Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond
Aix-Marseille
Université (AMU), Aix-en- Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Thank you very much to all the participants!
Here is the booklet of abtracts
The new version of the program is available here with poster format
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en- Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim
Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and
semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims. This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers
Michael Wagner, McGill University
Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical),
- the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody,
- the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management,
- more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue
Submissions
We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references. The submission webpage is the following: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=promaix2018. Please, upload your abstract as a pdf file.
NEW ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 June 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018
Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers
Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU),
Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität
Stuttgart.
Scientific committee
Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
Roxane Bertrand (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Bettina Braun (University of Constance),
Daniel Büring (University of Wien),
Sasha Calhoun (University of Wellington),
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS, Université de Nantes),
Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen),
Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University),
James German (Aix-Marseille University),
Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart),
Frank Kügler (University of Cologne),
Amandine Michelas (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Caterina Petrone (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Giuseppina Turco (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot),
Pauline Welby (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Margaret Zellers (University of Kiel).
Local committee
Carine André, LPL-CNRS
Axel Barrault, ILCB-AMU
Sébastien Bermond, LPL-AMU
Brigitte Bigi, LPL-CNRS
Cyril Deniaud, LPL-AMU
Stéphanie Desous, LPL-CNRS
Lydia Dorokhova, LPL-AMU
Aurélie Goujon, LPL-AMU
Rémi Lamarque, LPL-AMU
Joëlle Lavaud, LPL-CNRS
Frédéric Lefevre, LPL-AMU
Nadia Monségu, LPL-CNRS
Claudia Pichon-Starke, LPL-CNRS
Elora Rivière, LPL-CNRS
Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr