ProsLang2018: ProsLang: Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand, November 29-30, 2018 |
Conference website | https://proslang.wordpress.com/about/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proslang2018 |
Submission deadline | April 23, 2018 |
As an integral part of spoken language, prosody has been shown to play an important role in many speech production and perception processes. However, our knowledge of the role of prosody in speech processing draws on a relatively narrow range of (mostly closely related) languages. There is an urgent need for more psycholinguistic research looking at commonalities and differences in the use of prosodic cues in speech processing across different languages, and also different varieties of major languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in this area. We are particularly interested in research on: (i) the role of prosody in semantic interpretation, including information structure; and (ii) prosody as an organisational structure for speech production and perception, including multimodal perspectives.
ProsLang is a satellite event of the 17th Speech Science & Technology Conference, which will take place at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, on 4-7 December 2018.
Themes
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Themes include, but are not limited to, cross-linguistic and cross-varietal commonalities and differences in:
- the role of prosody in signalling information structure, particularly in the activation and resolution of contrast and contrastive alternatives
- links between prosodic structure and multimodal speech cues such as gesture
- prosodic structure as an organisational frame in speech production or perception
- the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse
- the integration of prosody and morphosyntactic cues in speech comprehension, e.g. as cues to information structure Committees
Abstract Submission Guidelines
- Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed one page of text (A4).
- References, examples and/or figures can optionally be included on a second page. Please use the MS Office Word template provided here.
- Submitted abstracts must be in .pdf format, with Times New Roman font, size 12, 1 inch margins and single spacing.
- The filename must be in the form ”Paper_title.pdf”
- Do not include author names or affiliations, and submit abstracts as property-free PDF files.
- Please provide between three and five keywords that best characterize your submission
Organizing committee
Sasha Calhoun, VUW
Paul Warren, VUW
Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne
Olcay Turk, VUW
Mengzhu Yan, VUW
Invited Speakers
Anne Cutler, MARCS, Western Sydney University
Bettina Braun, Universität Konstanz
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University
Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne
Nicole Gotzner, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin
Venue
The conference will be held at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to paul.warren@vuw.ac.nz