35.1853, Calls: DGfS 2025 Workshop Morphological Variation

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Subject: 35.1853, Calls: DGfS 2025 Workshop Morphological Variation

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Date: 21-Jun-2024
From: Jessica Nieder [jessica.nieder at uni-passau.de]
Subject: DGfS 2025 Workshop Morphological Variation

Full Title: DGfS 2025 Workshop Morphological Variation
Short Title: DGFS2025MorphVar

Date: 05-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Ingo Plag
Meeting Email: ingo.plag at uni-duesseldorf.de
Web Site: https://blogs.phil.hhu.de/morphologicalvariation/

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Ingo Plag, Kilu von Prince (HHU Düsseldorf) & Jessica
Nieder (U Passau)

Invited speakers:
Mirjam Ernestus (Radbound Universiteit Nijmegen, NL)
Richard Huyghe (Université de Fribourg, CH)

Theories of morphology face the fundamental challenge to account for
the vast amount of variation in the mapping of meaning onto form (in
production), and of form onto meaning (in comprehension). How we
understand this variation is crucial even for conceptions of what
constitutes a ‘complex word’, which range from compositional mappings
of form and meaning to units of lexical storage whose formal
properties reflect heavily interconnected, distributed information in
the Mental Lexicon. Morphological variation is reflected in surface
forms, and concerns, for example, the choice of exponents, the
segmental and prosodic make-up of complex words, their spelling, and
even their articulation and acoustic properties. On top of that, there
is variation between individuals, which underlines the relevance of
investigating the relation between individual variation on the one
hand, and a morphological system that is commonly hypothesized to be
shared by all speakers on the other. Understanding morphological
variation in all its facets is crucial for a general understanding of
morphology, i.e. the interaction of form and meaning at and below the
word level.

Recent research on the usage, production and comprehension of complex
words in speech and writing has led to new insights about how
morphological structure may influence their phonology (e.g.
Arndt-Lappe & Ernestus 2020), articulation and acoustics (e.g. Plag et
al. 2017) and spelling (e.g. Gahl & Plag 2019). So far, the range of
investigated phenomena and languages is still limited but the results
obtained so far pose serious challenges for current theories of
phonology-morphology interaction, of the mental lexicon and of
language production, perception and comprehension. We invite
contributions on the articulation, acoustics, phonology, spelling,
semantics and processing of complex words that address the following
or related questions from both a theoretical and empirical
perspective: (1) How can morphological structure lead to variation in
the articulatory, acoustic, orthographic, phonological and semantic
properties of complex words? (2) Seen from the reverse angle, what
does variation in these properties reveal about the nature of
morphological structure? (3) What are the implications for theories
and models in these domains?

References
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine & Mirjam Ernestus. 2020. Morphology-phonology
interaction. In Vito Pirelli, Ingo Plag & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.),
Word knowledge and word usage: A cross- disciplinary guide to the
mental lexicon. 191-227, Berlin & New York.
Gahl, Susanne & Ingo Plag. 2019. Affixal spelling errors in English
reflect morphological boundary strength: A case study. The Mental
Lexicon 14(1), 1–36.
Plag, Ingo, Julia Homann & Gero Kunter. 2017. Homophony and
morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English. Journal of
Linguistics 53(1), 181–216.

Please submit anonymized abstracts electronically in PDF format
through the EasyChair system by September 1, 2024:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfs2024morphvar

Abstracts should be at most one page long, plus references and
additional material on the second page, on A4 paper with 1-inch
margins on all sides, and must be set in Times New Roman font of at
least 11 points.

Important dates:
Abstract submission: September 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance:
September 15, 2024

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