UMass at Speech Prosody 2016

Speech Prosody 2016 was hosted by Boston University from Tuesday, May 31 through Friday 3 in Boston. UMass was represented by 

alumna Emily Elfner, who gave the tale “Subject/Object complexity and prosody boundary strength in Irish"

alumnus Jesse Harris, with Sun-Ah Jun and Adam Joyer, who gave the talk “Implicit prosody pulls its weight: Recovery from garden path sentences.”

Mara Breen, with Sarah Weidman and Katherine Haydon, gave the talk “Prosodic speech entrainment in romantic relationships."

Covadonga Sánchez-Alvarado and Meghan E. Armstrong gave the talk “Pitch scaling and the perception of contrastive focus in L1 and L2 Spanish."

Alumna Amy Schafer, with Múria Esteve-Gibert, Cristel Portes, Barbara Hemforth and Mariapaola D’Imperio, gave the paper “Intonation in the processing of contrast meaning in French: An eye-tracking study."

Meghan Armstrong organized a special session on Rising intonation in English and beyond, and gave a talk, with Maria Del Mar Vanrell, at that session entitled “Intonational polar question markers and implicature in American English and Majorcan Catalan.” She also, with Page Piccinini and Amanda Ritchart, gave the poster “Non-Question rises in narratives produced by mothers and daughters."

UMass at WAFL 12

Central Connecticut College is hosting the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics this weekend, May 13-15. UMass is represented by:

Deniz Özyildiz, who is giving the poster “*Say what? A Turkish word order restriction explained by prosody."

and

alumnus Satoshi Tomioka, who is giving the invited talk “Purposeful Questions: A New Embedding Strategy."

For more information, go here.

ACAL 47

The 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics is being hosted by the University of California, Berkeley on March 23-26. UMass is represented by:

Rodica Ivan and Deniz Ozyildiz who are giving the paper “The Somali microscope: pronouns, determiners and possession.” (Their abstract is here,)

William Bennett, Kristine Yu and alumnus Wendell Kimper with Christopher Green who are giving the paper “Acoustic correlates of harmonic classes in Somali."

Alumna Rose-Marie Déchaine, who is giving the paper “Shona root classes: implications for the lexicon and beyond,” and, with Herman Keupdjio, “Compound pronouns in Bamileke Medumba"

Lisa Selkirk who is giving the paper “Edge-sensitivity in Bantu sentence topology: Luganda, Xitsonga, Bemba"

Leland Kusmer who is giving the paper “Prosody and the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Tshivenda"

Alumna Meredith Landman who is giving the paper “Quantification in Kipsigis"

Alumnus Ken Safir gives the paper “Actual clauses in Lubukusu and what they mean for a symmetric theory of clausal complementation."

You can learn more about the conference here.

AIX Summer School on Prosody

AIX SUMMER SCHOOL ON PROSODY 2016:

Methods in Prosody and Intonation Research: Data, Theories, Transcription

Laboratoire de Parole et Langage, Aix Marseille Université, France.

September 6-9, 2016

http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/

We are pleased to announce the "Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016 " tobe held from September 6-9, 2016 in Aix en Provence (France).

The Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016 will bring together experts ontheoretical and practical aspects of the research on prosody. The school will be organized around morning lectures and afternoon tutorials (where participants will practice concepts and skills discussed in lectures) and data clinics (where participants can bring together their own data and questions for discussion).

The school is intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in all the theoretical and practical aspects of the research on prosody and intonation. The school will be suitable bothfor researchers already working on intonation and prosody, and wishingto learn more about specific topics, and for researchers who wish tobetter understand how to incorporate and control prosody in their own work.

Topics will include (but not limited to): theoretical models on prosody and intonation; perception of intonation; prosody and language pathologies; prosody, semantics, and discourse; prosody and L2;prosody and neurolinguistics; transcription of intonation and prosody;statistical methods in prosody research; and preparation of stimulifor perception studies.

The confirmed invited speakers are:

Amalia Arvaniti (Kent University): Theoretical models of prosody

Mariapaola  D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille Université - IUF): Tonal alignment: perception and production

Laura Dilley (Michigan State University): Prosody and perception methods

Janet Fletcher (The University of Melbourne): Transcription of under-described languages

James Sneed German (Aix-Marseille Université): Prosody and discourse

Kiwako Ito (Ohio State University): Prosody and acquisition, prosody and eye tracking

Jelena Krivokapić (University of Michigan): Prosody and articulatory phonology

Oliver Niebuhr (University of Southern Denmark): Prosody and experimental methods in acoustics

Bert Remeijsen and Otto Gwado Ayoker (University of Edimburgh):Typology and field methods in prosody research: Shilluk prosody workshop

Annie Tremblay (Kansas University): Prosody and L2

Application deadline: May 31st 2016

For more information, please visit http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/

A number of scholarships will be offered for PhD students andpostdocs. For more information about registration and scholarships, go to http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/registration.html

Laura McPherson gives department colloq

Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College) will give the department colloquium this Friday at 3:30 in N400. The title of her talk is “Constraint Interaction and the role of spell-out in Dogon tonosyntax,” and an abstract follows.

The Dogon languages of Mali share a unique system of replacive grammatical tone in the DP, where a word’s lexical tone is completely overwritten by tonal overlays in particular morphosyntactic positions. Unlike more typologically common systems of replacive tone, which tend to be triggered by morphemes or morphological features and are confined to a single word, Dogon overlays in the DP may span multiple words and are triggered by certain c-commanding syntactic categories or positions (hence, tonosyntax). In cases where a word is targeted by more than one potential trigger, the Dogon languages differ in their resolutions. I argue that these changes are inherently morphological in nature, despite occurring at the phrase-level rather than the word-level, and propose a construction-based model in which phrase-level morphological constructions encode idiosyncratic phonological changes sensitive to both syntactic category and syntactic structure. Constructional schemas are implemented in the grammar as constraints (construction constraints). The variation found in the Dogon language family is descriptively quite complicated, with no two languages working in exactly the same way, but in this talk, I show that the surface patterns falls out naturally in a maximum entropy (Goldwater and Johnson 2003, Hayes and Wilson 2008) model with weighted constraints, capable of capturing both within-language and between-language variation.

Additionally, data from the tonosyntax of possession and relative clauses provide evidence for the role of phases in determining morphophonological form. In particular, the application of tonal overlays is often, though (crucially) not obligatorily, blocked on material that has spelled out in a previous cycle. I argue that these effects provide evidence for transcyclic faithfulness constraints, which penalize alterations to the morphophonological form of spelled out material in later grammatical cycles. Like all constraints, these too are shown to be violable, with different Dogon languages displaying varying degrees of faithfulness to phasal targets. Thus, the Dogon data show that while spelled out material may be resistant to later phonological changes, it is not immune to it, as argued by proposals such as Lowenstamm (2010) or Newell and Piggott (2014).

Call for papers: Prosody and Information Structure

*Prosody and Information Structure in Stuttgart (PINS)*
March 22-23, 2016

*Aim*

Starting out from the (not uncontroversial) assumption thatinformation-structural categories are universal and definable inabstract interpretive terms, this workshop aims at bringing togetherresearchers interested in the prosodic manifestation ofinformation-structural categories within and across languages, includingboth cross-linguistic comparisons as well as language contact situationsof various kinds (L2, FL, Heritage languages).
The workshop welcomes both semantic-pragmatically oriented as well asprosodically oriented contributions. We particularly invite experimentaland corpus-based studies.

*Important dates*

Deadline for Submission: October 11, 2015

Notification of Acceptance: November 16, 2015

Workshop: March 22-23, 2016

*Invited Speakers*

- Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)

- Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (LLF CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)

- Caroline Féry (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

- Michael Wagner (McGill University Montréal) (to be confirmed)

*Call for papers*

We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations.Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed onepage (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples,figures and references. Please submit your abstract as a pdf documentusing EasyChair.

*Info*

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS/index.en.html

*Topics of interest*

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Recent advances in the theory of information structure

- Which are the information-structural categories that are expressed prosodically in a language (including both L1 and L2 varieties)?

- Is the prosodic marking of information structure interpreted categorically by listeners (in both L1 and L2 varieties)?

- How does rhythm interact with the prosody of information structure?

-Are there prosodic effects which have no pragmatic interpretation? (Forexample: are prenuclear accents optional? Are there cases of deaccentuation which occur for purely phonological, non-meaning-related,reasons?)

- How do the results of production and perception studies on the prosody of information structure find their way into prosodic annotation systems for a language? How important is it that a pitch accent categorization reflects meaning differences?

- How can the results obtained from controlled studies be transferred to corpus data of spontaneous speech?

- What are semantic-pragmatic contexts suitable for the elicitation ofI S-prosody beyond question-answer pairs and/or explicit contrast structures?

- Which distinctions of referential information status (e.g. coreference anaphora, bridging anaphora, deixis, newness of discourse referents) and lexical information status (e.g. word repetition, synonymy, hypernymy, meronymy, discourse-newness of content expressions) are expressed by prosody (including both L1 and L2 varieties)?

- By means of which cues (pitch accents, phrasing) are these categories expressed?

- What kinds of speaker bias can be expressed in positive and negative polar questions, and how is this influenced by prosody?

- What is the role of implicit Questions under Discussion (QUDs) in the determination of information structure, and how can they be used in experimental and corpus linguistics?

- What is the interplay between discourse structure and information structure? What effects does discourse structure have on prosody?

- What is the relationship between at-issueness and prosody? How is not-at-issue material (e.g. appositions or evidentials) realized prosodically?

Call for papers: Speech Prosody 2016

Speech Prosody 2016 will be held in Boston May 31-June 3, 2016. This year’s theme is “Prosody and Individual: Unity and Difference Within and Across Speech Communities.” The deadline for submission of regular papers is November 15. (They are also accepting proposals for Special Sessions. The deadline for those proposals is September 15.) You can learn more about the conference here.

ETAP 3

The third meeting of Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is being hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 28-30. Kristine Yu will be giving a talk with Ed Stabler entitled “A parsing model for crowding, speech rate and syntax of tone.” Mt. Holyoke professor Mara Breen will also be giving a talk, with Johanna Kneifel, entitled “Rhythmic context affects on-line ambiguity resolution in silent reading.” And UMass alumna Emily Elfner will be giving her talk “Prosodic juncture strength and syntactic constituency in Connemara Irish.” For more information, go here.

5 Colleges Prosody Evening

Kristine Yu writes:

The inaugural get-together for the Five Colleges prosody community will be happening March 25, 5pm at the lovely abode of our colleague Heather Pon-Barry (CS, Mount Holyoke) in Northampton. This community is led by Meghan Armstrong (UMass, Hispanic Linguistics), Mara Breen (Mount Holyoke, Psychology), Heather Pon-Barry (Mount Holyoke, CS), and Kristine Yu (UMass, Linguistics).

Everyone---especially students---is welcome.  We will be chatting informally about ongoing work, including work that will be presented at ETAP 3 in May.  

Future events will be posted to the ling-prosody list by me, so please get on that (http://www.umass.edu/linguist/news/mailer.php) if you're interested.

Jill Thorson speaks on March 24

Jill Thorson (Northeastern University) will give a talk entitled "The development of intonation and information structure in early speech perception and production" on Tuesday, March 24th at 5:30 in 225 Herter Hall. An abstract follows.

Abstract

Infants are born with sensitivities to their native language s melody and rhythm. This attunement to prosody affects language development over the first years of life, and impacts early attentional processing, word learning, and speech production. The motivation for the first line of research is to investigate how American English-acquiring toddlers are guided by the mapping between intonation and information structure during on-line reference resolution and novel word learning. Specifically, I ask how specific pitch movements (deaccented/H*/L+H*) systematically predict patterns of attention and subsequent novel word learning abilities depending on the referring or learning condition (new/given/contrastive). Results show that the presence of either newness or a pitch accent facilitates attention, and that toddlers learn better from more prominent learning conditions. A second line of research examines the phonological and phonetic realizations of information categories as produced by toddler and adult speakers of English. During a spontaneous speech task designed as an interactive game, a set of target nouns are labeled and analyzed as new, given, or contrastive. Results reveal that toddlers reflect adult phonological patterns for new and contrastive information, as well as demonstrate a sophisticated usage of the acoustic correlates of intonation. Together, this set of studies demonstrates how higher-level components combine to direct attention to a referent in discourse and how this process helps explain mechanisms that are important for novel word learning and early speech production.

Call for papers: Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone

Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone: New Data and Theories
13-14 June 2015
Leipzig

Whereas tone has played a central role in the evolution of phonological theory (Goldsmith 1976, Pulleyblank 1986, Yip 2002), the channels by which morphology and syntax trigger tonal reflexes or conversely restrict tonal alternations are still hardly understood.Firmly persuaded by Hyman's (2011) dictum that `tone can do everythingsegmental or metrical phonology can do' (and more), we think that itis absolutely essential for linguistics to develop a better understanding for the empirical richness and the theoretical implications of the morphosyntax of tone. The goal of this workshop isto provide a forum to this end which brings together descriptively and theoretically oriented linguists addressing questions such as:

• How does morphosyntactic structure interact with tonal phonology? Do syntactic constructions trigger specific tone patterns? Which types of morphosyntactic boundaries restrict (or are required by) general tonal alternations? Does opacity in tonal processes correlate with morphological and syntactic levels of derivation?

• How does tonal featural affixation work morphologically? how are tonal morphemes linearized? Where do they show systematic patterns ofsyncretism and blocking or multiple exponence? What is the distribution of tonal prefixation and suffixation? Is there a tonal equivalent to infixation, and how does tonal overwriting work in contrast to additive tonal morphology?

• What can tonal phenomena teach us about the morphology-syntaxinterface? Are tonal alternations at the phrasal level substantially different from word-level processes? Where do tonal alternations crosscut the boundaries between word-level morphology and phrasal syntax?

We invite abstracts for twenty-minute talks with a ten-minutediscussion. We especially encourage contributions which present original fieldwork (or experimental results), but also highly welcome submissions that provide new theoretical approaches, establish new descriptive generalizations, or, simply, bring to the fore relevant data that have been published, but so far ignored in a the theoretical discussion.

Invited Speakers

• Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)• Mary Paster (Pomona College)

• Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)

Abstract Submission

Abstracts must be at most one page long. An optional second page is permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous.
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.

The abstract should be submitted as a PDF attachment and sent to the following e-mail address:
Eva.Zimmermann[aet]uni-leipzig.de

Please use `Abstract' as the Subject header and include the information in (1) - (4), which should constitute the body of the message. Please make sure that all fonts are embedded.

Author Information

• Name(s) of author(s)

• Title of talk

• Affiliation(s)

• E-mail address(es)

Deadline for Submission:  March 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance:  April 15, 2015

Postdoc at Leiden University

Aniko Liptak from Leiden University writes:

For the NWO project ‘Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax’, which will start later this year in Leiden, Lisa (Cheng) and me are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc in the field of syntax & prosody – see the two job advertisements on the Leiden University website, here and here .

Emmanuel Chemla speaks tomorrow

Emmanuel Chemla (Institut Jean Nicod and École Normale Supérieure) will give the last of his three lectures tomorrow, October 27, at 4:00 in the seminar hub (ILC N400). He will present joint work with Lewis Bott, Mora Maldonado and Benjamin Spector which uses priming studies to investigate linguistic representations and operations. His talk is presented in conjunction with Lyn Frazier and Brian Dillon’s joint seminar.

Pilar Prieto gives talk in Hispanic Linguistics on Thursday

Meghan Armstrong writes:

We invite you to join us for the first of our series of talks in Hispanic Linguistics:

Pilar Prieto (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Intonational and gestural meaning reflect information about spaces of commitment

October 16 - 11:30am

301 Herter Hall

ABSTRACT:

It is well-known that prosody and gesture patterns across languages, among other functions, convey information about the epistemic stance of the speaker, not only in relation to the speaker’s own propositions but also in relation to the addressee’s propositions. In the first part of this talk I will present evidence from two recent experiments on the role of prosody and gesture in the expression and assessment of the epistemic stance of the speaker (Roseano et al 2014, Borràs-Comes and Prieto 2014; see also Armstrong to appear). In one of our experiments on biased questions and intonation, results showed that different tune patterns in Catalan were used to encode (a) different degrees of speaker knowledge on the content of the speakers' own proposition; and (b) different degrees of speaker acceptance of the content of the proposition of the addressee(Borràs-Comes and Prieto 2014).

The second part of the talk will be devoted to show the results from a joint project with M.T. Espinal and S. Tubau (UAB) and two members of our team (J. Borràs-Comes and S. González, UPF) on the role of prosody and gesture in the interpretation of denial in Catalan. Two specific cases will be analyzed, namely double negation and yes-answers to negative yes-no questions (Espinal & Prieto 2011, Tubau et al. in press). These two cases constitute a challenge for semantics and pragmatics because double negative and yes- responses to negative questions are ambiguous in that they can constitute either a negative answer to the proposition expressed or a denial to a presupposition (e.g., What isn’t working? Nothing ‘Everything is working’; Isn't John coming (either)? Yes). Our research supports the conclusion that specific intonation contours (in particular, the so- called contradiction contour, L+H*L!H%) and gestures associated with n-words do constrain meaning in ways that allow listeners to obtain the double negation and/or the contradiction interpretation in the two types of structures. It is our claim that in both cases prosody and gesture act as linguistic and conventionalized encoders of presupposition denial (see also Espinal et al. to appear, Prieto et al. 2013). Support for the linguistic view comes from languages classified as truth-based languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, or Russian [Jones 1999: 8ff.]), which contradict negative questions by answering no yes (Don’t you drink coffee? No yes (meaning you are not right, I drink coffee)), while some languages with a polarity-based system contradict the truth of the negative proposition by answering Yes and a specific prosody (i.e. the answer ‘disagrees’ with the whole contentof the negative sentence).

Following Krifka's proposal on the interpretation of speech acts as "spaces of commitments", we propose that intonation and gesture patterns associated both to biased questions and to n-words and particles can be interpreted as epistemic operators encoding REJECT, ASSERT and REQUEST operations (see also Portes et al. 2014 for a related proposal). For example, the contradicting answer to a negative question yes is composed of REJECT (encoded by prosody and gesture) plus ASSERT(φ) (encoded through the positive word, where φ is the propositional discourse referent). All in all, these results are challenging for the design that has been traditionally assumed in the theory of grammar, since they suggest that prosody and gesture constrain meaning representations. Inparticular, the inferencing of denial.

First Symposium on Intonation and Tone in the Spanish speaking World

Meghan Armstrong writes:

We hope you can join us for the 1st Symposium on Intonation and Tone in the Spanish-speaking World (InToSpan) on October 10 and 11. 

Plenary talks:

Friday @ 9:45am: José Ignacio Hualde "Perception of Prosodic Prominence in Spanish"

Saturday @ 1:00pm: John Kingston "Otomanguean tones: Typology, Phonology and Phonetics"

You can find more information, including the conference program, on our webpage: http://intospan2014.weebly.com

The Symposium will take place in N400 of the Integrative Learning Center. We hope you can join us!

Tone Workshop this week

The Tone Workshop will be this Monday and Tuesday in the Life Sciences Laboratories N610. The program follows.

MONDAY, JUNE 2

9:30-10:30    Breakfast + coffee

10:30-11:30   Mark Liberman: Tone without pitch

11:30-12:30   Jianjing Kuang: The covariation between pitch and phonation: the case of creaky voice in Mandarin tones

12:30-1:00    Discussion

1:00-2:00     Lunch (served)

2:00-3:00     John Kingston: Tone in Chinantec

3:00-4:00     Christian DiCanio: Moraic alignment of Mixtec tone: exploring complex timing relations in Oto-Manguean tonal systems

4:00-5:00     Discussion

Workshop dinner at Kristine Yu’s house.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3

9:30-10  Breakfast + coffee

10-11    Bert Remijsen: Further evidence for contrastive alignment in falling contours

11-12    Kristine Yu on Bole; Scott Myers reaction from African perspective

12-12:30 Discussion

12:30-2  Lunch (served)

2-3      James Kirby: Tonogenesis in Khmer

3-4      Yi Xu: Toward parametric representation of tone: Articulatorydynamics and computational modeling

4-5      Discussion

UMass at Speech Prosody 7

Trinity College in Dublin is hosting the seventh Speech Prosody conference this week (May 20-23). UMass is represented by Kristine Yu, who will be presenting “Intonational phonology in Bengali and English infant-direct speech,” joint work with Sameer Ud Dowla Khan and Megha Sundara, and by Meghan Armstrong, who presents “The acquisition of multimodal cues to disbelief,” joint work with Nuria Esteve-Gilbert and Pilar Prieto.

UMass at Exploring the Interfaces 3

On May 8-10, McGill University hosted Exploring the Interfaces, a conference devoted to the stuff between syntax, semantics, phonology and morphology.  Invited speakers included UMass alumna Emily Elfner (who also co-organized the conference) and UMass faculty Kristine Yu. Emily’s talk was entitled “Syntax-prosody mismatches in Irish and English verb-initial structures," and Kristine’s talk was entitled “Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan.” Lisa Selkirk also presented a talk, with Seunghun Lee (CCSU) entitled “Structural restrictions on H tone spread in Xitsonga.”  And UMass alumna Molly Diesing, with Draga Zec, gave the paper “Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate-initial sentences in Serbian.” WHISC has also learned that UMass students Jeremy Pasquereau and Leland Kusmer were also present. For a full schedule, go here.

Call for papers: Exploring the Interface

Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure

Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2014

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2014

Conference: May 8-10, 2014

Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3 will take place at McGill University  from May 8-10, 2014. This workshop will be the last of three workshops  organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group (McSIRG)  as part of a multi-year grant to study linguistic interfaces.  Following ETI 1 (Word structure) and ETI 2 (Implicatures, alternatives  and the semantics/pragmatics interface), the topic of ETI 3 will be  'Prosody and Constituent Structure'.

In particular, ETI 3 will deal with issues surrounding prosodic and  phonological evidence for syntactic constituent structure, with a  focus on verb-initial languages.

Goals of the Workshop:

- To bring together researchers working on issues at the  syntax-phonology interface (e.g. syntactic constituency, prosodic  effects on word order) from the perspectives of syntax, prosody, and  phonology/phonetics

- To bring together researchers working on a variety of different  languages, with an emphasis on languages with default verb-initial  word order

- To encourage communication and discussion about methodologies that  can be used for the empirical study of prosody and thesyntax-phonology interface

Invited Speakers:
Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)

Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)

Lauren Eby Clemens (Harvard)

Emily Elfner (McGill)

Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)

Norvin Richards (MIT)

Joey Sabbagh (UT Arlington)

Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Methods Tutorials:
In addition to the regular session, we will have two tutorials on  local technological tools for fieldwork, with special reference to  fieldwork on prosody:

- Tutorial 1: Automatic Acoustic Alignment in Underdocumented Languages

- Tutorial 2: LingSync: An Online Tool for Field Work

Call for Papers:
In addition to eight invited speakers, we are accepting abstracts for  a limited number of additional talks (30 minutes + 10 minutes  discussion) and posters. We particularly welcome papers which address  the following questions:

- What can prosodic and phonological evidence tell us about syntactic  constituent structure?

- To what extent do syntactic, phonological and prosodic evidence  agree with one another regarding constituent structure?

- What is the role of prosody in determining word order?

- Can prosodic and phonological evidence be used to help distinguish  between competing syntactic accounts of how word order is derived?

We welcome abstracts dealing with these topics in any language, but  would particularly welcome abstracts on verb-initial languages in  keeping with the theme of the conference.

Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 500 words (including  examples, but not counting title or references), and should be  submitted in PDF format on the following easychair site by February  28, 2014:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eti3

Please indicate on the form whether you would prefer an oral  presentation, a poster presentation, or whether either would be  acceptable. By default, we will first consider you for an oral  presentation. Additionally, we hope to have some funding available to  supplement travel costs for student presenters.

Questions may be directed to eti3.mcgill@gmail.com.

Sound Workshop schedule

Kristine Yu writes:

Here is the current sound workshop schedule for Spring semester, whichwill be kept up to date as the semester progresses. Future internalannouncements about the workshop will be sent to the ling-sound list here.