[Histling-l] Extended Deadline for OCP19 Workshop: Understanding Sound Change

[Ander Egurtzegi]

*NOTE: New Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1 2021.*



*Understanding Sound Change*



OCP19 Workshop (January 27, 2022), to be held at the Donostia Campus of the
University of Deusto (Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain).



We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary workshop Understanding
Sound Change that will be part of the Old World Conference on Phonology
(OCP2022).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different linguistic
subdisciplines and theoretical perspectives with an interest in an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of sound change, following recent
trends that have proven fruitful in the study of the historical phonologies
of many linguistic families.

We invite proposals for 20-minute talks that explore specific topics in the
study of sound change from any or multiple of the following (or related)
subfields of linguistics: Historical linguistics; phonology; philology;
phonetics; typology; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics, etc.

The workshop will feature selected short talks as well as two keynote
speakers - morning and afternoon. Selected posters will be included in the
main poster session. We are planning for a hybrid conference: presentations
are planned to be in person - but we will be streaming all lectures live
and collecting questions in real time.



Website: https://understandingsoundchange.netlify.app/



Convenor: Ander Egurtzegi (CNRS-IKER)



Invited speakers:

Juliette Blevins (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Stefano Coretta (University of Edinburgh)



*Call for papers*

The study of sound change has long been at the center of historical
phonology and historical linguistics more generally, with regular sound
correspondences due to regular sound change serving as the basis of lexical
reconstruction of proto-languages spoken thousands of years ago. During the
last 40 years, a nuanced theory of sound change based on articulatory,
aerodynamic, and acoustic properties of speech has evolved from a great
deal of interdisciplinary research, inspired by the research agenda of
Ohala (see, for example, Ohala 2003), and has played a central role in the
explanation of synchronic sound patterns as well (Blevins 2004, 2015). The
possibility of applying recent analyses of linguistic change to problems in
which the classical approach yielded limited results is one of the reasons
behind this resurgence (Honeybone & Salmons 2015). These new
interdisciplinary approaches include phonetic analyses of spoken data and
laboratory experimentation (Yu 2015; Harrington et al. 2019 and references
therein), the study of the influence of language contact and social and
population factors in its geographic spread (Labov 1994; Trudgill 2011), as
well as continued typological comparison between similar sound patterns
found in unrelated languages (Kümmel 2015). Innovations in these
interdisciplinary approaches have illuminated multiple aspects of sound
change, including:



- The inception of sound change

- Bias factors that condition sound change

- Accommodation and imitation

- Trading relationships between phonetic cues

- The production-perception feedback loop (e.g. compensation for
coarticulation)

- The medium-term dynamics of sound change (and sound change in isolation)

- The longitudinal study of variation and change across the lifespan

- The implementation of the apparent time construct

- Sound change typology (sound change and phonological inventories, segment
patterning)

- Rare or previously unattested sound changes and sound patterns

- The influence of linguistic contact in sound change

- Replication of reconstructed sound changes under laboratory conditions

- Exemplar-based approaches to phonology and sound change

- The development of new methods to simulate change (e.g. agent-base
modelling)



This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different linguistic
subdisciplines and theoretical perspectives with an interest in
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of sound change. These include
studies of phonetic, phonological and other structural factors playing a
role in sound change, and external approaches such as computational
modeling of change, probabilistic evaluation of change, theories of
language contact and the role of sociolinguistic variables in determining
the course of sound change.



We invite abstracts (to be presented as 20-minute talks or posters) that
explore topics in the study of sound change from one or more subfields of
linguistics, or related disciplines. Although submissions dealing with
sound changes in any language are welcome, abstracts presenting data or
dealing with case studies of lesser studied languages and language
varieties are especially encouraged.



*Submission guidelines*

We welcome submissions on any topic related to sound change from any
theoretical perspective and methodology. We invite abstracts for talks (20
minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or posters.

Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as first author (or
sole author), and a maximum of two abstracts in total. Abstracts will be
blindly peer-reviewed by an international panel of reviewers.



*Abstract guidelines*

Must be written in English

Maximum 2 pages of A4 paper, including references, examples, tables, and
figures

12 pt Times New Roman font

2.54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides

Anonymous

PDF format

Abstracts not following these guidelines will not be reviewed.



Abstract submission, reviewing, and notification of acceptance will be
handled using Easy Chair. Please upload your abstract following this link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocp19



*Important Dates*

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 15 2021

Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1 2021

Notification of acceptance: November 2021

Workshop: January 27 2022



References:

Blevins, J. 2004. *Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns*.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Blevins, J. 2015. Evolutionary Phonology: A holistic approach to sound
change typology. In P. Honeybone & J. Salmons (eds.), *Handbook of
Historical Phonology*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 485-500.

Harrington, J., Kleber, F., Reubold, U., Schiel, F. & Stevens, M. 2019. The
phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change. In W. Katz & P.
Assmann (eds.), *The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics*. Oxford: Routledge,
401-426.

Honeybone, P. & Salmons, J. (eds.). 2015. *The Oxford handbook of
historical phonology*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kümmel, M. J. 2015. The role of typology in historical phonology. In P.
Honeybone & J. Salmons (eds.), *The Oxford handbook of historical phonology*.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 121-132.

Labov, W. 1994. *Principles of linguistic change. Vol. 1: Internal factors*.
Oxford: Blackwell.

Ohala, J. J. 2003. Phonetics and historical phonology. In B. Joseph & R.
Janda (eds.), *The handbook of historical linguistics*. Malden:
Wiley-Blackwell, 669-686.

Trudgill, P. 2011. *Sociolinguistic typology*. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Yu, A. C. L. 2015. The role of experimental investigation in understanding
sound change. In P. Honeybone & J. Salmons (eds.), *The Oxford handbook of
historical phonology*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 410-428.



-- 
*Ander Egurtzegi*
CNRS-IKER (UMR 5478)
Gaztelu Berria / Château-Neuf
15 Paul Bert plaza / 15 Place Paul Bert
64100 Baiona / 64100 Bayonne (France)
webpage <https://egurtzegi.github.io/>
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