Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Change in Phonology
Thursday 24 June - Saturday 26 June, 2004

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Instructions for poster presenters:

Posters will be mounted on display boards and must be no larger than 45 inches (height) x 58 inches (width). A small number of wider display boards (93 inches) are available by request. Tacks for mounting posters will be provided.

Poster Sessions

5:00-6:30 Thursday 24th June, 2004 Beckman Institute East Atrium
  Julie Carson-Berndsen, Anja Geumann & Moritz Neugebauer (University College Dublin) Embracing Multilinguality: Defining Phonetic Features for Speech Technology
  Ivan Chow (University of Toronto) A study of the melodic contour of Mandarin and French through Syntactic Structural Ambiguity
  Daniel A. Dinnsen (Indiana University) On the emergence and loss of opacity effects in acquisition
  Judith A. Gierut (Indiana University) Something from Nothing: Permutability of Competence and Performance in Phonological Acquisition
  Christine Haunz (University of Edinburgh) Perceived similarity: universal or language-dependent?
  Claudia Kuzla & Taehong Cho (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Prosodic and phonotactic influences on fricative voicing assimilation in German
  Eleonora C. Albano (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Two Complementary Phonotactic Constraints Interfacing Grammar with Phonetics
  Z.S. Bond, Dace Markus & Verna Stockmal (Ohio University and University of Latvia) Sixty years of bilingualism affect the pronunciation of Latvian vowels
  Josefina Carrera-Sabaté (Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat de Lleida) Instruction and Phonetic Change
  Véronique Delvaux, Didier Demolin & Alain Soquet (Université de Mons-Hainaut, Universidade de Sao Paolo and Université Libre de Bruxelles) Sound change as a result of mimetic interactions between speakers: Implementation of imitation in the laboratory
  Haruo Kubozono, Nobuko Kibe & Ichiro Ota (Kobe University and Kagoshima University) Accent Changes in an Endangered Japanese Dialect
  Tivoli Majors (University of Missouri) Phonetic variation in Missouri: The low vowel merger in transition
  Andrea Pearman (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Sound change in the learner: The perception of connected speech
  Maria-Josep Sole & Andrea Pearman (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Effects of syllable position on sound change: Aerodynamic and perceptual data on final ficative weakening
  Ioana Chitoran (Dartmouth College) The effect of pitch accent and word position on the production of vowel sequences: a comparison of Spanish, Romanian, and French
  Natasha Warner, Lynnika Butler & Takayuki Arai (University of Arizona and Sophia University) Intonation as a speech segmentation cue: Effects of speech style
  Kimiko Tsukada, Denis Burnham, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Niratasai Krachaikiat & Sorabud Rungrojsuwan The effect of tone on vowel duration in Thai: A developmental study
  Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph C. Salmons & Robert A. Fox (Ohio State University and University of Wisconsin) Prosodic domain effects and vocalic chain shifts
  Kenji Yoshida (Shoin University) The delay of the timing of F0 minima in Akita Japanese
  Ivan Yuen (University of Edinburgh) Normalisation of downtrend --- local or global effect?
  Shakuntala Mahanta & K.G. Vijayakrishnan (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics and Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages-Hyderabad) Linking of Pitch to Mora: An Experimental Approach
  Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier (University at Buffalo and Haskins
Laboratories)
The Separation of Pitch and Stress in Onondaga
  Bert Remijsen (Leiden University) Segmental and prosodic factors in a Matbat vowel change
  Yohann Meynadier (University of Edinburgh) Gradual linguopalatal variations due to a 4-level prosodic hierarchy in French
  Cynthia G. Clopper (Indiana University) Towards an Exemplar-Based Phonological Model of the Perception of Dialect Variation
  Katherine Crosswhite & Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Online Use of Phonetic Detail in Spoken Word Recognition
  Michelle L. Gregory, Julie Sedivy, Anjula Joshi & Danial Grodner (University at Buffalo, Brown University and Univeristy of British Columbia) Isolating the cognitive processes that underlie disfluencies and phonological form: Evidence from an on-line production experiment
  Michele L. Morrisette (Indiana University) Recursive patterns of phonological change in the lexicon
  Khalil Iskarous, Heike Lehnert, Louis Goldstein & Mark Tiede (Haskins Laboratories) Distinguishing Speaker and Linguistic Variation Using Configurable Articulatory Synthesis
  Didier Demolin (Universidade de Sao Paulo and Université Libre de Bruxelles) Changes in articulatory settings and aerodynamic conditions as sources of sound change
 

Caroline L. Smith (University of New Mexico)

Discourse-level effects on durations in synthesized English and French: testing listener preferences
  Marie-Hélène Côté & Geoffrey Morrison (Université d'Ottawa and University of Alberta) Experimental evidence and the nature of the schwa/zero alternation in French
  Paul M. De Decker (New York University) Co-articulation and Speech Acoustics in Phonological Change: some experimental data
  Manuel Díaz-Campos & Richard J File-Muriel (Indiana University) The effect of phonetic factors in the perception of phonological variation: An experimental study of internal constraints of syllable-final /s/
  T. A. Hall, Silke Hamann & Marzena Zygis (University of Leipzig and ZAS) The phonetic motivation of stop assibilation
  Alexei Kochetov (Simon Fraser University and Haskins Laboratories) From phonetic differences to phonological asymmetries: Secondary articulation contrasts in liquids
  Tomoko Kozasa (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Sustaining phonemic distinctions: A study of phonetic cues in Japanese long vowels
  Tae-Jin Yoon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Asymmetry in Laryngeal Metathesis
  Scott Myers (University of Texas at Austin) Vowel duration in Kinyarwanda: Effects of quantity, height and position
  Ryan Shosted (University of California-Berkeley) Flatly contradicted: The non-equivalency of a distinctive feature in Hindi and Levantine Arabic
  Katherine S. White, Cecilia Kirk, & James L. Morgan, Sharon Peperkamp, & Emannuel Dupoux (Brown University, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS - ENS – CNRS, Paris and Université de Paris 8) Distributional and statistical bases of allophonic groupings
  Man Gao (Yale University) Gestural Analysis on Mandarin Tongue Twisters
 

Matthew Goldrick & Sheila Blumstein (Brown University)

The Bases of Speech Errors: Local and Non-Local Phonetic Traces
 
5:00-6:30 Friday 25th June, 2004 Beckman Institute East Atrium
  Alan Bell, Jason Brenier, Michelle Gregory, Dan Jurafsky & Cynthia Girand (University of Colorado-Boulder, State University of New York-Buffalo and Stanford University) Ranges and levels of predictability effects on word durations in conversational English
  Melissa A. Redford & Risto Miikkulainen (University of Oregon and University of Texas) Phonological Differences Emerging from Slow versus Fast Lexicon Expansion
  Della Chambless (University of Massachusetts) Asymmetries in Intermediate Stages of Cluster Acquisition
  Chun-Mei Chen (University of Texas) Phonological change of Taiwan Mandarin -Evidence from the Three Presidential Candidates' Speech
  Taehong Cho & James McQueen (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Perceptual reality of phonetically-driven phonology: Place assimilation and consonant cluster simplification at different prosodic boundaries
  Paola Escudero & Paul Boersma (Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam)
L2 re-categorization of an ‘old’ phonological contrast
  Masako Hirotani (University of Massachusetts) Does Prosodic Phrasing Correlate with Wh-scope in Japanese?
  Byung-jin Lim (University at Albany, State University of New York) Effects of L1 phonology and orthography on L2 perception: The use of Korean Hangul in perception of English voicing contrasts
  Bruce Morén (University of Tromsø) The Phonetics and Phonology of Front Vowels in Staten Island: when the traditional descriptions and the facts do not agree
  Geoffrey Stewart Morrison (University of Alberta) Are functional constraints active synchronically?
  Ana Sánchez Muñoz (University of Southern California) Convergence or Divergence? Accommodation in the Vocalic System of Texan English
  James Myers & Jane Tsay (National Chung Cheng University) Exploring performance-based predictors of phonological judgments in Mandarin
  Pawel M. Nowak (University of California-Berkeley) Polish sibilants: studying perceptual cues to explain the directionality of sound change
  Miren L. Oñederra (UPV-EHU, University of the Basque Country) The importance of social factors in the loss or recovery of phonological units
  Michela Russo (Univ. de Paris 8/UMR 7023-CNRS) Articulatory weakening of an apical obstruent: lambdacized and rhotacized forms in Italian dialects
  Caroline Wiltshire & James D. Harnsberger (University of Florida) The influence of Gujarati and Tamil L1s on Indian English
  Zheng Xu (State University of New York-Stony Brook) The interlanguage phonology of Mandarin learners of English and the Gradual Learning Algorithm
  Laura Colantoni & Jorge Gurlekian (University of Toronto and Laboratorio de Investigaciones sensoriales) Early peak alignment and deep falls in Buenos Aires broad focus declaratives
  Pauline Welby (Institut de la Communication Parlée, CNRS UMR 5009 Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université Stendhal Grenoble) French Intonational Structure: Evidence from Tonal Alignment
  Kyle E. Chambers, Kristine H. Onishi, Cynthia Fisher & Jessica Maye (University of Illinois and University of Rochester) Learning different phonetic distributions in onset and coda position
  Jose R. Benki (University of Michigan) An investigation of front-back confusions in vowels
  Stefan Benus, Adamantios Gafos & Louis Goldstein (New York University, Yale University and Haskins Laboratories) Nonlinear links between continuity and discreteness: transparency in vowel harmony
  Juli Cebrian (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Vowel phonotactics and syllabification in native and non-native phonology
  Andries W. Coetzee (University of Massachusetts and Potchefstroom University) Markedness from the grammar, not the lexicon
  Susana Cortes, Mitsuhiko Ota & Alice Turk (University of Edinburgh) Production of English Intervocalic /d/ by Catalan Speakers in Derived and Non-derived Words
  Lisa Davidson (New York University) Fitting phonotactics into gestural phonology: Evidence from non-native cluster production
  Jeong-Im Han (Konkuk University) Variability in Phonetic Implementation: Evidence from Korean Speakers' Perception of the Stop Epenthesis in English
  Satomi Imai, James E. Flege & Ratree Wayland (University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Florida) Perception of cross-language vowel differences: A longitudinal study of native Spanish adults learning English
  Mafuyu Kitahara, Tadao Murata & Haruka Fukazawa (Yamaguchi University and Kyushu Institute of Technology) Articulatory correlates of sonority scale in consonants
  Barbara Kühnert & Cécile Fougeron (Institut du Monde Anglophone and CNRS/UMR 7018 Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle) Schwa-productions and hesitations by native French speakers during English L2 performance
  Shu-chen Ou & Mitsuhiko Ota (University of Edinburgh) Metrical Computation in L2 Stress Acquisition: Evidence from Chinese-English Interlanguage
  Ninik H. Poedjianto (University of Glasgow) The Production of Indonesian English: Does L1 Phonological Transfer Occur At All?
  Amanda Seidl & Eugene Buckley (Purdue University and University of Pennsylvania) Infants' learning of unnatural rules
  Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov & Marianne Pouplier (Yale University, Haskins Laboratories, Simon Fraser University and University of Maryland) The Role of Gestural Overlap in Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence from Korean
  Geoffrey S. Nathan (Wayne State University) Testing Usage-based Phonology, Just for the /l/ of it
  Rajka Smiljanic & Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University)
Contrast enhancement in Croatian clear speech
  Catherine Mayo & Alice Turk (University of Edinburgh) The development of perceptual cue weighting within and across monosyllabic words
  Tae-Jin Yoon, Heejin Kim & Sandra Chavarría (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Local acoustic cues distinguish two levels of prosodic phrasing: Speech corpus evidence
  Maksym Vakulenko (Institute for Theoretical Physics-Ukrajina and The University of Texas-Arlington) Acoustic invariant approach and speaker-independent features of speech sounds (Ukrainian and English)
  Steve Winters (Indiana University) Why Some Things are Um-bearable: Investigating Perceptual and Articulatory Influences on Place Assimilation Processes
  Alan C. L. Yu (University of Chicago) Subphonemic tonal distinction in Cantonese
  Elinor Payne (University of Cambridge) Phonetic motifs and their role in the evolution of sound structure
  Hyunsook Kang & Seok-Keun Kang (Hanyang University and Wonkwang University)
Processing English [s] into Korean: Prosodic influence on sound change
  Chakir Zeroual (Centres des Etudes Universitaires de Taza and UMR 7018 CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle) A typological study of posterior articulations