Fri 16th

Fri 16th
9:00-9:15 Anne Cutler tribute (Denis Burnham)
9:15-10:15 Keynote: Phil Rose The Best of Tones, the Worst of Tones – tonal complexity in the Wu dialects of East Central China
10:15-10:45 Morning tea
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES
10:45-11:15 A semi-automatic workflow for orthographic transcription of a novel speech corpus: A case study of AusKidTalk (Tünde Szalay, Louise Ratko, Mostafa Shahin, Tharmakulasingam Sirojan, Kirrie Ballard, Felicity Cox and Beena Ahmed) Markedness in Kaytetye Reduplication: An Information-Theoretic Analysis (Forrest Panther and Mark Harvey)
11:15-11:45 Multi-Task Learning for Speech Attribute Detection of Children’s Speech (Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed and Julien Epps) Warlpiri IDS: Expanding the path to communicative success (Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Carmel O’Shannessy, Alice Nelson, Jessie Bartlett, Vanessa Davis)
11:45-12:15 Linear transformation from full-band to sub-band cepstrum (Frantz Clermont) Apical stops in Arabana: lenition and undershoot (Mark Harvey, Juqiang Chen, Michael Carne, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Clara Stockigt, Jane Simpson and Sydney Strangways)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
L2 PERCEPTION PRODUCTION & PERCEPTION
1:15-1:45 L2-Mandarin regional accent variability during lexical tone word training facilitates naive English listeners’ tone categorization and discrimination (Yanping Li, Catherine Best, Michael Tyler and Denis Burnham) Young Aucklanders and New Zealand English Vowel Shifts (Brooke Ross, Elaine Ballard and Catherine Watson)
1:45-2:15 Accuracy-latency association in discrimination of L2 vowel contrasts (Yizhou Wang, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker and Olga Maxwell) Stop (de)gemination in Veneto Italian: The role of durational correlates (Angelo Dian, John Hajek and Janet Fletcher)
2:15-2:45 Something borrowed, something new: acquiring unexploited sets of feature contrasts (Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker and Carmel O’Shannessy) Adaptation to L3 Phonology? Perception of the Japanese Consonant Length Contrast by Learners of Italian (Kimiko Tsukada and John Hajek)
2:45-3:15 Afternoon tea
NEW DIRECTIONS PROSODY
3:15-3:45 Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research (Joshua Penney, Ben Davies and Felicity Cox) Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha (Janet Fletcher, Evan Kidd, Hywel Stoakes and Rachel Nordlinger)
3:45-4:15 An Exploratory Investigation of the /e/-/æ/ and /iː/-/ɪ/ Mergers and Durational Contrasts in Singapore English (Canaan Zengyu Lan, Olga Maxwell and Chloé Diskin-Holdaway) A preliminary study of lexical pitch accents in the Split dialect of Croatian (Marija Tabain, Mate Kapović, Matthew Gordon, Adele Gregory and Richard Beare)
4:15-4:45 A corpus-based computational analysis of high-front and -back vowel production of L1-Japanese learners of English and L1-English speakers (Martin Schweinberger and Yuki Komiya) A corpus study of word (root) prominence in Vera’a (Catalina Torres and Stefan Schnell)
4:45-5:00 Closing address