Phonetic and Phonological Experimentation in Prosody Research: New Theoretical and Methodological Horizons

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great joy for me to invite you to contribute to the Languages’ Special Issue entitled “Phonetic and Phonological Experimentation in Prosody Research: New Theoretical and Methodological Horizons”. The main goal is to gather current phonetic and experimental phonological research embracing new horizons in both theory and methodological approaches in prosody inquiry. It is particularly desirable to present work carried out with new tools for investigating prosody, given that work with data obtained from devices with lower costs than previously available to research make new findings possible to emerge even in small laboratories and in small research groups. In this respect, ultrasound data, and speech articulatory data from the jaw and other articulators deserve to be mentioned. More elaborate theories and methods associating new data and Bayesian statistics, for instance, are paving the way to new avenues for prosodic investigation. That is why it is timely to collect a selection of papers challenging the current state-of-the-art by these means.

The scope of this SI covers topics such as, but not limited to:

• New tools and methods for articulatory and acoustic prosody research;
• Integrated models of prosody perception and production, in the sense of including both aspects of speech rhythm and intonation;
• Prosody of Sign Languages;
• New horizons from pathological speech and clinical phonetics;
• Forensic prosody, both articulatory and acoustic;
• Sociophonetic aspects of prosody;
• Inovation in prosody research applied to the development of new tools;
• New horizons in Laboratory Phonology applied to research in prosody.

Prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editor (pbarbosa@unicamp.br) or to the Languages Editorial Office (languages@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Prof. Dr. Plinio Barbosa
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Languages is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• articulatory prosody
• acoustic prosody
• forensic prosody
• tools for prosodic investigation