Program

Oral presentations

 

June 25

 

June 26

9.00

Opening session

9.00

“Tone and Segment interaction in Shanghai Chinese”   

 Abstract

Yiya Chen
Radboud University

9.15

Invited speaker

Elan Dresher

University of Toronto

Abstract

“Phonological contrast is not phonetic contrast”

 

9.30

“Do contour tones induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish?”

Abstract

Pilar Prieto & Marta Ortega-Llebaria ICREA-UAB & University of Texas-Austin

10.15

“Variation in loanword vowel harmony in Eastern Catalan”

Abstract

Teresa Cabré

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 

10.00

“Politeness and prosody: Interaction of prosody in the requests with “dar” as a benefactive in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish”

Abstract

Ana Estrella-Santos

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

10.45

“Total Vowel Harmony in Two Romance Dialects”

Abstract

Stefano Canalis

University of Padova

 

10.30

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

11.15

 

 

 

COFFEE BREAK

11.00

“Vowel deletion and reduction: acoustic clues of rhythmic organization in Brazilian and European Portuguese”

Abstract

M. Bernadete Abaurre & Filomena Sandalo

Universidade de Campinas, UNICAMP   

 

11.45

“Fixed and variable properties of Brazilian Portuguese Palatalization”

Abstract

Elisa Battisti & Ben Hermans

Universidade do Caxias do Sul/CNPq & Meertens Institute

11.30

“What makes Southern Italian sound “stress-timed”?”

Abstract

Laurence White, Elinor Payne & Sven L. Mattys

University of Bristol, University College London, Oxford University

12.15

“ Output-to-Output constraints and the tense/lax distribution of mid vowels in Galician”

Abstract

Fernando Martínez-Gil

Ohio State University

12.00

“The use of duration and intensity cues in the perception of stress in Catalan and Spanish”

Abstract

Marta Ortega-Llebaria, Pilar Prieto & Maria del Mar Vanrell

University of Texas at Austin & ICREA-UAB

12.45

“The theme vowel influence on syllabification in Spanish”

Abstract

Teresa Cabré & Maria Ohannesian Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

12.30

“Acoustic correlates of stress in early disyllabic productions of 2 Portuguese children”

Abstract

Susana Correia

Universidade de Lisboa/Onset-CEL, Universidade do Algarve

 

13.15

 

LUNCH

 

13.00

 

LUNCH

 

14.30

The effect of experience on the perception of a native vowel contrast in Catalan-Spanish bilinguals

Abstract

Marianna Nadeu & Joan C. Mora Universitat de Barcelona

14.30

“Compensatory lengthening in bilingual acquisition of languages non sensitive to syllable weight”

Abstract

Letícia Almeida

Universidade de Lisboa/Onset-CEL

 

15.00

“The overapplication of elision in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese”

Abstract

Raquel Santos

Universidade de S. Paulo

 

15.00

“Cues to Contrastive Focus in Romanian”

Abstract

Alis Manolescu, Daniel Olson, Marta Ortega-Llebaria

University of Texas at Austin

15.30

"The Prosodic and Segmental Effects on Gestural Overlap in Spanish / r C/ Clusters"

Abstract

Benjamin Schmeiser

Illinois State University

15.30

“The phrasing of focus in Sicilian Italian: duration and intonation indices”

Abstract

 

Elinor Payne & Raffaella Folli

UCL, Oxford University & University of Ulster

 

 

16.00

 

Poster session 1

 

 

16.00

 

Poster session 2

 

17.00

 

 
COFFEE BREAK

 

17.00

 
COFFEE BREAK

17.30

 

“Schwa in American English V+r sequences"

María Riera, Joaquín Romero & Ben Parrell

Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Abstract

17.30

“Accounting for 4- to 5-year-olds’ use of accentuation in focus marking”

Abstract

Aoju Chen

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

18.00

“(Fake) Geminates in Spanish and the challenge of /r/. A production and perception experiment”

Abstract

Trudel Meisenburg

University of Osnabrück

 

 

 

18.00

 

 

Invited Speaker

Mary Beckman

Ohio State University

Abstract

"Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages "

18.30

“Acoustic and aerodynamic factors in the interaction of features. The case of nasality”

Abstract

Maria Josep Solé

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 

Alternates/Posters

“The distribution of superheavy syllables in Southern Italian Dialects. Phonetic and

Phonological evidences of trimoraicity”
Abstract

Michela Russo & William John Barry

Université de Paris 8/UMR 7023-CNRS & Universität des Saarlandes

“On alternative focus in Madrid Spanish yes/no-questions”
Abstract

Beatriz López Jiménez

University of Tuebingen


“Phonological adaptations of Hispanisms in Neapolitan: geminates and consonantal clusters”
Abstract

Juan Antonio Thomas

State University of New York at Albany

 

Poster Sessions

 

 

June 25, 16.00 – 17.00


“Broad focus declaratives in two varieties of Canarian Spanish intonation: a case of systemic difference”

Mercedes Cabrera Abreu & Francisco Vizcaíno Ortega

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Abstract

 


“Acquisition of complex onsets: syllable, segments and frequency”

Giovana Bonilha, Carolina Mezzomo & Regina Lamprecht,

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, PUC do Rio Grande do Sul
Abstract

 


“The phrasing of extra-sentential elements in Catalan”

Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera

The Open University, Barcelona
Abstract

 


“ Perception and acquisition of phoneme categories: the ‘allophonic hypothesis’ revised”

Chiara Celata

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Abstract

 


“How does prosody give meaning to interjections?”

Johanne Akpossan

Paris III- ILPGA / Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie CNRS
Abstract

 


“Counterfeeding opacity in EP: analysis by Comparative Markedness”

Gisela Collischonn

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Abstract

 


“Twofold analysis of the phrasing of spontaneous declarative sentences in Catalan”

Ariadna Benet, Conxita Lleó & Susana Cortés

University of Hamburg
Abstract



“Duration of voiceless obstruents in child speech: data from EP”

Teresa da Costa

Universidade de Lisboa/Onset-CEL
Abstract


“The effects of accentuation on interrogative classification in Majorcan Catalan”

Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Abstract


“Portuguese loanwords in 18 th century Tupi”

Aline da Cruz

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – CAPES
Abstract

 


“An acoustic study of Sallentine retroflex sounds (Apulia, southern Italy)”

Angelica Costagliola

CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris III/CRIL - Università degli Studi di Lecce ( Italy)
Abstract


“Measuring intelligibility of L2 speech by means of a segment-based speech recognizer”

Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Eugenio Martínez Celdrán

Universitat de les Illes Balears & Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract

 


“Prosodic cues to hedge phrases: Evidence from Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese”

Lori Czerwionka

University of Texas at Austin
Abstract


“Adaptation strategies for English loan words in European Portuguese”

Maarten Janssen & Tiago Freitas

ILTEC
Abstract


Acoustic word boundary marking in Greek”

Argyro Katsika

Yale University
Abstract


“Melodic and metrical conditions on the vowel system functionning – the case of the Brazilian Portuguese acquisition case”

Carmen Matzenauer & Ana Ruth Miranda

Universidade Católica de Pelotas & Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Abstract


“The role of spectral and temporal cues

in the perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels”

Andréia Schurt Rauber, Paola Escudero & Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann Bion

University of Amsterdam & Federal University of Santa Catarina
Abstract

 


“What distinguishes /p, t, k/ from /b, d, g/ in Spanish?”

Abstract

Joaquín Romero, Ben Parrell & María Riera

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

 

 

June 26, 16.00 – 17.00


“Acquiring the place of place: the case of [pharyngeal] in a bilingual child”

Letícia Almeida & M. João Freitas

Universidade de Lisboa/Onset-CEL
Abstract


“Phonetic and phonemic implications of nasal-sibilant sequences: Spanish vs. Basque”

Oroitz Jauregi & Miren L. Oñederra

Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Abstract

 


“Vowel production by L2 speakers of English from North India”

Olga Kalashnik

Monash University , Australia
Abstract


“Nepalese retroflex stops: a unique place of articulation?”

Rajesh Khatiwada
CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle

Abstract


“Temporal events in aphasic speech: A computational neuroscience approach”

Ramesh Kumar Mishra,

Groningen University
Abstract


“On vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese”

Yonne Leite, Dinah Callou & João Moraes

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/CNPq
Abstract



“Nuclear and prenuclear contours in Brazilian Portuguese intonation”

João Antônio de Moraes

UFRJ/CNPq
Abstract


“Quantity and quality in Hungarian vowel perception”

Katalin Mády & Uwe Reichel

University of Munich & Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Abstract


“The shape of the prenuclear contour in the intonation of Canarian Spanish statements and y/n questions with adjective expansion in the subject: the case of Lanzarote”

Francisco Vizcaíno Ortega, Mercedes Cabrera Abreu, Josefa Dorta Luis & Beatríz Hernández Díaz

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract

 


“Frequency in European Portuguese Phonology:

data mining, results and applications”

Fernando Martins, Marina Vigário & Sónia Frota

Universidade de Lisboa/Onset-CEL
Abstract


“Tonal alignment with articulatory events in Catalan”

Pilar Prieto, Doris Mücke, Johannes Becker & Martine Grice

ICREA-UAB & University of Cologne
Abstract

 


“Visiting «slouching towards optimality» in the light of Romance languages”

Clàudia Pons

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Abstract


“Spanish phrasing: Secondary association of T* in face of intermediate phrase edge tone H-“

Guillermo Toledo & María Dolores Ramírez Verdugo Conicet

Université Laval, Canada & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Abstract

 


“Pitch patterns in L2 speakers of English”

Christiane Ulbrich

University of Ulster
Abstract


“Nasal reduction in unstressed diphthongs in southern Brazilian Portuguese”

Luiz Carlos Schwindt & Taís Bopp da Silva

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Abstract


"The Recent Palatalization of / t / to [ t s ] and / d / to [ d z ] in Paulistano Speech"

Vanessa Swenson

Brigham Young University
Abstract