35.2725, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: General Cognitive Principles and Cognitive Phonology

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Subject: 35.2725, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: General Cognitive Principles and Cognitive Phonology

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Date: 02-Oct-2024
From: Yuki-Shige Tamura [tamura.yukishige.hmt at osaka-u.ac.jp]
Subject: ICLC17 Theme Session: General Cognitive Principles and Cognitive Phonology


Full Title: ICLC17 Theme Session: General Cognitive Principles and
Cognitive Phonology

Date: 14-Jul-2025 - 18-Jul-2025
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact Person: Yuki-Shige Tamura
Meeting Email: tamura.yukishige.hmt at osaka-u.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Theme session proposal for the 17th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference (ICLC 17)

Conveners:
Geoffrey S. Nathan, Wayne State University
Yuki-Shige Tamura, Osaka University

"Cognitive phonology is to be seen as an integral part of cognitive
grammar. As such, it assumes that phonology, like the rest of language
makes use of general cognitive mechanisms, such as cross-dimensional
correlations" (Lakoff 1993:118).

The aim of this theme session is to provide a place to discuss how
phonological phenomena can be described in parallel with those for
semantics and syntax, employing the general cognitive mechanisms of
categorization proposed in cognitive linguistics. One major attractive
aspect of Cognitive Linguistics as a linguistic theory is that it
asserts that general cognitive principles apply in all domains and
that various linguistic phenomena can be described with these
principles in integrated ways (e.g. Langacker 1987, 2008). Cognitive
Linguistics has developed in following this ideal over the past 30
years and has grown into a major linguistic theory with researchers
around the world as well as international conferences and journals.
However, it can be said that this success is mainly due to the results
of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic analysis, and that there has been
little discussion among researchers about phonological phenomena, even
though much has been suggested about its descriptive potential since
the early days (e.g. Bybee 2001, Lakoff 1993: 118, Langacker 1987:
78-80, Nathan 1996, 2008 and Taylor 2003:247-248). For example, The
Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Geeraerts and Cuyckens 2007)
contains about 50 articles, presenting a wide range of phenomena and
research in Cognitive Linguistics to date. On phonological phenomena,
however, there is only one article ("Phonology" by Geoffrey Nathan).
The current unbalanced state of research, in which phonology is rarely
addressed, may suggest to other research communities that the general
cognitive principles that have been espoused in Cognitive Linguistics
could not apply in the phonological domain sufficiently even though
the theory has, since the inception, claimed that various linguistic
phenomena including phonology can be described in an integrated way
(Langacker 1987, Lakoff 1993). Together with further development of
semantic/pragmatic analyses in cognitive linguistics, the accumulation
of analyses of the phonological phenomena is also considered essential
for cognitive linguistics to become a comprehensive linguistic theory.

We invite papers with good insight and data to stimulate our
discussion at the session and to develop cognitive phonology. The
following three perspectives would be helpful as a landmark for our
discussion: (i) cognitive phonology and the traditional phonological
concepts, in which the focus of discussion is paid on how the
traditional concepts of phonology such as phonemes, phonological
features, syllables and stress can be properly captured in terms of
cognitive phonology; (ii) the parallelism between the phonological and
semantic phenomena such as unidirectionality of change (e.g. Bybee
2015, Ohala 1993) and semanticization and phonologization (Hyman 1984,
Ohala 1993), in which the focus is on what common mechanisms should be
considered relevant for the phenomena that may have traditionally been
discussed separately in terms of sound and meaning, and (iii)
theoretical affinities observed between cognitive phonology and other
phonological theories such as Element Theory (e.g. Backley (2011),
Evolutional Phonology (Blevins 2007), Articulatory Phonology (Blowman
and Goldstein 1986) and Natural Phonology (Nathan 1996), in which the
focus is on which of the many existing phonological theories is most
compatible with cognitive phonology.

Call for Papers:

We invite 100-word abstracts by October 25, 2024. If you can join us,
please send your abstract to Yuki-Shige Tamura
(tamura.yukishige.hmt at osaka-u.ac.jp). We will let you know whether we
can incorporate your abstract in our theme session by the end of
October. If our theme session is accepted, we will ask the authors of
provisionally accepted abstracts to hand in an extended abstract (max.
500 words) through the conference submission system up to January 15.
The extended abstract will then be subject to peer review by the
ICLC17 scientific committee. If the theme session is rejected, you are
of course free to submit your abstract to ICLC17 for consideration as
a general session paper.



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