31.3041, Calls: Lang Acq, Ling Theories, Phonology, Psycholing, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 31.3041, Calls: Lang Acq, Ling Theories, Phonology, Psycholing, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:35:46
From: Maia Duguine [maia.duguine at iker.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Word order and prosody

 
Full Title: Word order and prosody 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Maia Duguine
Meeting Email: maia.duguine at iker.cnrs.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

The ‘classical’ models of the architecture of grammar in the generative
tradition assume the autonomy of the syntactic component and conceive prosody
as a mere interpretive component of the output of syntax, or a level of
phonological representation which cannot affect the syntactic structure of
sentences (cf. Pierrehumbert 1980; Selkirk 1981, 1984; Chomsky 1995). 

However, recent proposals are assuming a more active role of PF in the
structure of language. In many recent approaches, the externalization
component is no longer conceived as a mere interpreter of its input, but as an
active component affecting aspects of the grammar that were traditionally
attributed to the syntactic component (cf. Anttila 2016). In particular, a
range of word order-affecting phenomena have been claimed to be rooted in the
PF component. Recently, the Final-Over-Final Condition (FOFC) has been linked
to the PF branch of derivations, sensitive among other things to the
phonological content of the exponents (Sheehan 2013, 2017; Etxepare & Haddican
2017; Duguine 2020). Likewise, focus and nuclear stress are characterized as
triggers for scrambling and different word orders in ‘discourse
configurational languages’ (Zubizarreta 1998; Reinhart 2006), prosodic
phrasing restrictions are analyzed as driving the choice of interrogative
strategies across languages (Richards 2010; Kandybowicz & Torrence 2015;
Mathieu 2015), and prosodic optimality restrictions could also be affecting
the position an element will be spelled out in, explaining clitic-placement,
verb-second effects, Heavy NP Shift etc. (Zec & Inkelas 1990, Bošković 2001,
2018; Nunes 2004; Speyer 2010; Sabbagh 2013; Bennett, Elfner & McCloskey 2016;
Holmberg, Sakhai & Tamm 2020). In parallel, the literature on early processing
has uncovered that prosodic patterns could play a role in linguistic
development, biasing the choices of word order, as in the prosodic
bootstrapping hypothesis (Mehler et al. 1988; Christophe et al. 2003; Bernard
& Gervain 2012).


Call for Papers: 

This workshop sets out to further explore the role and function of prosody and
PF processes within the general architecture of language. We invite papers
revealing the role it plays in the determination of word order in
constructions such as focalizations, interrogatives, verb-fronting strategies
such as V2, verb-object/object-verb alternations, clitic-placement,
compounding, the  Final-Over-Final Condition (FOFC), etc. We also welcome
experimental contributions on the role that prosody plays in the acquisition
of word order (the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis), and language
variability and change. Contributions studying languages of all types and
modalities are welcome.

Please send a provisional abstract (.pdf) of max. 300 words (without
references) for a 20-minute presentation to maia.duguine at iker.cnrs.fr by no
later than November 15, 2020 for inclusion into the workshop proposal to be
submitted to SLE 2021 organizers.

Workshop convenors:
Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER)
Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER)




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