- Venue:
- Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS),
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Date:
- Thursday, July 31 (start mid afternoon)
to Saturday, August 2, 2008 (end early evening)
- Organizers:
- Phil Hoole, Lasse Bombien, Marianne Pouplier (Munich)
Christine Mooshammer (Haskins)
Barbara Kühnert (Paris)
In the fields of phonetics, phonology and psycholinguistics there is
currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex sound
sequences. Consonant clusters, whether occurring within individual lexical
items, or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly
striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. The main
aim of this workshop is to do justice to this complexity by bringing
together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, including speech
production, speech perception, speech disorders, language typology,
acquisition of first and second language, cognitive processes in lexical
access.
Topics
- gestural coordination in clusters
- sources of universal vs. language-specific constraints
- sonority hierarchy, syllable structure and syllable weight
- voicing restrictions within clusters
- assimilation within and across boundaries
- the role of phonotactics for lexical access
- simplifications in reduction forms
- speech acquisition, speech disorders, repair mechanisms, and loanword adaptation
- written language
- tonal alignment and syllable structure
Invited speakers will include Donca Steriade, Tracy Hall, Andrea Weber,
Jim Scobbie, Adam Buchwald, Pierre Hallé, Theo Vennemann, and there will be active
participation from several projects of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Priority Programme # 1234 "Phonological and phonetic competence: between
grammar, signal processing, and neural activity" as well as
several Munich-based projects focussing on articulatory coordination.
The conference will consist of oral papers (30 minute slots for submitted
papers) and poster presentations (no parallel sessions)
Further enquiries (if not answered by this web-site) can be sent to
cluster@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de