20.4263, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, General Ling, Historical Ling/Lithuania

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Subject: 20.4263, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, General Ling, Historical Ling/Lithuania

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Date: 09-Dec-2009
From: Klaus Geyer < klaus.geyer at uni-erfurt.de >
Subject: Workshop on Diphthongs, SLE 2010
 

	
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:29
From: Klaus Geyer [klaus.geyer at uni-erfurt.de]
Subject: Workshop on Diphthongs, SLE 2010

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Full Title: Workshop on Diphthongs, SLE 2010 

Date: 02-Sep-2010 - 05-Sep-2010
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania 
Contact Person: Klaus Geyer
Meeting Email: klaus.geyer at uni-erfurt.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Phonetics;
Phonology; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2009 

Meeting Description:

Around one third of the world's languages are assumed to have diphthongs as a
part of their sound systems, but a sufficiently fine-grained means for analysis
and description is still lacking - a fact, that could explain why the issue of
diphthongs is often left aside in many language descriptions. Taking, on the
other hand, a closer look at in principle very well described and documented
languages such as Finnish with it's rather extensive diphthong inventory or
system, as provided by grammatical sketches and reference grammars, reveals
surprisingly wide differences and even contradictions - although, at first
glance, discerning, analysing, and describing diphthongs seems to be a simple
task: Most often, the objects of 'diphthongology' are defined as combinations of
two vowels which occur within one syllable. But this is where the trouble
starts: Is it vowels or rather vocoids that are the basic sound elements in
diphthongs? What does two mean in this context? Furthermore, what types of
diphthongs can be identified according to their features, e. g. opening vs.
closing, rounding vs. de-rounding/spreading, rising vs. falling, crescendo vs.
decrescendo? How do diphthongs and diphthong types vary cross-linguistically?
How are diphthongs affected by language contact? Besides that, questions like
the analysis of diphthongs within the non-linear syllable structure and their
controversial status as mono- or biphonemic units could be addressed. 

Call for Paper

Please send your abstract - anonymous, 400-500 words, stating research
questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results - by using the Submit
Abstract button in the upper right corner of the conference site
www.flf.vu.lt/sle2010/ before 1-Jan-2010 (CC to: klaus.geyer at uni-erfurt.de and
adrian.simpson at uni-jena.de).





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