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November 27-29, 2008
University of Stuttgart
Heilbronner Str. 7
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
Room: 7.102 (except Friday morning, when we will be in 7.004)
Organizers: Petra Augurzky & Manuela Korth
Background
In the last few decades, language research has been characterized by an increasing interest in the role of prosodic information. Examining the suprasegmental properties of speech may be prerequisite for shaping theoretical accounts on the syntax-phonology interface as well as for modelling underlying processes in language comprehension and production. In order to discuss these topics from different angles, the workshop is intended to bring together researchers from different fields, such as phonetics, phonology, semantics, computational linguistics and language processing. In particular, the following questions will be addressed:- What are the linguistic factors that determine the prosodic representation of a sentence?
- How do refinements in syntactic and semantic theory affect prosodic models (and vice versa)?
- How does discourse-structural information contribute to the generation of prosodic structure?
- How does prosody affect the on-line interpretation of spoken sentences?
- How do prosodic phrasing and accentuation interact?
- Is there a systematic relation between performance factors and linguistically determined phrasing positions in language production? If so, how is perception affected?
- How does prosody influence language acquisition?
Invited Speakers
Kai Alter (Newcastle University)Sasha Calhoun (University of Edinburgh)
Aoju Chen (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Caroline Féry (University of Potsdam)
Martine Grice (University of Cologne)
Giuseppina Rota (University of Pisa)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Registration
There are no participation fees. However, interested participants are requested to register by sending an email to pir2008-info AT ims.uni-stuttgart.de.Links
GK "Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation" (University of Stuttgart)Institute of Linguistics (University of Stuttgart)
Institute for Natural Language Processing (University of Stuttgart)
