Monday  13th May

 

10 - 1030        Katrin Wolfswinkler: A comparison between adults and children on the characteristics of the West-Central-Bavarian vowel system


 

1030 -11         Lejda Kapia Interaction of syntax and prosody in Albanian bilingual children.

 

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1130 - 12        Pia Greca: An acoustic analysis of metaphony in the Lausberg dialect region of Calabria

 

12 - 1230        Introduction to Theme 1: Rate & rhythm influences on language systems.

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1430 - 1600    Theme 1: Rate & rhythm influences on language systems.

 

Tuesday 14th May

930 -  1000            Johanna Cronenberg: modelling the sound change from pre- to post- aspiration in Andalusian Spanish using an agent-based computational model.


 

1000 -1030            Michele Gubian: modelling the ear-air merger in New Zealand English using functional principal components analysis


 

1030 - 1100           Phil Hoole: Using real-time MRI to investigate developments in connected speech processes


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1130- 1200     Chris Carignan: Phonological vowel nasality: Evidence from real-time MRI velum movement in German


 

1200 – 1230   Conceicao Cunha: Oropharyngeal adjustments in the production of Portuguese nasal vowels    

 

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1430 - 1600    Theme II: Arbitrariness in sound systems

 

 

Wednesday 15th May

9 - 10.30        Theme III: Approaches to the evolution of sound systems

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1115 - 12        James Kirby

12 - 1230        Esther Kunay: Vocalic effects on velar movement in German: evidence from a real-time MRI study.


 

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1430-15          Ander Egurtzegi: Final obstruent voicing in Lakhota: Phonetic evidence


15-1530          Marianne Pouplier: Plasticity of coarticulatory patterns


1530-1615      Christoph Draxler: Online vs. Paper & Pencil Perception Experiments: A Pilot Study


 

Thursday       16th May

9  - 11            Theme IV:      Approaches to sound change