The second meeting of Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) will meet at McGill University on September 23-25, 2011. The first meeting of ETAP was at Cornell in 2008, and had many of the leading lights in prosody, including our own Lisa Selkirk, and alumni Katy Carlson and Masako Hirotani. The papers of ETAP 1 were published in a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes, and the same will happen with ETAP 2.
The conference webpage says:
A special focus of this year’s ETAP are contextual influences on prosody. Examining the effects of context on the prosody of an utterance – for example, the context-dependent changes in the duration and prominence of different words or the grouping of words into larger prosodic/meaning units – provides a powerful tool for understanding syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse-level factors and their interplay in language production and comprehension.
Mara Breen, from UMass's Psychology department, is one of the invited speakers.
Student travel stipends are available.
Deadline for submissions is May 15. For more information, go to: call
