31.2750, Calls: Clinical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 31.2750, Calls: Clinical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:47:29
From: Ulrike Domahs [domahsu at staff.uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Weak Elements in Prosodic Acquisition and Processing

 
Full Title: Weak Elements in Prosodic Acquisition and Processing (workshop at the 43th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in Freiburg (Germany) 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: University of Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Ulrike Domahs
Meeting Email: domahsu at staff.uni-marburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the 43th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
in Freiburg (Germany)

Organizers: Ulrike Domahs, Angela Grimm, and Mathias Scharinger

In the prosodic hierarchy of stress languages (Nespor & Vogel, 1986/2007),
prosodic constituents consist of strong (= prosodically highlighted) and weak
(= unstressed) elements. Weak elements have been described as being dependent
from strong heads in feet, prosodic words, prosodic phrases or intonational
phrases and to lead to global rhythmical patterns of strong-weak alternations
(e.g. Liberman & Prince, 1977). However, weak elements have not generally
played a major role in acquisition and processing research.

The global view of weak (light) prosodic elements disregards that languages
may differ with respect to the type of weak elements they allow for. For
example, in many Germanic languages, weak syllables with full vowels (German
<Tuba>: /túba/) contrast systematically with weak syllables containing reduced
vowels (<Tube>: /túbə/) or no vowel at all (<Tuben>: /túbn/ ‘tuba’-Plural),
while in most Romance languages, syllable reductions are not systematically
attested. In addition, weak syllables differ according to their position
within a foot or prosodic word, i.e. whether they occur in pretonic (<Gebell>
/gəbél/, ‘barking’) or posttonic (<Hunde> /húndə/, ‘dogs’) position.
Cross-linguistic studies demonstrated that young children have difficulties to
produce weak syllables over a certain period of time (Kehoe & Lleó 2003) and
that pretonic, but not posttonic syllables are prone to truncation (<Banane>
/.ná:.nə/, ‘banana’ e.g. Grimm, 2008). While there is ample evidence that weak
elements are challenging for early language learners, only a small number of
studies systematically addressed the question how weak elements are processed
by different populations and in different linguistic contexts.
 
Our workshop is thus devoted to the question of how weak elements are
processed and acquired. It aims to bring together researchers who investigate
weak or reduced prosodic elements at different levels of the prosodic
hierarchy, and in different languages. Contributions should study the role of
unstressed and weakened elements,
a) for the acquisition of prosodic patterns in first and second language
acquisition
b) for adult language production and perception
c) for spoken, written or signed language
d) in regional varieties and different registers of a language

Confirmed invited speakers:
Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University Sydney, Australia)
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Beat Siebenhaar (University of Leipzig, Germany)


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10-minute discussion).
Abstracts should not exceed 1 page (A4, Times New Roman, 12-point font,
single-spaced) and be send in two versions (with and without author’s
information). Graphs and references can be included on a second page. Please
send your abstract electronically as a PDF to 
Ulrike Domahs (domahsu at staff.uni-marburg.de). 

Submission deadline: 30 September, 2020

The workshop will be part of the 43rd annual meeting of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Freiburg. Presenters will have
to register for the conference and are not supposed to present a talk at any
of the parallel DGfS workshops, according to the DGfS regulations. 

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.




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