Investigando las hablas andaluzas:
New Approaches to Andalusian Spanish
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About the Conference

This conference is the first of its kind, bringing together experts on the linguistic structure of Andalusian Spanish from all around the world. We welcome submissions on all areas of linguistic analysis, including (but not limited to) sound change, the perception-production relationship, morpho-syntax, the influence of social factors, urban vs. rural varieties, language policy, and discourse/pragmatics.

The conference will take place from May 24 to 25, 2018.

The Conference will be held at the Institute of Romance Studies in the University of Innsbruck (Austria).

If you're interested in attending, please email andaluz2018@uibk.ac.at

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Lola Pons
Key Note Speaker

Lola Pons is Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Seville, Spain. Her research focuses on language use and language change in Spanish, and in 2012 published a monograph entitled El paisaje lingüístico de Sevilla: Lenguas y variedades en el escenario urbano hispalense.

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Call for Papers

Andalusian Spanish, a variety of the Spanish spoken in southern Spain, has become the subject of many scholarly articles in recent years. Arguably, it could be stated that within the continuum of sub- varieties of Iberian Spanish, the linguistic features of Andalusian Spanish have received the most attention in past literature (Mondéjar 2006). Despite the quantity and quality of the current body of publications, this research has not fully incorporated the methodological practices of recent innovative linguistic research (e.g., statistical, methodological). Recent years have brought renewed attention to the features Andalusian varieties within the frameworks of laboratory phonology (e.g., Henriksen 2017, Ruch & Harrington 2014, Parrell 2012, Torreira 2012), few aspects of morpho- syntaxes (Méndez García de Paredes 2011), linguistic landscapes (e.g., Harjus 2017, Monjour 2014, Pons 2011), perceptual dialectology (e.g., Harjus 2016, Chariatte 2015), and sociophonetics (e.g., Regan 2017, Lasarte 2010, García-Amaya 2008, Melguizo 2007). Such studies open the horizon for new research questions concerning the linguistic features of Andalusian Spanish, and of its sub- varieties. Substantial gaps of knowledge on Andalusian Spanish remain in the areas of sound change, the perception-production relationship, morpho-syntax, the influence of social factors, urban vs. rural varieties, language policy, and linguistic-discursive place-making.

We welcome submissions from various linguistic perspectives, including (but not limited to): socio-phonic, morpho-syntactic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, and linguistic-discursive. Submissions may employ a synchronic or diachronic perspective. We are planning the publication of selected papers in the special issue of a journal.

We invite submissions for oral presentation (20 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion) or for poster presentation. We invite abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding title and references). A second page may be included for graphs, figures, and references. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint. Abstracts will be subjected to double-blind peer review; author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts. Abstracts should be submitted in the language of their presentation (Spanish, English, or German).

Abstract submission opens August 14, 2017. All submissions must be received by 11:59pm (GMT) on November 30, 2017, at the following email address:

andaluz2018@uibk.ac.at

Program

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Logistics

Conference Location

Claudia-Saal (Italien-Zentrum)
Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 3
6020 Innsbruck
Austria


Accomodations

Hotel Grauer Bär Innsbruck: http://www.grauer-baer.at
(10 pre-reserved rooms for € 88 each night )
6 minute walk to Conference Center


Hotel Best Western Goldener Adler Innsbruck: http://www.goldeneradler.com
(4 pre-reserved rooms @ € 90 each night )
1 minute walk to Conference Center


Hotel Mondschein Innsbruck: https://www.mondschein.at
(4 pre-reserved rooms @ € 72 each night )
3 minute walk to Conference Center

Organizers

Lorenzo
García-Amaya

University of Michigan

Jannis
Harjus

University of Innsbruck

Nicholas
Henriksen

University of Michigan

Hanna
Ruch

University of Zurich

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Lorenzo García-Amaya

Lorenzo García-Amaya is a faculty member in Romance Languages and Linguistics at the University of Michigan (USA). He works primarily in the fields of psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and sociophonetics. He is especially interested in issues relating to language change in Jerezano Spanish (his native dialect), and how the features of this variety contrast with those of Cádiz and Seville Spanish.

Jannis Harjus

Jannis Harjus is teaching staff member and post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Romance Languages and Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). His research explores a large range of themes pertaining to Spanish and Portuguese perceptual dialectology and discourse analysis. He has published articles on linguistic landscapes in Jerezano Spanish (Western Andalusia) and on children's attitudes on Andalusian Varieties (Western and Eastern Andalusia). His monograph Sociofonética andaluza y lingüística perceptiva de la variación will be published in March 2018.

Nicholas Henriksen

Nick Henriksen is a faculty member in Romance Languages and Linguistics at the University of Michigan (USA). His research explores a large range of themes pertaining to the phonetics-phonology interface of the Spanish sound system. He has published articles on variation and sound change in Jerezano Spanish (spoken in Western Andalusia) and Granadino Spanish (spoken in Eastern Andalusia).

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nhenriks/

Hanna Ruch

Hanna Ruch is a post-doctoral researcher at the University Research Priority Project Language and Space at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Her research focuses on the emergence, perception, and diffusion of phonetic variation. She has explored ongoing sound change related to /s/-aspiration in Granada and Seville Spanish. More recently, she has been working on dialect contact and phonetic accommodation in Swiss German dialects.