Full Title: Aspiration in Language
Short Title: AsiL

Date: 03-Dec-2025 - 04-Dec-2025
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact Person: Christiane Ulbrich
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Sep-2025

Call for Papers

Workshop: Aspiration in Language
Part of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language
University of Cologne, 3-4 December 2025
Website: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/aspiration-in-language

We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on Aspiration in Language, which will take place on 3rd and 4th December 2025 at the University of Cologne within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (CRC 1252: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on aspiration from phonetic, phonological, typological, diachronic, and psycholinguistic perspectives. We are especially interested in contributions that explore the interaction between aspiration and prominence, broadly construed—covering prosodic prominence, stress, focus, and information structure.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Acoustic and articulatory correlates of aspiration in different prominence contexts
- Typological variation in aspiration–prominence relationships
- Aspiration in second language acquisition and bilingual speech
- Diachronic change and the role of aspiration in prosodic restructuring
- Perceptual cues and listener processing of aspiration and prominence
- Methodological advances in measuring and analysing aspiration

Confirmed Invited Speakers:
- Míša Hejná, Aarhus University
- Johanna Cronenberg, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Abstract submission guidelines:
- Abstracts must be submitted in English.
- Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words (excluding references).
- Please submit a PDF without any identifying information.
- Please also submit a separate file with your name, affiliation, and contact details.

Important Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2025

Workshop dates: 3-4 December 2025
Contact/Abstract submission:
Christiane Ulbrich ([email protected])

We look forward to your contributions to a lively and interdisciplinary discussion on aspiration and its role in cueing prominence in spoken language.