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Call for papers: Special issue of Phonology on grammatical tone

From: Nicholas Rolle (nrolle@princeton.edu)

Thematic issue: ‘Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone’

Projected to appear as one of the first issues of Phonology 39 (2022)

Tone is distinct from other phonological phenomena both qualitatively and quantitatively, and has been instrumental in shaping phonological theory in many ways. However, the contributions to current linguistic theory of ‘grammatical tone’ – a type of nonconcatenative morphology where a morpheme is expressed in part by tonal changes and operations (e.g. tone addition, deletion, replacement, spreading, shifting, assimilation, dissimilation, etc.) – have been less apparent. The goal of this thematic issue is to contribute to filling this gap, and to facilitate advances in our understanding of grammatical tone and (morpho)phonological theory in tandem.

 

Grammatical tone demonstrates a unique configuration of properties above and beyond special features of tone more generally, including postlexical cyclicity effects, non-local relations on the tonal tier, counting effects in floating tone assignment, tone-based templatic effects in great regularity across Africa (surpassing segmental templates à la Semitic and Yokuts), among many others. Given that half the world’s languages are tonal–with a huge number in some of the least documented areas – we suspect phonological theory still has a huge amount to gain by specifically engaging with grammatical tone. Submissions are invited which directly focus on grammatical tone and phonological theory. We seek to include several tone-system types (e.g. from ‘canonical’ tone systems like Vietnamese to ‘pitch-accent systems’ like Serbian or Japanese). Issues include (but are not limited to) the following:

 

  • the representation of grammatical tone, and the question of grammatical tone allomorphy;
  • interactions between grammatical tone and the phonological grammar, e.g. the role of phonological markedness, blocking effects, segmental epenthesis;
  • interactions between grammatical tone and other prosodic units, e.g. lexical tone, intonation/boundary tones, other grammatical tones, stress/prominence marking;
  • the derivation of grammatical tone, e.g. non-categorical application of grammatical tone, input–output vs. output–output relations, cyclic effects, derived environment effects;
  • types of (non-)locality effects with grammatical tone, defined either linearly or hierarchically;
  • interface with phonetics, e.g. incomplete neutralisation effects, exemplar models;
  • interface with morphosyntax, e.g. phonology-free syntax, issues of modularity in grammar;
  • prosodic constituency, e.g. (mis)alignment between the domains of grammatical tone and other prosodic constituents in the prosodic hierarchy, kinds of attested nonisomorphy;
  • the computational properties of grammatical tone.

 

This thematic issue, which will be edited by Nicholas Rolle (Princeton University), Florian Lionnet (Princeton University) and Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College), is open to all potential contributors, and is projected to appear as one of the first issues of Phonology 39 (2022).

 

The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2020.

 

General information on the submission of manuscripts can be found in previous issues of the journal, or on the Phonology website (http://journals.cambridge.org/pho). For this issue, submissions should be sent in PDF format to nrolle@princeton.eduflionnet@princeton.edulaura.e.mcpherson@dartmouth.educ.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl. An abstract (no longer than 150 words) should be included. Please begin the heading with ‘Phonology thematic issue’.

 

Preference will be given to papers which will occupy no more than 20 printed pages in the journal (around 8000 words). Submissions will be read by at least two reviewers and by the editors of the thematic issue.

Call for papers: Annual Meeting on Phonology 2019

We are seeking high-quality unpublished research in all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational phonology for presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2019), to take place October 11-13, 2019 and hosted by the Linguistics Department at the Stony Brook University. This is the seventh installment of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, following the 2013 inaugural meeting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and subsequent meetings hosted by MIT, UBC/SFU, USC, NYU and UCSD.

This year’s conference features two workshops entitled “Advances in Computational Phonology” and “The Phonology-Syntax Interface in the World’s Languages” with associated tutorials and invited speakers. We are particularly interested in high-quality research submissions that address the themes of these workshops.

Submission Guidelines

We invite abstracts for either oral presentations or poster presentations. Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at least one inch (2.54cm) left on all sides. Abstracts must be submitted in .pdf file format.

Submissions are limited to three per author, with at most one submission being single-authored.

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, June 3, 11:59pm EST (23:59 GMT-5).

Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amp2019.

Invited Speakers

Contact

All questions about the conference should be emailed to amp2019@stonybrook.edu.

Publication

All presentations (in both the general and workshop sessions) are eligible for publication in the open-access on-line conference proceedings hosted by the Linguistic Society of America. Oral presentations will appear in the main Proceedings and poster presentations will appear in the Supplemental Proceedings.

PLM 2019 Workshop: Modern phonetics and phonological representation: a new outlook on an old controversy

Convenors: Ewelina Wojtkowiak and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?
To learn more about the conference, please visit http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2019/

Irrespective of which units are used – distinctive features (e.g. Chomsky and Halle 1968), elements (e.g. Backley 2011), or articulatory gestures (e.g. Browman and Goldstein 1992), to name a few – phonological representations in general possess a certain level of abstraction in which phonetic detail is oftentimes disregarded. The dissonance between representation and realisation has been the topic of a heated debate for quite some time. In fact, it can be traced back to Trubetzkoy, who saw phonetics and phonology as two separate disciplines which study two completely different phenomena and as such should be kept strictly apart ([1939] 1962: 10). Some phonologists argue that phonetics “is relatively uninteresting” and as such “has no place in linguistics proper” (cf. Pierrehumbert 1990 for an overview; also: Gussmann 2004). In turn, phoneticians argue that phonological representations are not subject to enough scientific research to tell us anything about the sound structure of languages and as such is “an uninteresting subfield of humanities” (Pierrehumbert 1990: 375). Problems with these disagreements between the two sides of this issue arise when we cross-check phonological accounts with empirical data. For instance, Polish has been described as a language in which word-final obstruents undergo devoicing (Gussmann 2007), a claim which has been taken for granted. Phonetic research, however, provides evidence that Polish native speakers seem to  be surprisingly accurate in perceiving the contrast between underlyingly voiceless and voiced obstruents in this position and, while less robust, the contrast is also by and large maintained in their productions (Schwartz et al. 2018). Studies on cross-linguistic influence show that L1 productions change under the influence of one’s L2 and Lns (e.g. Chang 2012, Sypia?ska 2016). Therefore, if phonological representations fail to refer to phonetic research, they may fail to accurately encapsulate linguistic phenomena (cf. Ohala 1990). While some progress in this respect has been made, “phonetics as a motivating force for phonology remains controversial” (Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk 2012).

This workshop invites all papers that investigate the issue relating to the extent to which phonetic detail should affect our decisions about phonological representations, with respect to current phonological models. They may:

  • Present original empirical studies that have been conducted to test phonological hypotheses,
  • Discuss the dubious status of the segment and the apparent stability of morphemes in phonetics and phonology,
  • Focus on intramorphemic phonotactics vs. morphological interactions,
  • Seek to re-think the nature of the distinctive features.

Other ideas related to this theme are also welcome.

Abstract submission deadline: 22 April 2019
Submit your abstract via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=plm2019

CALL FOR PAPERS – Recursivity in phonology, below and above the word (RecPhon2019)

CALL FOR PAPERS – Recursivity in phonology, below and above the word (RecPhon2019)
21-22 November 2019, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra  
Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2019
Research Questions
We encourage speakers to address, although not exclusively, some of the research questions formulated below, either arguing in favor or against recursivity in phonology, and from any theoretical perspective and methodology, including phonological formal analyses of particular languages, language typology, language acquisition, laboratory phonology, psycholinguistics or neurolinguistics.
– Does recursivity in phonology exist at all?
– If recursivity in phonology exists, what exactly can or cannot trigger a recursive structure in the domain of the syntax-phonology interface?
– Is recursivity restricted to higher-ordered phonological constituents like the phonological phrase and the intonational phrase? If so, why?
– What is the empirical evidence to posit recursive structures above the word?
– Does ternarity exist in phonology (at the level of the metrical foot or at higher-ordered levels) or should it be derived from recursive structures?
– If recursivity in phonology also exists below the level of the phonological word, does it show an upper bound on nesting?
– Does recursivity also exist below the level of the metrical foot, i.e. the syllable, the mora?
– What is the empirical evidence to posit recursive structures below the word?
– What does recursivity add to the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis, the idea that L1 learners use prosodic features as a cue to identify more abstract properties of grammar such as syntactic constituency?
– Can neural correlates of phonological recursion be observed?
Invited speakers
* Emily Elfner (York University, Canada)
* Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz)
* Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Submission of abstracts
The workshop will feature 45 minute talks (30-35 minutes followed by 15-10 minutes for comments and questions). Abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=85542673.1r9spcN1e21u1BLe) by the 1st of June, 2019. Abstracts will be reviewed by 3 anonymous reviewers.
Abstract guidelines
Abstracts must be anonymous, maximally 1 page long (A4), with an extra page for figures, examples, tables and references, 12 pt Times New Roman, with one-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides, and written in English, PDF format.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2019
Program announcement: September 15, 2019
Registration: October 1 – November 1, 2019

Call for Papers: APAP 2019

Call for Papers: APAP 2019

Call Deadline: 15-March-2019

Meeting Description:

Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics (APAP 2019)
21-23 June, 2019
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

APAP is an international biennial conference organized by two Polish universities:

Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Lublin, (UMCS)
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, (KUL)

The conference intends to provide a forum for sharing theoretical, empirical and pedagogical findings on all aspects of phonology and phonetics, with particular attention paid to how the two domains of research relate to each other. Each conference has a leading theme which guarantees a focused debate and, as an outcome, a monographic publication of articles.

Leading theme: “Focus on phonotactics: phonology, phonetics, acquisition”

The following scholars have kindly agreed to deliver plenary talks:

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Ko?aczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?)

Marketa Ziková (Masaryk University, Brno)

Marzena Zygis (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

The conference fee for Polish participants is 350 PLN and 100 euros for foreign guests. It covers organization costs, conference materials, one welcoming banquet , a conference dinner and refreshments (coffee breaks), but not the cost of accommodation.

However, special accommodation rates will be arranged for the participants (25-40 euros per night including breakfast) in the hotels close to the university campus. Further details will be provided on our web page http://www.apap.kul.pl

For further information on APAP email Conference Chair at the following address: apapconference2015@gmail.com.

Conference chair: Karolina Drabikowska

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for papers concerning the main theme as well as other phonetic and phonological issues.

Leading theme: “Focus on phonotactics: phonology, phonetics, acquisition”

Papers are given 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts of 250-400 words should be emailed to the organizers at the following address: apapconference2019@gmail.com

Important Deadlines:

Abstract submission: March 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2019
Registration and payment of conference fee: April 30, 2019

 

Organizing Committee:

Eugeniusz Cyran

Jolanta Szpyra-Koz?owska
Agnieszka Bry?a-Cruz

Krzysztof Jasku?a
S?awomir Zdziebko

Marek Radomski

 

Call for papers: HISPhonCog 2019 (Seoul)

2nd Call for Papers for HISPhonCog 2019 (Seoul)

 (***New abstract deadline: March 31, 2019***).

Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019

Dates: 24-25 May 2019 (Workshop on May 23)

Venue: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

URL: http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/call-for-papers/2019

HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language), together with Department of English Language and Literature at Hanyang University, holds its second annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language—i.e., HISPhonCog 2019 on 24-25 May, 2019. The theme of HISPhonCog 2019 is “linguistic and cognitive functions of prosody and higher-order linguistic structures in speech production and perception in native and non-native languages.” Recent years have witnessed ample empirical evidence that one of the essential linguistic structural components that underlie the phonetic encoding-decoding process is prosodic structure. The fundamental assumption that underlies the theme is that the prosodic structure is an integral part of speech production serving as a frame for articulation which, for example, regulates groupings of phonological constituents and prominence distribution in conjunction with tonal/intonational specifications. This view of prosody entails further that a prosodic structure of an utterance is determined in reference to various other components of the linguistic structure of the language (e.g., phonology, morphology, syntax, information structure, and discourse structure) as well as extra- or para-linguistic factors (e.g., social indexical information and emotions). Thus, in order for the speaker to deliver a linguistic message to the listener successfully, the speaker must be able to encode the linguistic message in prosodic-structurally conditioned phonetic forms that reflect other linguistic and extra-linguistic structures, and the listener must in turn be able to exploit the resulting fine phonetic detail in decoding the intended linguistic message in reference to the prosodic structure that underlies the speech signal. This premise applies to speech production and perception in both L1 and L2.

We invite submissions for the symposium which explore any issues related to the theme of the symposium. There will be a special session on neuro-cognitive aspects of the role of prosody. We will also consider submissions that deal with other general issues in native and non-native speech production and perception.

Invited speakers for general sessions

  • Mary Beckman (OSU)
  • Edward Flemming (MIT)
  • Cécile Fougeron (Paris 3, Sorbonne, CNRS)
  • Martine Grice (University of Cologne)
  • Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)
  • Jason Shaw (Yale University)
  • Michael Tyler (Western Sydney University)
  • Jie Zhang (University of Kansas)

Invited speakers for the special session on ‘neuro-cognitive aspects of prosody’

  • Karsten Steinhauer (McGill University)
  • Ferenc Honbolygó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Invited discussants

  • Anne Cutler (Western Sydney U, MARCS, ARC Centre of Excellence) – General Session
  • Holger Mitterer (University of Malta) – Special Session

Planned satellite workshop (May 23)

  • Theoretical and practical issues on ToBI in Korean, organized by Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA), Sahyang Kim (Hongik University) and Taehong Cho (Hanyang University)
  • Cognition and bilingualism: Speech perception issues (tentative), organized by Anne Cutler and Mark Antoniou (Western Sydney U, MARCS)
  • More information (including possible calls for papers): http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog.

Support for international participants:

  • Free local hotel accommodation (3 nights) for international presenters affiliated with a foreign institute/university, travelling from abroad. One additional night may be provided, pending the budget availability, to those presenters who also attend a satellite workshop on May 23. (The detail will be sent to qualified individuals along with an acceptance letter.)
  • No registration fees (including 2 lunches, refreshments and one banquet)

Timeline

  • (New) Deadline of submission of a two-page long abstract: March 31, 2019
  • Notification of Acceptance: No later than April 14, 2019
  • Free Registration with free accommodation: No later than April 21, 2019
  • Symposium dates: May 24-25, 2019
  • Satellite Workshop: May 23, 2019

Abstract Submission Instruction:

Free Registration by April 21

  • Pre-registration should be made by no later than April 21, 2019 to be guaranteed for free accommodation (for international presenters) and free registration (for all participants and audience).
  • Pre-registration form that arrives after April 21 may still be considered for free registration and accommodation, depending on the budget and availability. Please contact us at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com if you miss the deadline but still would like to register in advance.
  • On-site registration will be possible for small fees, but with no guarantee for lunches and banquet admission.
  • For further information about how to register, please check the website.

Local Organizing Committee

  • Taehong Cho (Chair, Hanyang University, Seoul)
  • Sahyang Kim (Hongik University, Seoul)
  • Say Young Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul)
  • Jonny Jungyun Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul)

Contact: Jonny Jungyun Kim at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com

Organized by HIPCS (the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language); Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

URL: http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog

CfP, 27mfm Fringe: “Teaching Phonology: The State of the Art”

CALL FOR PAPERS

27mfm Fringe

“Teaching Phonology: The State of the Art”

Date: Wednesday 22 May 2019 (afternoon only, approximately 2-6pm)

Call deadline: 28 February 2019

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yunikim/mfmfringe

A workshop on “Teaching Phonology: The State of the Art” will be held at the University of Manchester on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 as a satellite event to the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting.

This workshop is intended to allow us to exchange ideas about what we do when we teach phonology, what we teach and how we might tackle particular topics and issues. We are interested in submissions that explore what, how, and/or why phonology is taught across varied institutions and contexts. With diverse views among researchers about the remit and basic assumptions of phonology, against the backdrop of shifting winds in higher education, how has the teaching of phonology evolved from how we ourselves were taught at varying times in the past? What core topics are selected for introductory courses – and what is left out – and how are this foundation built on in more advanced courses? What types of assignments are given? Do you use a textbook? If so, which one? With bimodal grade distributions being anecdotally common, how can difficult topics be explained in more accessible ways? What other novel teaching methods can be used?

We are open to suggestion as to what a presentation might involve and we invite colleagues to propose something. We imagine that the session might involve a range of types of presentation, from 10 minute descriptions of what the syllabus is at your institution, to longer talks on pedagogical issues, or even a panel on a particular subject. We will have up to around 4 hours during the workshop, and we will encourage those attending to bring along their syllabus even if they don’t plan to give a talk.

In order to propose a topic, please send a PDF attachment to Yuni Kim (y.kim@essex.ac.uk) by 28 February 2019. In no more than 250 words, you should set out what you would like to talk about and how long you imagine you might want to talk for. (We reserve the right to suggest a different timing if your proposal is accepted.) In the document, please also include your name and institution to help us ensure a varied range of perspectives.

The program will be announced in late March. This is a very informal meeting and there will be no registration fee.

Organisers: Yuni Kim (Essex), Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh), Elizabeth Zsiga (Georgetown)

Call for Papers – Workshop on Sound Change 5 DEADLINE JANUARY 25!

Call for Papers – Workshop on Sound Change 5

The 5th International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC 5) will take place June 21-23, 2019, at the University of California, Davis. The WSC 5 is part of the conference series held in conjunction with the 2019 Linguistic Institute at UC Davis.

The WSC began as a small meeting where researchers investigating aspects of sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives could be brought together and work on substantive issues in the field and share ideas and findings. The core idea behind the WSC 5 is to bring together researchers working on sound change who come from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines to have conversations, integrate their perspectives and insights, and make substantive progress on questions the remain in the field.

The Special theme of the 5th WSC is sound change in endangered and small speech communities. Sound change research, as in most work in phonetics and phonology, have focused on languages that have historically been dominant or where speakers are easily accessible. The dynamic of language endangerment and interaction between small groups of speakers may provide unique opportunities for sound change to take place. Small speech communities has different social factors than large communities, leading to the phonetic and cognitive influences to interact and diffuse in different ways when there are fewer agents. How sound change might originate and diffuse in speech communities of different sizes is poorly understood. Furthermore, endangered and small languages are often heavily influenced by other languages and cultures, making sound change more likely. In order to make useful models and predictions about when and how sound change will occur, we need to explore these patterns in diverse speech communities.

Selections of papers on the theme of WSC 5 will also be considered for publication in a special collection (the online equivalent of a special issue).

In addition to the Special theme, the WSC 5 will be a place where scholars come together and make substantive progress on outstanding theoretical questions and issues in the field. General issues addressed at the workshop often include questions regarding the identification of the sources of sound change, and the mechanism of sound change propagation.

We welcome Abstracts from researchers investigating any aspect of sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Submissions addressing any and all aspects of sound change are encouraged – there is no need for submitted abstracts to engage with the theme.

Possible topics might include:

  • Perceptual, articulatory, and aerodynamic investigations into the phonetic origins of sound change

  • The role of individual variation in articulation, perception, and sociolinguistic monitoring in sound change actuation

  • Computational modeling of sound change propagation

  • The connection between language acquisition and language learning on sound change

  • Contact-induced variation in sound change

  • Biological foundations of sound change

The workshop will consist of oral presentations, discussion sessions, and poster sessions. Abstract submitters may choose to have their abstract considered either for a poster only, or for a poster or a talk.

Travel grants of up to $400 will be awarded on a competitive basis for graduate student presenters!

Anonymized abstracts (PDF, 12 point font, max 1 page text + 1 page figures and references) may be submitted via EasyAbstracts from http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/wsc5 . You may submit no more than one abstract as first author.

Call for papers: 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS

Twenty-Seventh Manchester Phonology Meeting

23-25 MAY 2019

Deadline for abstracts: 28 January 2019

Conference website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/27mfm.html

With a special session entitled ‘Is there lexically-specific phonology?’, featuring the following invited speakers:

* Claire Moore-Cantwell (Simon Fraser University & UBC)
* Jennifer L. Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
* Jochen Trommer (Universitaet Leipzig)

Invited discussant
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester)

There will also be a Fringe Workshop on the afternoon of Wednesday 22nd May, timed to coincide with the mfm, on ‘Teaching phonology: the state of the art’, organised by Yuni Kim, Elisabeth Zsiga and Patrick Honeybone. More details about this will be released soon.

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BACKGROUND

We are pleased to announce the Twenty-Seventh Manchester Phonology Meeting (27mfm). The mfm is the UK’s annual phonology conference, with an international set of organisers. It is held in late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK, and with excellent international transport connections). The meeting has become a key conference for phonologists from all over the world, where anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological in any phonological framework. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a broad range of topics, including the phonological description of languages, issues in phonological theory, aspects of phonological acquisition and implications of phonological change.

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SPECIAL SESSION

There is no conference theme – abstracts can be submitted on anything, but a special themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon, entitled ‘Is there lexically-specific phonology?’. This will feature the invited speakers listed (in alphabetical order) above and will conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome.

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

**This mentions only a few details – please consult the website for full information:
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/27mfm.html

* There is no obligatory conference theme for the 27mfm – abstracts can be submitted on anything phonological.

* We are using the Linguist List’s EasyAbstracts system for abstract submission. Abstracts should be uploaded to the 27mfm’s page on the EasyAbstracts site by 28th January 2019:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/27mfm

* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for questions, and there will be high-profile poster sessions lasting one and a half hours. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to indicate whether you would be prepared to present your work either as a talk or a poster paper or only as a poster.

* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by late February, and we will contact all those who have sent abstracts as soon as the decisions have been made.

**Further important details** concerning abstract submission are available on the conference website. Please make sure that you consult these before submitting an abstract: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/27mfm.html

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ORGANISERS

Organising Committee:

The first named is the convenor and main organiser, If you have any queries about the conference, feel free to get in touch (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk).

* Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
* Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
* Patrycja Strycharczuk (Manchester)

Treasurer
* Michael Ramsammy (Edinburgh)

Advisory Board:
* Adam Albright (MIT)
* Jill Beckman (Iowa)
* Stuart Davis (Indiana)
* Laura J. Downing (Gothenburg)
* Silke Hamann (Amsterdam)
* S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne)
* Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois)
* Yuni Kim (Essex)
* Martin Kramer (Tromso)
* Nancy Kula (Essex)
* Nabila Louriz (Hassan II, Casablanca)
* Joan Mascaro (UAB)
* Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens & Nijmegen)
* Tobias Scheer (Nice)
* James M. Scobbie (QMU)
* Koen Sebregts (Utrecht)
* Jennifer L. Smith (UNC Chapel Hill
* Nina Topintzi (Thessaloniki)
* Jochen Trommer (Leipzig)
* Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Paris 8)
* Christian Uffmann (Duesseldorf)
* Ruben van de Vijver (Duesseldorf)
* Sophie Wauquier (Paris 8)
* Draga Zec (Cornell)
* Elizabeth Zsiga (Georgetown)
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1st Call for Papers for HISPhonCog 2019 (Seoul)

Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (HISPhonCog 2019) from May 24-25, 2019 at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/call-for-papers/2019

HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language), together with Department of English Language and Literature at Hanyang University, holds its second annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language—i.e., HisPhonCog 2019. The theme of HISPhonCog 2019 is “linguistic and cognitive functions of prosody and higher-order linguistic structures in speech production and perception in native and non-native languages.” Recent years have witnessed ample empirical evidence that one of the essential linguistic structural components that underlie the phonetic encoding-decoding process is prosodic structure. The fundamental assumption that underlies the theme is that the prosodic structure is an integral part of speech production serving as a frame for articulation which, for example, regulates groupings of phonological constituents and prominence distribution in conjunction with tonal/intonational specifications. This view of prosody entails further that a prosodic structure of an utterance is determined in reference to various other components of the linguistic structure of the language (e.g., phonology, morphology, syntax, information structure, and discourse structure) as well as extra- or para-linguistic factors (e.g., social indexical information and emotions). Thus, in order for the speaker to deliver a linguistic message to the listener successfully, the speaker must be able to encode the linguistic message in prosodic-structurally conditioned phonetic forms that reflect other linguistic and extra-linguistic structures, and the listener must in turn be able to exploit the resulting fine phonetic detail in decoding the intended linguistic message in reference to the prosodic structure that underlies the speech signal. This premise applies to speech production and perception in both L1 and L2.

We invite submissions for the symposium which explore any issues related to the theme of the symposium. There will be a special session on neuro-cognitive aspects of the role of prosody. We will also consider submissions that deal with other general issues in native and non-native speech production and perception.

Invited speakers for general sessions

Mary Beckman (OSU)

Edward Flemming (MIT)

Cecile Fougeron (Paris 3, Sorbonne, CNRS)

Martine Grice (University of Cologne)

Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)

Jason Shaw (Yale University)

Michael Tyler (Western Sydney University)

Jie Zhang (University of Kansas)

Invited speakers for the special session on ‘neuro-cognitive aspects of prosody’

Karsten Steinhauer (McGill University)

Ferenc Honbolygó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Planned satellite workshop (May 23)

  • Theoretical and practical issues on ToBI in Korean (organized by Sun-Ah Jun, Sahyang Kim and Taehong Cho).
  • Call for papers will be available on the conference webpage soon. Please check the conference webpage later.

http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/tcho/hisphoncog-2019

Support for international participants:

  • Free local hotel accommodation (3 nights) for international presenters affiliated with a foreign institute/university, travelling from abroad. One additional night may be provided, pending the budget availability, to those presenters who also attend a satellite workshop on May 23. (The detail will be sent to qualified individuals along with an acceptance letter.)
  • No registration fees(including 2 lunches, refreshments and one banquet)

Timeline

  • Deadline of submission of a two-page long abstract: March 10,2019
  • Notification of Acceptance: No later than March 31, 2019
  • Free Registration with free accommodation: No later than April 10, 2019
  • Symposium dates: May 24-25, 2019

Abstract Submission Instruction:

Free Registration by April 10

  • Pre-registration should be made by no later than April 10, 2019 to be guaranteed for free accommodation (for international presenters) and free registration (for all participants and audience).
  • Pre-registration form that arrives after April 10 may still be considered for free registration and accommodation, depending on the budget and availability. Please contact us at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.comif you miss the deadline but still would like to register in advance.
  • On-site registration will be possible for small fees, but with no guarantee for lunches and banquet admission.
  • For further information about how to register, please check the website.

Local Organizing Committee

Taehong Cho (Chair, Hanyang University, Seoul)

Sahyang Kim (Hongik University, Seoul)

Say Young Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul)

Jonny Jungyun Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul)

Contact: Jonny Jungyun Kim at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com

Organized by HIPCS (the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language); Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

URL: http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/call-for-papers/2019