AG14@DGfS2022: (Why) is Language (Not) Rhythmic? (AG14@DGfS 2022) Tübingen, Germany, February 23-25, 2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ag14dgfs2022 |
(Why) is Language (Not) Rhythmic?
Workshop Description
Recent findings from auditory neuroscience suggest that periodic electrophysiological activity supports the neural processing of spoken language (for review, see Poeppel & Assaneo, 2020). Periodic modulations of neuronal potentials, so-called neural oscillations, represent time windows for acoustic and abstract information processing at different temporal granularities. Oscillatory cycles of different durations are known—from a few milliseconds to a few seconds. Synchronization of oscillations has been described for phonemes, syllabic nuclei, prosodic boundaries, and syntactic phrases (for review, see Meyer, 2018; Strauß & Schwartz, 2017).
This workshop critically evaluates the major assumption of this research: Neural oscillations can serve to process acoustic and abstract units only if these units are rhythmic themselves. But are phonemes, syllabic nuclei, prosodic boundaries, and syntactic phrases really rhythmic? Does our linguistic behavior in production and comprehension then also exhibit rhythmic patterns?
(Note: The workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the DGfS.)
Submission Guidelines
We are seeking to showcase corpus-linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic work that helps to answer the workshop questions. We hope that your submissions will open new perspectives for descriptive, theoretical, and cross-linguistic research on temporal patterns of acoustic and abstract linguistic units.
We invite you to submit abstracts for talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion). Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file of 250 words; references don’t count and an optional figure page is fine.
The submission deadline is 15 August 2021 (anywhere on earth).
Questions?
Contact Lars Meyer via lmeyer@cbs.mpg.de.