34.2180, Calls: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions (thematic workshop at BICLCE 2024)

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Subject: 34.2180, Calls: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions (thematic workshop at BICLCE 2024)

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Date: 11-Jul-2023
From: Philipp Meer [philipp.meer at uni-muenster.de]
Subject: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions (thematic workshop at BICLCE 2024)

Full Title: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions
(thematic workshop at BICLCE 2024)

Date: 26-Sep-2024 - 28-Sep-2024
Location: Alicante, Spain
Contact Person: Philipp Meer
Meeting Email: philipp.meer at uni-muenster.de

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 27-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

Thematic workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future
Directions"

10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of
Contemporary English (BICLCE) 2024 in Alicante, Spain

Organizer(s): Philipp Meer (University of Münster,
philipp.meer at uni-muenster.de); Ulrike Gut (University of Münster,
gut at uni-muenster.de)

Important dates:
August 27, 2023                 Deadline proposed title
December 15, 2023               Deadline abstract
September 26-28, 2024           Conference dates

Keywords: corpus phonology; corpus linguistics; speech technology;
sociolinguistics; L2 research

Call for Papers:

Important dates:
August 27, 2023                 Deadline proposed title
December 15, 2023               Deadline abstract
September 26-28, 2024           Conference dates

We invite submissions for a workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current
Approaches and Future Directions" to be held at the 10th Biennial
International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English
(BICLCE) in Alicante, Spain (September 26-28, 2024). The workshop aims
to bring together researchers from various fields of English
linguistics to share their research and discuss the latest
developments in corpus phonology.

Corpus phonology refers to the study of phonetic and phonological
phenomena in naturally occurring speech data using corpus-based
approaches (Gut 2009; Durand et al. 2014; Gut & Fuchs 2017; Liberman
2019). The field combines methods and approaches from corpus
linguistics, phonetics and phonology, speech processing technology,
statistics, and related fields. With the increasing availability of
large-scale corpora and advances in computational tools, corpus
phonology has become an important area of research in English
phonetics and phonology (e.g. Rosenfelder et al. 2014; McAuliffe et
al. 2017; Jansen & Langstrof 2019; Stuart-Smith et al. 2019; Meer
2020; Gorisch et al. 2020; Meer 2020; Meer et al. 2021; Li et al.
2021; Coto-Solano 2022; Coats 2023). At the same time, new types of
questions and challenges for research arise. In this workshop, we aim
to explore both current approaches and future directions in corpus
phonology. Specifically, the workshop aims to address the following
research questions:

(1)     How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively compiled?
(2)     How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively used to
investigate phonetic and phonological properties of English?
(3)     How can corpus phonology contribute to our understanding of
sociolinguistic phenomena, such as language change and contact?
(4)     What are the benefits and challenges in using state-of-the art
computational tools in corpus phonology research, and what new
research opportunities do they create?

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Corpus-based study of phonological variation
• Corpus phonology and phonological theory
• Phonological corpus compilation and computational tools, such as
        o automatic speech recognition (ASR),
        o forced alignment,
        o machine learning,
        o etc.
• The use of corpora in analyzing phonetic detail
• Corpus phonology and sociolinguistics
• Corpus phonology and L2/L3 research
• Corpus-based approaches to prosody and intonation

We welcome submissions from both established academics and early
career researchers working on these and related topics. We encourage
submissions that draw on data from a wide range of varieties of
English, as well as those that present novel methodologies or
theoretical frameworks.

We would be grateful if you could confirm your willingness to
contribute – together with a proposed title – by August 27, 2023.
Abstract submissions should be in the form of abstracts of no more
than 500 words, excluding references. Abstracts should be submitted as
a PDF to the workshop organizers at philipp.meer at uni-muenster.de and
gut at uni-muenster.de by December 15, 2023.

Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20-minute presentation slots,
followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We will also
allocate time for a general discussion of the research questions at
the end of the workshop. The publication of an edited volume of papers
presented as part of the workshop is envisaged.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to an exciting
workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future
Directions".

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