambic / trochaic) is in fact necessary.
PROGRAMME
Prof. Heather Goad (McGill University): Puzzling input and the role of
markedness: The acquisition of Québec French stress.
 Prof. Yvan Rose(Memorial University of Newfoundland): Syllable prominence
and prosodic structure: Typological, acoustic and developmental evidence.
Prof. Sophie Wauquier (Université Paris 8, UMR 7023): First units in the
acquisition of French: do we need a foot?
 Prof. Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice, CNRS 6039): Portrait of a
phonological cripple: what schwa can(not) do to preceding vowels in
French and elsewhere.
 Prof. Chris Golston (California State University Fresno): English feet
since 1400.
Roundtable discussion, chaired by Dr. Jean-Louis Aroui (Université Paris
8, UMR 7023): Are there or are there not binary feet in French metrics?

SECOND SESSION (28TH JUNE)
General Metrics: Music and Prosody
This workshop brings together researchers who work in the area of general
metrics,with a specific interest in the structural organisation of sung as
well as spoken poetry,and the division of labour between the levels of
structure assumed.
Traditional and generative metrics have commonly assumed that the metrical
pattern is an external structural object, often called the metrical
template. The template expresses the central properties of the meter, and
is combined with the text by a constrained matching of linguistic
properties to the positions of the metrical template.
The status of this template has recently been challenged from two rather
different directions. Work within generative metrics has looked for ways
of arriving at a metrical characterization without appealing to a
predefined metrical template. For instance, Fabb & Halle (2008) propose
that meter is a specific parse of the text, where syllables are grouped
and a grid constructed. Golston & Riad (ms) propose that meter is to be
derived from the grammar of the language, much as prosodic regularity is
employed in morphology. Text-setting in songs offers a different challenge
to the
status of the metricaltemplate. Text that occurs in songs often looks like
verse when the music is removed. The question here is to what extent a
metrical structure is present, or needed, beside the rhythm provided by
the music, in songs. In work by Hayes & Kaun (1996) and Hayes & McEachern
(1998) the assumption is that text is set directly to musical rhythm in
English folk songs, an analysis that is contested in Kiparsky (2006). In a
study on Berber song, Dell & Elmedlaoui (2008) assert that a metrical
template is needed beside that of the music. The two challenges to
metrical templates are rather different in nature. In the first case, the
issue is really to determine the division of labour between language and
culture. In the second case, the issue is about the division of labour
between music and meter (whatever the ontological status of the latter).

PROGRAMME
Prof. Benoît de Cornulier (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes): On the
divisibility of simple meter.
Dr. Rosalia Rodriguez-Vazquez (Universidade de Vigo & UMR 7023): The
metrics of English songs: Towards a nonmodular view of text-setting.
Dr. Francois Dell (EHESS-CNRS) & Dr. Teresa Proto (Université Paris 8,
7023): Discrepancies between linguistic stress and musical rhythm in
Italian songs: a first exploration.
Prof. Tomas Riad (Stockholms Universitet & Université Paris 8): The
prosodic metrics of Tashlhiyt Berber songs.
 Prof. Nigel Fabb (Univesity of Strathclyde): The line as a relevant
metrical unit.
Prof. Chris Golston (California State University Fresno): Reconstructing a
meter for Proto-Indo-European.



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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Aroui-Jean-Louis-.html

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