23.3107, FYI: Book Call: Consonant gemination in L1 and L2

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Subject: 23.3107, FYI: Book Call: Consonant gemination in L1 and L2

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:02:34
From: Chiara Celata [c.celata at sns.it]
Subject: Book Call: Consonant gemination in L1 and L2

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Call for Book Chapters

This is a call for chapters to be included in a miscellaneous volume 
entitled ''Consonant germination in first and second language 
acquisition'' (publication expected October 2013).

Chapters should concern original unpublished research related to the 
book's general topic.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 30th, 2012. Full 
papers should be submitted by February 28th, 2013. 


Book Title:

Consonant Gemination in First and Second Language Acquisition


General topic:

Consonant gemination is a relatively marked feature in worldwide 
phonologies, and an area of frequent incertitude in the speech of 
language learners. 

Geminate and long consonants may be of different nature according to 
their origin and phonological status in the language (e.g., lexical 
geminates, inherently long consonants, post-lexical geminates deriving 
from sandhi phenomena); most often several types of geminate and 
long consonants are present in one language. The kind of the 
relationship between durational variations in the consonant system and 
the duration of vocalic nuclei is one of the central properties 
contributing to the definition of the "prosodic type" of languages. 
Language-specific constraints on the distribution of short and long 
segments interact with phonotactic preferences mostly grounded in 
perceptual or articulatory requirements on the distinctiveness of 
segments. Geminate and long consonants are relatively difficult to 
master for both children acquiring their native language and adult 
second language learners who do not possess the consonant length 
feature in their L1 phonology. However, the existing literature covers 
only a limited number of target languages (English in most cases) and 
extensive cross-linguistic comparisons are still lacking. 


Aims of the volume:

This editorial project focuses on first and second language acquisition 
of consonant gemination and has among its primary goals that of 
enlarging the spectrum of the investigated languages, by analyzing the 
speech of children and adults acquiring different languages and (in the 
case of L2 acquisition) with different L1 backgrounds. 

We invite the submission of abstracts on both speech production and 
perception; projects providing a comprehensive account of both 
production and perception for the same speakers/languages will be 
particularly welcome. Both phonetic and phonological approaches will 
be considered; articulatory, acoustic, perceptual or communicative 
aspects of the acquisition of consonant gemination all are of potential 
interest.


Editors: 

Chiara Celata, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa <c.celata at sns.it> 

Lidia Costamagna, Università per Stranieri di Perugia 
<lidia.costamagna at unistrapg.it>


Scientific committee:

The scientific committee will be announced in a following call. The 
members (N = 4 to 8, according to the needs of the volume) will have 
an international profile.


Publishing house: 

Pacini Editore (Pisa, Italy)


Language:

The language of the volume is English. Authors who are not native 
speakers of English will be requested to certify that the paper has 
undergone professional review for language and style.


Important dates for contributors: 

Deadline for one-page abstract submission: September 30th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 30th, 2012
Deadline for full paper submission: February 28th, 2013
Manuscript sent to the publisher by: June 30th, 2013 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics





 






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