27.4579, Calls: Phonology, Syntax/Netherlands

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Subject: 27.4579, Calls: Phonology, Syntax/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:51:36
From: Lisa Cheng [L.L.Cheng at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Syntax-Phonology Interface

 
Full Title: Syntax-Phonology Interface 

Date: 14-Mar-2017 - 14-Mar-2017
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Laura Downing
Meeting Email: laura.downing at sprak.gu.se
Web Site: https://glow2017.wordpress.com/glow-2017-programme/workshop-i-syntax-phonology-interface/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Basic questions for theories of the interface:
1- What aspects of syntactic structure condition phonological processes?
2- How to formalize the interaction?

The simplest answer to question 2 is: there is no need for a formalism.
Phonology directly encodes certain information in the syntactic structure.
Theories based on this claim are called direct reference theories of the
interface. Most direct reference theories have been concerned with
demonstrating that phonological interaction between words is more likely if
they are in a local syntactic relationship. In current theories, this means
that they should be in the same spell out domain. In earlier theories,
c-command could define other types of local syntactic relationships.

Indirect reference theories, in contrast, propose that the interface is not
directly conditioned by syntactic structure, but rather is mediated through
constituents in the Prosodic Hierarchy (Nespor & Vogel 1986; Selkirk 1986),
which themselves are (partially) defined with reference to syntactic
structure:
Intonation Phrase = clause (CP or phase)
Phonological Phrase = XP
Clitic Group/Compound Word Group (see recent work by Vogel and Vigario)
Phonological Word = X0

Indirect reference theories more easily allow for the possibility that
non-syntactic factors can also condition phrasal phonology. This is the major
difference between them. Non-syntactic factors include:
- Focus 
- Nonfinality
- Minimality or branching: nominal modifiers induce phrase breaks

Another type of problem for direct reference theories is that cross-linguistic
variation in phrasal parse is relevant for phonological processes. This
variation is unexpected if the relevant syntactic structures are the same.
However, indirect reference theories face their own problems:

- Can they express all relevant notions of syntactic locality?
- Are there sufficient levels in the Prosodic Hierarchy to account for the
range of phrasal processes found within and among languages?

Both approaches must limit the kind of morpho-syntactic information that
phonology can refer to in order to allow cross-linguistic predictions to be
made about possible interactions.


Final Call for Papers:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 November, 2016

All submissions for this workshop should be sent via the GLOW Easy Chair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow40.

All papers submitted for this workshop should strictly to the following
guidelines:

- Abstracts must not exceed two A4 pages in length (including data and
references), have one inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides, be set in Times New
Roman with a font size no smaller than 12pt and single line spacing.
- Examples, tables, graphs, etcetera must be integrated into the text of the
abstract, rather than collected at the end.
- The abstract must be completely anonymous: nothing in the abstract, the
title, or the name of the document should identify the author(s).
- At most two submissions per author, at most one of which can be
single-authored. The same abstract may not be submitted to both the main
colloquium and a workshop.
- Only submissions in pdf-format will be accepted.




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