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Monday, 21 May
[Top]T - Tutorial (at Tongji University)
Monday, 21 May 14:00 - 17:00
Yi Xu, University College London, United Kingdom
Santitham Prom-On, University College London, United Kingdom
Tuesday, 22 May
[Top]C1 - Opening Ceremony
Tuesday, 22 May 9:00 - 9:20
[Top]K1 - Analysis-by-Synthesis in Prosody Research
Chair: Keikichi Hirose
Tuesday, 22 May 9:20 - 10:20
Analysis-by-Synthesis in Prosody Research
Rüdiger Hoffmann, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
[Top]PS1 - Speech Processing and Tools; Descriptive and Cross-linguistic Studies
Tuesday, 22 May 10:40 - 12:40
PS1A - Speech Processing and Tools
Representing the Prosodic Context of Words using Gaussian Mixture Models
Shreyas Karkhedkar, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Nigel Ward, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Prosody Modification for Vocoder Based on Amplitude Spectrum of Residual Signal
Wen Zhengqi, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tao Jianhua, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ProZed: A speech prosody analysis-by-synthesis tool for linguists
Daniel Hirst, CNRS & Université de Provence, France
Brigitte Bigi, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Univ., France
Daniel Hirst, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Univ., France
Tone Generation by Maximizing Joint Likelihood of Syllabic HMMs for Mandarin Speech Synthesis
Xingyu Na, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Chaomin Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Xiang Xie, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Jingming Kuang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Yaling He, Eastel Corporation, China
Automatic segmentation of English words using phonotactic and syllable information
Raymond W. M. Ng, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Keikichi Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Framework For Consistent Speech Databases
Sören Wittenberg, TU Dresden, Germany
Rüdiger Hoffmann, TU Dresden, Germany
Perception of Japanese Prosodical Phonemes through use of a Bone-conducted Ultrasonic Hearing-aid
Takayuki Kagomiya, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan
Seiji Nakagawa, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan
Role of pitch slope and duration in synthesized Mizo tones
Govind D, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Priyankoo Sarmah, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Automatic detection of voice creak
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot, France
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot, France
Perceptual and acoustic correlates of speech in a bilateral cochlear implant user
Aline Pessoa, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Beatriz Novaes, Child Hearing Center– CeAC- DERDIC- PUC-SP, Brazil
Sandra Madureira, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Zuleica Camargo, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
PROSOTRAN: a tool to annotate prosodically non-standard data
Katarina Bartkova, ATILF, Nancy Université, France
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, UMR 7110 (CNRS & U. Paris 7), France
Fabian Santiago-Vargas, UMR 7110 (CNRS & U. Paris 7), France
Multi-level Exemplar-Based Duration Generation for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eva Szekely, University College Dublin, Ireland
Peter Cahill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Julie Carson-Berndsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
Automatisation of intonation modelling and its linguistic anchoring
Uwe Reichel, University of Munich, Germany
Udochukwu Kalu Ogbureke, CNGL, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
João Cabral, CNGL, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Julie Carson-Berndsen, CNGL, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF PROSODIC VARIATIONS IN PARKINSONIAN READ AND SPONTANEOUS SPEECH
Celine De Looze, speech communication lab, tcd, Ireland
Alain Ghio, laboratoire parole et langage, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Stefan Scherer, speech communication lab, tcd, Ireland
Gilles Pouchoulin, laboratoire parole et langage, France
François Viallet, laboratoire parole et langage, Aix-Marseille Université, France
ProsoDyn: a graphical representation of macroprosody for phonostylistic ambiance change detection
Jean-Philippe Goldman, University of Geneva, Switzerland
PS1B - Descriptive and Cross-linguistic Studies
Pitch accent, eyebrows and context – effects on the exhaustivity of answers?
Charlotte Wollermann, University of Bonn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Bernhard Schröder, University of Duiburg-Essen, Germany
Ulrich Schade, University of Bonn, Germany
Alignment of Intonational Events in German and Brazilian Portuguese – a Quantitative Study
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Plínio Barbosa, State University of Campinas, Brazil
The Effect of Language Attrition and Tone Sandhi on Taiwanese Tonal Processing
Chia-Hsin Yeh, Michigan State University, United States
Jung-Yueh Tu, Indiana University, United States
The Effects of Prosodic Context and Word Position on Gupapuyngu Vowels
Simone Graetzer, University of Melbourne, Australia
John Hajek, University of Melbourne, Australia
Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne, Australia
The Falsetto Tones of the Dialects in Hubei Province
Caiyu Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Chaoju Tang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Cross-Linguistic Perception of Intonation by Mandarin and Cantonese Listeners
Bo Robert Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Peggy Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prosodic Word in Chengdu Dialect
Zuxuan Qin, School of Foreign Languages,Tongji University, China
Disambiguation of Tonally Unspecified Mandarin Syllables
Christopher Huff, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Elinor Payne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
A Global Perspective on Chinese Intonation
Lihan Wu, Nankai University, China
Qiuwu Ma, Tongji University, China
Voice quality and gender: some insights on correlations between perceptual and acoustic dimensions
Zuleica Camargo, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Sandra Madureira, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Aline Pessoa, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Fundação de Amparo à pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP, Brazil
Luiz Carlos Rusilo, Integrated Acoustic Analysis and Cognition Laboratory-LIAAC- LAEL - Department of Actuarial and Quantitative Methods-DAMQ-Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Towards the Mo Piu Tonal System: First Results on an Undocumented South-Asian Language
Genevieve Caelen-Haumont, MICA laboratory, Viet Nam
Functions of word order and intonation in information structuring in Puyuma
Anastasia Karlsson, Lund University, Sweden
Arthur Holmer, Lund University, Sweden
Sport in the media: a contrasted study of three sport live media reports with semi-automatic tools
Stéphanie Audrit, UCLouvain, Belgium
Tea Pršir, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Antoine Auchlin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jean-Philippe Goldman, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Autosegmental-Metrical Prosodic Structure: not fit for French?
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot, France
(to be presented in PS3 on Thursday)
Introducing Nasalization in Nkonya
Rogers Krobea Asante, Tongji University, China
[Top]OS1 - Prosody and Speech Processing
Chair: Philippe Martin
Tuesday, 22 May 14:10 - 16:10
Prosody-dependent Acoustic Modeling for Mandarin Speech Recognition
Tzu-Hsuan Chiu, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Chen-Yu Chiang, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Yuan-Fu Liao, Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Techonology, Taiwan
Jyh-Her Yang, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Yih-Ru Wang, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Sin-Horng Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Exploiting time and frequency domain measures for precise voice source parameterisation
John Kane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Irena Yanushevskaya, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Christer Gobl, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Specific contribution of tonal and duration cues to the syntactic parsing of French
Amandine Michelas, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mariapaola D'Imperio, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France
The Auditory Kappa Effect in a Speech Context
Alejna Brugos, Boston University, United States
Jonathan Barnes, Boston University, United States
Investigating holistic measures of speech prosody through ratings of filtered speech
Aliel Cunningham, Purdue University, United States
On The Definition of the Word ''Segmental''
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Eiman Mustafawi, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Rehab Duwairi, Qatar University, Qatar
[Top]SS1 - Control of Prosodic Features for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Less Speech Corpus
Chairs: Keikichi Hirose; Jianhua Tao
Tuesday, 22 May 16:30 - 18:30
Emotional Voice Conversion for Mandarin using Tone Nucleus Model – small corpus and high efficiency
Miaomiao Wang, Toshiba (China) R&D Center, China
Miaomiao Wen, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
Nobuaki Minematsu, University of Tokyo, Japan
Assign Stress for Interrogative Sentences via Syntax Structure Mapping
Ya Li, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xuefei Liu, Beijing Normal University, China
Xiaoying Xu, Beijing Normal University, China
Jianhua Tao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Keikichi Hirose, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Hiroya Hashimoto, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Jun Ikeshima, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Nobuaki Minematsu, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Kota Yoshizato, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hirokazu Kameoka, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo,NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan
Daisuke Saito, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shigeki Sagayama, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Making Sense of Variations:Introducing Alternatives in Speech Synthesis
Nicolas Obin, IRCAM-CNRS UMR 9912-STMS, France
Christophe Veaux, Centre for Speech Technology Research, United Kingdom
Pierre Lanchantin, Cambridge University Engineering Department, United Kingdom
ANALYSIS OF VOICE STRESS IN CALL CENTERS CONVERSATIONS
Grazyna Demenko, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Magdalena Jastrzebska, Department of Phonetics, A. Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland
Wednesday, May 23
[Top]K2 - Modeling Prosody Variations for Communicative Speech and the Second Language towards Trans-disciplinary Scientific Understanding
Chair: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Wednesday, 23 May 8:30 - 9:30
Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda University, Japan
[Top]OS2 - Prosody and First and Second Language Acquisition
Chair: Aijun Li
Wednesday, 23 May 9:30 - 10:50
A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech
Soroush Vosoughi, MIT, United States
Deb Roy, MIT, United States
Shuhei Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Greg Short, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Nobuaki Minematsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Keikichi Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Children's Acquisition of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in Flat Structures
Chiung-Yao Wang, Michigan State University, United States
Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University, United States
Yen-Hwei Lin, Michigan State University, United States
Chuchu Li, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Candise Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Min Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Nan Jiang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
[Top]PS2 - Language Interaction and Acquisition; Prominence, Focus and Emphasis
Wednesday, 23 May 11:10 - 13:00
PS2A - Language Interaction and Acquisition
Multi-Stage Feature Normalization for Robust German Stressed/Unstressed Syllable Classification
Yuan-Fu Liao, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Yan-Ting Chen, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Jhen-Lun Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Accuracy of Japanese pitch accent rises during and after shadowing training
Rongna A, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan
Ryoko Hayashi, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan
A Study of Tone Acquisition in a Mandarin-speaking Child under Three
Huiqin Ma, Hunan University, China
Xiaoxiang Chen, Hunan University, China
Xin Liu, Hunan University, China
Dang-Khoa Mac, International Research Institute MICA, HUST-CNRS/UMI 2954 Grenoble INP, Hanoi, Vietnam
Véronique Aubergé, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble (LIG)- CNRS, Grenoble, France
Eric Castelli, International Research Institute MICA, HUST-CNRS/UMI 2954 Grenoble INP, Hanoi, Vietnam
Albert Rilliard, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Ting Zou, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Jinsong Zhang, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Wen Cao, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Lexical tone perception in early infancy
Ao Chen, Utrecht University Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands
Rene Kager, Utrecht University Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands
A Corpus Study of Native and Non-native Vowel Quality
Chen-Huei Wu, National Hsinchu University of Education, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Taiwan
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, United States
A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Study Tours on L2 Speech Rhythm
Donald White, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Peggy Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
On Non-Native Speaker Prosody: Identifying 'Just-Noticeable-Differences' of Speaker-Ethnicity
Richard Todd, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prosodic Features of the Chinese EFL Learners as They Express New Information
Meng Wang, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China, China
Xia Wang, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China, China
Yuan Jia, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Honghua Zhai, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
María Ángeles Barquero, University of Geneva & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Switzerland
Native-like Duration Ratio of Stressed vs. Unstressed Syllables through Visualizing Prosody
Markus Rude, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
PS2B - Prominence, Focus and Emphasis
Say it again, Sam! The prosodic profiles of emphatic reduplication in German
Oliver Niebuhr, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Patrycja Jarzabkowska, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Uta Lorenz, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Christoph Schulz, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Farhod Sodigov, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Karin Görs, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
Oliver Niebuhr, Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Kiel, Germany
An Acoustic Study of Penultimate Accentuation in Three Varieties of French
Sandra Schwab, ELCF/Université de Genève, Switzerland
Mathieu Avanzi, Chaire de linguistique française/Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Jean-Philippe Goldman, LATL/Université de Genève, Switzerland
Pascal Montchaud, Chaire de linguistique française/Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Isabelle Racine, ELCF/Université de Genève, Switzerland
Mathieu Avanzi, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Lisa Brunetti, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596), Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France
Cédric Gendrot, LPP, UMR 7018/CNRS Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, France
Revisiting focus prosody in Japanese
Albert Lee, University College London, United Kingdom
Yi Xu, University College London, United Kingdom
Cross-Language Prominence Detection
Andrew Rosenberg, Queens College / CUNY, United States
Erica Cooper, Columbia University, United States
Rivka Levitan, Columbia University, United States
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, United States
Prosodic Effects on Garden-path Sentences
Li-Hsin Ning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States
Prosodic encoding and perception of focus in Tibetan (Anduo Dialect)
Ling Wang, Minzu University of China, China
Bei Wang, Minzu University of China, China
Yi Xu, University College London, United Kingdom
Accentuation as a cue for speaker adaptation
Constantijn Kaland, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Temporal characteristics of emphasis in continuous speech
Chiu-Yu Tseng, Phonetics Lab, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chao-Yu Su, Institute of Information System and Applications, NTHU, Taiwan
A prosodic account of Italian exclamative sentences: a gating test
Patrizia Sorianello, University of Bari, Italy
Yung-Hsiang Shawn Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Compensation for coarticulation in prosodically weak words
Felicitas Kleber, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), University of Munich, Germany
Jonathan Harrington, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), University of Munich, Germany
Ulrich Reubold, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), University of Munich, Germany
Jessica Siddins, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), University of Munich, Germany
Deaccentuation in Hungarian and its logical background
Katalin Mády, Research Institue for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
On the Normalization of Syllable Prominence Ratings
Christopher Sappok, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Denis Arnold, University of Bonn, Germany
Determining prominence and prosodic boundaries in Korean by non-expert rapid prosody transcription
Hie-Jung You, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Modeling speaker variation in cues to prominence using the Bayesian information criterion
Tim Mahrt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
Jennifer Cole, United States University of Illinois
Margaret Fleck, University of Illinois, United States
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, United States
Phonetic Realization of Prosodic Focus in Persian
Mortaza Taheri Ardali, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Islamic Republic of Iran
Yi Xu, University College London, United Kingdom
Do native Spanish speakers transfer accentual acoustic properties from Spanish to French L2?
Sandra Schwab, ELCF/University of Geneva, Switzerland
[Top]SS2 - Prosody and Languages in Contact
Chairs: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie; Mathieu Avanzi; Guri Bordal
Wednesday, 23 May 14:30 - 18:30
[Top]SS2OSA - Prosody in Language Acquisition
Chair: Mathieu Avanzi
Wednesday, 23 May 14:30 - 16:10
The Role of Lexical Knowledge and Stress Cues in Segmentation in Second Language Learners of English
Candise Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Min Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Fabian Santiago Vargas, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR 7110), Université Paris Diderot, France
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR 7110), CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, France
The Effect of Language Attrition on Low Level Tone in Hakka
Chia-Hsin Yeh, Michigan State University, United States
Chi-Jui Lu, Michigan State University, United States
Non-native Tone Perception from Infant to Adult: How Consistent and Flexible is it?
Liquan Liu, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, Netherlands
René Kager, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, Netherlands
[Top]SS2PS - Prosody in Language Acquisition and Language Contact
Wednesday, 23 May 16:30 -17:30
Sandra Schwab, ELCF/Université de Genève, Switzerland
Joaquim Llisterri, Departament de Filologia Espanyola/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Tone Sandhi Patterns of Zhenjiang Dialect
Chun-An Qiu, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Mandarin-accented Fall, Rise and Fall-Rise F0 contours in Dutch
Xuliang He, Natong University, Radboud University Nijmegen, China
Judith Hanssen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Vincent J. Van Heuven, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands
Carlos Gussenhoven, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Hue San Do, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Hussein Hussein, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Oliver Jokisch, TU Dresden, Germany
Hongwei Ding, Tongji University, China
Qianyong Gao, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Si Wei, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Guoping Hu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
The perception of speech and non-speech tones by tone and non-tone language listeners
Zhen Qin, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Peggy Mok, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A Study on College Non-English Majors’ Acquisition of English Stress Placement
Xiaoxiang Chen, Hunan University, China
Hongmin Zhang, Hunan University, China
Xiaojing Xie, Hunan University, China
A Phonetic Investigation of Intonational Foreign Accent in Mandarin Chinese Learners of German
Hongwei Ding, School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, China
Oliver Jokisch, Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication, TU Dresden, Germany
Rüdiger Hoffmann, Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication, TU Dresden, Germany
Perception and Production of Mandarin Disyllabic Tones by German Learners
Hongwei Ding, School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, China
YN questions in L2 Italian of Dutch speaking learners
Claudia Crocco, Ghent University - Dept. of Linguistics, Belgium
Jens Baele, Ghent University - Dept. of Linguistics, Belgium
L1 Prosodic transfer and priming effects: A quantitative study on semi-spontaneous dialogues
Giuseppina Turco, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Michele Gubian, Centre for Language & Speech Technology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
How Do Pauses Reveal Linguistic Plans by L2 Learners of Chinese?
Bei Yang, UW-Madison, United States
Hu Na, Foreign Languages Department, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jia Yuan, Phonetics Lab, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Liu Bin, Foreign Languages Department, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Prosody Perception in L1 and L2
Irina Nesterenko, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), France
Perception of Focus Prosody in the English speech of Bangou speakers
Dorothea Hackman, Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
Regional Variations of Speech Rhythm in French: In Search of Lost Times
Nicolas Obin, IRCAM-CNRS UMR 9912-STMS, France
Mathieu Avanzi, Chaire de linguistique française, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Guri Bordal, University of Oslo, Norway
Alice Bardiaux, FNRS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Post-Focus Compression in Second Language Mandarin
Ying Chen, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, United States
Susan Guion-Anderson, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, United States
Yi Xu, Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, Universität Osnabrück,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Germany
Carolin Buthke, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Trudel Meisenburg, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Philippe Boula De Mareüil, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Albert Rilliard, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Paolo Mairano, GIPSA-lab, France
Jean-Pierre Lai, GIPSA-lab, France
English Lexical Stress and Spoken Word Recognition in Korean Learners of English
Jeonghwa Shin, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, United States
Shari Speer, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, United States
Productions of "continuation contours" by French speakers in L1 (French) and L2 (English)
Katarina Bartkova, Nancy University, ATILF, France
Anne Bonneau, Nancy University, LORIA-CNRS, France
Vincent Collote, Nancy University, LORIA-CNRS, France
Mathilde Dargnat, Nancy University, ATILF, France
Dialect Adaptation and Two Dimensions of Tune
James Sneed German, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prosodic similarities in French spoken in the Mascareignes
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
[Top]SS2OSB - Prosody in Language Contact
Chair: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
Wednesday, 23 May 17:30 - 18:30
Prosodic transfer from Italian to Spanish: Rhythmic Properties of L2 Speech and Argentinean Porteño
Ariadna Benet, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Christoph Gabriel, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Elena Kireva, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Andrea Pesková, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Variations in the realization of the French Accentual Phrase in the light of language contact
Guri Bordal, University of Oslo,Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France
Mathieu Avanzi, Chaire de linguistique française, Université de Neuchâtel, Swaziland
Nicolas Obin, IRCAM-CNRS UMR 9912-STMS, France
Alice Bardiaux, FNRS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Markedness in the prosody of contact varieties of South African English
Sabine Zerbian, University of Potsdam, Germany
Thursday, May 24
[Top]K3 - Hierarchical Prosody Modeling and Generation
Chair: Julia Hirschberg
Thursday, 24 May 8:30 - 9:30
Hierarchical Prosody Modeling and Generation
Jianhua Tao, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
[Top]OS3 - Prosody and Emotion; Tonal Aspects of Prosody
Thursday, 24 May 9:30 - 10:50
OS3A - Prosody and Emotion
Chair: John Ohala
Prosodic and Acoustic Features of Emotional Speech in Taiwan Mandarin
Hsin-Yi Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Janice Fon, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Effects of Emotion on the Lower Lip Movements at Phrase Boundaries
Sungbok Lee, University of Southern California, United States
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, United States
OS3B - Tonal Aspects of Prosody
Chair: David House
Sonority and Syllable Weight determine Tonal Association in Tashlhiyt Berber
Timo Röttger, IfL Phonetik, University of Cologne, Germany
Rachid Ridouane, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (UMR 7018) CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Martine Grice, IfL Phonetik, University of Cologne, Germany
Effects of Tone Merging and Musical Training on Cantonese Tone Perception
Peggy Mok, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Donghui Zuo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
[Top]PS3 - Duration and Rhythm; Pitch and Boundaries
Thursday, 24 May 11:10 - 13:00
PS3A - Duration and Rhythm
Syllabic Intensity Variations as Quantification of Speech Rhythm: Evidence from Both L1 and L2
Lei He, Independent Linguist, China
Significance of Glottal Activity Detection for Duration Modification
Govind D, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
S R M Prasanna, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Yegnanarayana B, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
Rhythm Typology of Brazilian Portuguese dialects
Alexsandro Meireles, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Viviany Gambarini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Qian Wu, Minzu University of China, China
Bei Wang, Institute of Chinese Minority Language and Literature, China
Xiaxia Zhang, Minzu University of China, China
Testing the perception of speech rhythm on natural and artificial stimuli
Paolo Mairano, GIPSA-Lab, France
Antonio Romano, Universita di Torino, Italy
Speech Rhythm and Timing of a Speech-impaired Speaker
Tae-Jin Yoon, McMaster University, Canada
Karin Humphreys, McMaster University, Canada
Hilmi Hamzah, The University of Melbourne, Australia
John Hajek, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Janet Fletcher, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Significance of Duration in the Prosodic Analysis of Assamese
Govind D, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Shakuntala Mahanta, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Temporal Organization of Syllable Production in the Speech of Cantonese-speaking Children
Wai-Sum Lee, Dept. of CTL, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Eric Zee, Dept. of CTL, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
(to be presented in PS1 on Tuesday)
Stefan Benus, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Juraj Simko, Bielefeld University, Germany
A Study on the Metrical Structure of Music with Similarity Experiments
Stephan Hübler, TU Dresden, Germany
Rüdiger Hoffmann, TU Dresden, Germany
A preliminary analysis of speech rhythm in three varieties of Irish (Gaelic)
Amelie Dorn, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Maria O'Reilly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The Neutralization of Tone-related Duration Differences in Sung Cantonese
Murray Schellenberg, Dept of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stress and phonemic length in the perception of Slovak vowels
Stefan Benus, Constantine the Philosopher University, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Katalin Mády, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Rhythm in Mandarin Chinese and Italian: the Role of Sentence Accents
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Chiara Bertini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Na Zhi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Effects of temporal chunking on speech recall
Annie C. Gilbert, Laboratoire de sciences phonétiques, Université de Montréal, Canada
Victor J. Boucher, Laboratoire de sciences phonétiques, Université de Montréal, Canada
Boutheina Jemel, Laboratoire de Recherche en Neurosciences et Électrophysiologie Cognitive, Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, Canada
Effects of frequency, repetition and prosodic location on ambiguous Mandarin word production
Seth Wiener, The Ohio State University, United States
Shari Speer, The Ohio State University, United States
Claire Shank, The Ohio State University, United States
The effects of speaking rate and intonation on the duration of tones in Mandarin Chinese
Jiahong Yuan, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Prosodic Typology Revisited: Adding Macro-Rhythm
Sun-Ah Jun, UCLA, United States
Variability of speech rhythm in synchronous speech
Volker Dellwo, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Friedrichs, University of Zurich, Switzerland
PS3B - Pitch and Boundaries
Effects of topic structure and syntax on boundary pitch variations in in Standard Chinese
Xiaohong Yang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yufang Yang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Conceptual Planning in Conversational Mandarin: Pitch Variation in Prosodic Phrasing
Alvin C.-H. Chen, Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Shu-Chuan Tseng, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
F0 as the dominant cue to accent location in Persian
Vahideh Abolhasanizadeh, Department of English Language & Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran
A Quantitative Study on Information Contribution of Prosody Phrase Boundaries in Chinese Speech
Jinsong Zhang, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Wei Li, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Yanlu Xie, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Wen Cao, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
A Forced-alignment-based Study of Declarative Sentence-ending ‘ta’ in Korean
Tae-Jin Yoon, McMaster University, Canada
Yoonjung Kang, University of Toronto, Canada
Positional constraints on the initial rise in French
Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole & Langage, CNRS UMR 6057, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
Mariapaola D'Imperio, Laboratoire Parole & Langage, CNRS UMR 6057, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
Leonardo Lancia, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Priming Effects of Tones and Segments in Lexical Processing in Mandarin
Lan Shuai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bin Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tao Gong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prosodic Similarity – Evidence from an Imitation Study
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, MIT, United States
The Role of Fo in Mongolian Stress
Yumei Sang, University Paris-Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
Philippe Martin, University Paris-Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
Contour Patterns of Chinese Intonational Phrases
Chen Hu, Luoyang University of Foreign Languages, China
Pitch level variation in French: categorical or gradient?
David Le Gac, Université de Rouen, France
Hiyon Yoo, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne-Cité, France
Katarina Bartkova, Université de Nancy, France
Michael Phelan, Ohio State University, United States
The Emotional Expressiveness of the Successive Addition Boundary Tone in Mandarin Chinese
Aijun Li, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Qiang Fang, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Jianwu Dang, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Prosodic Boundaries and Prosodic Word in Chengdu Dialect: a Durational Perspective
Zuxuan Qin, School of Foreign Languages,Tongji University, China
[Top]OS4 - Prosody and Regional Dialects
Chair: Peggy Mok
Thursday, 24 May 14:30 - 15:50
Durational Cues at Discourse Boundaries in Taiwan Southern Min
Sheng-Fu Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Janice Fon, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Speech Prosody of French Regional Varieties
Mathieu Avanzi, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Nicolas Obin, IRCAM-CNRS UMR 9912-STMS, Paris, France
Alice Bardiaux, FNRS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Guri Bordal, University of Oslo, Norway
Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects
Adrian Leemann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Volker Dellwo, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marie-José Kolly, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Stephan Schmid, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Syllable boundary effect: temporal entrainment in overlapped speech
Marcin Wlodarczak, Bielefeld University, Germany
Juraj Simko, Bielefeld University, Germany
Petra Wagner, Bielefeld University, Germany
[Top]SS3 - Prosodic Annotation: Past Present and Future
Chair: Yi Xu
Thursday, 24 May 16:10 - 17:30
Providing linguists with better tools:Daniel Hirst’s contribution to prosodic annotation
Céline De Looze, Speech Communication Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Na Zhi, Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Cyril Auran, Laboratoire Savoirs, Textes, Langage, CNRS & Universités Lille 3 & Lille 1, France
Hyong-Sil Cho, Microsoft Language Development Center, Portugal
Sophie Herment, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Irina Nesterenko, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), France
The Phonological Annotation of Prosody: Past, Present, and Future
Sun-Ah Jun, Department of Linguistics, UCLA, United States
Form versus Function – Prosodic Annotation and Modeling go Hand in Hand
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Germany Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Functional annotation for prosodic synthesis
Yi Xu, Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences University College London, United Kingdom
Santitham Prom-On, Department of Computer Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, United Kingdom
[Top]SS3PaS - Prosodic Annotation: Past Present and Future
Chair: Daniel Hirst
Thursday, 24 May 17:30 - 18:30
Friday, May 25
[Top]K4 - Neural Specializations for Pitch in Tonal Languages
Chair: Mark Pell
Friday, 25 May 8:30 - 9:30
Neural specializations for pitch in tonal languages
Jackson Gandour, Purdue University, United States
[Top]OS5 - Prosody and Perception
Chair: Donna Erickson
Friday, 25 May 9:30 - 10:50
Yining Zhou, Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
Brett Martin, Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
Segment Duration and Vowel Quality in German Lexical Stress Perception
Klaus J. Kohler, University of Kiel, Germany
The effect of Min proficiency on production and perception of tones in Taiwan Mandarin
Yi-Hsuan Huang, Graduate institute of linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
E-Chin Wu, Graduate institute of linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Janice Fon, Graduate institute of linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION OF FOCUS TYPES IN JAPANESE
Hyun Kyung Hwang, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
[Top]PS4 - Style, Attitude and Emotion; Syntax, Narrative, Speech Act and Discourse
Friday, 25 May 11:10 - 12:40
PS4A - Style, Attitude and Emotion
On the use of melodic patterns as prosodic correlates of emotion in Spanish
Juan-María Garrido, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Yesika Laplaza, Barcelona Media Centre d'Innovació, Spain
Montserrat Marquina, Barcelona Media Centre d'Innovació, Spain
Cross-Linguistic cross-modality perception of English sad and happy speech
Caroline Menezes, University of Toledo, United States
Donna Erickson, Showa Music University, Japan
Jonghye Han, Korea University, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Perceptual Study for Emotional Speech of Mandarin Chinese
Ting Wang, Tongji University, China
Hongwei Ding, Tongji University, China
Wentao Gu, Research Center for Language Information Technologies, Nanjing Normal University, China
Relative Importance of Different Components of Speech Contributing to Perception of Emotion
P. Gangamohan, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
V. K. Mittal, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
B. Yegnanarayana, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech
Stefan Steidl, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Tim Polzehl, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
H. Timothy Bunnell, Nemours Biomedical Research, United States
Ying Dou, The Johns Hopkins University, United States
Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Daniel Perry, University of California at Los Angeles, United States
Kishore Prahallad, International Indian Institute of Technology, United States
Callie Vaughn, Oberlin College, United States
Alan W. Black, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
How quickly do listeners recognize emotional prosody in their native versus a foreign language?
Marc Pell, McGill University, Canada
Jessica Robin, University of Toronto, Canada
Silke Paulmann, University of Essex, United Kingdom
When brain differentiates happy from neutral in prosody?
Xuhai Chen, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Yufang Yang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
The influence of speaking style on lexical f0 profiles in French
Rena Nemoto, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Martine Adda-Decker, LPP CNRS/Université Paris 3, France
Jacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France
Prosodic analysis of Brazilian Portuguese attitudes
Albert Rilliard, LIMSI-CNRS, France
João Antônio De Moraes, UFRJ, Brazil
Donna Erickson, Showa Music University, Japan
Takaaki Shochi, University Bordeaux 3, France, Japan
Extraction of paralinguistic information carried by mono-syllabic interjections in Japanese
Carlos Ishi, ATR/IRC, Japan
Hiroaki Hatano, ATR/IRC, Japan
Norihiro Hagita, ATR/IRC, Japan
Do You Hear My Attitude? Prosodic Perception of Social Affects in Mandarin
Yan Lu, Gipsa Lab, China
Véronique Aubergé, Gipsa Lab, France
Albert Rilliard, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Psychoacoustic abilities as predictors of vocal emotion recognition in autism
Eitan Globerson, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel, Israel
Noam Amir, Department of Communication Disorders, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Michal Lavidor, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel, Israel
Liat Kishon-Rabin, Department of Communication Disorders, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ofer Golan, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Usual voice quality features and glottal features for emotional valence detection
Marie Tahon, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Gilles Degottex, FORTH, Institute of Computer Science, Greece
Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, ISHA, France
Acoustic and phonetic differences in laughter of male children and adults
Caroline Menezes, University of Toledo, United States
PS4B - Syntax, Narrative, Speech Act and Discourse
Declarative and Interrogative Intonations by Brain-damaged Speakers of Uygur and Mandarin Chinese
Xinlu Yang, College of foreign languages, Tongji University, China
Jie Liang, College of foreign languages, Tongji University, China
Perception of Spontaneous Narrative Structure
Miguel Oliveira, UFAL, Brazil
Regina Cruz, UFPA, Brazil
Ebson Wilkerson Silva, UFAL, Brazil
A phase-based account of Mandarin third tone sandhi domains
Ya Li, University of Victoria, Canada
The pragmatic Functions of Prosody in English Cleft Sentences
Sophie Herment, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, France
Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, France
Nassima Fezza, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université Aix-Marseille, France
Cyril Auran, Laboratoire Savoirs Textes, Langage, Université Lille III, France
Context cues for classification of competitive and collaborative overlaps
Catharine Oertel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Marcin Wlodarczak, Bielefeld University, Germany
Alexey Tarasov, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Petra Wagner, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Prosodic Prominence and Phrasing in Spoken Mandarin: The Case of the 3rd Tone
Jianfen Cao, Institute of Linguistics of CASS, China
Joost Van De Weijer, Lund University, Center for Languages and Literature, Sweden
Jeroen Van De Weijer, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
Yan Beili, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
Response Types and The Prosody of Declaratives
Catherine Lai, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Jens Edlund, Royal Technical Institute (KTH), Sweden
David House, Royal Technical Institute (KTH), Sweden
Sofia Strömbergsson, Royal Technical Institute (KTH), Sweden
Intonation Patterns of Wh-questions from Chinese EFL learners
Xiaoli Ji, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Xia Wang, Nokia Research Beijing, China
Yuan Jia, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Aijun Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
[Top]K5 - Tonal Aspects of Prosody
Chair: Klaus Kohler
Friday, 25 May 15:00 - 16:00
Bidirectional Tone Sandhi in Tianjin Dialect: Problem and Analysis
Qiuwu Ma, School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, China
[Top]C2 - Closing Ceremony; Best Student Paper Awards; Speech Prosody 2014 Bid Presentations
Friday, 25 May 16:00 - 17:00