Venice International University, Seminar, 30th April - 3rd May

Tuesday, 30th April

9 - 9.45 Eva Reinisch: How adaptation to foreign accents informs us about the units of speech processing.

9.45 - 10.30 Catherine Watson: Sound change in Maori, the Indigenous language of New Zealand and possible external and internal motivations

11-11.45 Jonathan Harrington: Coarticulation, categorisation, and sound change.

11.45-12.30 Pauline Welby: Irish initial mutation: total or partial eclipse?

14.00-14.45 Florian Schiel & Mary Stevens: Machine Learning of Probabilistic Phonological Pronunciation Rules from the Italian CLIPS Corpus

14.45 - 15.30 Carola Mook: The influence of bandwidth limitation on the speaker discriminating potential of nasals and fricatives

Wednesday, 1st May

9 - 9.45 Marianne Pouplier & Phil Hoole: Techniques in ultrasound

9.45 - 10.30 Manfred Paststätter: Physiological study of Polish Consonant Clusters

11-11.45 Thomas Kisler: Exploring the connection of acoustic and distinctive features

11.45-12.30 Caroline Gluth: Discriminability of auditory, visual, and haptic stimuli

14.00-14.45 Raphael Winkelmann: Developments in Emu + Emu/R

14.45 - 15.30 Uwe Reichel: Information theoretic syllable structure and its relation to the c-center effect

16.00 - 16.45 Florian Schiel: WebMaus

16.45 - 17.30 Lasse Bombien: Laryngeal-oral coordination in mixed-voicing clusters

Thursday, 2nd May

9 - 9.45 Sandra Peters: Incremental compensatory shortening in the production and perception of German monosyllables

9.45 - 10.30 Conceicao Cunha: Neutralisation of ±tense opposition in Standard Austrian German

11.00 - 11.45 Caterina Petrone & Mariapaola D'Imperio: imitation of intonation from a cross-variaty and cross-linguistic perspective: preliminary observations and results.

11.45-12.30 Hanna Feiser: Comparing read and spontaneous speech of related speakers

14.00-14.45 Daniella Müller & Ulrich Reubold: Rhoticisation and lambdacisation

14.45 - 15.30 Véronique Bukmaier: /s/-/ʃ/ production and perception in the Augsburger dialect

16.00-16.45 Jessica Siddins: The influence of accentuation and polysyllabicity on compensatory shortening in German

16.45 - 17.30 Charlotte Graux, Mariapaola D'Imperio, Thierry Legou and Jonathan Harrington: Coarticulation in French & Italian

Friday, 3rd May

9 - 9.45 Mary Stevens and Ulrich Reubold: Preaspiration in Italian

9.45 - 10.30 Felicitas Kleber: The role of prosodic effects in compensation for coarticulation by pre-school children

11.00-11.45 Alain Marchal: Control of respiration in phonation

11.45-12.30 Hans Tillmann TBA