[lg policy] calls: Sociophonetics, at the Crossroads of Speech Variation, Processing and Communication

Sun Nov 14 18:46:25 UTC 2010

Sociophonetics, at the Crossroads of Speech Variation, Processing and
Communication

Date: 14-Dec-2010 - 15-Dec-2010
Location: Pisa, Italy
Contact: Chiara Celata
Contact Email: sociophoneticssns.it, c.celatasns.it
Meeting URL: http://linguistica.sns.it/Sociophonetics/home.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Full Title: Sociophonetics, at the Crossroads of Speech Variation, Processing
and Communication

Sociophonetics is currently emerging as a research field with a growing agenda
and an assortment of research directions. It focuses on the relationships
between phonetic/phonological form and social, regional and
interactional/communicative factors, with a particular interest in the
implications of speech variation on theories of language change.

Beside the variationist approach to speech production, recent sociophonetic
studies are also concerned with the effects of variation on speech perception,
phonological categorisation, speaker and self identification, speech
accommodation in production. By means of an intense exchange with other
subdisciplines of linguistic and cognitive sciences, sociophonetics is also
devoted to acquisition, processing, mental representation and transmission of
socially conditioned phonetic variation. Ethnographic approaches to individuals'
social worlds, on the other hand, have revealed that social meaning is much more
nuanced than predetermined social categorization would suggest, and promoted
reliance on locally relevant social categories. Even though many important
questions about those phonetic parameters that can act as social indicators have
been successfully addressed (though with relatively little effort beyond
English), several issues concerning both theoretical grounding and
methodological preferences of sociophonetic studies are still open for further
discussion.

The workshop aims at gathering scholars working on different aspects of
sociophonetic, phonetic and sociolinguistic variation, to create an informal
atmosphere for critical debate on a range of relevant topics such as (but not
limited to):

- Dimensions of sociophonetic variation: sociolinguistic variables for the
construction of socioindexical phonological categories; clustering of variables
within a linguistic community

- Instrumental techniques for sociophonetics research: the role of experimental
phonetics for an explicit definition of crucial notions in variationist
phonetics and phonology (e.g., the relationship between speech rate, style,
register, hyper-/hypo articulation etc. in connected speech)

- Perceptual dialectology, accent recognition, speakers' judgment about the
indexical properties of variation in the speech signal

- Dialectology, historical linguistics and their contribution to sociophonetic
research

- Sociophonetics and sociolinguistics: is current sociophonetics of any help in
answering some critical issues of sociolinguistic research (e.g., the
qualitative vs. quantitative evaluation of variables; the Observer's Paradox;
the limits of experimental settings vs. naturalist informal observations of
speakers' behavior)? Are theoretical and methodological improvements
possible/envisaged/needed in sociophonetic research? What are the possible
contributions of past and present sociolinguistics to that purpose?

- Sociophonetics and phonological theory

Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order):

Gerard Docherty (University of Newcastle)
Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge)
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
Giovanna Marotta (Università di Pisa)
Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)
Adrian Simpson (Universitaet Jena)
Rosanna Sornicola (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)

Location: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Local organizing committee:
Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Silvia Calamai (Università di Siena)
Chiara Celata (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

The program with abtracts is now available at
http://linguistica.sns.it/Sociophonetics/program.htm

December 14, 2010

13:00 Registration
14:00 Opening
14:15-15:15 William Labov 'What is to be learned'
15:15-16:00 Adrian Simpson 'Epiphenomenal, sociophonetic and interactional
ejectives in English and German'
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:05 Jane Stuart-Smith 'Derhoticisation in Scottish English: the story so
far'
17:05-17:30 Ying Ying Tan 'Social correlates of /r/ in Singapore English'
17:30-19:30 Poster session I
Buffet

December 15, 2010

09:00-9:45 Rosanna Sornicola 'The diphtongs of the Phlegraean area and the
theory of speech variability'
09:45-10:10 Ros Temple 'What and where is -t/-d deletion?'
10:10-10:55 Gerard Docherty (title to be announced)
10:55-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Giovanna Marotta 'Weight, thickness and size of sociophonetic
indexes. Production data and perception evidence from some Italian varieties'
12:00-12:45 Sarah Hawkins (title to be announced)
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Poster session II
16:30-17:00 Coffee break & best poster prize-giving
17:00-17:45 Bernard Laks 'Le traitement quantitatif et qualitatif de la
variation, Loi de Zipf et répertoires : le cas de la liaison variable
en français'
17:45-18:30 Gillian Sankoff (title to be announced)

Poster session I

Judit Bóna & Alexandra Markó
'Fundamental frequency patterns: the factors of age and discourse type'

Paolo Bravi
'Phonetic shift as correlate of identity sentiment, ideology and
social practices'

Silvia Calamai & Chiara Celata
'Towards a sociophonetic explanation of progressive and regressive assimilation
in nasal clusters'

Alida Chevalier
'Social Class Differentiation in South African Indian English: A Sociophonetic
Study of Three Vowel Variables'

Maria Chiara Felloni & Daniele Avesani
'The global interrogative intonation as a social index in Parma linguistic
community'

Nicholas Flynn
'A Preliminary Investigation of the Sociophonetics of Nottingham Adolescents'

Sandra Jansen
'High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England'

Svetlana Kaminskaia
'Tonal variation in Ontario French (Canada)'

Malgorzata Kul
'Quantifying hyper-and hypo/articulation'

Sandarenu Wijesiriwardane Kumarasamy
'Sri Lankan English: mapping speech variation in a 'Linguistic Area''

Katalin Mády
'Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian: a perceptual loss?'

Folke Müller
'What about historical sociophonetics? Some thoughts on a prosodic study of
German sound movies of the 1930s to 1950s'

Nadia Nocchi & Lorenzo Filipponio
'Lo vuoi co[z]ì o co[s]ì? A sociophonetic study on sibilants in the regional
Italian of Livorno (Tuscany)'

Hanna Ruch
'Aspiration of /st/-clusters in Western Andalusian Spanish: Variation and change
from a sociophonetic point of view'

Ying Ying Tan
'Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification'

Tracey Toefy
'The Coloured GOOSE: a study of /u/ fronting amongst young Coloured people in
Cape Town, South Africa'

Presentation:
Miriam Voghera
'VoLIP: a linguistic resource for the study of variation in the
Italian language'

Poster session II

Katharine Barden & Sarah Hawkins
'Adaptation to accents in a polysystemic perceptual framework: a role for
morphological structure'

Francesca Biliotti & Silvia Calamai
'Linguistic opinions and attitudes in Tuscany: verbal guise experiments on the
varieties of Arezzo and Florence'

Letizia Cerqueglini
'Arabic Sociophonetics: language contact in South Semitic'

Rachele Delucchi, Francesco Cangemi & Michele Loporcaro
'Sociolinguistic interpretation needs geography (and dialectology): final
unstressed vowels in some southern Campanian dialects'

Anne Fabricius & Dominic Watt
'Developing graphical methods in sociophonetics: outlines of a research agenda'

Antonella Gaillard-Corvaglia
'Empirisme et sociolinguistique cladistique : analyse d'un réseau d'idiolectes
salentins'

Stephanie Lain
'Acoustic [voice] correlate variation by dialect: Data from Venezuelan Spanish'

Sylvia Moosmüller
'The roles of stereotypes, phonetic knowledge, and phonological knowledge in the
evaluation of dialect authenticity'

Shawn Nissen
'Sex-specific differences in young children's speech production: An acoustic
evaluation'

Beatrice Pacini
'Spirantizzazione fiorentina: da 'covert prestige' a 'overt prestige'?'

Dimitris Papazachariou
'The phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics of clitic stress in
Patras' dialect'

Hans Georg Piroth and Peter Skupinski
'Merging and Splitting Processes in Mountain Silesian: A Comparison to the
Standard German Vowel System'

Valentina Russo, Noerbert Dittmar & Bernd Pompino-Marshall
'The early days of oral language teaching: the diffusion of German in
fascist Italy'

Stephan Schmid
'Segmental features of Swiss German ethnolects'

Cyril Trimaille & Maria Candea
'Qui perçoit les 'tch', et comment? Perception, identification et signification
sociale des variantes palatalisées/affriquées des consonnes /t/ et /d/ en
français contemporain'

Isao Ueda
'On the status of the 'p-initial emphatic verbs' in Shizuoka Japanese'

Alessandro Vietti
'Variazione sociofonetica e contatto linguistico'

Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Gerard Docherty, Jennifer Nycz, Damien Hall
'Linguistic variation and identity: Sound change along a national border'

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