30.2426, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition / Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (Jrnl)

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Subject: 30.2426, Calls:  Applied Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition / Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:21:17
From: John Levis [JournalSLP at gmail.com]
Subject: Applied Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition / Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2019 

Call for Papers:

Special Issue:
25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness

Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing's 1995 paper, ''Foreign accent,
comprehensibility, and intelligibility in the speech of second language
learners,'' published in the journal Language Learning, instigated tremendous
changes in the research focus of second language pronunciation. Derwing and
Munro provided evidence for three distinct, yet partially-related constructs:
intelligibility (the degree to which a listener understands a speaker's
intended message), comprehensibility (the degree of effort required for a
listener to understand L2 speech) and accentedness (the degree of difference
from an expected accent). Subsequent approaches to the research and teaching
of L2 pronunciation have demonstrated the robustness of these constructs. 

The constructs have been used to demonstrate the validity of functional load
for prioritizing pronunciation segments (Munro & Derwing, 2006), validate the
importance of listener judgments as measures of pronunciation improvement
(Derwing, Munro & Wiebe, 1998), distinguish between accentedness and
intelligibility goals for language teaching (Levis, 2005), deconstruct the
language features that are involved in comprehensibility judgments (Isaacs &
Trofimovich, 2012), examine the effects of methodological choices on speech
rating (O'Brien, 2016), and relate judgments of comprehensibility to
grammatical form (Ruivivar & Collins, 2019). 

The constructs have also been used in examining the role of pronunciation in
language assessment (Isaacs & Harding, 2017), in showing the effects of
instructional approaches (Foote & McDonough, 2017; Gordon & Darcy, 2016), in
measuring pronunciation development in workplace and classroom contexts
(Derwing, Munro, Foote, Waugh & Fleming, 2013; Nagle, 2017), and in showing
connections between L2 pronunciation and social attitudes (Reid, Trofimovich &
O'Brien, 2018). In addition, the constructs have been successfully applied in
the study of naturalistic L2 acquisition over several years (Derwing & Munro,
2013). These studies and many more demonstrate the continuing influence and
flexibility of the original insights.

The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation invites proposals for papers
related to cutting-edge research on intelligibility, comprehensibility and
accentedness to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Second
Language Pronunciation. Papers can be about any L2 learning context and any
L1/L2 combination. All proposed papers should be directly connected to the
concepts as described in Munro and Derwing's work. 

Invited papers should fit the general guidelines of the journal, found at
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jslp. 

Submission Procedures
Abstracts considered for the special issue should be submitted to
JournalSLP at gmail.com by August 15, 2019 by 11:59 pm CST. Abstracts should be
double-spaced, up to 500 words (including up to 5 supporting references), and
should include the authors' names, contact information and affiliations on a
separate page. 

Timeline for the Special Issue
Abstract due for consideration: August 15, 2019 
Notification of invitation: September 15, 2019
Full paper due: February 15, 2020 (JSLP online portal)
Reviews provided: April 15, 2020
Revised paper due: June 1, 2020
Feedback on revisions (as needed): July 1, 2020
Final paper due: August 15, 2020
Paper published in JSLP: October 2020

Questions about submission requirements should be directed to
JournalSLP at gmail.com.




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