Phonetik & Phonologie 17 (GU) Call for abstracts

Phonetik & Phonologie 17 – Goethe Universität Frankfurt Die Frankfurter Phonetik und Phonologie freut sich auf die Ausrichtung der diesjährigen P&P-17! Wir laden herzlich ein zur Einreichung von Abstracts zu allen Bereichen der Phonetik und Phonologie. Insbesondere ermutigen wir Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen zur Teilnahme. Wie bisher auch planen wir einen Mix aus Vorträgen und Postern und bitten dies bei der Einreichung und bei der Angabe zum Präsentationsformat zu bedenken.  Einreichungen: Abstracts (max. 300 Wörter ohne Literaturverzeichnis; anonymisiert) bis spätestens 30. Mai 2021 unter Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pp2021. Tagungsort: Goethe Universität Frankfurt, aus gegebenem Anlass virtuell über ein geeignetes Tool (weitere Informationen dazu folgen) Konferenzsprache: Konferenzsprache ist grundsätzlich Deutsch; Beiträge auf Englisch werden akzeptiert Wichtige Daten: Easychair Portal öffnet                    30.04.2021 Einreichungen bitte bis                   30.05.2021 Mitteilung über Annahme              30.06.2021 Anmeldung bis                                 15.08.2021 (über pundp2021@gmail.com) Tagung                                  ...
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Roundtable on Hungarian Intonation 20.01.2021

Dear all, we are happy to announce the Roundtable on Hungarian Intonation as part of the Phonology Colloquium. Date: Wed 20. January 2021 Time: 15.00 (sharp) - approx. 18.30 Location: Zoom Please register beforehand (Kuegler@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data to zoom! A schedule of the talks can be found here: https://www.linguistik-in-frankfurt.de/institut/lehrstuhl-phonologie-kugler/roundtable-on-hungarian-prosody-20-01-2021/ All are welcome! /frank...
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Talk by Christiane Ulbrich (U Konstanz)

We are very happy to announce the next talk in our phonology colloquium this term. Christiane Ulbrich (U Konstanz) will talk about "Speech accommodation in L2" The talk will take place online, on Zoom. Please register beforehand (Kuegler@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data to zoom! Christine Ulbrich: Title: Speech accommodation in L2 Time: 09. December 2020, 4 pm ct Abstract: In this talk, I am presenting the results of a series of experiments on speech accommodation to address two issues. (i) Even though research has dealt with such accommodation effects since the 1970s, the mechanisms behind the process(es) are still not very well understood. Some believe that accommodation is a dynamic process that speakers strategically apply to gain social approval and to attain communicational efficiency. Others proposes accommodation to be largely automatic. The question is how these two mechanisms can be observed in non-native speech. In other words, provided that a desire of non-native speakers to archive a high level of intelligibility can be assumed, does...
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Talk by Eva Zimmermann (U Leipzig)

Dear colleagues, we are very happy to announce the next talk in our phonology colloquium this term. Eva Zimmermann (U Leipzig) will talk about "Gradient Symbolic Representations and the Typology of Phonological Exceptions". The talk will take place online. Title: Gradient Symbolic Representations and the Typology of Phonological Exceptions Time: 02. December 2020, 4 pm ct Place: Zoom Abstract below: Gradient Symbolic Representations and the Typology of Phonological Exceptions The assumption of Gradient Symbolic Representations that phonological elements can have different degrees of activity (Smolensky and Goldrick, 2016; Rosen, 2016; Zimmermann, 2018, 2019) allows a unified explanation for the typology of phonological exceptions. Exceptional (non)triggers and (non)undergoers of otherwise regular phonological processes are predicted from gradient constraint violations: The activation of a phonological element in an underlying morpheme representation determines 1) how much the element is preserved by faithfulness constraints and 2) how much it is visible for markedness constraints. I argue that this simple mechanism predicts the attested typology of phonological exceptions and that the predictions made...
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