Friday 13 April 2018
9:00-10:20 Acquisition/Bilingualism (Chair: Angelos Lengeris)
- Bilingual acquisition of phonetics and phonology in an immersion school setting: Age of exposure and sociolinguistic context
Claire Nance - Exploring the Effects of Bilingualism on Filled Pauses: An Acoustic-Phonetic Perspective
Justin Jing Hoi Lo - Articulatory characteristics of sibilant production in typically developing children
Claire Timmins - The influence of linguistic experience on the perception of accented speech by monolingual and bilingual children
Kathleen McCarthy, Bronwen G. Evans
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break, Aphra Foyer
10:50-12:10 Languages of the World (Chair: Hae-Sung Jeon)
- Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate plosives
Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab - The role of domain-initial denasalisation in speech segmentation in Seoul, Busan, and Ulsan Korean
Kayeon Yoo - Phonetic Investigation of six Diphthongs in Punjabi-Urdu
Ishrat Rehman - Tongue root advancement and vowel duration in Italian: a gradient effect?
Stefano Coretta
12:10-13:10 Lunch, Aphra Foyer
13:10-14:30 Inter- and Intra-speaker Variation (Chair: Claire Nance)
- Acoustic voice quality analysis of 1000+ speakers from across the UK
Benjamin Gittelson, Yang Li, Adrian Leemann - Modelling inter- and intra-speaker variance in sound change
Josef Fruehwald - Australian English voice onset time and Lebanese-Australian ethnic identity
Josh Clothier, Janet Fletcher, Debbie Loakes - A cross-dialectal study of /s/-retraction in English
Jane Stuart-Smith
14:30-16:00 Coffee break, Aphra Foyer
14:30-16:00 Poster session II, Grimond Foyer
16:00-17:20 Linguistic Constraints (Chair: Sarah Hawkins)
- The influence of syntactic, word-bigram, and word frequency measures of language redundancy on prosodic phrasing in English
Alice Turk, Tina Bögel
- The role of frequency in the acquisition of complex speech sounds: evidence from Palestinian Arabic
Ourooba Shetewi, Ghada Khattab, Karen Corrigan - A Cross-Style Investigation of Individual Differences in Disfluency Behaviour in Two British Accentsl
Kirsty McDougall, Martin Duckworth, Toby Hudson - Clear speech modification of labial and lingual articulation
James M. Scobbie, Joan Ma
From 19:00 conference dinner at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge