27.2490, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/UK

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Subject: 27.2490, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/UK

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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:47:31
From: Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch [mariadelmar.vanrell at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Workshop on 'The Role of Prosody in Conveying Epistemic and Evidential Meaning'

 
Full Title: Workshop on 'The Role of Prosody in Conveying Epistemic and Evidential Meaning' 

Date: 31-Aug-2016 - 31-Aug-2016
Location: Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Meghan Armstrong
Meeting Email: tieworkshop2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://workshoptie2016.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 08-Jul-2016 

Meeting Description:

Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg’s (1991) pioneering work on intonational meaning
shows that the mutual belief space between speaker and hearer often affects a
speaker’s choice in intonational tunes. Over the years, research on the
semantic and pragmatic relationships between speaker beliefs and prosody has
continued to grow, providing empirical evidence that epistemic meaning is
often a candidate for prosodic grammaticalization. Recent work has also shown
that evidential meaning, or marking the source of information, may also be
conveyed through prosody. Thus, while many languages use morphosyntax or
particles to convey epistemic or evidential (henceforth ep/ev) meaning, the
same type of information may be predictably conveyed through prosodic marking
in intonation languages. This has considerable consequences from a
methodological standpoint in terms of both production and perception. First,
it is important to understand the types of meaning that are candidates for
prosodic grammaticalization in order to better develop elicitation materials.
This will also be useful for identifying phonological intonation contrasts.
There is also a need to understand best practices for methods that will better
help us to tease apart prosodic meaning, and in doing so better develop a
clearer picture of the possible semantic or pragmatic meanings generated by
the presence of certain prosodic features. From a typological standpoint, it
is important to understand the role of prosody in languages that mark ep/ev
information via other parts of the grammar (i.e. lexically,
morpho-syntactically, particles). Are there specific intonation contours that
accompany such strategies in these languages? For example, for particle-heavy
languages like Quechua, do we find functional compensation such that prosodic
marking of epistemic or evidential information is no longer needed?


Call for Papers:

This workshop invites papers that help us to understand better the role of
prosody in conveying ep/ev meaning, and focusing on a diverse variety of
language types – from languages that rely heavily on prosody for ep/ev marking
to those that have not been described in such a way.

Some topics of interest include:

-What types of ep/ev meaning have been grammaticalized prosodically?
-Which methods are used to elicit ep/ev meanings in production, especially
when one is not familiar with the language?
-What cognitive or emotional factors (autistic traits, executive function,
memory, empathy) are at play in the production or perception of these types of
meanings? How can we use these factors to better explain the variation found
in perception experiments?
-First and second language acquisition of ep/ev meaning.
-Prosodically encoded ep/ev meaning in situations of language contact.
-What does the prosodic marking of ep/ev meaning contribute to the general
study of ep/ev meaning?

Abstracts no longer than 1 page (+ references and graphs/figures) should be
sent by July 8, 2016 at the latest to: tieworkshop2016 at gmail.com




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