LINGUIST List 21.3287 Sat Aug 14 2010 Calls: Phonology/Austria Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Viola Schmitt, Workshop on the Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic Message 1: Workshop on the Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic Date: 14-Aug-2010 From: Viola Schmitt <vs.violaschmittgmail.com> Subject: Workshop on the Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Workshop on the Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic Date: 27-Apr-2011 - 27-Apr-2011 Location: Vienna, Austria Contact Person: Edwin Williams Meeting Email: edwinprinceton.edu Web Site: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/glow34.linguistics/ Linguistic Field(s): Phonology Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: The workshop will take the semantic notions of topic and focus as given, and investigate the systems for phonologically marking them, especially concentrating on variation in how the marking is done across languages. Call For Papers The workshop will take the semantic notions of topic and focus as given, and investigate the systems for phonologically marking them, especially concentrating on variation in how the marking is done across languages. For example, we have the shiftable pitch-accents of Germanic languages vs. the relatively fixed prosodic structures of Romance; on a broader scale, we have languages like Japanese that do not use pitch-accents to mark focus, but nevertheless mark focus phonologically, through phrasing and varying pitch range. The following empirical and analytic questions are put forward as central to the the project of the workshop: -Are there languages in which there is no prosodic reflex of contrastive focus or givenness? -How do those languages which encode focus and givenness prosodically differ in the phonological and phonetic tools to mark these notions? -Do phrasing and prominence go hand-in-hand, or are they two orthogonal dimensions that interact with focus and givenness marking independently? -Which comes first, focus or prominence; that is, is the mapping accent-to- focus or focus-to-accent? -Are differences in focus marking paralleled by differences in topic marking? -How does the marking of contrastive or ''corrective'' focus/topic differ from neutral focus/topic across languages? -How do phonological means of marking topic or focus interact with syntactic and morphological means? Comparative studies are especially encouraged, as well as studies of systems different from the well-known ones. Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages in length (A4 or letter-sized). This includes data and references. Abstracts must have the following format: font not smaller than 12pt., single spacing, 1-inch/2,5-cm margins on all sides. Submissions must be in pdf-format. Submissions are limited to 2 papers per author, only 1 of which may be single-authored. Nothing in the abstract, the title, or the name of the document should identify the author Deadline: November 1, 2010 Authors will be notified by the end of January, 2011 whether their paper got accepted. All abstracts must be submitted via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow34foc If you have any questions, please contact : glow34.workshop.phonologiegmail.com For further information, please consult the website: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/glow34.linguistics/ Contact: University of Vienna Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Sensengasse 3a 1090 Wien phone: +43-1-4277-417 21 fax: +43-1-4277-9417 email: glow34.linguisticsunivie.ac.at workshop e-mail: glow34.workshop.phonologiegmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.