ProVar2021: Prosodic Variation: the Role of Past and Present Contact in Multilingual Societies Pompeu Fabra University / Poblenou Campus C/Roc Boronat, 138 – 08018 Barcelona Barcelona, Spain, June 23, 2021 |
Conference website | https://provar2021.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provar2021 |
Submission opens | December 23, 2020 |
Submission deadline | February 15, 2021 |
ProVar2021 is a satellite workshop of Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2021, 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 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, 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 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.
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.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 28th of February 2021.
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, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Publication
The organisers will be seeking to publish a collection of papers based on this workshop as a special edition of a peer-review journal.
Venue
The workshop will take place at Pompeu Fabra University / Poblenou Campus, Barcelona, Spain.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to prosodyworkshop@gmail.com