Schedule for May 24, 2017

Location: Classics Building, Room 110 (Map)

7:45-8:30       Registration/Coffee + Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30     Tutorial led by Khalil Iskarous (USC)

9:30-10:00      Questions/Discussion

 

10:00-10:15 Break

 

10:15-11:00    Invited Speaker: Jelena Krivokapić (University of  Michigan/Haskins Laboratories): Prosodic Structure in Speech and Body Gestures

11:00-11:30    Caitlin Smith (USC): A Dynamic Model of Partial Transparency in Harmony

11:30-12:15        Invited Speaker: Laura Dilley (Michigan State University): Language in the Brain as a Dynamic, Information Theoretic System

12:15-12:45       Coral Hughto and Joe Pater (UMass Amherst): Emergence of Strict Domination Effects with Weighted Constraints

 

12:45-2:00       Lunch

 

2:00-2:45        Invited Speaker: Sam Tilsen (Cornell University): Modeling the Transition from Competitive to Coordinative Control

2:45-3:15         Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University), Shinji Maeda (CNRS LTCI), Kiyoshi Honda (Tianjin University) and Lise Crevier-Buchman (Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Univ. Paris Descartes): Articulatory Dynamics in ePGG, Pio, Airflow and Acoustic Data for the Korean Fricatives /s, s’/

3:15-3:45    Robert Daland (UCLA): Lexical Dynamics, Iterated Sampling, and Zipf’s Law

3:45-4:30    Invited Speaker: John Goldsmith (University of Chicago): What is a dynamical model, and what makes it different from a static model?

 

4:45-6:30        Poster Session

• Andrew Cheng, Emily Remirez, and Susan Lin  (UC Berkeley): An Ultrasound Investigation of Covert Articulation in Rapid Speech
• Yanyu Long (Cornell University): Articulatory Realization of Nasal Codas in Mandarin
• Yanyu Long and Sam Tilsen (Cornell University): Relationship Between Individuals’ Compensation for Coarticulation and Production
• Eric Meinhardt (UC San Diego): Perceptibility and the Lexicon in the Dynamics of Word Recognition: Implications for Functional Phonology
• Francisco Meneses (Univ. of Campinas), Sarah Ellen Johnson (Univ. of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign), Eleonora Albano (Univ. of Campinas), Ryan Shosted (Univ. of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign): Two Cases of Vowel Weakening in Brazilian Portuguese: An Ultrasound Study
• Sky Onosson (University of Victoria): Canadian Raising or Canadian Shortening? A Study of Vowel Abbreviation Patterns in Canadian English
• Jason A. Shaw (Yale) and Shigeto Kawahara (Keio): Modelling Articulatory Dynamics in the Frequency Domain
• Caitlin Smith and Reed Blaylock (USC): Deriving Exceptional Phonological Patterns from Contrastive Gestural Strength
• Sara Sowers-Wills (Indiana University): Templates and Dynamic Systems Theory in Early Phonological Development

 

6:30-9:00        Banquet