Programme

Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010)

Thursday 11.11.10

08.30-09.15

Registration

9.00-9.15

Opening: Gerry Wakker, Dean of Faculty

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

09.15-10.15

Plenary address i: Nancy Niedzielski (Rice):

'Dialect perception: where production, perception, and variation meet' [PDF]

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Alexandra Lenz)

10.15- 10.45

Coffee

Social Meaning of Linguistic

Features

Collegezaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Lauren Hall-Lew)

Variation in Morphology

& Syntax

Room 1.04, 1st floor

(Chair: Jack Hoeksema)

Perception of Variation

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Laurie Stowe)

10.45-11.15

Falkert, A (Avignon):

 ‘The social meaning of /r/ : folk awareness of geolinguistic variation in Eastern Canada’ [PDF]

Kallenborn, T (Vienna):

‘Eliciting  syntactic data  from  standard  close(r)  speech  degrees - An  experimental
approach’ [PDF]

Mulak, K E; Best, C T; Tyler, M D; Kitamura, C; Bundgaard-Nielsen, R L (MARCS, U Western Sydney):

‘Vocabulary size predicts the development of phonological constancy: An eyetracking study of word identification in a non-native dialect by 15- and 19-month-olds’ [PDF]

11.15-11.45

Rácz, P (Freiburg):

'A functional approach to sociolinguistic salience. Definite article reduction in the North of England’ [PDF]

Maitz, P (Pécs); Mády, K (München):

‘/t/ Deletion in German braucht: Auxiliarization process or phonetic necessity?’ [PDF]

Duffy, H; Goslin, J; Bridges, D; Floccia, C (Plymouth):

 ‘Using ERP to compare the processing of regional and foreign accents’ [PDF]

11.45-12.15

Kristiansen, T; Maegaard, M.; Møller, J.; Pharao, N. (LANCHART, Copenhagen):

'The role of intonation in the recognition of Danish regional accents' [PDF]

Tamati, T (Indiana):

 ‘Perception of Unfamiliar Regional Accents’ [PDF]

12.15-12.45

MacFarlane, A; Stuart-Smith, J (Glasgow): 'One of them sounds more sort of, Glasgow Uni-ish: Social Variation and Fine Phonetic Variation in Glasgow' [PDF]

Wirrer, J (Bielefeld):

 ‘Language forgetters or: Ik heff lang ni Platt snackt’ [PDF]

12.45-13.30

Lunch

Language Attitudes and

Accommodation i

Collegezaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Remco Knooihuizen)

Variation in Morphology

& Syntax ii

Room 1.04, 1st floor

(Chair: Ryan Taylor)

Variation in Prosody and

Voice Quality

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Therese Leinonen)

13.30-14.00

Ghyselen, A S (Ghent):

‘Attitudes towards language variation in Flanders: a matched-guise investigation’ [PDF]

Geeraert, K (Alberta):

 ‘We've ran it: A cloze experiment investigating the use of past tense verb forms as past participles in English’ [PDF]

Newman, M (Queens, CUNY):

‘Identifying native English speaking Pacific Asian Americans by voice’ [PDF]

14.00-14.30

De Vogelaer, G; Gabel, H (Ghent):

‘Accommodation in supra-regional colloquial Dutch. A production experiment in West Flemish and Limburgian students’ [PDF] 

Banga, A; Hanssen, E; Neijt, A & Schreuder, R (Radboud):

 ‘Phrase or compound? Picture-naming in Dutch and English’ [PDF]

Werth, A (Deutscher Sprachatlas):

 ‘Researching language variation through an “analysis by synthesis” technique: An experimental approach to prosodic variation in German’ [PDF]

14.30-15.00

Hall-Lew, L (Edinburgh); Fix, S (NYU):

'Designing perception stimuli for phonetically ambiguous variation' [PDF]

Abugov, N; Ravid, D (Tel Aviv):

‘'bixer', 'bixn' or 'bixlex'? Yiddish noun plurals in the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community’ [PDF]

Cartei, V; Reby, D (Sussex):

‘Gay voices on screen: voice stereotypes of gay male characters in American television’ [PDF]

15.00-15.30

Vedder, E, Schüppert, A; Hilton, N H; Gooskens, C and R van Bezooijen (Groningen):

‘Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly’ [PDF]

Stowe, L.; Hoeksema, J (Groningen); Hartsuiker, R (Ghent): 

‘Perceiving dialects: a magnitude estimation study’ [PDF]

Torgersen, E (Lancaster); Szakay, A (British Columbia): 

‘An investigation of rhythm in London English’ [PDF]

15.30-16.30

Poster Session with coffee 

Room 208 (2nd floor, next to the Café in front of the Congreszaal)

16.30-17.30

Plenary address ii: Raphael Berthele (Fribourg):

'Quasi-experiments across languages: Investigations into multilinguals' capacities to understand genetically related languages' [PDF]

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Charlotte Gooskens)

18.45-19.45

Reception at the University of Groningen, Academy Building, Broerstraat 5

20.00

Conference dinner at ‘t Feithhuis, Martinikerkhof 10, 9712 JG Groningen

Friday 12.11.10

09.15-10.15

Plenary address iii: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State):

'Implicit sociolinguistic cognition'  [PDF]

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Nanna Haug Hilton)

10.15-10.30

Coffee

Variation in Phonetics and Phonology

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Vincent van Heuven)

Perception of Regional Variation

Collegezaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Martijn Wieling)

10.30-11.00

Best, C; Tyler, M; Christine, K; Bundgaard-Nielsen, R (MARCS, U Western Sydney): 

‘Vocabulary size effects on phonological constancy in toddlers’ cross-dialect word recognition’  [PDF]

Soukup, B (Vienna):

‘Experimental methods for eliciting Austrian listeners' dialect perceptions – a critical reflection’ [PDF]

11.00-11.30

Sloos, M (Albert-Ludwig):

‘Shadowing two variants of one phoneme’ [PDF]

Fridland, V (Nevada); Kendall, T (Northwestern):

‘The effect of regional vowel differences on vowel perception and production’ [PDF]

11.30-12.00

Tipton, P (Chester):

‘Linking perception, production and sociolinguistic knowledge’ [PDF]

Draxler, C (München):

‘What's in a digit? A Suite of experiments on regional variation’ [PDF]

12.00-12.30

Elspaß, S (Augsburg); Möller, R (Liege):

‘Exploring folks’ perceptions of language variation online’ [PDF]

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Plenary address IV: Marianne Gullberg (Lund):

‘Two talen at once. Towards the experimental study of code-switching in bilingual sentence production’ [PDF]

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Anja Schüppert)

Intelligibility Between Closely Related

Languages

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Raphale Berthele)

Language Attitudes and Accommodation ii

Collegezaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: Nicolai Pharao)

14.30- 15.00

Van Heuven, V (Leiden); Gooskens, C; Bezooijen, R van (Groningen):

‘Mutual intelligibility of Dutch and German cognates by human and computers’ [PDF]

Cowie, C; Pande, A (Edinburgh):

‘Do Indians accommodate to Americans on the telephone in professional interactions? The India telephone maptask’ [PDF]

15.00-15.30

Möller, R; Zeevaert, L (Liege):

‘Investigating Word Recognition in intercomprehension: Methods and findings.’ [PDF]

Plewnia, A; Rothe, A (Mannheim):

‘Factors in attitudes to foreign languages and how to measure them’ [PDF]

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-17.00

Plenary address: Mark Liberman (UPenn):

'The Golden Age of Speech and Language Science' [PDF]

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

(Chair: John Nerbonne)

17.00-17.15

Closing remarks: John Nerbonne, Director of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)

Congreszaal, 2nd floor

Reception

Cartei, V; Reby, D (Sussex): ‘The expression of gender through same and opposite-sex imitation in adult voices’ [PDF]

Cui, J (Pittsburgh): ‘I don’t want MY daughter to end up speaking ‘plastic Putonghua’: Variation in Nanchang Gan’ [PDF]

De Decker, P (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Jennifer Nycz (University of York, New York University): ‘New media technology as sociophonetic data collection tools’ [PDF]

Evans, B; Hazan, V; Baker, R; Cyrus, T (UCL): ‘Investigating the effects of regional accent background on phonetic alignment in spontaneous speech’ [PDF]

Hanssen, E; Banga, A; Schreuder, R; Neijt, A (Radboud): ‘Linking en in Dutch compounds activates plural semantics: a study with regional speech variants’ [PDF]

Koban, D (Hacettepe): ‘Overt versus null subject pronoun variation in the Turkish spoken in Turkey and in New York city’ [PDF]

MacLeod, B (Toronto): ‘Variable Velar Lenition and the Perception and Production of [w] in Buenos Aires Spanish’ [PDF]

Neto, E G (UNESA): ‘L2 speakers acquire variable rules in variable grammar systems: data from English to Brazilian Portuguese’ [PDF]

Schüppert, A; (Groningen), Ziegler, J (Marseille), Magnusson, K (Lund), Juul, H (Copenhagen), Holmqvist, K (Lund) and Gooskens, C (Groningen): ‘Activation of L1 orthography in spoken word recognition of a closely related L2. Evidence from ERP' [PDF]

Vanhove, J & Schüppert, A (Groningen): ‘Acoustic distinctiveness of Danish and Swedish vowels’ [PDF]

Vazquez-Larruscain, M; Hansen, G F (LANCHART, Copenhagen): ‘Danish stød in both language and speech. From core grammar to structured performance’ [PDF]

Verhoef, T; Boer B de (Amsterdam): ‘Micro-macro modeling of language change: cultural transmission of sound systems and consequences for their structure’ [PDF]

Waldmann, C (Umeå): ‘From egocentric to intrinsic interpretation of framför ’in front of’ and bakom ’behind’ among Swedish children’ [PDF]