Thursday 12 April 2018
10:00-10:45 Registration, Grimond Foyer (with refreshments in Aphra Foyer)
10:45-11:00 WELCOME
11:00-12:20 Sociophonetic variation (Chair: Dom Watt)
- Dynamic variation in laterals: An acoustic study of Liverpool and Manchester English
Sam Kirkham, Claire Nance
- A UTI and lip camera study of variation in the GOOSE vowel in the British Isles
Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith, Lydia Mills - “East London ain’t East London no more”: Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora
Amanda Cole, Bronwen G. Evans - Geographical distribution of rhotics in Swiss German
Adrian Leemann, Stephan Schmid, Dieter Studer-Joho, Marie-José Kolly
12:20-13:20 Lunch, Aphra Foyer
13:20-14:40 Prosodic variation (Chair: Alice Turk)
- Politeness- and tune-induced variation in the realization of prosody
Stella Gryllia, Mary Baltazani, Amalia Arvaniti - Prosodic variation in Indian Englishes
Elinor Payne, Olga Maxwell - Stylistic variation in the use of rise-plateaux, falls and uptalk rises in Belfast English
Anna Jespersen - An Acoustic Study of Mandarin Neutral Tone: durational variations, pitch features and vowel reduction
Yixin Zhang, Francis Nolan
14:40-16:40 Coffee break, Aphra Foyer
14:40-16:40 Poster session I, Grimond Foyer
16:40-18:00 Accents of English (Chair: Adrian Leemann)
- Investigation of Fricative Devoicing in Standard Southern British English
Naomi Miller, Jo Verhoeven - Phonetic correlates of prefixedness in 8 varieties of English
Sarah Hawkins, Jennifer Hay, Rachel Smith, Jane Stuart-Smith - Unstressed /ɪ/ and /ə/ in Derby: A categorical or gradient difference?
Sarah Tasker - Pronunciation developments in the Oxford English Dictionary 2016-18
Catherine Sangster, Matthew Moreland, Gary Leicester
18:30-19:30 Wine reception, Aphra Foyer