Standard
prosody or prosody of linguistic standards?
Prosodic variation and
grammar writing
Date:
Location:
Contact: Jörg Peters (
j.peters@let.ru.nl)
Meeting description
With the advances of prosodic
theory in the last few decades, descriptive grammars have paid more and more
attention to prosody. Encyclopaedic grammars like the Comprehensive grammar of the English language (Quirk et al. 1985) and
the 7th edition of the Dudengrammatik
(2005) even devote entire chapters to prosody. Those grammars claim to describe
national standard languages, which are codified in written language. Prosody,
however, is only partly codified, if at all. The question arises whether there
is nonetheless a standard prosody shared by all speakers of a national standard
language on which grammars can be built. Until the mid 90s of the last century,
prosodic research mainly dealt with standard languages, using impressionistic
judgements or a few speakers of the standard language as their data source. In
the last decade, prosodic variation has become one of the fastest-growing
topics, especially in Autosegmental Phonology and in
spoken language research. The findings in these research areas challenge the
view that there is a single standard prosody shared by all speakers of a
standard language. One of the tasks of prosodic research, therefore, will be to
examine how much variation is involved in the prosody used by speakers of
national standard languages, and, more generally, to examine the implications
prosodic variation has for grammatical description.
Invited speakers
Caroline Féry
(
Peter Gilles (
Carlos Gussenhoven (
Klaus J. Kohler (
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers on all topics related
to prosodic variation and the relevance of prosody for grammar writing are
welcome. In particular, we encourage contributions to
- the prosody of standard and
non-standard varieties
- regional, social and
stylistic variation of prosody
- syntactic structure and
prosodic variation
- the modelling of prosody as
part of grammars.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10-minute question
period. The language of the workshop will be English.
The workshop will be part of
the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Abstracts should be in English and fit on one page (using 2.5 cm margins
on each side, 1.2 line spacing, and 12pt font size). The abstract should
include the following information: author's name(s), affiliation, email
address, and title of abstract.
All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please contact us for further assistance.
Please send your submission electronically to all three organizers (see
below).
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission:
Notification of acceptance:
Final programme:
Workshop: 28 February -
Workshop program and
abstracts
The workshop program is
available at http://www3.uni-siegen.de/fb3/dgfs2007/ags/prog-ag-07.html?lang=en
Abstracts can be downloaded here.
Organizing comittee
Jörg
Peters (j.peters@let.ru.nl)
Margret Selting (selting@uni-potsdam.de)
Marc Swerts (M.G.J.Swerts@uvt.nl)