Thursday, 1 September 2016
8:30 – 11:30 Registration, Grimond Foyer
8:45-9:00 WELCOME
9:00-10:00 Plenary Aditi Lahiri
Asymmetries in phonological cliticisation: diachrony and experimental evidence
10:00-11:00 Regular session (Chair: Caroline Féry)
- Does prosody influence thematic role assignment during real-time spoken language comprehension?
Julia Marina Kröger, Katja Münster & Pia Knoeferle - The prosody of topics in two varieties of Swedish: Effects of contrast and referential statusK
Gilbert Ambrazaitis & Anastasia Karlsson - The intonation of two-argument VP I-Topics in German
Anya Lunden, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld & David Kilpatrick
11:00-11:30 Coffee break, Grimond Foyer
11:30-13:00 Regular session (Chair: Carlos Gussenhoven)
- The independence of the timing of tones and tone-bearing units: a study on Thai
Robin Karlin - Effect of segmental composition on f0 peak alignment of Cantonese rising tones
Ricky KW Chan & Yang Li - Mandarin tonal asymmetries in perception
Beinan Zhou, Kai Alter, Sandra Kotzor & Aditi Lahiri - Syllable weight and tone in South Mara Bantu languages
Lotta Aunio
13:00-14:00 Lunch, Grimond Foyer
14:00-15:30 Regular session (Chair: Gilbert Ambrazaitis)
- Intonation and pragmatic markers as encoders of commitment and agreement epistemic operations: the case of Catalan and Friulian
Pilar Prieto & Paolo Roseano - The relative weight of the acoustic and intonational cues involved in verbal irony detection in French
Santiago González-Fuente, Pilar Prieto & Ira Noveck - Tones and tunes in Tianjin Mandarin
Cong Zhang - Reassessment of the frequency code: prosody of polite requests in Catalan
Iris Hübscher, Joan Borràs-Comes & Pilar Prieto
15:30-16:00 Coffee break, Grimond Foyer
17:30-20:00 Wine reception, Aphra Foyer (in Grimond Building)
16:00-18:00 Poster session I, Grimond Foyer
- A cognitive approach to compound and nuclear stress
Marcel Schlechtweg - The acoustics of German vocative chants: Description and cross-linguistic comparison
Sergio Quiroz - A cross-linguistic exploration of the intonation of contrastive topics
Margaret Zellers, Nadja Schauffler & Sabine Zerbian - Phonological tone and phonetic intonation in Henan Mandarin: Perceptual evidence
Carlos Gussenhoven - Assessment of information status in British and Canadian English by Canadian listeners
Saskia A.J.M. Verstegen, Juhani Järvikivi, Vincent J. Porretta & Aoju Chen - Cross-dialectal prosodic accommodation: Evidence from Andalusian Spanish in Asturias
Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz & Gorka Elordieta - Decoding the pragmatic meaning of polite requests through prosody and facial gestures: a study with 3-year olds
Iris Hübscher, Laura Wagner & Pilar Prieto - Documenting Tucumán Spanish: native patterns versus language contact prosodies
Virginia Terán & Marta Ortega-Llebaria - mausmooth: Eyeballing made easy
Francesco Cangemi & Aviad Albert - Foreign Accent in Spanish Intonation
Andrea Pešková & Trudel Meisenburg - Gender differences in the perception of speech prosody and visual prosody in L2
Suzanne Verheul, Adriana Hartmann, Roselinde Supheert & Aoju Chen - Interplay of tone and intonation in Esan yes/no questions (cancelled)
Evarista Ofure Ikoyo-Eweto - Intonation and phrasing in Brazilian Portuguese: implications for comma usage?
Geovana Soncin - Intonational patterns of interrogative sentences of Brazilian Portuguese
Caroline Carbonari Rosignoli & Flaviane Romani Fernandes-Svartman - On the effect of modality and speaking style for Mandarin tones classification by L2 Learners
Yueqiao Han - Pauses and pitch contours in spontaneous speech processing: Evidence from Russian
Yulia Nigmatulina & Elena Riekhakaynen - Phonetic features of Luxembourgish intonation
Judith Manzoni - Prosodic deviations of French learners of L2 English
Nuzha Moritz - Prosodic realization of Colombian Spanish vocatives
Clara Huttenlauch, Ingo Feldhausen & Bettina Braun - Prosodic realization of dual focus in French, German and Mandarin
Caroline Féry, Bei Wang & Emilie Destruel-Johnson - Prosodic typology in New Englishes: Prominence and phrasing in educated Indian English (cancelled)
Olga Maxwell
- Realization of the French initial accent: Stability and individual differences
Pauline Welby, Roxane Bertrand, Cristel Portes, Corine Astésano