Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference

(Formally known as MCWOP)

Schedule for Mid-Phon 18

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Friday March 22, 2013: 1636 School of Social Work Building (SSWB)

 

2-2:30              Registration

 

Panel I

2:30-3              Michael Opper (University of Michigan)

                        A Morpho-Prosodic Typology of Compound Truncation

3-3:30              Tanya L. Flores (Indiana University)

    A socio-phonetic study on the relationship between /tr/ and     /tʃ/ variation in Chilean Spanish

 

3:30-3:45         break

Panel II

3:45-4:15         Harim Kwon (University of Michigan)

    Social aspects of loanword adaptation: Adaptation of             English word-final stops into Korean

4:15-4:45         Ho-hsin Huang & Karthik Durvasula (Michigan State                         University)

                        Reexamining the nature of English vowel nasalization

 

4:45-5:15         break

 

Poster Session 5:15-6:45

Kelly Biers	Conjunction of markedness constraints to account for opacity in Acadian French
Douglas Cole	Word stress in Laotian, an OT analysis
Yan Dong	Production and perception of merging tones in Dalian Mandarin
Siyuan Guo	Cohesion and Autonomy: Quantifying typological variation of sub-syllable structure
Amy Hemmeter	Gender effects on the production of vocal fry
Amelia Kimball	Is there metrical regularity in conversational speech?
Hanyong Park & Li-Ya Mar	English influence as a possible source for the sound change in Korean
Siriporn Lerpaisalwong & Hanyong Park	The perception of English stops in a coda position by Thai learners
Lindsey Quinn-Wriedt	Directional harmony and maximal licensing in Maasai
Jung-Yueh Tu & Stuart Davis	Taiwanese tone sandhi in loanwords
Chia-Hsin Yeh & Yen-Hwei Lin	The perception-production asymmetry in Hakka tone sandhi

 

Saturday March 23, 2013

8-9                   Breakfast and Coffee: 4448 East Hall (EH)

 

Panel III

9-9:30              Brett Hyde & Shannon Howell (Washington                                           University)

                        Phenomenal accent and metrical accent

9:30-10            Tatiana Luchkina (University of Illinois)

    Speaker- and Reader-based account of discourse                     prominence in a free word order language

10-10:30          José Hualde (University of Illinois)

                        Phonological awareness and conventionalism in sound                                 change

 

10:30-10:45     break

 Panel IV

10:45-11:15     Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky)

                        “What is a letter?” – Nomen, Figura, Potestas

11:15-11:45     Anne Pycha (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

                        Characterizing the phonological context of roots and                                 affixes

11:45-12:15     Michael Blasingame & Ann R. Bradlow                                              (Northwestern University)

First language versus dominant language intelligibility in “switched dominance” bilinguals

12:15-2            LUNCH – On your own

 

Panel V

2-2:30         Erin Gustafson, Caroline Engstler, & Matthew Goldrick (Northwestern University)

Task differences enhance cross-linguistic phonetic interactions in bilingual speech

2:30-3          Kelly Carden (University of Iowa)

                        An acoustic analysis of vowel assimilation in Mandarin

3-3:30          San Duanmu (University of Michigan)

Vowel height

 

3:30-4              Business Meeting

 

Panel VI

4-4:30         Melissa Baese-Berk et. al. (Michigan State University)

The interaction of syntactic cues and timing information in spoken word recognition

4:30-5         Kelly Berkson (University of Kansas)

The acoustics of phonation types in obstruents and sonorants: the case of Marathi

5-5:30         Rory Turnbull (Ohio State University)

Effects of autistic traits on differences in temporal reduction and perceptual compensation

 

5:30-5:45         break

 

Panel VII

5:45-6:15         Matthew Masapollo, Linda Polka, Lucie Ménard                             (McGill, Québec)

     Who’s talking now? Infant processing of vowels with              infant vocal tract parameters

6:15-6:45         Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, Joseph Salmons (UW                              Madison)

                        Contrastive features for the English vowel system

 

7-                     Dinner at Prof. Andries Coetzee’s Home

 

Sunday March 24, 2013

 

8-9                   Breakfast and Coffee

 

Panel VIII

9-9:30              Marwa Ragheb & Stuart Davis (Indiana University)

       On the developmental path of final consonant cluster                acquisition in Cairene Arabic

9:30-10           Ryan Hendrickson (Indiana University)

                        Liquid glide clusters in Picard: What they reveal about the                         liquids

10-10:30          Coral Williams (Indiana University)

                        Accounting for metathesis in Highland East Cushitic

 

10:30-10:45     break

 

Panel IX

10:45-11:15     Michael Dow (Indiana Univeristy)

                        Too much, too little, too late: Hybrid opacity in Berbice                             Dutch Creole

11:15-11:45     Jennifer Cole & Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (UI,                             MIT)

                        Memory for prosody

11:45-12:15     Tuuli Morrill, Laura C. Dilley, J. Devin McAuley                         (MSU)