MidPhon 29
October 4-5, 2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, October 4
Illini Union 314 A
2:50 Introductory remarks by James Yoon, Head of Linguistics Department.
Session 1 – session chair: Zsuzsanna Fagyal
3:00 In Search of the Phrase Accent: Nuclear Tunes in Mainstream American English
Jennifer Cole and Thomas Sostarics (Northwestern University)
3:25 A CBP account of mismatches in stress assignment and palatal harmony across Turkic
Joshua Dees (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3:50 On Phonological Contrast: When production outpaces perception
David Bolter (Denison University)
4:15 Ternary Vowel Length Contrast and Pre-Lenis Lengthening in Low German: Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives
Tianyi Ni and Björn Köhnlein (Ohio State University)
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Session 2 – session chair: Jonathan MacDonald
5:00 Predictable Tone in Marachi Verbs
Gus Metz and Michael R. Marlo (University of Missouri)
5:25 Local Dislocation and prosodic structure building in truncated infinitives
Aida Talić (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
5:50 Are focus-driven effects on prominence perception sensitive to alternative set cardinality?
Rebekah Stanhop and Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University)
6:15 Native phonological effects and the perceptual salience of -CV transitions in intervocalic labial-velar stops
Matthew Ajibade and Kenneth De Jong (Indiana University)
Saturday, October 5
Gregory Hall 100
Session 1 – session chair: Chilin Shih
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Acoustic invariability with high articulatory variability: Voiceless sonorants in Hakha Lai
Grayson Ziegler (Indiana University)
9:25 Implicit and Explicit Phonetic Convergence to Voice Quality
Kyler Laycock (Ohio State University)
9:50 Phonetic drift in Mandarin sibilants — Effects of phonetic space
Tzu-Hsuan Yang and Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)
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Session 2 – session chair: Mikhael Hayes
10:35 [Coronal] is Never Underspecified in English: a Computational View
Scott Nelson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:00 Exploring Dynamic Changes in Vowel Measures for Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Malachi Henry and Tessa Bent (Indiana University)
11:25 Focus on Word-Final Stress: Plural Realization & Laxing Harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Stuart Davis, Nicholas Henriksen, and Matthew Pollock (Indiana University)
11:50 Eastern Andalusian Spanish laxing and harmony: triggers and targets
Maialen Casquete de la Puente (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Lunch (catered, boxed) and POSTER SESSION (LCLB Atrium)
Session 3 – session chair: Jianfeng Steven Guo
12:25-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:00 Odd-numbered posters are presented
2:00-3:15 Even-numbered posters are presented
See full list of posters below
3:25 Plosive Voicing Alternation in Turkish
Jae Weller and Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
3:50 Cascading activation drives incomplete neutralization: An internet-based study of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi
Yuyu Zeng, Chang Wang, and Jie Zhang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
4:15 Categorical Perception of Mandarin Chinese Tones by Advanced Learners of Mandarin Chinese
Yiying Jiang and Ian M.C. Watson (Purdue University)
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Session 4 – session chair: Eva Miszoglad
5:00 Phonological Transfer and Markedness Effects in Saudi Arabic Speakers’ English Obstruent Production
Amirah Alruwais (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
5:25 Cross-linguistic phonetic recalibration in bilingual lexical processing
Yuhyeon Seo and Olga Dmitrieva (Purdue University)
Dinner
7:00 Conference Dinner at BIG GROVE TAVERN
1 E Main St, Champaign, IL 61820
Poster Session (LCLB Atrium)
Odd-numbered posters are presented 12:45-2:00, even-numbered posters are presented 2:00-3:15.
1 Acoustic differences between human-directed and voice assistant-directed speech: L1 and L2 speakers
Daria Novoselova and Olga Dmitrieva (Purdue University)
2 Intelligibility of medically related sentences in quiet speech-shaped noise and hospital noise
Sarah White , Alex Holly, Tessa Bent , Erica Ryherd, and Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)
3 What are an invariant’s properties? A test of positional assimilation patterns under PAM
Corey McCullogh and Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)
4 General clear-speech vs contrast enhancement: Production of the French oral-nasal vowel distinction
Morgan Robertson and Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)
5 Probing Category Structure in the Fricative Space
Kenneth De Jong and Yuka Tashiro (Indiana University)
6 Speech Categorization Consistency Predicts Overall Language Abilities
Hyoju Kim, J. Bruce Tomblin and Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
7 Lexical Knowledge Stabilizes Speech Categorization Consistency
Hyoju Kim, Ethan Kutlu, and Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
8 Post-consonantal Glides and Nasal Vowels in Parisian French: Insights from Verlan
Corentin Mazet (Indiana University)
9 English listeners’ perceptual adaptation to lexical stress in different intonational contexts
Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Jeff Holliday and Jieun Lee (University of Kansas)
10 Post-Nasal Flapping in American English: A Corpus Based Study
Andrés López (Virginia Tech)
11 The perception of lexical stress in Spanish
Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka and José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12 Sound and movement: Perceptual similarity of sound symbolism in dance
Declan Chandler-Holtz, Tanya Calamoneri and Cynthia G. Clopper (Ohio State University)
13 The Phonology of Acrolectal Belmopan Belizean Kriol
Jarod Warner (Indiana University)
14 Phoneme transmission in obsolescent language communities: Evidence from Frenchville
Madison Morgan and Kaitlyn Owens (Indiana University)
15 Logical transductions are not sufficient for notational equivalence
Nick Danis (Washington University)
16 Artificial Intelligence Realization of Morphemic Word-Final s in English: Phonetic Evidence for Voiceless Clitic -s and Plural -s
Sara Issa and Anne Pycha (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
17 Modeling the Perception of Vowel Nasalization
Yongqing Ye (Michigan State University)
18 In-between words: The aerodynamics of glottal phonation in English and resyllabification in Spanish
Ander Beristain (Saint Louis University)
19 A Templatic Analysis for Two Dialects of Löffelsprache, a German Language Game
Annika Shankwitz (Indiana University)
20 The Phonological Adaptation of Arabic Loanwords in Turkish Language
Beldaha Fatima (Indiana University)
21 The effect of contextual variables on pitch and speech rate in Mexican Spanish requests
Bruno Staszkiewicz (Indiana University)
22 Yoruba Loanword Prosody: Situating Yoruba within Loanword Prosody Taxonomy
Kaosarat Aina (Indiana University)
23 Child and adult voice onset time in Northern East Cree
Luke Annear and Rachyl Hietpas (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
24 English Liquid Error Detection of Japanese Speakers using Dynamic Time Warping with Open Boundary Conditions
Ryan Corrigan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
25 Investigating Second Language Acquisition Theories through Vowel Acquisition Analysis at Inventory Level
Shuju Shi (Indiana University)
26 Retracted Tongue Root and Palatalization in Khalkha Mongolian
Joshua Sims (Indiana University, Bloomington)
27 Investigating the impact of language regard on language change: Evidence from the Northern Cities shift in Michigan English
Kaitlyn Owens (Indiana University, Bloomington)
28 An acoustic analysis of PRICE vowel variation in Kentuckiana through 50 years of real time
Brian José (Indiana State University)