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Neuigkeiten
- Call for papers: How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and related phenomena at the information-intonation interface
Deadline for Abstracts: 15th March 2024
Acceptance Notification: 05 April 2024This workshop invites contributions researching the packaging of information relative to intonation units. Seminal studies including Chafe (1979, 1994), Givón (1983), and Pawley & Syder (1983) have suggested universal cognitive constraints on how much new information may be expressed in a prosodic chunk, e.g. Chafe’s “one new idea constraint”. Despite their wide-reaching implications, and their impact on fields including discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and typology, these claims still largely await testing for more languages as well as discourse types.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers empirically testing the one-new-idea constraint and related topics at the information-intonation interface. This may include research on information packaging in prosodic units other than the intonation unit or on types of information that have received less attention in the literature. We particularly welcome contributions on lesser studied languages in an effort to probe the claimed universality of the proposed constraints. We also welcome diverse methodological approaches including, but not limited to, corpus-linguistic, experimental, discourse-analysis or interactional-linguistic approaches.
Invited researchers include Nikolaus Himmelmann (Cologne), Pavel Ozerov (Innsbruck) and Stefan Schnell (Zurich).
Date: 12th-13th July 2024
Location: University of Freiburg, Germany
Organizers: Uta Reinöhl, Naomi PeckPlease submit your abstract by 15th of March 2024 to: naomi.peck@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de
- Wir gratulieren Laura Becker zur Auszeichnung ihrer Monographie "Articles in the World's Languages" mit dem SLE Coseriu Award!
- Die Vortragsreihe "Language, Communication & Cognition" der HPCL geht im Wintersemester 2023/24 weiter.
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- Wir freuen uns mit Wifek Bouaziz über die Auszeichnung ihrer Masterarbeit "Routinisation in Joint Action: (Dis-)Alignment as a coordination resource - Collaborative transcription of a Kera’a shamanic ritual" mit dem Alumni-Preis!
- Neuer Masterstudiengang: Linguistik: Sprache, Kommunikation und Kognition
Im Wintersemester 2023/24 startet der neue Masterstudiengang Linguistik: Sprache, Kommunikation und Kognition. Der Studiengang wird fachübergreifend von den sprachwissenschaftlichen Seminaren in Freiburg organisiert und ist je nach Wahl der Fachrichtung auch nur auf Englisch studierbar. Alle Informationen zum Studiengang und den wählbaren Fachrichtungen sind hier zu finden.
Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen
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Reinöhl, Uta and Ellison, T. Mark. "Metaphor forces argument overtness" Linguistics, AoP,
2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0072 - Becker, Laura, Matías Guzmán Naranjo, and Samira Ochs. “Socio-Linguistic Effects on Conditional Constructions: A Quantitative Typological Study.” In Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation, edited by Silvia Ballarè and Guglielmo Inglese, 121–54. De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781168-005.
- Schnell, Stefan, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Norman Schiborr & Maria Vollmer. 2023. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST. In Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola (eds.). Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 227], 231-268. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Vollmer, Maria. 2023. Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Language.