Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech
A conference in honour of John Esling
Preliminary Program (revised): August 2014
All talks will be held in the Campus View room of the Cadboro Commons at UVic.
Thursday, September 18
8.30–9.15
9.15–9.45
Registration
Opening remarks
9.45–10.45
Keynote: Jared Bernstein (Stanford University):
Phonetics in the new applied linguistics
10.45–11.00 Break
Session 1: L2 tone and pitch in Chinese languages
11.00–11.30 Valter Ciocca (University of British Columbia):
Perception and production of Cantonese lexical tones by pre-school children
11.30–12.00 Marie Ploquin (University of Quebec in Montreal):
Phonetic transfer: tone to pitch accent
12.00–2:00
2.00–2.30
Lunch (on own)
Lunchtime discussion (12.30-1.30): Updates to the International Phonetic
Alphabet
Session 2: Sociophonetics
Nicole Rosen (Univ. of Manitoba) and Christian Guilbault (Simon Fraser Univ.):
Speaking to the beat of a different drum: rhythmic properties of Manitoba French
2.30–3.00
Robert J. Podesva (Stanford) and Anita Szakay (Queen Mary Univ. of London):
Gender differences in the acoustic realization of creaky voice: evidence from
conversational data collected in Northern California
3.00–3.20
Break
3.20–3.50
Session 3: Prominence
Meghan Clayards and Thea Knowles (McGill University):
Sibilants, prominence, contrast and breathy voice
3.50–4.50
Keynote: Jerold Edmondson (University of Texas at Arlington):
Pharyngeals in the Aboriginal languages of Taiwan
5.00–6.00
Happy Hour
Fireplace Lounge, University Club
Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech
A conference in honour of John Esling
Friday, September 19
9.00–10.00
Keynote: Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
Voice quality: Building block or foundation?
10.00–10.20 Break
Session 4: Articulatory phonetics
10.20–10.50 Alexei Kochetov (University of Toronto):
Supralaryngeal correlates of the Japanese voiceless-voiced stop distinction
10.50–11.20 Moufoutaou Adjeran (Université d’Abomey-Calavi):
La nasalisation en cabɛ (un parler yoruba du Bénin): Analyse des aspects
phonétiques
11.20–11.50 Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia):
Superposition in a modular model of speech production
12.00–2.00
Catered Lunch: Snowberry/Salal/Honeysuckle Room, University Club
2.00–3.30
Poster session and refreshments: Hickman Building (HHB) 110
1. Allison Benner, Marianne Huijsmans, Siobhan Zelwietro (Univ. of Victoria):
The use of acoustic cues to Bai register tones in the second and third years of life
2. Sally Chen (National Taiwan University): How cross-language consonantal
distance influences Mandarin-English consonant-/i/ syllable perception:
behavioral and ERP evidence
3. Chenhao Chiu and Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia and Haskins
Labs): Using auditory startle to uncover pitch and formants in speech planning
4. Radu Craioveanu and Ross Godfrey (University of Toronto): Vowel
transparency in Harari long-distance palatalization
5. Donna Erickson (Kanazawa Medical University), Shigeto Kawahara (The Keio
Institute of Language and Cultural Studies), Ian Wilson (Aizu University),
Coroline Menezes (University of Toledo), Jeff Moore (Sophia University), Atsuo
Suemitsu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and Yoshino
Shibuya (Kanazawa Medical University): Jaw displacement patterns as
articulatory correlates of metrical structure
6. David Hill (University of Calgary): A real-time articulatory synthesis system for
spoken English and a tool for articulatory phonetics research
7. Phil Howson (University of Toronto) and Ekaterina Komova (University of
British Columbia): Palatalization and sound change: an ultrasound examination
of trills in Russian and Czech
8. M. Irfana, S. Chandran, R. Reeny, and N. Sreedevi (All India Institute of
Speech and Hearing): A cross-linguistic comparison of tongue dynamics using
ultrasound
Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech
A conference in honour of John Esling
9. Thomas Magnuson, Sonya Bird (University of Victoria), and Bryan Gick
(University of British Columbia): Endoscopy of oropharyngeal isthmus
constriction
10. Maida Percival (University of Toronto): Acoustic variation in ejective stops in
Oromo
11. Marie Ploquin (University of Quebec in Montreal): Lexical tone and
interrogative intonation interaction
12. Adam Steffanick (Univ. of Victoria and Vanderbilt Univ.): Consonant clusters
and inserted vowels in Japanese loanwords and cognates
13. Joseph Paul Stemberger (Univ. of British Columbia) and Mario Chávez Peón
(Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social):
First language acquisition of creaky and checked voice in vowels in Valley
Zapotec
14. Mihoko Teshigawara (Komazawa University): Auditory analysis of an English
corpus read by Japanese learners of English
15. Michael Wagner (McGill University): Three dimensions of sentence prosody
and their interactions
16. Weijing Zhou, Youqun Yao, and Hong Chen (Jiangsu University of Science
and Technology): The production and perception of British English segments by
advanced tertiary-level EFL learners in China
3.30–4.00
Session 5: L2 phonetics
Ian Wilson (University of Aizu), Atsuo Suemitsu (Japan Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology), and Sunao Kanada (University of Aizu):
Coronal articulatory setting: the inefficiency of L2 English speakers
4.00–5.00
Keynote: Sharhzad Saif (Université Laval):
The impact of a high-stakes test of spoken language on learners? Use of oral
production and comprehension strategies
5.15–6.30
(Non-competitive) PBBS soccer game—no skills required!
UVic Field TBA
Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech
A conference in honour of John Esling
Saturday, September 20
9.00–10.00
Keynote: Scott Moisik (Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics)
The embodiment of phonology: Rethinking sound systems in terms of phonological
potentials
10.00–10.20 Break
Session 6: Phonetic typology
10.20–10.50 Sonya Bird (University of Victoria):
A phonetic investigation of Tsilhqut’in /z/
10.50–11.20 Rosey Billington (University of Melbourne):
Articulation of ‘advanced tongue root’ in Nilotic languages: evidence from Lopit
11.20–11.50 Corey Telfer and Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta):
An acoustic analysis of the Northern Haida pharyngeals
11.50–1.00
1.00–1.30
1.30–2.00
2.00–2.30
Lunch (on own)
Lunchtime discussion (12.15-1.00): UVic Alumni (current SLPs, etc.)
Session 7: L2 phonetics
John Archibald (University of Victoria):
The building blocks of L2 segmental representation and processing
Hua Lin and Akitsugu Nogita (University of Victoria):
Why Japanese ESL learners have trouble differentiating /l/ and /ɹ/
Katharina Schuhmann (Stony Brook and Bucknell Universities):
Perceptual learning in non-native listeners
2.30–2.50
Break
2.50–3.20
Session 8: Clinical phonetics
Robert Fuhrman, Adriano Vilela-Barbosa, and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (UBC and
UFMG, Brazil): Vocal effort modulates within-speaker coordination.
3:20-3:50
Penelope Bacsfalvi and B. May Bernhardt (UBC): Articulatory feedback in speech
(re)habilitation and training, with a focus on ultrasound
3.50–4.50
Keynote: Lise Crevier-Buchman (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)
Capturing vocal tract agility: Some phonetic, acoustic, and physiological features
from normality to pathology
4.50–5.00
Closing remarks
6.30–8.30
Conference Banquet: Golden City Restaurant
Sunday, September 21
Possible (simultaneous ultrasound and laryngoscope) imaging session in the UVic Speech
Research Lab. Watch this space…

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