Call for papers: "Prosody - Regional Variation, Social Variation, & Multilingualism" - DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 24 AUGUST

[Scott McGinnis]

Call for Papers:

PROSODY - REGIONAL VARIATION, SOCIAL VARIATION, AND MULTILINGUALISM

Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics
Association) February 27 - March 1, 2002 Mannheim, Germany


Invited speakers (preliminary list):

Jennifer Fitzpatrick (University of Tuebingen)
Esther Grabe (University of Oxford)
Martine Grice (University of Saarbruecken)
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Margret Selting (University of Potsdam)


The workshop will aim to get researchers from different fields
presenting recent work on prosodic variation and the role of prosody
in a multilingual context.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:	
* intonational/prosodic variation of languages (intonational typology)
* intonational/prosodic variation of regional varieties
* sociolinguistic factors contributing to intonational/prosodic variation
* stylistic variation of intonation/prosody
* intonation/prosody in language contact
* intonation/prosody in multilinguals
* theoretical implications of research on prosodic variation

Abstracts should be sent electronically to

jpeters at rz.uni-potsdam.de

or on paper to

Joerg Peters
Universitaet Potsdam
Institut fuer Germanistik
Postfach 601553
14415 Potsdam
Germany

E-mail submission, with plain-text abstracts in the body of the message,
is strongly preferred.

Presentations are limited to 20 min. (+ 10 min. discussion).


Schedule:

Abstract submissions (1 page)              August 24, 2001
Notification of acceptance                     September 14, 2001


For general information on the Annual Meeting of the DGfS please take
a look at:

http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html


Organization:

Peter Gilles (University of Freiburg)
Joerg Peters (University of Potsdam)