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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>Prosodic Typology: State of the Art and Future
Prospects<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The study of
prosody is traditionally concerned with suprasegmental features such as stress,
tone, intonation and quantity. More recently, its scope has been expanded to
include any phonological phenomenon sensitive to the domains of the prosodic
hierarchy (ranging from the syllable to the utterance). In the course of this
development, a number of theoretical frameworks have been developed which make
strong claims about possible prosodic systems and their architecture. While the
predictions are clear, the cross-linguistic evidence is often less so,
especially since too often generalizations are based on a narrow language
sample from better-known European languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We invite
phonologists, typologists, and experts on individual languages to submit
abstracts addressing, among others, the following key questions in prosodic
typology:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Which phenomena should be subsumed under
the term ‘prosodic’? E.g. is it reasonable to treat stress domains
on a par with segmental assimilation processes? (cf. Bickel et al. 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Can
existing descriptive frameworks capture the attested diversity in prosodic
systems? E.g. does ToBI provide an adequate means for cross-linguistic
comparison? (cf. Jun 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Are
phonological theories capable of handling typological variation? E.g. can
derivational approaches which assign metrical grids before intonational
pitch-accents account for cases like Kuot? (cf. Lindström & Remijsen 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Abstracts should
be anonymous and should not exceed 1 page in length (an additional page for
data and/or references can be added). Please send your abstracts electronically
in pdf- and doc- or rtf-format to <a href="mailto:rene@punksinscience.org">rene@punksinscience.org</a>.
Include your name, affiliation and the title of the abstract in the body of the
e-mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>Submission deadline:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> August 31st,
2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The workshop is
organized by Gabriele Müller and René Schiering (Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster). It takes place as part of the annual meeting of
the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistic Society,
DGfS) in Berlin between February 24th and 26th, 2010: <a
href="http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/">http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/</a>. We
encourage participants to present in English. Presentations at multiple
workshops during DGfS are generally not approved of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Keynote
speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Daniel L.
Everett, Illinois State University (tbc)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Janet Fletcher,
University of Melbourne (tbc)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bickel,
Balthasar, Kristine A. Hildebrandt & René Schiering (2009). </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
distribution of phonological word domains: A probabilistic typology. In <em>Phonological
Domains. Universals and Deviations</em>, Janet Grijzenhout & Baris Kabak
(eds.), 47-74. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Jun,
Sun-Ah (ed.) (2005). <i>Prosodic Typology. The Phonology of Intonation and
Phrasing</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lindström,
Eva and Bert Remijsen (2005). Aspects of the prosody of Kuot, a language where
intonation ignores stress. <i>Linguistics</i> 43: 839-870.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Workshop
site: <a
href="http://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwiss/Forschen/Projekte/prosodictypology.html">http://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwiss/Forschen/Projekte/prosodictypology.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-42.55pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>****************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Dr. phil. René Schiering, M.A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Aegidiistr. 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>48143 Münster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Tel.: (49) 251 83 244 90<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Fax: (49) 251 83 298 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rene@punksinscience.org"><span
style='color:blue'>rene@punksinscience.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Internet: <a href="http://www.rene.punksinscience.org"><span
style='color:blue'>www.rene.punksinscience.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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