The relation between prosodic and referential structure
Workshop (AG 2) organized as part of the 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, March 7-9, 2018.
Organizers:
Stefan Baumann, Klaus von Heusinger & Petra B. Schumacher; University of Cologne.
Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Arnold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University)
Aims and background:
Prosodic structure (of spoken language) contributes together with syntactic, morphological and lexical material to the referential structure of phrases, sentences and discourses. Research on prosodic and referential structure has mainly focused on the linguistic cues speakers use to mark the discourse status of a referring expression (cf. Arnold 2010). We would like to broaden this view to different levels of interaction between prosodic and referential structure and address the following questions: (i) Which aspects determine the prosodic setup of referring expressions? (ii) What is the influence of the prosodic structure on the semantics of sentences? (iii) To what extent do we rely on prosodic information to understand discourse structure?
Mi., 07.03.2018
13:45-14:15 | Stefan Baumann, Klaus von Heusinger & Petra Schumacher | Introduction Introduction: Prosody and referential structure |
14:15-15:15 | Jennifer E. Arnold Is prosody an intentional signal of information structure? (invited talk) |
15:15-15:45 | Markus Greif & Stavros Skopeteas Discourse status, lexical mention, and prosodic plasticity |
15:45-16:30 | Kaffeepause / coffee break |
17:00-18:00 | Arndt Riester, Kerstin Eckart, Ina Rösiger, Antje Schweitzer, Katrin Schweitzer & Sabrina Stehwien | talk Studying the prosodic properties of referring expressions in corpus resources: Obstacles and state of the art |
Do., 08.03.2018
9:00-10:00 | Jennifer Cole | talk Intonational meaning and the representation of prenuclear melodies (invited talk) |
10:00-10:30 | Nicole Gotzner & Katharina Spalek Speakers’ expectations about upcoming discourse referents: Effects of pitch accents and focus particles |
10:30-11:15 | Kaffeepause / coffee break |
11:15-11:45 | Alessandra Zappoli, Francesco Vespignani, Stefan Baumann, Martine Grice & Petra Schumacher The processing of German Pitch Accents by Italian learners of German |
11:45-12:15 | Gerard O’Grady | talk Given and New: the interaction of prosody, word order and semantics |
12:15-12:45 | Malte Belz Filler form and dialogue structure |
12:45-13:45 | Mittagspause / Lunch break |
13:45-14:15 | Marcel Schlechtweg & Holden Härtl | talk Do we pronounce quotation marks? A comparison of referring and name-mentioning expressions |
14:15-14:45 | Gerrit Kentner & Michael Wagner | talk Prosodic rendering of conflicting information structures |
Fr., 09.03.2018
11:45-12:15 | Carola De Beer, Clara Huttenlauch, Sandra Hanne & Isabell Wartenburger Inter- and Intra-individual Variability in Prosodic Cue Production |
12:15-12:45 | Swantje Tönnis | talk Investigating the Distribution of Clefts in Written and Spoken German: The Role of Prosody |
12:45-13:15 | Andrea Pešková & Ingo Feldhausen | talk Intonation and discourse status of Spanish subject pronoun yo (‘I’) |
13:15-13:45 | Jacopo Torregrossa & Maria Andreou Er and der: their interpretation and phonology in child language |
13:45-14:15 | Utz Maas & Nabila Louriz Prosodic structures in spontaneous (interactive) vs. canonical (edited) utterances. Examples from Moroccan Arabic |