| | Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
From Sound to Gesture (S2G): Communication as speech, prosody, gestures and signs, University of Padova, Italy - May 21-23, 2014
Understanding how human communication works requires investigating the complex relations between abstract representations of both sounds and gestures and their concrete realizations. The study of both spoken and signed language can provide a key to understanding the fascinating connections between human sounds, gestures and language.
The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars interested in the relationships between different modalities (acoustic, visual) and between different levels within the same modality (e.g., phonology-phonetics, verbal-nonverbal, prosodic-segmental, etc.). |
We invite the submission of abstracts on the following topics:
- Prosody
- Spoken language phonology/phonetics
- Non-verbal communication/gestures
- Sign language phonology/phonetics
In particular, we encourage papers focused the relationship between two (or more) of the proposed topics, e.g.:
- Spoken and sign language phonology: Is there only one, modality-independent phonology, or is there one phonology for each modality? Is there evidence for the existence of phonological primitives common to both modalities?
- Linguistic and non-linguistic signs: How are non-verbal gestures integrated in sign language? How are these distinguished from linguistic signs?
- Prosody and sign language: What are the prosodic units of sign language? Are they organized in a similar way as prosodic units in speech?
- Suprasegmental and segmental phonology: What are relationships between the two levels? What are the best theoretical approaches and why?
- Prosody and language: How is prosody used to convey linguistic and non-linguistic meanings in L1 and/or L2? What are the best theoretical models to describe it?
- Prosody and gestures: What is the relation between speakers' intonation, prosody and gestures? How are language-specific prosody and gestures used in second language communication?
- Speech and gestures: Wow are gestures and language connected? What is the relation between language-specific/universal gestures and language? How can gestures be employed effectively to communicate with people who speak a different language?
Invited speakers:
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University), http://emmoreylab.sdsu.edu/director.php
Marianne Gullberg (University of Lund), www.sol.lu.se/en/person/ MarianneGullberg
Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), http://prosodia.upf.edu/membres/pilarprieto/
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa), http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/wendy.htm
Abstracts (max 1000 words, Times New Roman, 12pt, PDF or DOC format) can be summited through Easy Abstract at the link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/s2g2014.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission extended deadline: 16 February 2014
Acceptance notification (extended) : 10 March 2014
Conference: 21-23 May 2014
Scientific Committee:
Maria Grazia Busà
Antonio Baroni
Laura Vanelli
Motoko Ueyama |
For info: s2g.conference@gmail.com |
