36.2044, Calls: Journal of Connected Speech - "Special Issue: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 36.2044, Calls: Journal of Connected Speech - "Special Issue: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East" (Jrnl)

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Date: 02-Jul-2025
From: Cong Zhang [cong.zhang at newcastle.ac.uk]
Subject: Journal of Connected Speech - "Special Issue: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East" (Jrnl)


Journal: Journal of Connected Speech
Issue: Special Issue: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East
Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2025

Special Issue of the Journal of Connected Speech: Prosody in Languages
of the Middle East
Special Issue Guest Editors:
•       Dr Niamh Kelly (Newcastle University, UK)
•       Dr Cong Zhang (Newcastle University, UK)
•       Dr Vahid Sadeghi (Imam Khomeini International University,
Iran)
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About the Special Issue
Prosody, including word-level prosody and sentence-level prosody or
even paralinguistic prosody, plays an essential role in speech
communications. It marks contrasts in meaning, signals information
structure, and distinguishes between various utterance types.
Although prosody has been extensively studied in many of the world’s
languages, the languages of the Middle East, such as Arabic, Persian,
Kurdish, and Turkic languages, remain comparatively underrepresented
in the literature. Yet research on the languages of the region has
shown some interesting patterns relating to stress and prosodic focus
(Egyptian Arabic (Hellmuth 2011), Jordanian Arabic (de Jong & Zawaydeh
1999)) and the interaction of tonal alignment with syllable structure
(Persian (Sadeghi 2019), Lebanese Arabic (Kelly 2024)).
This special issue invites contributions that deepen our understanding
of prosody in the languages of the Middle East. We welcome papers
based on presentations at the workshop Prosody in Languages of the
Middle East (PaPE 2025), as well as new submissions from researchers
not involved in the event. Our aim is to bring together work that
highlights the diversity of prosodic systems in the region and
promotes cross-linguistic comparison, theoretical development, and
methodological innovation.
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Topics of Interest
We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following
areas:
•       Acoustic and phonological aspects of prosody in Middle Eastern
languages
•       Descriptive work on understudied languages of the region
•       Prosody at the interface with syntax, semantics, or pragmatics
•       First and second language acquisition of prosody
•       Prosody in multilingual settings
•       Dialectal and sociolinguistic variation in prosody
•       Methodological advances in the study of prosody in the region
We especially encourage submissions focusing on lesser-studied
languages and dialects, as well as interdisciplinary or
cross-methodological approaches.
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Submission Information
•       We invite interested contributors who did not present at the
conference to submit a one-page abstract (plus an optional second page
for figures and references) to the guest editors at
papeprosodyworkshop at gmail.com.
•       Abstracts will be evaluated based on their relevance to the
theme of the special issue and overall scholarly quality.
•       Authors of accepted abstracts, as well as presenters from the
Prosody in Languages of the Middle East workshop at PaPE 2025, will be
invited to submit full papers. These will undergo peer review in
accordance with the Journal of Connected Speech’s standard review
procedures. Contributors should follow the journal’s general
submission guidelines: https://utppublishing.com/journal/jcspeech
•       As part of our collaborative review process, all submitting
authors must agree to review one other paper for the special issue
within a two-month timeframe.
 ________________________________________
Important dates:
•       Abstract submission deadline: 1 August 2025
•       Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2025
•       Full paper submission deadline: 1 February 2026

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology




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