35.1876, Calls: The sound of grammar. New perspectives on the interplay of phonetics with morphology, syntax and the lexicon. XXI AISV National Conference.

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Date: 26-Jun-2024
From: Duccio Piccardi [duccio.piccardi at uniurb.it]
Subject: The sound of grammar. New perspectives on the interplay of phonetics with morphology, syntax and the lexicon. XXI AISV National Conference.


Full Title: The sound of grammar. New perspectives on the interplay of
phonetics with morphology, syntax and the lexicon. XXI AISV National
Conference.
Short Title: AISV 2025

Date: 06-Feb-2025 - 08-Feb-2025
Location: Urbino, Italy
Contact Person: Chiara Celata
Meeting Email: aisv2025 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/aisv2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 29-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

This year’s AISV (Italian Association of Speech Sciences) conference
aims to explore the relationship between phonetics and grammar. In
light of recent findings from empirical studies, the main discussion
will focus on the extent of the role of gradual phonetic detail in the
systematic transmission and processing of meaning, not only in
relation to the pragmatic and contextual dimensions of communication
but also, and especially, concerning morphological, syntactic and
lexical information.

Call for Papers:

The thematic session of the conference aims to investigate the
relationship between phonetics and other levels of linguistic
analysis, considering the most recent theoretical and empirical
findings on the patterns, functions, and limits of phonetic variation.
The starting point is therefore the role of gradual phonetic detail in
the transmission and in the processing of meaning, not only in
relation to the pragmatic and contextual dimensions of communication
but also, and especially, concerning grammar and language structures.

For example, much of the phonetic variation once considered dependent
on biomechanical constraints and outside the speaker's control has now
been found to display systematic – as well as cross-linguistic –
variation depending on prosodic, pragmatic, and semantic/lexical
factors (e.g., Recasens, Farnetani, 1990; Savy, 1999; Solé, 2007;
Gahl, 2008; Baker, Bradlow, 2009; Cho, 2015; Sóskuthy, Hay, 2017;
Martinuzzi, Schertz, 2022). Additionally, it can be employed to mark
paradigmatic contrasts more saliently (e.g., Baese-Berk, Goldrick
2007; Wedel, Nelson & Sharp, 2018); its forms of systematic variation
also emerge from across-speaker comparisons (e.g., Chodroff, Wilson,
2017); it is perceived by the listener, and employed to locally
resolve signal ambiguities (e.g., Warner, Brenner, Tucker & Ernestus,
2022).

While there is increasing empirical evidence in this direction, its
integration within a coherent linguistic theory is still a matter of
discussion, starting with questions such as:

    How much and what kind of phonetic variation is internalized by
the speaker?

    What is part of, and what is not part of, phonological grammar?

    How much of phonetic variation is relevant in the development of
phonological, orthographic, and lexical competence?

    Which models of linguistic perception most coherently account for
the role of local acoustic cues in accessing lexical representation?

Building further upon these considerations, an expanding number of
empirical studies suggest that identical phonological structures with
different morphological status are phonetically differentiated by the
speaker, independent of prosodic and contextual variables, in a way
that is useful to the listener to decode higher-level structural
information using the signal’s phonetic detail (e.g., Cho, 2001; Hay,
Bresnan, 2006; Plag, Homann & Kunter, 2017; Clayards, Gaskell &
Hawkins, 2021; Schlechtweg, Corbett, 2021; Tomaschek, Plag, Ernestus &
Baayen, 2021).

If this is true, then it becomes crucial to provide an answer to a
series of questions about the relationships between phonetics and
grammar, such as:

    Is there a significant relationship between gradual phonetic
variation and morphological and syntactic categories?

    Is it possible to identify phonetic correlates (acoustic,
articulatory) of grammatical structure, independent of prosodic,
lexical, pragmatic, and contextual covariations?

    Can the investigation of gradual phonetic variation challenge or,
on the contrary, confirm traditional models of morphological analysis?


AISV Annual Conferences host sessions on broader themes. Thus,
proposals on any other aspect of speech research are welcome.

Abstract submission:

Authors are invited to submit a summary (in Italian or English) of at
least 500 words, excluding bibliography, by September 29, 2024. The
abstract, including bibliography and figures, should not exceed 3
pages (A4).

Abstracts must be anonymous and must be submitted electronically in
PDF format via the designated platform
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/AISV2025/, following the
attached template (see the conference website). Contributions will be
selected for oral or poster presentation following a double-blind peer
review process. Authors are encouraged to indicate their preference at
the time of submission (the final decision will be made by the
organizing committee).



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