31.1608, Confs: Gen Ling, Phonology/Online

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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 21:04:42
From: Vsevolod Kapatsinski [vkapatsi at uoregon.edu]
Subject: Usage-based Approaches to Phonological Change

 
Usage-based Approaches to Phonological Change 
Short Title: Us(e)Phon 

Date: 05-Jul-2020 - 05-Jul-2020 
Location: Zoom, OR, USA 
Contact: Vsevolod Kapatsinski 
Contact Email: vkapatsi at uoregon.edu 
Meeting URL: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/usephon/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to welcome you to the first biennial Workshop on Usage-based
Phonology, which will take place on Zoom on July 5, 2020, 9 AM – 12 PM
Pacific, 10 AM – 1 PM Mountain, 12 PM – 3 PM Eastern, 5 PM – 8 PM Greenwich.
UsePhon is a Satellite Workshop of the International Conference on Laboratory
Phonology (https://labphon.org/labphon17) and will take place the day before
the main conference.

Recent years have seen remarkable developments in usage-based phonology,
including 1) the growth of diachronic corpora allowing for investigation of
phonological change in real time, 2) increased sophistication of data analysis
methods, 3) increased use of computational modeling for precise implementation
of theoretical proposals, and 4) greater integration between usage-based
linguistic theory and domain-general learning theory. As a result, the
usage-based community has a wealth of new data to discuss and a range of
computationally-implemented usage-based models of phonological change to
explore. The primary aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who
are engaged in cutting-edge usage-based research on phonological change to
identify the data patterns that need to be captured by any plausible model of
phonological change, to discuss the independent motivations for alternative
mechanisms of change, and to identify the gaps that need to be filled to
differentiate among the plausible alternatives.  

The workshop will consist of six invited talks with opportunity for discussion
after each three.
 

Conference Program: 

9-9:10 PT Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon) & Corrine Occhino
(Rochester Institute of Technology) — Opening remarks

9:15-9:30 PT Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford) — TBA

9:35-9:50 PT Rory Turnbull (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa / Newcastle
University)  — Predictability effects and natural selection

9:55-10:10 PT Fabian Tomaschek (University of Tübingen) and Frederik Hartmann
(University of Konstanz) — How German words changed during 700 years due to
frequency of occurrence and paradigmatic and lexical discriminability

10:10-10:30 Discussion

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:00 PT Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley) — TBA

11:05-11:20 PT Esther Brown (University of Colorado, Boulder) — Lexical
frequency effects in words’ production rates: Operating independently or
expressing an accumulation of contextual conditioning factors?

11:25-11:40 PT Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico) — Joint innovation: An
integrated model of sound change

11:40-12:00 Discussion

12:00-12:30 Optional business meeting





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