30.794, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-794. Mon Feb 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.794, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology/Italy

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:46:32
From: Stefan Baumann [stefan.baumann at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures

 
Full Title: Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures 
Short Title: COFLIS 

Date: 20-Jun-2019 - 20-Jun-2019
Location: Bari (Università di Bari, Dpt. Sc. della Formazione), Italy 
Contact Person: Francesco Cangemi
Meeting Email: pape-coflis at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/coflis.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

We would like to announce a workshop on ''Prominence between Cognitive
Functions and Linguistic Structures'' (COFLIS), which is a satellite of PaPE
2019 and will be held immediately after PaPE on 20th June 2019 in Bari, a
two-hour train ride from the venue of the main conference (Lecce). 

In the workshop, we capitalise on several decades of research on prosodic
prominence to unravel the key components of the notion of prominence. By
exploring the contribution of the signal, of meaning and of linguistic
structure to the definition of prominence, and by relating prominence to basic
cognitive concepts such as chunking and attention, we aim to provide a renewed
understanding of prominence. The workshop will feature four invited talks,
covering the measurable, structural and functional components of prominence.
Rather than share new experimental evidence, invited speakers will be asked to
focus on the theoretical implications of their use of prominence in their
research. Invited talks will be complemented by regularly submitted and
peer-reviewed submissions for poster presentations on prominence in phonetics
and phonology. Submissions emphasising the challenges in defining and using
the notion of prominence will be particularly welcome.


Call for Papers:

Few concepts in phonetics and phonology research are as widely used and as
vaguely defined, as is the notion of prosodic prominence. Situated at the
crossroads of signal and structure, of stress and accent, and of production
and perception, the notion of prosodic prominence has received a wide number
of contradicting or unspecific definitions. Wagner et al. (2015), in exploring
the variety of approaches to the study of prosodic prominence, suggest that
the most successful definitions are the vaguest ones, since they are
compatible with the various viewpoints adopted by researchers. The proposal by
Terken and Hermes (2000), according to which “a linguistic entity is
prosodically prominent when it stands out from its environment by virtue of
its prosodic characteristics”, is sufficiently generic to encompass a wide
number of cases. These cases range from stressed syllables standing out from
the other syllables in a word by virtue of loudness and durational cues (e.g.
Beckman 1986), to focussed constituents standing out from the other referents
mentioned in an utterance by virtue of pitch accent choice and placement (e.g.
Gussenhoven 1984, Ayers 1996).

Such a generic definition, in which “being prominent” is equated with
“standing out from its environment”, begs the question of whether prominence
is indeed a genuinely prosodic phenomenon, or even a phenomenon essentially
relevant to phonetics and phonology (cf. Gussenhoven 2015 for discussion). For
example, Himmelmann and Primus (2015) redefine prominence to encompass
non-prosodic aspects of languages, for example by showing that referents with
Agent role are the most prominent within a sentence (at the syntax-semantics
interface). Similarly, at the discourse level, prominence relations between
referents can be used for interpreting ambiguous pronouns (Arnold 2001).
Perhaps more importantly, such a broader understanding of prominence
intersects with research on cognition, in particular on the management of
attention, which also focusses on entities standing out from their context.
Thus, prominence relations operate not only at various levels within a
language, but also at the intersection between language and cognition.

Please submit your abstract as a pdf file to pape-coflis(at)uni-koeln.de by
15-03-2019, 23:59 UTC-12. 
Notification of acceptance: 25-03-2019.

If possible, please use the template (MS Office Word) to be found here:
http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/linguistik/Phonetik/import/Phonetik_Fil
es/COLFIS/COFLIS_template.docx

If you cannot use the template, use the following format: 1 inch (2.54cm)
margins, Times New Roman font, 12pt font size and single spacing. The text of
the abstract must not exceed one page (~500 words). Please indicate authors
and affiliations below the abstract title. A second page can be used for
examples, figures and numbered references. Please use 0.5cm hanging
indentation for bibliographic entries.




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