28.180, Calls: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Subject: 28.180, Calls: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:21:16
From: Jason Shaw [jason.shaw at yale.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

Full Title: Linguistics Vanguard 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2017 

Call for papers for a special collection in Linguistics Vanguard on ''The Role
of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Sound Patterns''

Research integrating methods and insights from phonetics, phonology, and
psycholinguistics has revealed a substantial amount of evidence for two broad
trends in human language sound patterns, both related to a probabilistic
notion of predictability. There is evidence now that both phonetic and
phonological patterns can be influenced by various measures of local and
global predictability including those defined within the phonology (e.g.,
phonotactic predictability) as well as the predictability of the higher level
linguistic units that phonological patterns signify (i.e., message
predictability). On the side of message predictability, a key observation is
that there appear to be tradeoffs between the predictability of a message and
the robustness with which it is articulated (e.g., Hall, Hume, Jaeger & Wedel,
2016), resulting in phonetic variation that could over longer timescales leave
us with phonologies that also reflect average message predictability, or
''informativity'' (e.g., Cohen Priva, 2015). These two broad trends raise a
number of questions, which are the focus of this special collection: 

- What are the consequences of probabilistic predictability for models of
phonological grammar, the lexicon and phonological typology?
- Under what conditions does variation in the predictability of a message
influence its phonological and phonetic form?
- Does message predictability interact with other phonological and phonetic
principles, including constraints on speech articulation, speech perception,
and prosody?
- What are the appropriate formal tools for quantifying message predictability
and phonological predictability in natural language? 
- Does message predictability impact the expression of social meaning through
phonetic variation?

The target length of each article is 3000-4000 words. Accordingly, we expect
short turn-around from submission to publication. The proposed timeline is:

Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017
Reviews returned: June 30th, 2017
Decision letters: August 1st, 2017
Revisions: September 30th, 2017

Papers will appear online as they are finalized. We hope to have all papers
published by the end of 2017. 

Linguistics Vanguard is an online, multimodal journal published by De Gruyter
Mouton. Because the journal is only published online, special collections
serve as ''virtual special issues'' and are linked by shared keywords. Details
about the journal can be found at www.degruyter.com/lingvan. 
Inclusion of multimodal content designed to integrate interactive content
(including, but not limited to audio and video, images, maps, software code,
raw data, hyperlinks to external databases and any other media enhancing the
traditional written word) is particularly encouraged. Special collections
contributors should follow general submission guidelines for the journal
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan#callForPapersHeader)

Authors will have free access to the entire special collection. There are no
publication costs. All authors may post a pdf on their personal website and/or
institutional repository a year after publication. In addition, the
introduction, which contains a summary of each article, will be fully freely
accessible.
Any questions can be addressed to the special collection editors: Shigeto
Kawahara (kawahara at icl.keio.ac.jp) and Jason A. Shaw (jason.shaw at yale.edu)

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