prosodylab

workshop on prosodic development

The program of the workshop on prosodic development, organized by Pilar Prieto is now available online.

The main goal of this one-day workshop is to discuss different aspects of the children’s prosodic development in different languages. Discussions will address specific questions regarding the influence of language-specific distributional and frequency properties on language development and also the influence of general production and perception constraints. One of the goals will be to try to bridge the gap between perception and production studies in prosodic development.

frontiers of prosody

A call for frontiers of prosody, a conference to take place in Leiden, Netherlands, was just posted:

We welcome the submission of work which uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to address the role of prosodic information in production and comprehension, including individual variation and effects that can be attributed to typologically different prosodic systems.

Deadline for abstract submission: August 15, 2010
Workshop: November 19-20, 2010 in Leiden, Netherlands

amlap 2010

AMLaP is an international conference which has established itself as the premier European venue for interdisciplinary research into how people process language. The aim of the conference is to bring together psychological, computational, and theoretical perspectives on the cognitive mechanisms which underlie any aspect of human language processing. Submissions which integrate experimental psycholinguistic evidence with formal or computational models of psychological processes are especially encouraged.

6th - 8th September 2010, York, UK

Submission Dates: Abstract submission will open May 1st. Abstracts due by May 28th.

paper on association with focus

Wagner, M. , M. Breen, E. Flemming, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & E. Gibson (2010). Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus. To be presented at Speech prosody.

Three factors that have been argued to influence the prosody of an utterance are (i) which constituents encode discourse-salient information; (ii) which constituents are contrastive and evoke alternatives; and (iii) which constituents interact with the meaning of focus operators such as only (i.e., they ‘associate’ with focus). One challenge for a better understanding of the prosodic effects of these factors has been the difficulty of finding a way to evaluate hypotheses quantitatively, since individual variation in productions is often large enough to wash out experimental effects. In this paper, we apply a methodology introduced in Breen et al. (submitted) which regresses out subject and item variation, uncovering otherwise hidden prosodic patterns, and show how the three factors interact in sentences containing single or multiple foci.

cornell workshop on grammar induction

Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction will bring together researchers from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and computer science who work on issues of learning and learnability in language. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers approaching similar problems with the perspectives and methodologies of diverse fields.

Date: 14-May-2010 - 16-May-2010

naphc 6

Sixth North American Phonology Conference:

A celebration of the 51st anniversary of the publication of Morris Halle’s The Sound Pattern of Russian (SPR). We invite papers (on any and all languages–not just Russian!) that address issues raised by the conditions on phonological theory proposed in SPR.

Concordia University, Montreal
April 30-May 2, 2010

Submission deadline: March 26, 2010

mcclu

This weekend, mcclue, McGill’s Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates, is taking place. It is organized by slum, the society of linguistics undergraduates at McGill.

phonology strikes back

After this week’s TOM (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop) at McGill, the phonologists will have their say at next week’s MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop) at Carleton.

tom this saturday

More stuff going this week at McGill than just mg3: TOM, the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal workshop on semantics is taking place this Saturday. Here’s the program: TOM.

music and gesture 3

This weekend, the third conference on music and gesture will take place in Montreal this coming Friday and Saturday. Marcin Swoboda and I will be presenting on Encoding emotion: how performers manipulate tempo locally to convey affect.

The conference forms part of the musimars music festival, organized this year under the theme ‘gestural music–musical gesture.’ All throughout this week, there will be concerts and lectures at the Schulich School of Music.