34.984, Calls: A Thematic Session on (Mor)phonotactic Processing and Acquisition of Consonant Clusters

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Subject: 34.984, Calls: A Thematic Session on (Mor)phonotactic Processing and Acquisition of Consonant Clusters

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From: Paulina Zydorowicz [zpaula at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: A Thematic Session on (Mor)phonotactic Processing and Acquisition of Consonant Clusters

A Thematic Session on (Mor)phonotactic Processing and Acquisition of
Consonant Clusters

Date: 13-Sep-2023 - 15-Sep-2023
Location: Poznań, Poland
Contact: Paulina Zydorowicz
Contact Email: zpaula at amu.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Meeting Description:

A thematic session on (mor)phonotactic processing and acquisition of
consonant clusters
organized by Paulina Zydorowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
and Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna)

Phonotactics is a subbranch of phonology, concerned with permissible
sound combinations within words and syllables. It formulates
restrictions or constraints on the occurrence of single phonemes or
sequences of sounds. Morphonotactics allows for specifying clusters
which occur due to the intervention of morphology, and dissociating
them from phonotactic clusters which naturally occur within roots.
Since the latter term was introduced in 2006, a number of hypotheses
have been put forward regarding the properties and behaviour of
phonotactic and morphonotactic clusters in language corpora,
spontaneous and casual speech, diachronic evolution of clusters, first
language acquisition and processing.

The goal of this session is to showcase work that explores two of the
aforementioned areas, first language acquisition and
psycholinguistics. For language acquisition it is hypothesized that
morphonotactic clusters carry morphological information and as such
are expected to be preserved in production more faithfully than
phonotactic clusters. Another question if whether language users
demonstrate sensitivity to the presence of a morphological boundary in
a cluster; more specifically, if the presence of a morphological
boundary in a cluster facilitates or inhibits the processing of words.
The facilitating or impeding effect should be reflected in accuracy
and latency of responses.

The results of crosslinguistic studies conducted so far demonstrate
mixed support in favour of the aforementioned hypotheses (Dressler et
al. 2019, Zydorowicz 2019), depending on the methodology, language or
subbranch of morphology studied.

The present workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the
results of the most recent research in the area of phonotactic and
morphonotactic processing and acquisition from a crosslinguistic
perspective and for sketching the directions for further studies,
including foreign language acquisition.

Topics that should or rather could be included are markedness of
clusters in the light of sonority scales vs. NAD, corpus-linguistic
approaches, impact of language typology, such as differences between
consonantal and vocalic languages and the distribution of consonant
clusters in the three word positions, connection with preceding vowel
duration and whether this is phonemic or only phonetic (bypassing
phonology), richness of morphology in general and of different parts
of morphology. Contributions to language pathology are welcome.

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