24.1957, Calls: General Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 24.1957, Calls: General Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 11:33:40
From: Amedeo De Dominicis [dedomini at unitus.it]
Subject: pS-prominenceS

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Full Title: pS-prominenceS 

Date: 12-Dec-2013 - 13-Dec-2013
Location: Viterbo, Italy 
Contact Person: Amedeo De Dominicis
Meeting Email: dedomini at unitus.it
Web Site: http://www.gscp.it/GSCP_official_website/pS-prominenceS.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2013 

Meeting Description:

Prominence is the name of a way to analyse the linguistic phenomena: the idea that a well-formedness condition of linguistic constituents relies on the existence of a dependency between a hierarchically higher-level obligatory element (sometimes referred to as the ‘head’) and one or more subordinate and optional elements (the domain of the head). This condition operates in many components or structures of the grammar: syntax, morphology, pragmatics, metric, and intonation. In short, the prominence is a matter of interface.

To this effect we propose a meeting on all these different fields of study. The goal is to test this epistemological concern and to compare approaches and definitions.

The concept of prominence holds a plurality of meanings, but they may relate to diverse linguistic approaches and are not always compatible. According to some scholars, the prominence is a fact of perception, which is not well specified and concerns the linguistic marking of some pragmatically relevant categories (focus, topic, given/new, etc). Others believe it is the name of a metric phenomenon (calculated as the sum of ‘strong’ constituents on the branches of a metric tree: strong syllable, strong feet, strong phonological word, etc). For other scholars the prominence is a phonological feature which is associated with some points of the intonation contour (where the Pitch Accents are located). According to others, it is a pretty metalinguistic fact, due to the governance relationship of a constituent on its domain (the head of a phrase, of a compound, or of a morphological construct in general).

This plurality of meanings not always triggers unambiguous uses of the term. Sometimes, the individual researcher is not aware of which particular definition of prominence he is implicitly adopting. This makes it difficult to dialogue with other scholars, who belong to other sectors of the vast landscape of language studies.

During the Viterbo Conference a Round Table will be organized in order to put scholars from different backgrounds (syntax, morphology, prosody, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics) side by side. The goal is to highlight similarities and differences in the use and in the implicit definition of prominence. Each of the participants in the Panel would be entrusted with a specific field (syntax, morphology, intonation, speech technologies, metrics and pragmatics).

So far the following Italian and foreigner (the titles are tentative) colleagues have accepted to join the project:

Giuliano Bocci and Cinzia Avesani (Which psychological plausibility for a theory of phonological prosodic prominence?); Emanuela Cresti (The semantic prominence within information units in the pragmatics of spoken language); Amedeo De Dominicis (The model of multiple prominences); Sergio Scalise (The notion of head in morphology); Raffaele Simone (Untitled contribution in the field of prominence in syntax); Fabio Tamburini (Automatic identification of the prominence by means of acoustic analyses).

Keynote Speakers:

Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen), Prominence and phonology
Anders Eriksson (University of Gothenburg), Perceptual syllable prominence as a function of the language of the samples and the language of the listener
Melanie Bell (Anglia Ruskin University)
Iørn Korzen (Copenhagen University), Text pragmatic prominence and topicality. Four hierarchies regarding the topic suitability of nominal constituents
Ralf Vogel (University of Bielefeld), Syntactic prominence patterns - motivated by its interfaces?

2nd Call for Papers:

We would like to inform you that as for the paper submission deadline to ‘pS.prominenceS’ Conference, we have extended the deadline from May 15 to May 30, 2013.

Due to the time needed for processing the papers, the deadline will not be further extended.

The contributions may be both theoretical and application studies. They should address the following themes:

- Issues of the linguistic prominence in phonetics and perception 
- Issues of the linguistic prominence in metrical phonology 
- Issues of the linguistic prominence in intonation phonology 
- Theoretical and metalinguistic issues of the linguistic prominence 
- Syntactical issues of the notion of the linguistic prominence 
- Morphological issues of the notion of the linguistic prominence 
- Pragmatic issues of the notion of the linguistic prominence 
- Speech technology models of the linguistic prominence 
- History of the notion of prominence in linguistics 

The abstracts will be submitted in pdf format (via a web-based procedure), in English. They should have no less than 600 and no more than 1000 words (title and bibliography excluded), and they should contain:

- Problem statement 
- Review of current literature 
- Methodology 
- Results: partial or full 

Authors have to indicate the theme they address and whether their preference is for an oral or poster presentation; however the Scientific Committee will have the discretion of recommending the presentation format that better suits the abstract proposal. The abstracts will be evaluated by a board of anonymous reviewers. Accepted abstracts will be published at the conference site after authors' registration.

Official languages: Italian and English

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