Sources and functions of speech variation. Disentangling the role of biological and social factors
Italy
Invited speakers
John EslingUniversity of Victoria
Susanne FuchsZAS, Berlin
Programme
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25
14:00 OPENING
14:20 Barbara Gili Fivela, Massimiliano Mario IraciVariation in intonation across Italy: The case of Palermo Italian
14:40 Violetta Cataldo, Riccardo Orrico, Renata SavyPhonetic variations of f0 range in L1 and L2: a comparison between Italian, English, and Spanish native and nonnative speakers
15:00 Nuria Esteve-Gibert, Hélène Loevenbruck, Marion Dohen, Thierry Legou And Mariapaola D’imperioAdults’ and children’s use of prosody and head gestures to mark contrastive focus in French
15:20 Francesco Cangemi, Martine GriceQuantifying variability
15:40 Glenda Gurrado, Patrizia SorianelloThe Frequency Code: the perception of ‘dominance/submissiveness’ dimension in female voices.
16:00 Licia Sbattella, Roberto Tedesco, Sonia CenceschiThe definition of a descriptive space of Italian prosodic forms: The CALLIOPE model
16:20 SPONSORS
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 John EslingThe laryngeal articulator’s influence on voice quality and vowel quality
18:00 Cinzia Avesani, Vincenzo Galatà, Mario Vayra, Catherine Best, Bruno Di Biase And Fabio ArdolinoContact and attrition in the repertoires of Italian speakers in Australia
18:20 Paolo Mairano, Tania Cerni, Mirjana Sokolovic Perovic, Bene BassettiItalians acquiring the timing of English plosives: gemination and VOT
18:40 Vincenzo Galatà, Giulia Angonese, Claudio ZmarichItalian as L2 in Romanian preschoolers: evidence from a perception and production task
THURSDAY, JAN. 26
09:00 Susanne FuchsChanges and challenges in explaining speech variation: A review over the last 50 years
10:00 Didier DemolinVariation of anatomical features and the shape of phonological systems
10:20 Chiara Celata, Chiara Meluzzi, Sylvia Moosmueller, Bettina Hobel, Chiara BertiniThe acoustic and articulatory bases of speech timing: a cross-linguistic study
10:40 Fabian Santiago, Paolo MairanoDo Spaniards speak faster than Mexicans? Studying Spanish rhythm in natural speech
11:00 Coffee Break
11:40 STUTTERING AND PHONETIC THEORY
Claudio Zmarich (CHAIR)Stuttering and phonetic theory: An introduction
Robin LickleyDisfluency in typical and stuttered speech
Giovanna LenociStuttering and Coarticulation
Pierpaolo BusanNeurophysiology of developmental stuttering and models of speech motor control
13:00 Lunch
14:30 POSTER SESSION
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 FRANCO FERRERO AWARD
16:40 Duccio PiccardiSociophonetic factors of speakers’ sex differences in Voice Onset Time: a Florentine case study
17:00 Stephan SchmidThe speech of immigrants and its imitation: Sociophonetic variation in Swiss German
17:20 Claudia Roberta Combei, Ottavia TordiniA Corpus-based Sociophonetic Analysis of Open-mid Vowels Uttered by Young Male and Female Speakers of the Pisan Variety
17:40 Daniela MereuSociophonetic variation in Cagliari: the analysis of a local stereotype in a ‘community of practice’
18:00 AISV MEMBERS’ MEETING
20:00 Social Dinner
FRIDAY, JAN. 27
09:00 Leonardo Badino, Franco CutugnoThe hundred lives of the Motor Theory of speech perception. New pros and cons
09:40 Patrycja Strycharczuk, James ScobbieTowards systematic exploration of variation in gestural timing. /l/ vocalisation in Southern British English
10:00 Alessandro Vietti, Lorenzo Spreafico, Vincenzo Galatà, Constantijn KalandMapping language experience onto phonetic categories
10:20 Maria Paola Bissiri, James M. ScobbieTongue dynamics at word-boundaries in English and English-accented German: the influence of prosodic structure and word-initial glottalisation
10:40 Etske OoijevaarArticulation and acoustics of mid vowels before liquids in a Dutch dialect
11:00 Coffee Break
11:40 Natalia Kuznetsova, Vasilisa VerkhodanovaPhonetic variation and phonological categorization under subsequent stages of sound change in Finnic varieties of Ingria
12:00 Davide Garassino, Stephan Schmid, Michele LoporcaroVowel length in two dialects of Liguria: Diatopic variation and change in progress
12:20 Piero Cosi, Andrea Calvo, Giulio Paci, Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser And Valentina PaisanIs voice personalization suitable and useful for ALS patients?
12:40 Irene Ricci, Chiara Bertini, Mariangela Manti, Elisabetta SuraceA new artificial palate for tongue pressure measurements
13:00 CLOSURE