Detailed Program

Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022 are live at https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022 (full PDF here)

All days, 8:00-18.30

Book Exhibition (C128)

Monday, May 23

08:00-08:45

Registration

08:45-09:00

Opening Ceremony & Welcome

09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Marina Vigário
Martine Grice and Simon Wehrle
Prosody and Conversational Behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder [video]

10:00-11:00

Oral Session 1: Prosody and pragmatics
Chair: Nigel Ward

Janne Lorenzen, Simon Roessig and Stefan Baumann
Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German

Martin Ho Kwan Ip, Alex de Carvalho and John Trueswell
Prosody-to-Focus Mapping and Alternative Processing in Word Learning

Emmett Strickland, Anne Lacheret-Dujour and Candide Simard
Prosody and cognitive accessibility in left-detached topics: lessons from Nigerian Pidgin

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Oral Session 2: Production of intonation
Chair: Francesco Cangemi

Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Fang Li, Hugo Quené and Ted Sanders
A Trade-off Relationship between Lexical and Prosodic Means in Expressing Subjective and Objective Causality

Heiko Seeliger and Constantijn Kaland
Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach

Yu Jin Song, Cynthia G. Clopper and Laura Wagner
Children’s Use of Uptalk in Narratives

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Oral Session 3: Prosody and speech and language Impairments
Chair: Jennifer Cole

Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Kai Vogeley and Martine Grice
New evidence for melodic speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier and Steven Snadoval
Conversational Correlates of Prosodic Entrainment in Youth with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Chloé Daigmorte, Jessica Tallet and Corine Astésano
On the foundations of rhythm-based methods in Speech Therapy

Massimo Pettorino, Marta Maffia and Brigitte Bigi
A diachronic study on Italian speech rhythm in Parkinson’s Disease

Janina Boecher, Kathryn Franich and Evan Usler
Rhythm of Speech in People Who Do and Do Not Stutter - A Quantitative Analysis Using the Normalized Pairwise Variability Index

Vincent P. Martin, Brice Arnaud, Jean-Luc Rouas and Pierre Philip
Does sleepiness influence reading pauses in hypersomniac patients?

16:00-17:30

Coffee break & Poster session 1

1	Cristel Portes and Uwe Reyle Combining syntax and prosody to signal information structure: the case of French
2	Mariia Pronina, Iris Hübscher, Ingrid Vilà-Giménez and Pilar Prieto Pragmatic prosody development from 3 to 8 years of age: A cross-sectional study in Catalan
3	Jiseung Kim and Anja Arnhold Prosodic focus marking in Canadian English
4	Jill Thorson, Jill Trumbell and Kimberly Nesbitt Expressing information status through prosody in the spontaneous speech of American English-speaking children
5	Ting Wang and Heng Ding Mandarin Disyllabic Word Imitation in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
6	Kiwako Ito, Elizabeth Kryszak and Teresa Ibanez Effect of Prosodic Emphasis on the Processing of Joint-Attention Cues in Children with ASD
7	Yi Lin, Chuoran Li, Qing Fan, Yueqi Chen, Jiaqi Zhang and Hongwei Ding Effects of sensory dominance and gender differences on impaired emotion perception in schizophrenic patients
8	Sunghye Cho, Galit Agmon, Sanjana Shellikeri, Katheryn Cousins, Sharon Ash, David Irwin, Meredith Spindler, Andres Deik Acosta Madiedo, Lauren Elman, Colin Quinn, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman and Naomi Nevler Prosodic characteristics of prepausal words produced by patients with neurodegenerative disease
9	Joanna Kruyt, Štefan Beňuš, Catherine Faget, Christophe Lançon and Maud Champagne-Lavau Prosodic and lexical entrainment in adults with and without schizophrenia
10	Laurence White and Hannah Grimes Articulation rate in psychotherapeutic dialogues for depression: patients and therapists
11	Heete Sahkai, Eva Liina Asu and Pärtel Lippus Prosodic characteristics of canonical and non-canonical questions in Estonian
12	Claudia Crocco, Barbara Gili Fivela and Mariapaola D'Imperio Comparing prosody of Italian varieties and dialects: data from Neapolitan
13	Jiyoung Jang and Argyro Katsika The coordination of boundary tones with constriction gestures in Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language
14	Billian Khalayi Otundo and Martine Grice Intonation in advice-giving in Kenyan English and Kiswahili
15	Ela Thurgood and Paul Olejarczuk The Effects of Intonation on the Sentence-Final Particle nyei in Iu-Mien
16	Io Valls-Ratés, Oliver Niebuhr and Pilar Prieto Unguided VR public-speaking training enhances your confidence - but does not improve your intonation
17	Clara Huttenlauch, Marie Hansen, Carola de Beer, Isabell Wartenburger and Sandra Hanne Individual variability in prosodic marking of locally ambiguous sentences
18	Farhat Jabeen Production and perception of Intonational Phrase boundaries in Urdu polar questions
19	Giuseppe Magistro and Claudia Crocco Rising and rising-falling declaratives in Veneto dialects
20	Julia Bongiorno and Sophie Herment High Rising Terminals in Dublin: forms, functions and gender
21	Martina Rossi, Kathrin Feindt and Margaret Zellers Individual variation in F0 marking of turn-taking in natural conversation in German and Swedish
22	Malek Al Hasan and Shakuntala Mahanta The Intonational Phonology of Syrian Arabic: A Preliminary Analysis
23	Saskia Wepner, Barbara Schuppler and Gernot Kubin How prosody affects ASR performance in conversational Austrian German
24	Si-Ioi Ng, Rui-Si Ma, Tan Lee and Raymond Kim-Wai Sum Acoustical Analysis of Speech Under Physical Stress in Relation to Physical Activities and Physical Literacy
25	Veronica P. Siqueira and Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros Synchronous speech and semantic incongruity: what do outliers tell us about it?
26	Flaviane Fernandes-Svartman, Larissa Berti, Marcus Martins, Beatriz R. Medeiros and Marcelo Queiroz Temporal prosodic cues for COVID-19 in Brazilian Portuguese speakers
27	Caroline Crouch, Argyro Katsika and Ioana Chitoran Georgian Syllables, Uncentered?
28	Christina Tånnander, David House and Jens Edlund Syllable duration as a proxy to latent prosodic features
29	Franka Zebe Durational consonant categories in Alemannic and Swiss Standard German across tempo and age

17:30-18:30

Special Oral Session 1: Prosodic marking of information structure in language learners: Prosody and beyond
Organizers: Pilar Prieto, Aoju Chen and Júlia Florit-Pons

Ivy Mok, Lieke van Maastricht and Nuria Esteve-Gibert
Do head gestures function as precursors for prosodic focus marking in the L2?

Marita Everhardt, Anastasios Sarampalis, Matt Coler, Deniz Baskent and Wander Lowie
Interpretation of prosodically marked focus in cochlear implant-simulated speech by non-native listeners

Kexin Du, Sergey Avrutin and Aoju Chen
Building bridges: The role of prosody in Mandarin-speaking adults' and children's anaphora resolution

18:30

Welcome Reception

Tuesday, May 24

09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Pilar Prieto
Judit Gervain
How the neural mechanisms of encoding prosody lay the foundations for early language development

10:00-11:00

Oral Session 4: Prosody in language acquisition
Chair: Bettina Braun

Irene de La Cruz-Pavía
The role of audio-visual phrasal prosody in bootstrapping the acquisition of word order

Zhenyang Xi, Yan Gu and Gabriella Vigliocco
Speaking Rate in 3-4-Year-Old Children: Its Correlation with Gesture Rate and Word Learning

Tae Jin Yoon, Seunghee Ha and Jungmin So
Developmental Patterns of Accentual Phrases in Korean Children’s Speech

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Oral Session 5: Segments, prosody and intonation
Chair: Tamara Rathcke

Qianwen Guan, Yaru Wu and Ioana Chitoran
A corpus-based study of /CR/ and /RC/ clusters in French: Prosodic and segmental effects

Johanna Cronenberg, Nicola Klingler, Felicitas Kleber and Michael Pucher
On the role of asymmetry in prosodic change of consonant duration: Results from an agent-based model with two German varieties

Ray Huaute
A Preliminary Intonation Model of Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Oral Session 6: Stress and Prominence
Chair: Stefan Baumann

Ronny Bujok, Antje Meyer and Hans Rutger Bosker
Visible lexical stress cues on the face do not influence audiovisual speech perception

Laurence Bruggeman, Jenny Yu and Anne Cutler
Listener adjustment of stress cue use to fit language vocabulary structure

Anna Bruggeman, Leonie Schade, Marcin Włodarczak and Petra Wagner
Beware of the individual: Evaluating prominence perception in spontaneous speech

Soundess Azzabou-Kacem and Alice Turk
Fine gradations of prosodic boundary strength can drive the assignment of prominence

Giulio Severijnen, Hans Rutger Bosker and James McQueen
Acoustic correlates of Dutch lexical stress re-examined: Spectral tilt is not always more reliable than intensity

Carlos Gussenhoven and Wei-Rong Chen
Segmental intonation in Zwara Berber voiceless stressed syllable rimes

16:00-17:30

Coffee break & Poster session 2

Special Poster Session: Timing and Rhythm Across LAnguages (TRALA)
Organizers: Kathryn Franich and Tamara Rathcke

1	Dafydd Gibbon Speech rhythms: learning to discriminate speech styles
2	Kathryn Franich and Hermann Keupdjio The Influence of Tone on the Alignment of Speech and Co-Speech Gesture
3	Raphael Werner, Jürgen Trouvain and Bernd Möbius Optionality and variability of speech pauses in read speech across languages and rates
4	Jinyu Li and Leonardo Lancia Effects of delayed auditory feedback interacting with prosodic structure
5	Laurence White, Sven Mattys, Sarah Knight, Tess Saunders and Laura Macbeath Temporal expectations and the interpretation of timing cues to word boundaries
6	Natalia Kuznetsova and Elena Markus Ongoing vowel shortening in vanishing Soikkola Ingrian: challenges for description, codification, and typology
7	Kakeru Yazawa and Mariko Kondo A Comparison of Rhythm Metrics for L2 Speech
8	Marie-Anne Morand, Melissa Bruno, Sandra Schwab and Stephan Schmid Syllable rate and speech rhythm in multiethnolectal Zurich German: a comparison of speaking styles
9	Zhiqiang Zhu and Peggy Pik Ki Mok Can speech rate transfer between languages? Evidence from Japanese and Mandarin Chinese
10	Chengxia Wang, Yi Xu and Jinsong Zhang The invalidity of rhythm class hypothesis

Poster session 2

11	Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Johan Frid and David House Auditory vs. audiovisual prominence ratings of speech involving spontaneously produced head movements
12	Axel Barrault, James German and Pauline Welby Anticipatory marking of (non-corrective) contrastive focus by the Initial Rise in French
13	Amandine Michelas and Sophie Dufour Gradiency vs. categoricity: How French speakers perceive accentual information in their native language?
14	Maciej Karpiński, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow and Katarzyna Klessa High-pitched prominences in the speeches of male Polish members of parliament
15	Beata Łukaszewicz, Janina Mołczanow and Anna Łukaszewicz Pretonic Lengthening as the Lexical Stress Domain Extension
16	Fabian Santiago, Paolo Mairano and Bianca De Paolis The effects of prosodic prominence on the acquisition of L2 phonological features
17	Marina Kalashnikova and Cristina Naranjo Prosody in bilingual caregiver’s infant-directed speech: Cues for infants’ acquisition of their languages’ intonational structure
18	Ricardo Sousa, Susana Silva and Sónia Frota Early Prosodic Development predicts Lexical Development in typical and atypical language acquisition
19	Joanne Arciuli, Kate Phillips, Benjamin Bailey, Alexandre Forndran, Adam Vogel and Kirrie Ballard Lexical Stress Matures Late in Typically Developing Children
20	Alex de Carvalho, Leticia Kolberg, John Trueswell and Anne Christophe Cross-linguistic evidence for the role of phrasal prosody in syntactic and lexical acquisition
21	Sara Munoz-Coego, Júlia Florit-Pons, Patrick Louis Rohrer, Ingrid Vilà-Giménez and Pilar Prieto The prosodic and gestural marking of the information status of referents in children’s narrative speech: A longitudinal study
22	Judit Gervain Word frequency and prosody bootstrap basic word order in prelexical infants
23	Chen Lan and Peggy Mok A preliminary study on the acquisition of Mandarin neutral tone by young heritage children
24	Wenwei Xu, Chunyu Ge, Wentao Gu and Peggy Mok A preliminary analysis on children’s phonation contrast in Kunshan Wu Chinese tones
25	Juraj Šimko, Adaeze Adigwe, Antti Suni and Martti Vainio A Hierarchical Predictive Processing Approach to Modelling Prosody
26	Li-Fang Lai, Janet G. van Hell and John Lipski The Role of Rhythm and Vowel Space in Speech Recognition
27	Veranika Mikhailava, John Blake, Evgeny Pyshkin, Natalia Bogach, Sergey Chernonog, Artyom Zhuikov, Maria Lesnichaya, Iurii Lezhenin and Roman Svechnikov Dynamic Assessment during Suprasegmental Training with Mobile CAPT
28	Hansjörg Mixdorff, Albert Rilliard and Philippe Boula De Mareüil Perceptual Identification of Speech Acts in Gallo-Romance Dialects: A Study Based on Prosody Re-synthesis
29	Mortaza Taheri-Ardali and Daniel Hirst Building a Persian-English OMProDat Database Read by Persian Speakers
30	Alex Peiró-Lilja, Guillermo Cámbara, Mireia Farrús and Jordi Luque Naturalness and Intelligibility Monitoring for Text-to-Speech Evaluation
31	Nicolas Ballier, Adrien Méli, Taylor Arnold and Alice Henserson Revisiting Paratone Prosodic Features with the EIIDA corpus
32	Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Alla Menshikova, Daniil Kocharov, Pavel Kholiavin and Anna Mamushina Social and situational factors of speaker variability in collaborative dialogues
33	Maureen de Seyssel, Guillaume Wisniewski, Emmanuel Dupoux and Bogdan Ludusan Investigating the usefulness of i-vectors for automatic language characterization

17:30-18:30

Oral Session 7: Prosody, emotion and art
Chair: Plinio Almeida Barbosa

Andrew Murphy, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide and Christer Gobl
Affect Expression: Global and Local Control of Voice Source Parameters

Nadja Schauffler, Fabian Schubö, Toni Bernhart, Gunilla Eschenbach, Julia Koch, Sandra Richter, Gabriel Viehhauser, Thang Vu, Lorenz Wesemann and Jonas Kuhn
Prosodic realisation of enjambment in recitations of German poetry

Nicola West, Tamara Rathcke and Rachel Smith
Timing in speech and music of contemporary English and Scottish composers

19:00

Student Reception (address)

Wednesday, May 25

09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Isabel Falé
Juan Manuel Toro
Using prosody to organize the signal: Sensitivities across species set the stage for prosodic bootstrapping [video]

10:00-11:00

Oral Session 8: Perception of prosody
Chair: Cynthia G Clopper

Sheng-Fu Wang
Pre-boundary lengthening modulates predictability effects on durational variability in Taiwan Southern Min (canceled)

Leendert Plug, Robert Lennon and Rachel Smith
Schwa deletion and perceived tempo in English

Vered Silber-Varod, Ella Alfon and Noam Amir
Perception of the strength of prosodic breaks in three conditions: Explicit pause, implicit pause, and no pause

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Oral Session 9: Voice quality, tone and intonation
Chair: Ailbhe Ni Chasaide

Aini Li, Wei Lai and Jianjing Kuang
How do listeners identify creak? The effects of pitch range, prosodic position and creak locality in Mandarin

Marcin Wlodarczak and Mattias Heldner
Contribution of voice quality to prediction of turn-taking events

Renata R. Passetti, Sandra Madureira and Plínio A. Barbosa
Voice perception on a voice messaging app: implications for Forensic Phonetics

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Special Oral Session 2: Measuring, modelling, and training of speaking styles
Organizers: Ïo Valls-Ratés, Oliver Niebuhr and Pilar Prieto

Hansjörg Mixdorff and Oliver Niebuhr
The Effects of Fujisaki Model Parameter Manipulation on Perceived Charisma

Simon Roessig, Lena Pagel and Doris Mücke
Speaking loudly reduces flexibility and variability in the prosodic marking of focus types (Video available here)

Jan Volín and Radek Skarnitzl
The Impact of Prosodic Position on Post-Stress Rise in Three Genres of Czech

Nigel Ward, Ambika Kirkland, Marcin Wlodarczak and Éva Székely
Two Pragmatic Functions of Breathy Voice in American English Conversation

Plinio Barbosa
The Acoustics of Pleasantness in Poetry Declamation in Two Varieties of Portuguese

Oliver Niebuhr
Prosody in hate speech perception: A step towards understanding the role of implicit prosody

16:00-17:30

Coffee break & Poster session 3

1	Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles and Hansjörg Mixdorff Acoustic Study of the Voice Quality of Brazilian Portuguese Stressed Vowels
2	Yaqian Huang Articulatory properties of period-doubled voice in Mandarin
3	Xinyue Li, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Changzeng Fu and Ryoko Hayashi Prosodic and Voice Quality Analyses of Filled Pauses in Japanese Spontaneous Conversation by Chinese learners and Japanese Native Speakers
4	Guillermo Cámbara, Mireia Farrús and Jordi Luque Voice Quality and Pitch Features in Transformer-Based Speech Recognition
5	Bogdan Ludusan and Petra Wagner ha-HA-hha? Intensity and voice quality characteristics of laughter
6	Alice Crochiquia, Anders Eriksson, Plinio Barbosa and Sandra Madureira A perceptual and acoustic study of dubbed voices in an animated film
7	Chunyu Ge, Wenwei Xu, Wentao Gu and Peggy Mok An electroglottographic study of phonation types in tones of Suzhou Wu Chinese
8	Takuto Matsuda and Yoshiko Arimoto Acoustic discriminability of unconscious laughter and scream during game-play
9	Yu Chen, Ting Wang and Hongwei Ding Effect of Age and Gender on Categorical Vocal Emotion Recognition in Mandarin Chinese
10	Sylvain Xia, Dominique Fourer, Liliana Audin-Garcia, Jean-Luc Rouas and Takaaki Shochi Speech Emotion Recognition using Time-frequency Random Circular Shift and Deep Neural Networks
11	Katalin Mády, Beáta Gyuris, Hans-Martin Gärtner, Anna Kohári, Ádám Szalontai and Uwe D. Reichel Perceived emotions in infant-directed narrative across time and speech acts
12	Donna Erickson, Albert Rilliard, Ela Thurgood, João Antônio de Moraes and Takaaki Shochi A Valence-Arousal-Dominance Study of American English Social Affective Expressions
13	Jiayong He, Jing Tang, Stella Gryllia and Aoju Chen Prosodic realization of politeness in the presence of non-prosodic cues in Mandarin Chinese
14	Emilie Marty, Roxane Bertrand, Caterina Petrone and James German Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Structure and Emotion in Discourse Markers that Preface Announcements of News
15	Sarah Ita Levitan and Julia Hirschberg Believe It or Not: Acoustic-Prosodic Cues to Trusting and Untrusting Speech in Interview Dialogues
16	Aitor Arronte Alvarez, Elsayed Issa and Mohammed Alshakhori Computational modeling of intonation patterns in Arabic emotional speech
17	Suzanne Verheul, Adriana Hartman, Roselinde Supheert and Aoju Chen Gender effects on perception of emotional speech- and visual-prosody in a second language: Emotion recognition in English-speaking films
18	Lisa Maria Tschinse, Ali Asadi, Anna Gutnyk and Oliver Niebuhr Keep on smiling...? An exploration of the gender-specific connections between smiling duration and perceived speaker attributes in business pitches
19	Huan Wei, Yifei He, Christina Kauschke, Mathias Scharinger and Ulrike Domahs An EEG-study on L2 categorization of emotional prosody in German
20	Nicole Holliday Kamala Harris, Maya Rudolph and the Prosody of Parody
21	Marisa Cruz, Jovana Pejovic, Catia Severino, Marina Vigario and Sónia Frota Auditory and visual cues in face-masked infant-directed speech
22	Peizhu Shang, Wendy Elvira-García and Xinyi Li Cue weighting differences in perception of Spanish sentence type between native listeners of Chinese and Spanish
23	Shinobu Mizuguchi and Koichi Tateishi Perception of Boundary and Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese: An RPT Study
24	Hae-Sung Jeon and Antje Heinrich Perception of Pitch Height and Prominence by Old and Young listeners
25	Yuanyuan Zhang and Hongwei Ding Asymmetry in L1 and L2 listeners’ use of prosody for PP-attachment disambiguation
26	Anindita Nath and Nigel Ward On the Predictability of the Prosody of Dialog Markers from the Prosody of the Local Context
27	Omnia Ibrahim, Ivan Yuen, Bistra Andreeva and Bernd Möbius The effect of predictability on German stop voicing is phonologically selective
28	Yike Yang and Si Chen Does prosody influence segments differently in Cantonese and Mandarin? A case study of the open vowel /a/
29	Antonio Benítez-Burraco and Wendy Elvira-García Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody
30	Aliza Glasbergen-Plas, Stella Gryllia, Leticia Pablos Robles and Jenny Doetjes Scripted Simulated Dialogue: a new elicitation paradigm

17:30-18:30

Oral Session 10: Computacional modelling and applications of prosody
Chair: Bernd Möbius

Rose Sloan, Adaeze Adigwe, Sahana Mohandoss and Julia Hirschberg
Incorporating Prosodic Events in Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Mariana Julião, Alberto Abad and Helena Moniz
Can Prosody Transfer Embeddings be Used for Prosody Assessment?

Jennifer Cole, Jeremy Steffman and Sam Tilsen
Shape matters: Machine classification and listeners’ perceptual discrimination of American English intonational tunes

18:30

SProSIG business meeting (Amphitheater 2, C130)

19:30

Conference Dinner (address)

Thrusday, May 26

09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Sónia Frota
Usha Goswami
Acoustic Structure in the Amplitude Envelope and Speech Prosody: A Psycholinguistic and Developmental Perspective [video]

10:00-11:00

Oral Session 11: Prosody, the signal and the brain
Chair: Marina Kalashnikova

Sónia Frota, Marina Vigário, Marisa Cruz, Friederike Hohl and Bettina Braun
Amplitude envelope modulations across languages reflect prosody

Sabrina Stehwien and Lars Meyer
Short-Term Periodicity of Prosodic Phrasing: Corpus-based Evidence

Jianjing Kuang, May Pik Yu Chan and Nari Rhee
The effects of syntactic and acoustic cues on the perception of prosodic boundaries

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Special Oral Session 3: Musical power: The effect of musicality on prosodic learning
Organizers: Aoju Chen and Jianjing Kuang

Nari Rhee, Jianjing Kuang and Aoju Chen
The effect of musicality on the development of Mandarin prosody

Tim Laméris
The Effect of L1 Pitch Status and Extralinguistic Factors on L2 Tone Learning

Nelleke Jansen, Eleanor Harding, Hanneke Loerts, Deniz Başkent and Wander Lowie
The relation between musical ability and sentence-level intonation perception: A meta-analysis comparing L1 and non-native listening

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Oral Session 12: Prosody in L2 and bilingual speakers
Chair: Oliver Niebuhr

Lieke van Maastricht, Marieke Hoetjes and Lisette van der Heijden
Learning L2 Prosody using Gestures: The Role of Individual Differences related to Musicality

Yuan Zhang, Florence Baills and Pilar Prieto
Training with embodied musical activities has positive effects on unfamiliar language imitation skills

Wílmar López-Barrios
Language-specific intonation in the Palenquero/Spanish bilinguals

Simona Sbranna, Eduardo Möking, Simon Wehrle and Martine Grice
Backchannelling across Languages: Rate, Lexical Choice and Intonation in L1 Italian, L1 German and L2 German

Michelina Savino, Simona Sbranna, Caterina Ventura, Aviad Albert and Martine Grice
Imitating intonation in a non-native variety: the influence of the native repertoire

Jamie Adams and Sam Hellmuth
Taiwanese and Beijing Mandarin listeners’ perception of English focus prosody

16:00-17:30

Coffee break & Poster session 4

1	Bistra Andreeva and Snezhina Dimitrova The influence of L1 prosody on Bulgarian-accented German and English
2	Xiaoqing Wang and Wentao Gu Effects of Gender and Language Proficiency on Phonetic Accommodation in Chinese EFL Learners
3	Adam Bramlett and Seth Wiener jTRACE modeling of L2 Mandarin learners’ spoken word recognition at two time points in learning
4	Heini Kallio, Rosa Suviranta, Mikko Kuronen and Anna von Zansen Creaky voice and utterance fluency measures in predicting fluency and oral proficiency of spontaneous L2 Finnish
5	Yanping Li, Catherine Best, Michael Tyler and Denis Burnham Native Beijing listeners’ perceptual assimilation of Mandarin lexical tones produced by L2-Mandarin speakers from Yantai, Shanghai, and Guangzhou
6	Štefan Beňuš Prosodic imitation of audiovisual and audio-only prompts in L2 English
7	Lucie Judkins, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu and Corine Astésano How do we chunk and pause in non-native vs native speech? Methodological implications for SLA
8	Jung-Yueh Tu and Jih-Ho Cha Mandarin third tone sandhi application in trisyllabic words by L2 learners
9	Florence Baills, Fabián Santiago, Paolo Mairano and Pilar Prieto The effects of prosodic training with logatomes and prosodic gestures on L2 spontaneous speech
10	Marlene Böttcher A Comparison of Pitch Accent Patterns in Contrastive Adjective+Noun Structures in Bilingual Englishes
11	Sabine Zerbian, Marlene Böttcher and Yulia Zuban Prosody of contrastive adjectives in mono- and bilingual speakers of English and Russian: a corpus study
12	Sichang Gao and Mingwei Pan Developing and validating a rating scale of speaking prosody ability for learners of Chinese as a second language
13	Sandra Schwab, Michael Mouthon, Justine Salvadori, Eugenia Ferreira da Silva, Ilona Yakoub, Nathalie Giroud and Jean-Marie Annoni Neural correlates and L2 lexical stress learning: an fMRI study
14	Thales Buzan, Cristina Name and Juan Sosa Intonational interference in English-L2 Brazilian speakers: production and perception
15	Catalina Torres Pitch range modulations in an edge-marking language
16	Amalia Arvaniti, Stella Gryllia, Cong Zhang and Katherine Marcoux Disentangling emphasis from pragmatic contrastivity in the English H* ~ L+H* contrast
17	Liang Zhao, Shayne Sloggett and Eleanor Chodroff Top-Down and Bottom-up Processing of Familiar and Unfamiliar Mandarin Dialect Tone Systems
18	Francesco Rodriquez, Paolo Roseano and Teresa Cabré Monné Text-tune accommodation processes in the intonation of European Portuguese yes-no questions: an OT analysis
19	Jan Volín, Michaela Svatošová and Pavel Šturm Fundamental Frequency Variation in Polarity Questions of Czech
20	Jeremy Steffman, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Jennifer Cole The rise and fall of American English pitch accents: Evidence from an imitation study of rising nuclear tunes
21	Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Svetlana Zimina, Alena Portnova and Daniil Kocharov Social variability of peak alignment in Russian rise-fall tunes
22	Xin Li and Wentao Gu Phonological Representation of Tone Sandhi in Nanjing Mandarin
23	Lena Borise and David Erschler Mora count and the alignment of rising pitch accents in Iron Ossetic
24	Peng Li, Yuan Zhang, Xianqiang Fu, Florence Baills and Pilar Prieto Melodic perception skills predict Catalan speakers’ imitation abilities of unfamiliar languages
25	Yu-Siang Hong and Sin-Horng Chen A Data-driven Approach to Constructing a Prosodic Grammar for Mandarin Read Speech
26	Changyun Moon, Chuyu Huang and Daiki Hashimoto The Effect of Japanese Pitch Accent System on Musical Cognitive Ability
27	Helen Türk, Pärtel Lippus, Merit Niinemägi, Karl Pajusalu and Pire Teras The Durational Structure of Tetrasyllabic Words in Inari Saami
28	Mary Baltazani and Katerina Nicolaidis Phrasing and speech rate effects on segmental and prosodic variability in Greek
29	Mengzhu Yan and Sasha Calhoun Prosodic prominence and clefting in L2 focus interpretation

17:30-18:30

Oral Session 13: Intonation: phonetics, phonology, processing
Chair: Carlos Gussenhoven

Jill Thorson and Rachel Steindel Burdin
The interpretation and phonetic implementation of !H* in American English

Stella Gryllia, Amalia Arvaniti, Cong Zhang, Katherine Marcoux
The many shapes of H*

Christine T. Röhr, Michelina Savino and Martine Grice
The effect of intonational rises on serial recall in German

18:30

Closing Session