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GRIN: GRadience in INtonation
Lisbon, 27 May 2022

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of intonation or adopting different perspectives to discuss how to best handle the issues of gradience, variability and categoriality in intonation.

​You can also find the information about this workshop on the Sociolinguistics Events Calendar.​

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The aim of the workshop is to address the following main research questions:

a.      How can we best understand the effects of gradience on intonation? Is all gradience paralinguistic? Is gradience the same as variability? Are they distinct? If the latter, how can we disentangle the effects of gradience from those of variability in the realization of intonation?

b.      How can we handle variability in the realization of intonation? What are the sources of variability in intonation? How can we deal with variability across languages and linguistic varieties? Do we need to incorporate variability in formal models? If so, how? If not, how can it be modelled and predicted in production? How should we study its effects in the processing of intonation?

c.       How can we determine intonation categories? Do such categories exist, and if so, what are best practices for establishing them? Should research on intonation categories rely on production, perception or a combination of both? Are such categories language specific, or universal?​

PROGRAMME

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All sessions will take place in Amphitheatre II (C130) in the Faculalde de Letras building

 

9:00-9:15           

Workshop introduction


9:15-9:45           Jonathan Barnes, Stefanie Shattuck Hufnagel, Alejna                                     Brugos, & Nanette Veilleux

Hidden gradience? Auditory variability under the analytic radar

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9:45-10:15          Francesco Cangemi & Martine Grice

From real speech to intonational categories

 

10:15-10:45        Amalia Arvaniti (commentary) & Q&A


10:45-11:15        coffee break


11:15-11:45        Jennifer Cole & Jeremy Steffman

Intonational encoding in memory representations: Imitating nuclear tunes in American English

 

11:45-12:15        Pilar Prieto

Other sources of variation in the interpretation of intonation: interactions between intonation, gesture, and discourse markers


12:15-12:45        Bob Ladd (commentary) & Q&A


12:45-14:00        lunch break


14:00-14:30        Mary Baltazani

Language contact as a source of intonational variation in Greek dialects

 

14:30-15:00        Nicole Holliday

Categorical and gradient variation in intonation across American English dialects

 

15:00-15:30        Carlos Gussenhoven (commentator) & Q&A


15:30-16:00        coffee break


16:00-16:30        Jelena Krivokapić, Will Styler, &

                           Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan

Individual differences in boundary perception

 

16:30-17:00        Jason Bishop

The listener as a source of gradience: Evidence from prominence perception


17:00-17:30        Tamara Rathcke* (commentary) & Q&A


17:30-18:00        General discussion

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*Due to personal circumstances,  Mariapaola D'Imperio will not be able to join us. We thank Mariapaola D'Imperio for her willingness to do the commentary originally and for Tamara Rathcke for stepping in.

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SPRINT

SPRINT is the acronym of grant ERC-ADG-835263 titled "Speech Prosody in Interaction: The form and function of intonation in human communication". SPRINT is a 5-year (2019-2024) €2,481,196 research program funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Amalia Arvaniti is the Principal Investigator. SPRINT is based at Radboud University.

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