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Program (PDF file)   JUNE 20 JUNE 21  8.00 - 9.00 h  Registration    9.00 - 9.15 h  Opening session    9.00 h. Invited speaker "An interpretation of patterns of VCV coarticulation according to a model of articulatory constraints" Oral presentation Daniel Recasens, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Institut d’Estudis Catalans      9.15h. Invited speaker "Coordination of pitch movements and segments: What does it tell us about phonology?" Robert D. Ladd, University of Edinburgh  10.00 h      Poster Session 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------      Coffee break  10.15 h    Poster Session 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------    Coffee break  11.00 - 11.30 h  11.30 - 12.00 h "On the origins and evolution of the contrast between tautosyllabic and heterosyllabic sequences  of vocoids in Romance” Oral presentation Ioana Chitoran & José Ignacio Hualde, Dartmouth College, University of Illinois at U-C "The syllabification of American English" Oral presentation David Eddington, Dirk Elzinga, Rebecca Treiman & Mark Davies, Brigham Young University  12.00 - 12.30 h "Voicing-dependent cluster simplification asymmetries in Spanish and French” Oral presentation Laura Colantoni & Jeffrey Steele, University of  Toronto "Intonational phrasing and prosodic constituents in Brazilian Portuguese" Oral presentation Luciani Tenani, Universidade Estadual Paulista  12.30 - 13.00 h "Two kinds of vowel epenthesis in Alguerese  Catalan” Jesús Jiménez & Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de  València & Universitat de Barcelona Oral presentation "The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing  in Romance” Oral presentation S. Frota, M. D’Imperio, G. Elordieta, P. Prieto & M.  Vigário, U. Lisboa, CNRS-U. Provence, Euskal Herriko U.,  ICREA-UAB & U. Minho  13.00 - 14.30 h    Lunch    Lunch  14.30 - 15.00 h “Contrast and accent in Dutch and Romanian” Oral presentation Marc Swerts, Tilburg University "Processing liaison consonants in French: New acoustic and perceptual data" Oral presentation N. Nguyen, S. Wauquier-Gravelines, L. Lancia & B.  Tuller, CNRS-U. Provence, Univ. Nantes, CNRS-U.  Provence, Florida Atlantic University  15.00 - 15.30 h "Stress and focus in Spanish and Catalan: Patterns  of duration and vowel quality” Oral presentation Marta Ortega-Llebaria & Pilar Prieto, U. of  Texas- Austin & ICREA-UAB "Looking for phonetic cues to obstruent syllabic  consonants in Berber” Oral presentation Cécile Fougeron & Rachid Ridouane, Laboratoire de  Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS- Université Paris 3  15.30 - 16.00 h "Pitch accent alignment in Cairene Arabic: more  evidence for cross-linguistic variation” Oral presentation Sam Hellmuth, SOAS-Univ. of London "Patterns of velum coordination in Brazilian  Portuguese" Oral presentation Leonardo Oliveira & Stefania Marin, Haskins Labs &  Yale University  16.00 - 16.30 h "The form and function of extrasentential elements” Oral presentation Lluïsa Astruc & Francis Nolan, University of  Cambridge "The stability of phonological features within and  across segments” Oral presentation Maria Josep Solé, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  16.30 - 17.00 h    COFFEE BREAK  COFFEE BREAK  17.00 - 17.30 h "The effect of phonological complexity in the  acquisition of vowel reduction in European Portuguese" Maria João Freitas, U. de Lisboa "Aspirated stops in Andalusian Spanish” Oral presentation Francisco Torreira, University of Illinois at U-C  17.30 - 18.00 h "The perception of stress patterns by Spanish and  Catalan infants” Oral presentation Ferran Pons & Laura Bosch, Univ. of British  Columbia & Universitat de Barcelona "The interaction of spirantization and s-aspiration in  Andalusian” Oral presentation Joaquín Romero, Universitat Rovira i Virgili  18.00 - 18.30 h "How does first language influence second language rhythm?” Oral presentation Laurence White  & Sven L. Mattys, University of  Bristol    Invited speaker “Syllable structure and modes of coupled dynamical  systems” Oral presentation    References Louis Goldstein, Yale University & Haskins  Laboratories  18.30 - 19.00 h "Logistic regression modelling of cross-language  perception data” Oral presentation Geoffrey-Stewart Morrison, University of Alberta   POSTER SESSIONS   JUNE 20, 10.15 - 11.30 h “Do different phonological skills have separable links with reading in primary school?” Tracy Packiam Alloway, University of Durham “Analysis of stress errors in first language acquisition of Spanish by monolingual and bilingual children” Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó, Hamburg University Poster “Production and perception of stop consonants by a hearing-impaired Brazilian subject” Luisa Barzaghi & Sandra Madureira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo Poster Handout “Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening” Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, University of Southern California Handout "New data about vowel contact resolutions in North-Eastern Catalan” Elisenda Campmany, Universitat de Barcelona Handout “Some questions on secondary prominence in European Portuguese" Adelina Castelo, Escola Superior de Educaçao de Vise “The role of Morphology in L2 speech: Production of English intervocalic /d/ by Catalan speakers in derived and non-derived words” Susana M. Cortés, Mitsuhiko Ota & Alice Turk, TAAL, University of Edinburgh   Poster "Speech and song melody in Mambila” Bruce Connell, York University "Voicing assimilation in Catalan and English obstruent sequences” Néstor Cuartero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Poster “Alignment, word boundaries and speech rate in Castilian Spanish” Carme de la Mota, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Handout "Catalan vowel reduction and Dispersion Theory” Dylan Herrick, University of Mie Poster “Vowel variability and speech production context: A cross-linguistic study” Christine Meunier & Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Speech and Language Laboratory, Univ. Provence Poster "American perception of casual Catalan speech” Andrea Pearman, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Poster "Incrementally-built pitch contours and focus structure in Catalan” Sílvia Planas-Morales & Xavier Villalba, Universitat Rovira i Virgili & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Handou t “Differences in pitch discrimination for German and Catalan listeners" Daniel Pape, ZAS Berlin “Yes-no questions and echo questions intonation in Majorcan and Minorcan Catalan: A cross dialectal comparison”  Marta Payà & Maria del Mar Vanrell, Universitat de Barcelona & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Poster "The phonology of Colloquial Egyptian Arabic intonation” Khaled Rifaat, University of Alexandria "On svarabhakti vowel duration: Phonetic and phonological considerations” Benjamin Schmeiser, University of California-Davis Handout "Verbal vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese: A paradigmatic analysis” Luiz Carlos Schwindt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Poster "Phonological Effects in intrasentential codeswitching” Jeff MacSwan & Sonia Colina, Arizona State University & Univ. of Arizona Poster Handout “Aspects of vowel-consonant coordination in Italian”  Mario Vayra, Cinzia Avesani & Carol Fowler, Università di Siena ad Arezzo, ISTC-CNR, Univ. of Conneticut-Yale University-Haskins Laboratories "The phonetic characteristics of implosives in a Southern Chinese dialect” Cun Xi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Handout     JUNE 21, 10.00 - 11.30 h “Vowel reduction in Brazilian Portuguese” Leda Bisol & José S. de Magalhães, Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio Grande do Sul & Univ. Federal de Uberlândia-MG "Measuring phonetic distance between Catalan and English vowels: A bidirectional cross-language mapping study” Juli Cebrián, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Poster “Phonetic variability of the Greek rhotic sound” Mary Baltazani, University of Ioannina Poster “The role of word edge tones in Catalan and Spanish” Eva Estebas & Pilar Prieto, UNED & ICREA-UAB Poster "The contribution of acoustic and phonemic factors to native and non-native consonant identification in noise” M. Luisa García Lecumberri & Martin P. Cooke, Universidad del País Vasco & University of Sheffield Poster “Vowel reduction in European Portuguese and Western Bulgarian” Gueorgui Hristovsky & Ernesto d’Andrade, Lisbon University “HLH* tone in Spanish formal speech and its delimitative function” Takuya Kimura, Seisen Univ, Tokyo Poster "Contribution to the study and modelling of coarticulation in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in French” Liang Ma, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université Aix-en-Provence Poster "Intonational description of the interrogative sentences with initial unstressed “que” in four Catalan dialects” Eugenio Martínez Celdrán, Ana M. Fernández Planas, Carlos van Oosterzee & Josefina Carrera-Sabaté, Universitat de Barcelona Poster "Gradual implementation of l-vocalization: A hypothethical case for Aranese” Sidney Martín, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Handout Prosodic correlates of discourse structures in Portuguese broadcast news” Fernando Martins & Ricardo Filipe, Univ. de Lisboa & ILTEC "About the distribution of coronal mid vowels in Brazilian Portuguese: A case of Agreement” Ana Ruth Miranda & Carmen Matzenauer, U. F. Pelotas & U. C. Pelotas “Rises and rise-plateau slumps in Trevigiano” Elinor Payne, University of Cambridge Poster "Where does the question begin?” Erin O’Rourke, University of Illinois Poster "It is all downhill from here: The role of syllable contact in Romance languages” Clàudia Pons, Universitat de Barcelona Handout “Revising secondary stress: A laboratory approach study of Spanish prosody” Raiza Patricia Piña & Manuel Díaz-Campos, Indiana University “Intonation of declaratives and interrogatives in L2 spanish by L1 speakers of German” Marianne Radel, University of Hamburg Poster “The phonetics and pragmatics of spontaneous speech intonation in Mexican Spanish” Rajiv Rao, University of California-Davis Handout Pitch accent realization in Buenos Aires Spanish declaratives” Angelo J. Rodríguez, University of California-Davis “Sonorants as triggers of voicing assimilation. Phonetics or phonology?” Ellen Simon, Ghent University Poster “Alignment and scaling contrasts in Majorcan Catalan falling accents” Maria del Mar Vanrell, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Poster “Prosodic hierarchical structure of spoken Spanish by means of XML” Eduardo Velázquez, Freie Universität Berlin Poster “Canarian Spanish intonation: Interrogative utterances" Francisco Vizcaíno Ortega & Mercedes Cabrera Abreu, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Handout “On lenition in Liverpool English” Kevin Watson, Lancaster University "The phonetic motivation of stop assibilation” T. A. Hall, *Silke Hamann & *Marzena Zygis, Indiana University & *ZAS Berlin Poster   PaPI | Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia