2009 CRC-sponsored
Summer Phonetics/phonology workshop
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Location: Room 205, Claude T. Bissell Building, 140 St. George St.
Note:
If you're planning to attend the workshop, please email Yoonjung Kang
at <kang@utsc.utoronto.ca> by Monday August 3, so that the location of the
workshop can be finalized
and
enough food can be ordered.
Session 1: Phonetics-Phonology (processes)
10:00-10:30 Anne St-Amand (Linguistics)
Quˇbˇcois French high vowels: devoicing or deletion?
10:30-11:00 Sofia Kanibolotskaia (Linguistics)
Phonetic study of word-final obstruent devoicing: potential of aerodynamic method
11:00-11:30 Safieh Moghaddam and Milica Radišić (Linguistics)
Epenthesis in Farsi loanwords: phonology and phonetics
11:30-11:45 Break
Session 2: Alternation and representation
11:45-12:15 Marieke van Heugten and Elizabeth K. Johnson (Psychology, UTM)
Infants' early word representations are robust
12:15-12:45 Beth MacLeod (Linguistics)
Variable velar lenition and back-glide fortition in Buenos Aires Spanish
12:45-2:00 Lunch
Session 3: Articulation
2:00-2:30 Alexei Kochetov,
Laura Colantoni, Yoonjung
Kang, and Milica Radišić
(Linguistics,
Spanish and Portuguese, Humanities UTSC)
A preliminary electropalatographic investigation of affricate contrasts in four languages
2:30-3:00 Anneke Slis (Speech/Language Pathology)
Separating normal variation in movement amplitudes from gradient speech errors
3:00-3:15 Break
Session 4: Phonetics-Phonology (contrast)
3:15-3:45 James Smith (Linguistics)
Phonetic Structures of LamnsoÕ Prenasalized Stops
3:45-4:15 Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, and David Go (Humanities UTSC, Linguistics)
The acoustics of Korean fricatives
4:15-4:45 Nicholas Rolle (Linguistics)
The Phonetic Nature of Niuean Vowel Length
4:45-5:15 Sara Mackenzie (Boston University)
Near-identity and laryngeal harmony
Organizers: Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Keren Rice and Chandan Narayan