Friday, October 5

Salon A/B, Green Acre Campus Pointe (map)

(Click on titles for abstracts. If any presentation materials have been made available, you can access them by clicking on a relevant link below the title & author information. Workshop-related items are marked with ‡.)

8:30am – 9:00am: Registration

9:00am – 10:00am: Workshop tutorial

‡Underdocumented language data corpus construction
Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego) & Lucien Carroll (Cisco)

10:00am – 11:00am: Workshop tutorial

‡Electroglottography for voice analysis
Marc Garellek (UC San Diego)
[slides]

11:00am – 12:15pm: Workshop tutorial

‡Investigating underdocumented tone systems
Bert Remijsen (University of Edinburgh)
[handout, Dinka tone exercise, examples]

12:15pm – 12:45pm: Lunch (provided) + registration; opening remarks

12:45pm – 2:00pm: Poster session 1

2:00pm – 4:00pm: Talk session 1 (Session chair: Jason Shaw)

‡”Vowel Quality Cues to Variable Nasal Adaptation in Mandarin Loanword Phonology”
Ho-Hsin Huang and Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University)

‡”Experimental evidence for perceptual hypercorrection in American r-dissimilation”
Nancy Hall, Irene Orellana, and Bianca Godinez (California State University Long Beach)

“Acoustic cues used by learners of English”
Danica Reid (Simon Fraser University)
[slides]

‡”An acoustic and articulatory description of retroflex vowels of Kalasha”
Qandeel Hussain and Jeff Mielke (North Carolina State University, Raleigh)

4:00pm – 4:30pm: Break

4:30pm – 5:30pm: Talk session 2 (Session chair: Alan Yu)

“Gestural representations of tone in Mandarin: Evidence from timing alternations”
Muye Zhang, Christopher Geissler, and Jason Shaw (Yale University)

“Tones prefer colour: Tone and Epenthesis in Buli”
Daniel Gleim (Universität Leipzig)

5:30pm – 6:30pm: Invited speaker (Chair: Sharon Rose)

Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College)
‡”The role of music in documenting phonological grammar: two case studies from West Africa”
[slides]

7:00pm – 9:00pm

‡Workshop panel and student mixer