Program
This is a prelimary program. It is subject to change. More details will be posted later.
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LCD Projectors and Overhead Projectors will be provided for all sessions
Registration and all sessions will take place at:
Mason Hall
419 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1027
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Session 1 (on the left side) and combined sessions will be held in room 1460. Session 2 (on the right side) will be held in room 1469.
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
Friday
| 1:15 p.m. | |
| Opening remarks Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) |
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| 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | |
| Tone session: Chinese Chair: Yen-Hwei Lin | Regular session: Speech perception Chair: Anthony Brasher |
| Stress and Tone Sandhi: A Study on Sichuan Mandarin Yuanliang Meng (Michigan State University) |
Neural Bases of Listening to Speech in Noise Patrick Wong, Kiara Lee, Todd Parrish, and Diane Arcuri (Northwestern University) |
| Asymmetries between Left- and Right-Dominant Tone Sandhi Systems Jie Zhang (University of Kansas) |
Tuning in and tuning out: speech perception in native- and foreign-talker babble Kristin Van Heukelem and Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University) |
| An experimental study of tone 2 sandhi in Standard Chinese Xinting Zhang, Li Yang, and San Duanmu (University of Michigan) |
Can the temporal unfolding of gradient lexical activation reveal the grain of phonological units? Meghan Clayards (University of Rochester) and Bob McMurray (University of Iowa) |
| The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone and VOT in Cantonese Holman Tse (University of Chicago) and Yuwen Lai (University of Kansas) |
Asymmetries in patterns of confusion of American English vowels Robert Felty and José Benkí (University of Michigan) |
| 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | |
| Tone session: Africa Chair: Andries Coetzee | Regular session: phonetics/phonology Chair: Alan Yu |
| Tone and Contrast in Consonants Mary Bradshaw (University of Oklahoma) |
Does vowel harmony facilitate speech production? Gary Linebaugh and Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Tone Melodies in Llogoori Michael Marlo (University of Michigan) and David Odden (Ohio State University) |
Stress assignment in Jamaican Creole Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Segmental Behavior of Suprasegmental Tone Aaron Kaplan (University of California Santa Cruz) |
Exploring Strict Dominance and Violability with Turing Machines and Computability Adam Wayment (Johns Hopkins University) |
| An Autosegmental Examination of Floating Tones in Ekegusii Robert Elwell (University of Texas Austin) |
Perceived Linkage of English Pitch Accents with Syllables Bernard Kripkee (Georgetown University) |
Saturday
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | |
| Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | |
| Regular session: Prosodic boundaries Chair: Robert Felty | Regular session: Fricatives Chair: Stuart Davis |
| The Prosodic Word as Domain of Durational Control in South African English Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) and Daan Wissing (North-West University, South Africa) |
The Status of Turkish Fricatives Tomomasa Sasa (University of Iowa) |
| Acoustic Effects of Prosodic Boundary on Vowels in American English Eun-Kyung Lee and Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
German Fricatives: Positional Faithfulness or Coda Devoicing Jill Beckman (University of Iowa), Michael Jessen (Bundeskriminalamt), and Catherine Ringen (University of Iowa) |
| Predicting prosodic boundaries from linguistic structures Tae-Jin Yoon (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
Are voiced fricatives always specified with [voice]? Zara Wanlass (University of Iowa) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | |
| Regular session: Phonology Chair: Catherine Ringen | Regular session: Phonology Chair: San Duanmu |
| Aspects of the phonology of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh) |
Contrast Preservation and Neutralization: Nasal Vowels in Chinese Diminutive Words Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University) |
| Minimal word length in Hungarian Stephen Grimes (Indiana University) |
In Defense of Phonetic Analogy: Evidence from the Phonetics of Tonal Morphology Alan Yu (University of Chicago) |
| Data from Russian Speakers' Introspection as Evidence for a Human-oriented
Phonological Theory Nadya Ditch, Institute for Linguistic Research, St. Petersburg, Russia |
On the status of prenuclear glides in Mandarin Chinese Chunsheng Yang (Ohio State University) |
| 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | |
| Lunch | |
| 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | |
| Regular session: Native American phonology Chair Nick Pharris | Tone session: Perception, Acquisition, and Music Andrea Pham |
| Phonological or phonetic: the case of 'intrusive' nasal consonants in Ottawa Marie Klopfenstein (Wayne State University) |
Tonal features in language and music: A proposal Laura Dilley (Ohio State University) |
| Explanation in Phonetics and Phonology: Understanding Dorsey's Law in Hocank (Winnebago) Stuart Davis (Indiana University), Karen Baertsch (Southern Illinois University), and Bill Anderson (Indiana University) |
Lexical Tone Perception in Musicians and Non-musicians Jennifer Alexander, Patrick Wong, and Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University) |
| Laryngealized Resonants in Washo Robert Peachey and Alan Yu (University of Chicago) |
Using lexical tones in word identification: Patterns of learning in native English speaking adults Tyler Perrachione and Patrick Wong (Northwestern University) |
| Changes in the distribution of glottal stops in K'ichean languages Rusty Barrett (University of Chicago) |
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| 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | |
| Regular session: Phonology Michael Marlo | Regular session: Acquisition Susan Lin |
| A Phonological Account of Javanese Stops Craig Dresser (University of Iowa) |
Gapped acquisition of harmonically complete inventories: An analysis of childrenŐs cluster acquisition Ashley Farris (Indiana University) |
| Laryngeal contrasts in Korean stops Sašo Živanovic (University of Ljubljana) |
Statistical learning cross-constraints and the acquisition of speech categories: a computational approach Joseph Toscano and Bob McMurray (University of Iowa) |
| Double accent in loanwords of North Kyungsang Korean and Variable Syllable Weight Jungsun Kim (Indiana University) |
Patterns of Consonant Cluster Reduction in Child Phonology: an articulatory and perceptual account Bo-Young Kwon (Michigan State University) |
| Weight-sensitive tone patterns in loan words of South Kyungsang Korean Dongmyung Lee (Indiana University) |
Chinese-English EFL Students' Use of Instruction: a Case Study on English Stress Pattern Gustav Chou (National Taiwan University) |
| 6:30 p.m. | |
| MCWOP business meeting | |
| 7:00 p.m. | |
| Banquet - details to be announced | |
Sunday
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | |
| Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | |
| Tone session: Southeast Asia Chair: David Odden |
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| Eastern Cham: the fine line between register and tone Marc Brunelle (University of Michigan) |
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| An OT Analysis of the Tonal Phenomena of Bodo Priyankoo Sarmah's (University of Florida) |
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| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | |
| Regular session: Variation Chair: Rusty Barrett | Tone session: Southeast Asia Marc Brunelle |
| The Effects of Race on Speech Perception Maeve Eberhardt (University of Pittsburgh) |
Tai Tonogenesis: Synchronic Evidence in Lao and Thai and Subphonemic Contrasts Marlys Macken (University of Wisconsin Madison) |
| Variation in the Scottish Gaelic nasal mutation: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky) and Jim Scobbie (Queen Margaret University College) |
Tone, Minor Syllable, and Infixation in Kammu Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Cornell University) |
| Lexical Exceptions in Vowel Harmony Sara Finley (Johns Hopkins University) |
Is the phonology grounded in the phonetics? Vietnamese tone Andrea Pham (University of Florida) |