ProVar2020: Prosodic variation: The role of past and present contact in multilingual societies Engineering Building 2 (#76), Hongo Campus, UTokyo Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 2020 |
Conference website | https://provar2020.wordpress.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provar2020 |
Pre-registration opens | January 15, 2020 |
Submission deadline | March 1, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance of abstract | March 15, 2020 |
Pre-registation closes | April 15, 2020 |
ProVar2020 is a one-day satellite workshop of Speech Prosody 2020, that explores the theme of prosodic variation arising from past and present contact in multilingual societies. A large body of work has documented cross-linguistic prosodic variation in monolingual speech communities. Work on prosodic variation due to contact of two or more languages frequently focuses on the individual, e.g. bilingual prosody and L2 acquisition. However, contact phenomena also occur at the collective level of interaction, i.e. within multilingual communities. Given these are, and have historically been, arguably more numerous than monolingual communities, the impact of multilingualism on prosodic variation is of high theoretical importance. For example, contact-induced variation may challenge the suitability of traditionally applied categories, and the complex interplay of factors in multilingual communities poses questions about methodological approaches and typology. Diachronically, there are questions as to how prosodic effects of contact evolve and whether and how fast these are attrited.
This one-day workshop provides a platform for the growing community of researchers studying prosody in contact to share findings, discuss methodological issues, and debate the theoretical implications of their work. There will be oral presentations and a poster session, covering both synchronic and diachronic aspects of prosody in contact, anchored around a keynote paper from our invited speaker and our framework discussion. Abstract submissions are invited for papers or posters on all aspects of prosody in contact languages, including pitch-related, temporal and spectral phenomena, and on all language varieties, including those spoken by diaspora communities. All submissions will undergo a blind review process and will be selected as an oral or a poster presentation
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstracts must be no more than one side of A4 (Arial 11), not including references and figures (which may be up to one further side of A4). Authors may submit only one first author abstract per person. Abstracts may be submitted for one of the following categories:
- Oral presentation only
- Poster presentation only
- No preference
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 15th March 2020.
Committees
Organizing committee
- Dr Mary Baltazani (University of Oxford)
- Dr Olga Maxwell (University of Melbourne)
- Dr Elinor Payne (University of Oxford)
Invited Speakers
- Prof Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Publication
The organisers will be seeking to publish a collection of papers based on this workship as a special edition of a peer-review Journal.
Venue
The workshop will take place in the Engineering Building 2 (76), Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to prosodyworkshop@gmail.com