Friday, May 13 @ Straub 145
9.00 – Caffeine & pastries, conference introduction
9.30 – Stability and change in the back vowels in Oregonian English: Ongoing Sociophonetic investigations on Western speech; Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon), Jason McLarty (University of Oregon) & Charlie Farrington (University of Oregon)
10.00 – The acoustics of conversational fricatives in Mid-Western American English; Benjamin V. Tucker (University of Alberta), Daniel Brenner (University of Alberta), & Viktor Kharlamov (Florida Atlantic University)
10.30 – Coffee break
11:00 – From input distributions to graded internal structure: Artificial learning of novel phonetic categories; Paul Olejarczuk (University of Oregon) & Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)
11.30 –Learning vowel harmony with transparency in an artificial language; Avery Ozburn (University of British Columbia) & Gunnar Hansson (University of British Columbia) **Best student abstract travel award winner**
12:00 – Vowels vs. consonants as anchors for infixation; Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran University) & Peter Staroverov (University of Leipzig)
12:30 – LUNCH (on your own)
14:00 – Anticipatory coarticulation: A psycholinguistic perspective and method; Melissa A. Redford (University of Oregon), Sergei V. Bogdanov (Moonshadow Mobile) & Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia)
14.30 – Phonetic universals live in the body, not the mind; Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia)
15:00 – Coffee break
15.30 – Footing in North Saami; David Odden (Ohio State University)
16.00 – Characteristics of non-pre-vocalic ejectives in Yakima Sahaptin; Sharon Hargus (University of Washington) & Virginia Beavert (University of Oregon)
16.30 – Break / Business Meeting
17.30 – WELCOME RECEPTION @ Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
Saturday, May 14
9.00 – Coffee & pastries @ Living Learning Center South, Performance Hall
9.30 – Poster Session / continuing breakfast @ Living Learning Center South, Performance Hall
Twentieth century sound change in Washington D.C. African American English; Shelby Arnson (University of Oregon)
Beyond phonetic cues: Names affect listeners’ performance in a talker identification task; Jobie Hui (University of British Columbia), Brianne Senior (University of British Columbia) and Molly Babel (University of British Columbia)
A longitudinal study of children’s intonation in narrative speech; Jeffrey Kallay (University of Oregon) & Melissa A. Redford (University of Oregon)
Mandarin tone acquisition by native English speakers; Qiu Ting Liu (University of California, Berkeley)
Acoustic correlates of a unique, bidirectional [ATR] harmony system: The case of Ethiopian Komo; Paul Olejarczuk (University of Oregon), Manuel Otero (University of Oregon) & Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon)
The acoustic correlates of stress in Warm Springs Ičiškiin; Brittany Parham (University of Oregon)
Breathiness spreading in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; Marie-Caroline Pons (University of Oregon)
The case of dental obstruents in Bissa (Eastern Mande); Nathan Severance (University of Oregon) & Valeriia Tretiak (University of Oregon)
Variability and stability in native and non-native Japanese speech; Charlotte Vaughn (University of Oregon), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon), and Kaori Idemaru (University of Oregon)
Acquisition of Korean stops by L1-Chinese and L1-English learners; Sue Yoon (University of Oregon) & Kaori Idemaru (University of Oregon)
Talks (@ Straub 145)
11:30 – A comparison of vowel overlap metrics; Matthew C. Kelley (University of Alberta), Geoffrey Stewart Morrison (University of Alberta) & Benjamin V. Tucker (University of Alberta)
12.00 – Examining the reliability of automated vowel analyses using FAVE; Nathan Severance (University of Oregon), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service) & Aaron Dinkin (University of Toronto)
12.30 – LUNCH (on your own)
14.00 – The status of the low vowels in American English; Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno) & Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon)
14.30 – Intonation variation over time in the American South; Jason McLarty (University of Oregon)
15.00 – Pre-velar raising and the California Shift in Nevada English; Ian Clayton (University of Nevada, Reno), Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno) & Kaylynn Gunter (University of Nevada, Reno)
15.30 – Coffee break
16.00 – Dynamic measures of stance-taking in conversational speech; Gina-Anne Levow (University of Washington) & Richard Wright (University of Washington)
16.30 – The effect of listener L2 proficiency on non-native-directed speech; Megan Keough (University of British Columbia)
17.00 –Lexical age of acquisition and phonological neighborhood density effects on foreigner-directed speech; Renee Kemp (University of California, Davis) **Best student abstract travel award winner**
17.30 – Break
18.00 – DINNER @ Many Nations Longhouse
Sunday, May 15 @ Straub 145
9.00 – Coffee & pastries
9.30 – Factors affecting perceptual learning: Synthesized speech and orthographic support; Charlotte Vaughn (University of Oregon), Molly Babel (University of British Columbia), & Michael McAuliffe (McGill University)
10.00 – The role of syllable prominence in foreign accent perception; Elizabeth McCullough (University of Washington) & Richard Wright (University of Washington)
10.30 – Individual differences in perception of unfamiliar speech; Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon), Tessa Bent (Indiana University), Stephanie Borrie (Utah State University) & Megan McKee (Indiana University)
11.00 – Coffee break
11.30 – Availability of production-based representations for non-native speech perception; Misaki Kato (University of Oregon) & Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon)
12.00 – #PronouncingThingsIncorrectly: Initial phonological generalizations of a novel Internet word game; Rachel Tatman (University of Washington) **Best student abstract travel award winner**
12.30 – Schemas, templates and rules in morphophonology learning; Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)