Program

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1st of May
From 15:00	Arrival and registration
19:00	Dinner
2nd of May
7:00-8:30	Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome
	Session 1: Coarticulation, the listener, & sound change Chair: Andy Butcher
9:00-9:45	John Ohala What sound change, phonotactics and aglossic speech reveal about the essence of speech communication
9:45-10:30	J. Harrington, F. Kleber, U. Reubold & J. Siddins The relationship between coarticulation, prosodic weakening, and sound change
	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Maria-Josep Solé The perception of voice-initiating gestures
11:45-12:30	Katerina Chládková, Silke Hamann & Daniel Williams The possible role of alternative perceptual cues in sound change: Diphthongization in Standard Southern British English /u/-fronting
	Lunch
	Session 2: Computational models of sound change Chair: Khalil Iskarous
14:00-14:45	Morgan Sonderegger Combining longitudinal data and mathematical models of sound change
14:45-15:30	James Kirby Sound change in Khmer: Experimental and computational studies
15:30-16:15	Paul Boersma Velar fronting in Russian emerges from a bidirectional phonology-phonetics interface
	Coffee break
16:45-18:15	Poster session 1
18:30	Welcome drinks
20:00	Dinner
3rd of May
7:00-8:30	Breakfast
	Session 3: Speech Production, Imitation, Entrainment & Sound Change Chair: Mary Stevens
8:45-9:30	Khalil Iskarous & Louis Goldstein Discreteness and continuity in language design and sound change
9:30-10.15	Grant McGuire & Molly Babel Imitation as a mechanism for the spread of sound change
10:15-11:00	Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson Imitation, entrainment, and sound change
	Coffee break
	Session 4: First language acquisition & sound change Chair: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
11:30-12:15	Mary Beckman Aligning the timelines of phonological acquisition and change
12:15-13:00	Alex Cristia, Amanda Seidl, Jeff Mielke, Robert Daland & Sharon Peperkamp Infants' contribution to the stability of patterns involving natural sound classes
	Lunch
	Session 5: Social/dialect factors & sound change Chair: Jane Stuart-Smith
14:30-15:15	Cynthia Clopper Sound change in the individual: Effects of exposure on cross-dialect speech processing
15:15-16:00	William Labov Linear incrementation and curvilinear reversal: 100 years of sound change in Philadelphia
16:00-16:45	Stefanie Jannedy, Melanie Weirich & Jana Brunner Category Instability of the Palatal Fricative in Berlin German
	Coffee break
17:15-18:45	Poster session 2
20:00	Dinner
4th of May
7:00-8:30	Breakfast
	Session 6: Sound change and evolution Chair: Lasse Bombien
8:45-9:30	Juliette Blevins The Life Cycle of Voiceless Sonorants
9:30-10.15	Didier Demolin Sound change as epigenetic regulations
10:15-11:00	Dan Dediu Genetic biases: the neglected factor in sound change
	Coffee break
	Session 7: Relationships between continuous and categorical change Chair: Janet Fletcher
11:30-12:15	María Riera & Joaquín Romero A coarticulatory account of historical r-vocalization in English
12:15-13:00	Paul Kiparsky A Stratal OT Perspective on Sound Change
	Lunch
14:30-16:00	Discussion & Closing remarks