With apologies for cross postings
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration for Variation and Language
Processing 2011 (VaLP 2011), to be held at the University of Chester
11th-13th April 2011, is now open. Further details on how to register
can be found at the following link -
http://sites.google.com/site/valp2011/registration. Please see below
for a first draft of the conference programme. Programme updates will
appear on the conference website in the run-up to the start of VaLP
2011.
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Chester in
April.
Best wishes,
Phil Tipton
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Programme
Monday 11th April 2011
11:00-13:00 Registration
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:15 Welcome
Professor Chris Walsh, Head of the Department of English (University of
Chester)
13:15-14:15 PLENARY ONE (Title TBC)
Professor Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
14:15-14:45 Imaging studies of the processing of propositional and
indexical information in speech
D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh), Patricia Bestelmeyer
(University of Glasgow), Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh) and
Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow)
14:45-15:15 Acoustic input and articulatory output as the source of
sound change - some articulatory evidence.
Eleanor Lawson (Queen Margaret University), Jane Stuart-Smith
(University of Glasgow) and James M. Scobbie (Queen Margaret
University)
15:15-15:45 Afternoon Tea
15:45-16:15 The effects of gradient phonetic biases on the evolution of
sound patterns
Marton Soskuthy (University of Edinburgh)
16:15-16:45 The dynamic transfer of VOT patterns in multilinguals
Marta Helena Tessmann Bandeira, Márcia Cristina Zimmer and Andreia
Rauber (Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil)
16:45-17:45 PLENARY TWO (Title TBC)
Professor David Britain (University of Bern)
18:00 Dinner
Tuesday 12th April 2011
09:00-10:00 PLENARY THREE - 'To interact or not to interact?' - a
challenging question for sociophonetics
Dr Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)
10:00-10:30 The Effect of Speaker Ethnicity on the Perception of
“Ethnic” Socio-Phonetic Variation
Christopher M. Stewart (University of Texas, Arlington)
10:30-11:00 Capturing listeners’ real-time reactions to local and
supralocal linguistic features
Kevin Watson (Lancaster University) and Lynn Clark (Lancaster
University)
11:00-11:30 Morning Coffee
11:30-12:00 Production and Perception of Retroflex /r/ in São Paulo
Portuguese
Ronald Beline Mendes and Livia Oushiro (University of Sao Paulo)
12:00-12:30 Phonetic detail and sound change
Thaïs Cristófaro Silva and Gustavo Almeida
12:30-13:00 The Production of Spanish-English Code-Switching
Amalia Arvaniti and Page Piccinini (University of California, San
Diego)
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:30 A different kind of variation?: an acoustic phonetic study
of Scottish Gaelic vowels
Claire Nance (University of Glasgow)
14:30-15:00 The development of intrusive-r in variably-rhotic East
Lancashire English
William Barras (University of Aberdeen)
15:00-15:30 Acoustic evidence for /l/ variation in the repertoire of
Welsh-English bilinguals
Jonathan Morris (University of Manchester)
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00-16:30 Language Processing and Relative Clauses in Dorset English
Caroline Piercy (Stanford University), John Rickford (Stanford
University), Thomas Wasow (Stanford University) and T. Florian Jaeger
(University of Rochester)
16:30-17:00 Socially-motivated garden pathing: When social expectations
influence sentence comprehension
Kodi Weatherholtz (The Ohio State University)
17:00-17:30 Cognitive analysis of persuasive communication
Jens Koed Madsen (University College London)
17:30-18:30 PLENARY FOUR - Sources of similarity and individual
variation in the acquisition and
processing of logical meaning
Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
18:45 VaLP business meeting
19:30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 13th April 2011
08:30-09:00 Salience in language change
Marie Jensen (Northumbria University)
09:00-09:30 Variations in the use of “I” in casually spoken
English
Michael Pace-Sigge (University of Liverpool)
09:30-10:00 “How can you call yourself a MeFite when you say it like
that?!” - Sociophonetic Variation in an Online Community of Practice
Kim Witten (University of York)
10:00-10:15 Morning Coffee
10:15-10:45 The role of gender and context in the interpretation of
Greek wh-question melodies
Mary Baltazani (University of Ioannina), Stella Gryllia (University of
Potsdam) and Amalia Arvaniti (University of California, San Diego)
10:45-11:15 Implications of individual variation in socio-cognitive
processing on sound change
Alan Yu (University of Chicago)
11:15-11:45 Variables as implicit associations
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University)
11:45-12:15 Vocal aesthetics, sex typicality, and their relationships
with voice and phoneme processing
Grant McGuire (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Molly Babel
(University of British Columbia)
12:15-12:45 Variation and ethnicity in Sheffield English stop
consonants
Sam Kirkham (University of Sheffield)
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Lexical effects on incomplete sibilant neutralisation of
Taiwan Mandarin
Yingshing Li (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
14:00-14:30 Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to
Foreign-Accented English
Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University) and Page Piccinini (University of
California, San Diego)
14:30-15:30 PLENARY FIVE (Title TBC)
Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)
15:30 Conference close and afternoon tea on departure
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