[parislinguists] International Conference on Prominence in Language - ICPL 2015

Wed Jan 21 13:52:29 UTC 2015

Veuillez trouver ci-joint l'appel à partecipation pour la conférence 
internationale Prominence in Language, qui aura lieu à l'université de 
Cologne du 15 au 17 juin 2015

International Conference on Prominence in Language - ICPL 2015

http://prominence-conference.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/

Prominence relations establish a ranking between linguistic units, such 
as prosodic units, arguments of a verb and discourse referents. 
Prominence is therefore one of the key notions in language and 
communication: it accounts for prosodic highlighting and the building of
 linguistic structure and discourse representations. Accordingly, the 
study of prominence requires an interdisciplinary linguistic approach, 
involving phonology and phonetics, syntax, semantics and discourse 
pragmatics. Our conference aims to foster the understanding of the 
notion of prominence.

The conference will feature plenary talks in the fields of 
phonetics-phonology, morphosyntax-semantics and discourse by three 
keynote speakers:

Sónia Frota (Universidade de Lisboa)

Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt Universität)

Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)

Hosted by the Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS), the conference
 will take place on the University of Cologne campus from 15 to 17 June 
2015. The event is sponsored by the Emerging Group “Dynamic Structuring 
in Language and Communication” (DSLC), funded by the Institutional 
Strategy of the University of Cologne (ZUK 81/1).

Organizing Host:

Christiane Bongartz (chair; CCLS, University of Cologne)

Organizing Committee:

Jakob Egetenmeyer (CCLS, Universität zu Köln)

Jacopo Torregrossa (DSLC, Universität zu Köln)

Convenors:

Martin Becker (Romanistik, Universität zu Köln)

Christiane Bongartz (Anglistik, Universität zu Köln)

Martine Grice (IfL-Phonetik, Universität zu Köln)

Klaus von Heusinger (IDSL, Universität zu Köln)

Nikolaus Himmelmann (IfL, Universität zu Köln)

Beatrice Primus (IDSL, Universität zu Köln)

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL A COMMUNICATIONs

We invite contributions employing quantitative and qualitative research 
methods, a synchronic or diachronic perspective, as well as psycho- and 
neuro-linguistic approaches.

A (non-exhaustive) list of topics to be addressed may include the following:

i) The encoding of prominence at the phonetics-phonology interface

ii) Language-specific and universal prominence scales (animacy scale, 
referentiality scale, thematic role hierarchy, topic scales, etc.)

iii) Factors determining the ranking of entities in discourse (e.g., accessibility, salience, activation, topicality)

iv) Psycho- and neuro-linguistic underpinnings of prominence relations

We ask for the submission of abstracts for oral presentations and 
posters on prominence-related phenomena by March 1, 2015. Submissions 
are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per 
author or two joint abstracts per author. Abstracts should be written in
 English and not exceed 500 words. Figures, examples and references 
might be additionally included, but abstracts must not exceed two A4 
pages. Please use Times New Roman, 12pt font, single line spacing, and 
2.5cm margins. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair at the 
following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpl2015

Important Dates:

March 1, 2015: Submission of abstracts

April 1, 2015: Notification of acceptance

April 30, 2015: Registration open

June 15-17, 2015: Conference

Marta Donazzan 
29 rue Montgallet
75012 PARIS  
+33 06 33 78 33 25 

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