Programme
All sessions will be held at the institutes seminar room (4th floor). The working language will be English.
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Friday, 29 October
| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome |
| 9:15 – 10:00 |
keynote
Maddieson, Ian (University of New Mexico/ UC Berkeley)
The universality of segments in light of evidence for exemplars |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Demolin, Didier (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Variations in the anatomic constraints on sound patterns |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
McDonough, Joyce (University of Rochester)
Re-examining the Athabaskan tonogenesis hypothesis: tonal dissmilation and tonogenesis |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
van Leussen, Jan-Willem (University of Amsterdam)
Modeling self-organization in consonant inventories |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
de Boer, Bart (University of Amsterdam)
First formant difference for /i/ and /u/: A cross-linguistic study and an explanation |
| 12:15 – 12:45 |
Bradfield, Julian (University of Edinburgh) Phonetic universals -- abstract structure vs fine detail |
| 12:45 – 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:30 |
keynote
Shadle, Christine (Haskins Laboratories)
Aerodynamics of speech, and the puzzle of voiced fricatives |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Kim, Hyunsoon (Hongik University Seoul)
Nonrelease in preconsonantal plosives as a phonetic universal:
A case study of MRI, acoustic and aerodynamic data on Korean plosives |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Simpson, Adrian (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Epiphenomenal ejectives and the production of ‘true’ ejectives? |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Winter, Bodo & Grawunder, Sven (MPI EVA Leipzig)
The Frequency Code Revisited: Are the Universalist Claims Substantiated? |
| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Carignan, Chris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Lingual response to vowel nasalization |
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Scarborough, Rebecca (University of Colorado)
Phonetic and Phonological Patterns of Nasality in Lakota Vowels |
| 17:15 – 17:45 |
Shosted, Ryan (University of Illinois)
When good oral stops go bad: Voicing, nasality, and oral obstruency |
| 19:00 |
We will meet for Dinner at the Restaurant "Auerbachs Keller"
Mädler Passage, Grimmaische Straße 2-4 |
Saturday, 30 October
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
keynote
Poeppel, David (New York University)
The architecture of speech perception and its temporal foundations |
| 9:45 – 10:15 |
Dmitrieva, Olga (Stanford University)
Universals in the distribution of geminate consonants and perception of consonant length |
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
Basbøll, Hans (University of Southern Denmark)
What kind of (epi?)phenomenon is sonority? Universal Logic of Segment
Types as a framework for studying phonotactic patterns |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Giavazzi, Maria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The phonetic underpinnings of prosodic conditioning |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Dan Dediu (MPI Nijmegen)
"Genetic biasing in language diversity and universals" |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Zygis, Marzena (ZAS, Berlin) & Jaye Padgett (UC Santa Cruz)
The role of contrast in sibilant inventories |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
keynote
Kingston, John (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Mutually assured autonomy |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Brandstätter, Julia & Moosmüller, Sylvia
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Intrinsic Vowel Duration in Standard Austrian German and Modern Standard Albanian |
| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Zee, Eric & Lee, Wai-Sum (City University of Hong Kong)
Phonetic Typology of the Consonants of Chinese Dialects |
| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:15 – 17:00 |
keynote
Perrier, Pascal (GIPSA-LAB, Grenoble)
Vocal tract biomechanics and regularities in speech production |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Finale |
Sunday, 31 October
Workshop on data in speech production
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