29.3428, Confs: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Semantics, Typology/Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3428. Fri Sep 07 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3428, Confs: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Semantics, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:38:03
From: Güliz Günes [g.gunes at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Prosodic Variation Across Languages

 
Prosodic Variation Across Languages 

Date: 14-Sep-2018 - 15-Sep-2018 
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact: Guliz Gunes 
Contact Email: g.gunes at hum.leidenuniv.nl 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together phoneticians, phonologists
and psycholinguists that are interested in prosodic diversity. The workshop
will have a special emphasis on prosodic variation across languages. Main
topics/questions: 

Acquisition of diverse prosodic systems -How do babies acquire melody together
with grammar? 
-How do the phonetic and phonological properties of L1-prosody affect the 
acquisition of L2-prosody?
 -What are the main differences between the mental representation of
intonation in infants, adults, and non-native speakers?  

Phonology and phonetics of prosodic rhythm and melodies  

Typology of tone and intonation 
-What are the recent advancements on the interfaces of tones with
accent/stress/intonation?  

Prosody in natural language processing -How do speakers of different languages
perceive pitch in the acoustic signal? 
-What are the general and language-specific signal-driven cues that are
employed in the recognition of discrete words/phrases?  

Cross-linguistic diversity in the syntax-prosody interface
 -Are prosodic structures a reflection of syntactic ones?
 -What are the sources of mismatches between syntactic and prosodic
constituency?  

Cross-cultural communicative effects of sentence prosody -To what extent does
paralinguistic information affect the prosodic structuring  of an utterance? 
 - What is the phonological basis for rhythm alignment?
- What are the acoustic correlates of stress across languages? 
- What kind of cross-linguistic differences do melodies in typologically
different languages exhibit? 
- What is the role of tonal composition in attributing certain pragmatic
meanings to certain strings of tones and how does that vary across languages
and cultures? 

Poster Session: 
The poster session will provide a unique opportunity for students working on
prosody to receive feedback from the workshop's invited speakers.
Additionally, this will help students to expand their international network. 

We Still Accept Posters! 
If you would like to present a poster related to
stress/tone/intonation/prosody just let us know by sending an email to
g.gunes at hum.leidenuniv.nl


Invited Speakers: 

Bettina Braun (Universität Konstanz)
Daan van de Velde (Leiden University)
Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent)
Kriszta Szendrői (University College London)
René Kager (Utrecht University)
Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Discussion (chair Lisa Cheng & Stella Gryllia - Leiden University)

Organisers:
 
Prof. Janet Grijzenhout
Dr. Yiya Chen
Dr. Güliz Günes

Email g.gunes at hum.leidenuniv.nl for a detailed programme.
 






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