Celebrating 6 Decades of Work on the Melody and Rhythms of Language
Friday, November 11 — Welcome & Themes begun in the Early Decades
- 1:00 pm — Keith Johnson — Remembering Ilse Lehiste
- 1:30 pm — Malgorzata E. Cavar and Damir Cavar
- Some Cyclicity and Opacity Effects in the Prosody of Two Different Clitic Classes in New-Štokavian Variants
- 2:00 pm — Željko Jozić
- Some Specialties of Croatian Dialectological Prosodic System(s)
- 2:30 pm — Diana Stojanovic
- Prosodic and Segmental Differences between Standard Serbian and the Speech of Young Urban Speakers
- 3:00 pm — Coffee Break
- 3:30 pm — Marta Ortega-Llebaria and Laura Bosch
- Cross-dialect versus Cross-language Discrimination in Early Infancy: A Look at Rhythmic and Segmental Properties
- 4:00 pm — Tsan Huang
- Why are Vowels and Tones Perceived Less Categorically than Stop Consonants? – Categorical Perception and Speech Sound Types Revisited
- 4:30 pm — Linda Shockey and Zinny Bond — Invited Talk
- Suprasegmental Speech Perception
- 5:30 pm — Reception
Welcoming Address
South Slavic Prosody
Suprasegmentals (and their Relationship to Segments)
Saturday, November 12 -- Themes from the Middle & Final Decades
- 9:15 am — Coffee and bagels
- 10:00 am — Cynthia G. Clopper and Rajka Smiljanić
- Regional Variation in Temporal Organization in American English
- [unable to attend] — Tetyana Sayenko
- Rhythmic Patterns of Voice Register Fluctuations in the Dynamics of an Inspirational Speech
- 10:30 am — Megan J. Crowhurst
- The Combined Influence of Intensity and Duration on Rhythmic Grouping in Speech
- 11:00 am — Janet Fletcher — Invited Talk
- Rhythm re-considered
- 12:00 — Lunch
- 1:00 pm — Michael Phelan
- The Prosody of Algebra Meets the Algebra of Prosody in Mathematically Experienced and Inexperienced Speakers
- 1:30 pm — Chris Worth
- Encoding Intonational Information in a Logical Grammar
- 2:00 pm — Joseph Tyler
- Prosody and listeners' interpretation of ambiguous discourse
- 2:30 pm — Coffee Break
- 3:00 pm — Steven Ikier
- On the Relation of Prosody to Metrical Structure in Old Japanese
- 3:30 pm — Rebecca W. McGowan and Andrea Levitt
- A Comparison of Rhythm and Melody in English Dialects and Music
- 4:00 pm — Jaan Ross and Pärtel Lippus — Invited Talk
- Voices from POW Camps: A Comparative Study of Spoken and Sung Estonian Utterances in Sound Recordings from the Berlin Lautarchiv (1916-1918)
- 5:00 pm — Remembering Ilse Lehiste