Workshop on Prosodic Annotation



April 13-14, 2012


The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH



Contact Person: Rachel S. Burdin
Meeting Email: burdin@ling.osu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology, Intonational Phonology, Prosody, Phonetics, Fieldwork
Target Language(s): Any

Workshop Program



Location: Room 0115, Mendenhall Labs, 125 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210



Meeting Description:

The goal of this workshop is to offer training in prosodic annotation and to provide an opportunity to discuss intonational data and analyses. The workshop includes a mix of invited talks and 60-minute workshop sessions in which participants present for discussion preliminary prosodic annotations and/or utterances that present problems for annotation.

Invited Speakers:

Kiwako Ito (OSU)
Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)
Julie McGory (OSU) - Files from the ToBI workshop.
Shari Speer (OSU)


Travel and Accommodations

The nearest airport is the Port Columbus International Airport (CMH). The workshop hotel does not provide shuttle service to and from the airport. Taxis are available from the airport for about $35, and the airport is also connected to the Columbus public bus system, COTA .
The workshop hotel is the SpringHill Suites at 1421 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43212 (phone: 614-297-9912). The hotel has a shuttle to the OSU campus and is walkable to the conference location (1.5 miles).

Organizing Committee

Rachel S. Burdin, Cynthia G. Clopper, Iskra Iskrova, Sara Phillips-Bourass, Judith Tonhauser, Rory Turnbull, Murat Yasavul

Call for Papers: *Deadline for submission has passed*

As the goal of the workshop is to provide training and to discuss issues in prosodic annotation, the organizing committee particularly invites abstracts that describe work in progress on the prosody of any language or language(s). Abstracts should describe the participant's research question, previous prosodic description(s) of the target language and 3-4 sample problems in prosodic annotation and/or intonational analyses for discussion in the workshop.

Please email a pdf version of your 2-page abstract to burdin@ling.osu.edu with subject heading "submission". Please include author name(s), affiliation(s) and primary email address(es) in the body of the email.





Supported by the Targeted Investment in Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University.