37.3235, Confs: Advances in Sociotonetics: Suprasegmental Variation in Tonal Languages (Finland)

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Date: 07-Oct-2026
From: Maria Konoshenko [maria.konoshenko at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Advances in Sociotonetics: Suprasegmental Variation in Tonal Languages


Advances in Sociotonetics: Suprasegmental Variation in Tonal Languages
Short Title: Advances in sociotonetics (AS)

Date: 28-Oct-2027 - 29-Oct-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Maria Konoshenko
Contact Email: maria.konoshenko at helsinki.fi
Meeting URL:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/multilingual-variation/workshop-advances-sociotonetics

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology;
Sociolinguistics; Typology

Submission Deadline: 01-Apr-2027

Sociotonetics is a young field at the intersection of tone phonetics
and variationist sociolinguistics (Stanford 2008, Stanford & Yang
2023, and references therein). It explores suprasegmental variation in
tonal languages, i.e. languages employing pitch distinctions for
lexical and grammatical contrasts. Sociotonetic studies investigate
both language-internal variation and contact-induced variation, as
many tonal languages are spoken in multilingual environments.
This is the first workshop to bring together scholars working on
sociotonetics across typologically diverse tonal languages from around
the globe. We invite submissions that explore social, phonetic,
methodological, theoretical and typological aspects of suprasegmental
variation in tonal languages. Please note that variation in
intonation-only languages falls outside the scope of the workshop.



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