TAL 2016 Schedule
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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Satellite Workshop |
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| 1:00 - 5:00 | Application of PENTAtrainer in prosody research Yi Xu, University College, London Santitham Prom-on, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand |
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Introductory Address |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Plenary TalkTonal Variation in Lexical Processing Dr. Yiya Chen Leiden University |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Oral Session 1 |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Priming the Representation of Taiwanese Tone Sandi Words Yu-Fu Chen, Joan Sereno, and Jie Zhang University of Kansas |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | TRACE-T with and without tonal directions Lan Shuai and Jeffrey Malins Haskins Laboratories |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Effect of variability on incidental learning of lexical tone Jiang Liu, University of Minnesota Jie Zhang, University of Kansas |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 – 3:30 | Poster Session 1The Timing of Acoustic vs. Perceptual Availability of Segmental and Suprasegmental Information Katrina Connell, Annie Tremblay, and Jie Zhang University of Kansas Acoustic Features of Mandarin Neutral Tone in Five Contexts Liang Zhang and Aijun Li Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Prosodic focus marking in Dali Mandarin Zenghui Liu, Utrecht University Hans Van de Velde, Fryske Academy Aoju Chen, Utrecht University Perception of Syntagmatic Tone Intervals in Ìgbò and Yorùbá Aaron Carter-Ényì, The Ohio State University Quintina Carter-Ényì, Lagos State University Dialect differences in Mandarin lexical tones – A second-language speech account Karen Huang University of Auckland Tonal Alignment and Prosodic Word domain in Boro Kalyan Das and Shakuntala Mahanta Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India Complete and incomplete neutralisation in Fuzhou tone sandhi Yang Li University of Cambridge Interaction between breathy tones and aspirated consonants in S’gaw Karen Xiaole Sun University at Buffalo Consonant-tone-phonation interactions in Dadiidz-nu (Santa María Guienagati Zapotec) Joshua Benn University at Buffalo |
Oral Session 2 |
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| 3:30 – 4:00 | The PAM-S and Cross-language Lexical-tone Identification Jennifer Alexander, Northwestern University Yue Wang, Simon Fraser University |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Surface vs. Underlying Listening Strategies for Cross-Language Listeners in the Perception of Sandhied Tones in the Nanjing Dialect Xin Li, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics René Kager, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics Wentao Gu, Nanjing Normal University, China |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Plenary TalkStability and plasticity in the neural representation of linguistic pitch patterns Dr. Bharath Chandrasekaran University of Texas, Austin |
Thursday, May 26, 2016 |
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Oral Session 3 |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Embedded clauses and recursive prosodic phrasing in Akan Frank Kügler Potsdam University |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Cyclic spell-out and the interaction of Seenku tonal processes Laura McPherson Dartmouth College |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Tone- melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song James Kirby and D. Robert Ladd University of Edinburgh |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary TalkLexical vs. Grammatical Tone: Sorting out the Differences Dr. Larry Hyman University of California, Berkeley |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
Oral Session 4 |
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| 1:30 – 2:00 | Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator Jianjing Kuang, Yixuan Guo and Mark Liberman University of Pennsylvania |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Inconsistent Consonantal Effects on F0 in Cantonese and Mandarin Qian Luo, Karthik Durvasula and Yen-Hwei Lin Michigan State University |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | An Interplay Between F0 and Phonation in Du’an Zhuang Tone Jeremy Perkins, University of Aizu Seunghun Lee, International Christian University (Japan) Julian Villegas, University of Aizu |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee Break |
Oral Session 5 |
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| 3:30 – 4:00 | Intonational phrase marking in Southern Vietnamese Marc Brunelle University of Ottawa |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Jaw displacement and phrasal stress in Mandarin Chinese Donna Erickson, Kanazawa Medical University Ray Iwata, Kanazawa Medical University Atsuo Suemitsu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Metrical Structure and Tone Sandhi: Evidence from Ei Tonal Reduction Xiaomei Wang and Yen-Hwei Lin Michigan State University |
| 6:30 | Grad Student Mixer EXPO Market, 615 Main Street |
Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 | Plenary TalkTonal complexity in Shilluk and its diachronic development Dr. Bert Remijsen University of Edinburgh |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Poster Session 2Pitch perception of focus and surprise in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence for parallel encoding via incremental division of pitch range Xiaoluan Liu and Yi Xu University College, London Tone features in Xiuning Hui Chinese Dialect Minghui Zhang and Fang Hu Chinese Academy of Social Sciences How pitch moves: production of Cantonese tones by speakers with different tonal experiences Mengyue Wu, University of Melbourne Brett Baker, University of Melbourne Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, La Trobe University Impaired Vowel Discrimination in Mandarin-speaking Congenital Amusics Xunan Huang, Nankai University, Shenzen Institutes of Advanced Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Caicai Zhang, Shenzen Institutes of Advanced Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Hong Kong Polytechnic University Feng Shi, Nankai University Nan Yan, Shenzen Institutes of Advanced Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Lan Wang, Shenzen Institutes of Advanced Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Perception of Lexical Tones in Sylheti Amalesh Gope and Shakuntala Mahanta Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India Revisiting the register contrast in Shanghainese Jia Tian and Jianjing Kuang University of Pennsylvania Phonetic cues to contrastive focus in Standard Colloquial Assamese Asim-Ul Islam Twaha and Shakuntala Mahanta Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India Prosodic grouping in Chinese trisyllabic structures by multiple cues - tonal coarticulation, tone sandhi and segment duration Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang University of Pennsylvania A preliminary study of textsetting in Fe’Fe’ Bamileke Teresa Proto Leiden University Role of the Final Tone in Signaling Statements and Questions in Mandarin Una Chow and Stephen Winters University of Calgary |
Oral Session 6 |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | Effect of speech rate on pre-low raising in Cantonese Albert Lee, University of Hong Kong Yi Xu, University College, London |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Tonal Reduction and Orthography in Me'phaa Vátháá Rolando Coto-Solano, University of Arizona Gregorio Tiburcio Cano, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Plenary TalkUsing nonce-probe tests and auditory priming to investigate speakers' phonological knowledge of tone sandhi Dr. Jie Zhang University of Kansas |
Oral Session 7 |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 | Perception of Tonal Contours in Medumba Kathryn Franich University of Chicago |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Production and Perception of a Tonal Neutralization Case in Taiwan Southern Min Mao-Hsu Chen University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Coffee Break |
Oral Session 8 |
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| 4:30 – 5:00 | Tone Pair Similarity and the Perception of Mandarin Tones by Mandarin and English Listeners Wenyi Ling, University of Hawaii at Manoa, East-West Center Affiliate Amy Schafer, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Boundary effects on allophonic creaky voice: A case study of Mandarin lexical tones Hong Zhang University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:30 – 6:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 7:00 – 10:00 | Conference Dinner |