THE INTERFACE OF PROSODY AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE (IPS’16)

Program

17 June: Theoretical issues

Time

Speaker

Title

09:45-10.00

Welcome

10.00-11.00

Arndt Riester

Principles of information-structure analysis

11:00-11:30

Discussion

11.30-12:30

Susanne Genzel

The prosodic expression of focus, contrast and givenness: A production study of Hungarian

12:30-13:00

Discussion

13.00-14:00

Lunch

14.00-15:00

Caroline Féry

Syntax-Prosody-Interface and the alignment theory in information structure

15:00-15:30

Discussion

15.30-17.00

Fabian Schubö

Intonation Phrase formation in narrow focus constructions

 

18 June: Methodological issues

Time

Speaker

Title

10.00

Welcome

10.00-11.00

Stefan Baumann

The mediating role of prominence for the interpretation of discourse meaning

11:00-11:30

Discussion

11.30-12:30

Markus Gärtner

Interactive platform for Corpus Analysis and Research tools

12:30-13:00

Discussion

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

Yi Xu

Analysis and modeling of prosody: Theory, methodology and tools