31.1287, Calls: Applied Ling; Socioling/Spain

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Subject: 31.1287, Calls: Applied Ling; Socioling/Spain

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:22:03
From: Gorka Elordieta [gorka.elordieta at ehu.eus]
Subject: Intonation, language contact and social factors

Full Title: Intonation, language contact and social factors 
Short Title: ILCSF20 

Date: 23-Oct-2020 - 24-Oct-2020
Location: University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 
Contact Person: Gorka Elordieta
Meeting Email: gorka.elordieta at ehu.eus
Web Site: https://ilcsf.netlify.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

There is a growing field of research on phonetic and phonological issues of
language contact and bilingualism/multilingualism, showing the influence of
one language or language variety over another (henceforth LV-A and LV-B).
Aspects of suprasegmental phonology have started receiving more attention,
especially in prosody and intonation. See, among others, Elordieta (2003),
Mennen (2004), Colantoni & Gurlekian (2004), O’Rourke (2005, 2012), Elordieta
& Calleja (2005), Romera et al. (2008), Simonet (2010, 2011), Queen (2012),
Robles-Puente (2012), Romera & Elordieta (2013, 2019), van Rijswijk &
Muntendam (2014), Elordieta & Irurtzun (2016), Muntendam & Torreira (2016),
Lai & Gooden (2018), Kozminska (2019), Baltazani et al. (2019a, 2019b),
Elordieta & Romera (to appear). However, the presence of features of LV-A in
LV-B is variable within the contact population. That is, speakers of LV-A may
present different frequencies of occurrence of a given feature of LV-B, or, in
other words, not all speakers of LV-A may adopt the feature or show its
presence with the same consistency. Age, gender and educational level may play
a role in such differences, but recent work reveals the importance of other
social factors as well. On the one hand, the degree of contact of speakers of
LV-A with speakers of LV-B. On the other, the attitudes of speakers of LV-A
towards LV-B or the LV-B ethnolinguistic group. These factors may correlate
with differences in the degree of presence of features of LV-B in LV-A.

For instance, Romera & Elordieta (2013) show that in the Catalan-speaking
island of Majorca monolingual speakers of Iberian Spanish adopt intonational
features of the variety of Spanish with influence from Catalan spoken by
Majorcans. However, the presence of such features (nuclear configurations in
yes/no questions) is heterogeneous among non-Majorcans. The authors show that
the differences in degree of adoption of the features are related to the
attitudes of non-Majorcan Spaniards towards (Majorcan) Catalan and the
Majorcan ethnolinguistic group. Speakers with more positive attitudes had
higher frequencies of nuclear configurations similar to those of Majorcan
Catalan. In a similar fashion, it is argued in Romera & Elordieta (2019) eta
Elordieta & Romera (to appear) that the variety of Spanish spoken in the
Basque Country presents final contours in yes/no interrogative utterances that
resemble those of Basque, but with inter-speaker differences in frequency of
occurrence of such contours. On the one hand, speakers that have more contact
with Basque itself or with native speakers of Basque have higher percentages
of Basque-like rising-falling circumflex contours. On the other hand, those
speakers with more positive attitudes towards the Basque language and the
Basque ethnolinguistic group also present higher frequencies of such contours.
The two factors taken together (degree of contact and attitudes) were strong
predictors of the variation. As a last example, Kozminska (2019) finds
different intonational behaviors in English among native Polish speakers who
moved to Great Britain to study and then work. Speakers who had a more
Cosmopolitan view of life and were more oriented towards the English-speaking
world showed higher percentages of use of final intonational contours in
declarative utterances that were closer to native British English-like
contours (the fall-rise). By comparison, speakers with a stronger Polish
identity had lower frequencies of such final contours.

The goal of the conference “Intonation, language contact and social factors”
is to gather researchers working on phonological issues of language contact
and bilingualism, with a special focus on the interaction between social
factors and intonation. The languages in contact may be of any family or area
in the world.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr Mary Baltazani

Call for Papers: 

Abstracts can be written in English, Spanish, or Basque. They must be
anonymous, and must have a maximum length of 2 pages (including references,
examples, tables and figures), with margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch) on all sides
and in Times New Roman 12pt font. Submissions are limited to two per author,
and only one of the abstracts can be single-authored. Abstracts must be in PDF
format.

Deadline for submission: May 31, 2020

Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilcsf2020

Important dates: 
Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2020
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2020
Conference dates: October 23-24, 2020

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