www.AGSpokMorph2018.uni-trier.de

40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

07. bis 09. März 2018 in Stuttgart

AG 1
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Gero Kunter, Ruben van de Vijver and Fabian Tomaschek

Variation and phonetic detail in spoken morphology:
Program AG 1

Call For Abstracts

Submission deadline: 31.8.2017

Requirements for final abstracts

Invited Speaker: Sharon Peperkamp, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris

Description:

The relation between phonetics, phonology and morphology is much more complex than is assumed in current theories. For example, stress preservation in derived words is more variable than hitherto assumed. A word like orìginálity preserves main stress in its base oríginal as secondary stress, but other words have variable secondary stress (e.g. antìcipátion ~ ànticipátion, derived from antícipate, e.g. Collie 2008). In addition, there is evidence suggesting that acoustic and articulatory detail may play a role in the realization of morphologically complex words. For example, an [s] in American English is longer if it is part of a stem than when it is a plural marker or a clitic (cf. Plag et al. 2017). Pertinent work on both issues springs from different linguistic disciplines, in particular psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, computational and quantitative linguistics, and has led to novel proposals regarding the general architecture of the morphology-phonology-phonetics interface. Different theories have been proposed on the basis of lexical listing vs. computation, analogical models or discriminative learning.

Within different linguistic disciplines, we see an increasing body of empirical work that addresses problems of variation and phonetic detail in morphology with the help of spoken data (e.g. Cohen 2015; Ben Hedia & Plag 2017, Strycharczuk & Scobbie 2017). Furthermore, there is more and more work testing theoretical proposals with the help of computational simulations (e.g. Arnold et al. 2017).

This workshop aims to bring together work from different disciplines that study and model variation and phonetic detail on the basis of spoken data. Relevant issues include: What new insights can spoken data bring to our knowledge about morphophonological variation? Are speakers sensitive to and/or aware of systematic subphonemic differences? What cognitively plausible computational and psycholinguistic models do best account for this variability? How can our theories of morphology deal with variation within and between speaker? What is the status of morphophonological and morphophonetic variation in grammar?