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June 26: “Romance languages in a rapidly changing world”

The workshop will address the issue of interdisciplinary analysis of Romance languages in a world of technologies and human challenges.

On the one hand, we are witnessing unprecedented technological progress which is having an impact on both automatic and human language processing. On the other hand, human activities have a strong impact on this world: for instance, climate change involves migrations and new contacts between linguistically different populations is one such consequence.

In this workshop, we will address classical linguistic issues such as language variation and the synchrony/diachrony interface, language in contact, bilingualism etc. involving Romance languages and with a strong connection with technological progress, i.e. language technologies for Romance languages and for linguistic analysis. The interdisciplinary dimension in exploring large scale corpora will also be considered: linguistics as other SSH (sociology, economics, history, etc.) have at their disposal data of increasing size, the exploration of which calls for the use of “artificial intelligence” methods and tools.

Submissions on any topics related to the list of questions below are of interest :

• How to analyze variation phenomena from large corpora?
• How to capture language change? How to take advantage of language technologies?
• How to take advantage of interdisciplinary data and/or corpora acquired for other research domains?
• How to build and take advantage of available meta-data?
• ...

Keynote speakers

• Jane Stuart Smith, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Etienne Ollion, CNRS & École Polytechnique, France

Tentative programme

Paola Tubaro (CNRS & CREST), Yaru Wu (CRISCO, Univ. de Normandie)

Documenting the socio-linguistic identity of micro-workers from Latin America: a preliminary study of the vocalic realizations

Oana Niculescu (Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti”, Romanian Academy)

Preserving and digitally exploring the National Phonogramic Archive of the Romanian Language

James Law, Adam McBride (Brigham Young University)

Variable articulations of the fricative /ʒ/ in the Poitevin-Saintongeais language of France

Emanuela Pinna (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Auxiliary selection and past participle agreement in the Griko periphrastic perfect: a (micro)diachronic and diatopic study of a Greek variety in contact with Italo-Romance

Greta Viale (Università degli studi di Verona, University of Verona & Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire Sorbonne Université), Andrea Briglia (UMR 1253 Brain Imagerie & Cerveau Equipe 1)

Auxiliary selection in French and Italian

Anna Preßler  (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), Frank Kügler (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto)

The A-N vs. N-A asymmetry: French adjectives at the Syntax-Phonology interface

William Balla-Johnson (Ohio State University)

Shared Romance features a product of contact-induced language change? Roman republican colonization and language contact in the ancient Italian peninsula

Joshua Griffiths, Marin Childers (Northeastern University)

Asymmetries in Word-final Schwa Realization in French

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Local committee

Lori Lamel, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique, Paris, France

Ioana Vasilescu, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique, Paris, France

Anisia Popescu, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique, Paris, France

Mathilde Hutin, Centre Valibel, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique

Yaru Wu, CRISCO/EA4255, Université de Caen Normandie, 14000 Caen, France

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