Saturday, 3 September 2016 (Theme sessions on “Interactions of Tone and Intonation with Other Components of Prosody”)
9:00-10:00 Plenary Janet Fletcher
Prosodic signatures in Australian languages – intonation and beyond
10:00-11:00 Theme session-1 (Chair: Sónia Frota)
- Prosody encodes clause type anticipation: Evidence from Mandarin
Stella Gryllia, Y. Yang, J. S. Doetjes & L. L. Cheng - The role of prosodic structure in the word tonology of Lhasa Tibetan
Jonathan Keh Sheng Lim - Devoicing in post-focal constituents in Donegal Irish
Amelie Dorn & Ailbhe Ni Chasaide
11:00-11:30 Coffee break, Grimond Foyer
11:30-13:00 Theme session-2 (Chair: Katalin Mády)
- The phrasing of lexically unaccented words in Lekeitio Basque
Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk - High pitch signals word onsets for German 9-month-olds: evidence for a pitch segmentation strategy
Katharina Zahner, Muna Schönhuber, Janet Grijzenhout & Bettina Braun - The role of lexical tones in acquisition of word-object associations in Chinese infants
Xiaobei Zheng & Xiangzhi Meng - When prosody matters: Emerging word segmentation abilities in European Portuguese learning infants
Joseph Butler, Cátia Severino, Marina Vigário & Sónia Frota
13:00-14:00 Lunch, Grimond Foyer
14:00-15:30 Theme session-3 (Chair: Elisabeth Selkirk)
- Text-tune adjustment in Tunisian Arabic
Sam Hellmuth - Prominence-lending boundaries: pauses and their magnifying power
K. Mády, F. Kleber, U. D. Reichel, Á. Szalontai, A. Kohári & A. Deme - Brain response to intonational phrase structure is purely prosody-driven
Barbara Leone-Fernandez, Rita Jerónimo, Shuang Lu, Susana Correia, Marina Vigário, Kai Alter & Sónia Frota - Effects of prosodic and gestural prominence on words recall in first and in second languages
Olga Kushch, Alfosno Igualada & Pilar Prieto
15:30-16:00 Coffee break, Grimond Foyer
16:00-17:00 Plenary Laura Dilley
Genesis of rhythm: The power of distal structures to shape prosodic forms
17:00-17:15 STUDENT AWARDS & CLOSING