Dear all,
On behalf of Ulrike Gut and myself, I would like to forward you a CfP for a thematic workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions" (see below), which we are organizing at the BICLCE Conference 2024 in Alicante, Spain (https://web.ua.es/es/biclce2024/presentacion.html). The workshop has already been accepted. Please feel free to forward the CfP to anyone who you think might be interested in contributing to the workshop.
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Thematic workshop: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE)
Organizer(s): Philipp Meer (University of Münster, philipp.meer@uni-muenster.de); Ulrike Gut (University of Münster, gut@uni-muenster.de)
Important dates: August 27, 2023 Deadline proposed title December 15, 2023 Deadline abstract September 26-28, 2024 Conference dates
Description:
We invite submissions for a workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions" to be held at the 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) in Alicante, Spain (September 26-28, 2024). The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various fields of English linguistics to share their research and discuss the latest developments in corpus phonology.
Corpus phonology refers to the study of phonetic and phonological phenomena in naturally occurring speech data using corpus-based approaches (Gut 2009; Durand et al. 2014; Gut & Fuchs 2017; Liberman 2019). The field combines methods and approaches from corpus linguistics, phonetics and phonology, speech processing technology, statistics, and related fields. With the increasing availability of large-scale corpora and advances in computational tools, corpus phonology has become an important area of research in English phonetics and phonology (e.g. Rosenfelder et al. 2014; McAuliffe et al. 2017; Jansen & Langstrof 2019; Stuart-Smith et al. 2019; Meer 2020; Gorisch et al. 2020; Meer 2020; Meer et al. 2021; Li et al. 2021; Coto-Solano 2022; Coats 2023). At the same time, new types of questions and challenges for research arise. In this workshop, we aim to explore both current approaches and future directions in corpus phonology. Specifically, the workshop aims to address the following research questions:
(1) How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively compiled? (2) How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively used to investigate phonetic and phonological properties of English? (3) How can corpus phonology contribute to our understanding of sociolinguistic phenomena, such as language change and contact? (4) What are the benefits and challenges in using state-of-the art computational tools in corpus phonology research, and what new research opportunities do they create?
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Corpus-based study of phonological variation • Corpus phonology and phonological theory • Phonological corpus compilation and computational tools (such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), forced alignment, machine learning, etc.) • The use of corpora in analyzing phonetic detail • Corpus phonology and sociolinguistics • Corpus phonology and L2/L3 research • Corpus-based approaches to prosody and intonation
We welcome submissions from both established academics and early career researchers working on these and related topics. We encourage submissions that draw on data from a wide range of varieties of English, as well as those that present novel methodologies or theoretical frameworks.
We would be grateful if you could confirm your willingness to contribute – together with a proposed title – by August 27, 2023. Abstract submissions should be in the form of abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding references. Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF to the workshop organizers at philipp.meer@uni-muenster.de and gut@uni-muenster.de by December 15, 2023.
Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20-minute presentation slots, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We will also allocate time for a general discussion of the research questions at the end of the workshop. The publication of an edited volume of papers presented as part of the workshop is envisaged.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to an exciting workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions".
Keywords: corpus phonology; corpus linguistics; speech technology; sociolinguistics; L2 research
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Best wishes, Philipp __________
Philipp Meer Research Associate (Postdoc) University of Münster – English Department Johannisstr. 12-20, D-48143 Münster, Germany Email: philipp.meer@uni-muenster.de Website: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Staff/Meer.shtml
Visiting Researcher Speech Prosody Studies Group University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Institute of Language Studies (IEL) Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, no 571, Campinas – São Paulo - Brazil
External profiles: ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp_Meer Academia.edu: https://uni-muenster.academia.edu/PhilippMeer