TAL 2018 Berlin - Conference Schedule


Monday, June 18, 2018

8:00 - 9:15

  Registration

9:15 - 9:30

  Opening

9:30 - 10:30

  Plenary Talk (chair: Hiroya Fujisaki)
  Using ECoG to understand the representation of vocal pitch in humans
  Benjamin Dichter
  University of California, San Francisco (PDF)

10:30 - 10:50

  Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:10

  Oral Session 1 (chair: David House)
  Tone, accent, and intonation I

  1. Susanne Genzel
    The non-lax question prosody of Akan (51)
    (PDF)
  2. Jianjing Kuang, Jia Tian and Yipei Zhou
    The common word prosody in Northern Wu (39)
    (PDF)
  3. Nasir A. Syed, Abdul Waheed Shah and Yi Xu
    Focus prosody in Brahvi and Balochi (24)
    (PDF)
  4. Cédric Patin
    From tones to accents (11)
    (PDF)

12:10 - 13:30

  Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:50

  Oral Session 2 (chair: Yi Xu)
  Tone, accent, and intonation II

  1. Bei Wang, Frank Kügler and Susanne Genzel
    Downstep effect and the interaction with focus and prosodic boundary in Mandarin Chinese (52)
    (PDF)
  2. Jose Ignacio Hualde and Tomas Riad
    Interaction between word accent and intonational boundaries in Latvian (5)
    (PDF)
  3. Li-Fang Lai and Shelome Gooden
    Tonal Hybridization in Yami-Mandarin Contact (41)
    (PDF)
  4. Ho-Hsien Pan, Shao-Ren Lyu, Hsiao-Tung Huang and Mu-Fan Wang
    Taiwanese Min Phonemic Tones and Prosodic Boundaries (23)
    (PDF)

14:50 - 15:10

  Coffee Break

15:10 - 16:30

  Oral Session 3 (chair: Laura Dilley)
  Typology of tones and tone languages

  1. Gabriela Caballero
    Construction-based tone patterns in Choguita Rarámuri (60)
    (PDF)
  2. Wenjing Yang and Cathryn Yang
    Reduction in Dali Nisu tone change-in-progress (8)
    (PDF)
  3. Jeroen Breteler and Paul Boersma
    Using simulated learning to account for tone typology (46)
    (PDF)
  4. Jiayin Gao and Takayuki Arai
    F0 perturbation in a "pitch-accent" language (13)
    (PDF)

16:30 - 17:30

  Plenary Talk (chair: Susanne Genzel)
  Mental Representation of Tonal Spreading in Bemba
  Nancy Kula
  University of Essex (PDF)

17:30

  Conference Reception (at BeuthHall)


Tuesday, June 19, 2018

9:00 - 10:20

  Oral Session 4 (chair: Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek)
  Modeling of tonal aspects of languages

  1. Laura McPherson
    Musical surrogate languages in the documentation of complex tone: the case of the Sambla balafon (7)
    (PDF)
  2. Laura Dilley and Mara Breen
    An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation (53)
    (PDF)
  3. Meisam Arjmandi, Laura Dilley and Matt Lehet
    A Comprehensive Framework for F0 Estimation and Sampling in Modeling Prosodic Variation in Infant-Directed Speech (54)
    (PDF)
  4. Emily Grabowski and Laura McPherson
    ATLAS (Automated Tone Level Annotation System): A tonologist’s and documentarian’s toolkit (20)
    (PDF)

10:20 - 10:40

  Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:40

  Plenary Talk(chair: Inga McKendry)
  Intonation in Tone Languages
  Frank Kügler
  University of Cologne (PDF)

11:40 - 13:00

  Lunch Break

13:00 -14:20

  Oral Session 5 (chair: Irene Vogel)
  Tone production and perception I

  1. William Peralta
    Tonogenesis: the perception of tone and the role of place of articulation in Kurtöp (28)
    (PDF)
  2. Xunan Huang, Gaoyuan Zhang and Caicai Zhang
    A Preliminary Study on the Productivity of Mandarin T3 Sandhi in Mandarin-speaking Children (32)
    (PDF)
  3. Prarthana Acharyya and Shakuntala Mahanta
    Production and perception of lexical tone in Deori (37)
    (PDF)
  4. Jose Ignacio Hualde and Ander Beristain
    Acoustic correlates of word-accent in Basque (2)
    (PDF)

14:20 - 14:40

  Coffee Break

14:40 - 16:00

  Oral Session 6 (chair: Gilbert Ambrazaitis)
  Tone production and perception II

  1. Wei Lai
    Voice Gender Effect on Tone Categorization and Pitch Perception (43)
    (PDF)
  2. Stefanie Ramachers, Susanne Brouwer and Paula Fikkert
    Perception and lexical encoding of tone in a restricted tone language: Developmental evidence from Limburgian (29)
    (PDF)
  3. Wendy Lalhminghlui and Priyankoo Sarmah
    Production and Perception of Rising Tone Sandhi in Mizo (49)
    (PDF)
  4. Yueqiao Han, Martijn Goudbeek, Maria Mos and Marc Swerts
    Mandarin Tone Identification in Musicians and Non-musicians: Effects of Modality and Speaking Style (42)
    (PDF)

16:00 - 16:20

  Coffee Break

16:20 - 17:20

  Oral Session 7 (chair: Cédric Patin)
  Psychological and neural mechanisms of tones

  1. Anneliese Kelterer, Gilbert Ambrazaitis and David House
    Head beats as pitch-accompanying visual correlates of primary and secondary lexical stress: evidence from Stockholm Swedish compounds (31)
    (PDF)
  2. Gaoyuan Zhang, Jing Shao, Yubin Zhang and Caicai Zhang
    Revisiting Hemispheric Lateralization for Cantonese Lexical Tone Processing in Dichotic Listening (18)
    (PDF)
  3. Oi-Yee Ho, Jing Shao, Jinghua Ou, Sam-Po Law and Caicai Zhang
    Tone Merging Patterns in Congenital Amusia in Hong Kong Cantonese (19)
    (PDF)

20:00-23:00

  Conference Banquet at Alte Pumpe.


Wednesday, June 20, 2018

9:00 - 10:00

  Plenary Talk (chair: Frank Kügler)
  Tone and quantity: the psychoacoustic trade-offs in prosodic signaling
  Martti Vainio
  University of Helsinki (PDF)

10:00 - 11:30

  Coffee Break - Poster Session (chair: Tan Lee)

  1. Nasimeh Bahmanian and Moharram Eslami
    Early peak: a case in Persian (34)
    (PDF)
  2. Grace Kuo
    The disambiguation of the tonally identical sentences (1)
    (PDF)
  3. James S. German and Adam J. Chong
    Stress, tonal alignment, and phrasal position in Singapore English (40)
    (PDF)
  4. Hamed Rahmani
    Persian ‘word stress’ is a syntax-driven tone (16)
    (PDF)
  5. Suki Yiu
    Metrical and Tonal Prominence in Swatou (45)
    (PDF)
  6. Yan Feng and Gang Peng
    The effect of duration on categorical perception of Mandarin tone and voice onset time (4)
    (PDF)
  7. Savio Megolhuto Meyase
    Tenyidie: Another African Tone System in Southeast Asia? (50)
    (PDF)
  8. Inga McKendry
    Evidence for Underlying Mid Tones in MXY Mixtec (17)
    (PDF)
  9. Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Timo Baumann
    Tonality in Language: The “Generative Theory of Tonal Music” as a Framework for Prosodic Analysis of Poetry (30)
    (PDF)
  10. Branislav Gerazov, Gérard Bailly and Yi Xu
    The significance of scope in modelling tones in Chinese (10)
    (PDF)
  11. Chihkai Lin
    Changes of entering tones in Mandarin Chinese revisited: From a corpus-based approach (9)
    (PDF)
  12. Xinran Ren and Peggy Mok
    Tonogenesis in Seoul Korean and L3 Production of Korean stops by Cantonese- English Bilinguals (27)
    (PDF)
  13. Raymond Wen-Chun Chow, Yi Liu and Jing-Hong Ning
    The Perception of Mandarin Tones by Thai and Indonesian Speakers (21)
    (PDF)
  14. Caiyu Wang
    Falsetto tones and Their Evolution in the Southern Hubei (48)
    (PDF)
  15. Lena Borise and Xavier Zientarski
    Word Stress and Phrase Accent in Georgian (55)
    (PDF)

11:30 - 12:50

  Oral Session 8 (chair: Martti Vainio)
  Phonology and phonetics of tones

  1. Vered Silber-Varod, Hamutal Kreiner and Noam Amir
    Context dependent and time-course dependent prosodic analysis (61)
    (PDF)
  2. Seunghun Lee, Hyun Kyung Hwang, Tomoko Monou and Shigeto Kawahara
    The phonetic realization of tonal contrast in Dränjongke (6)
    (PDF)
  3. Kpoglu Promise Dodzi and Patin Cédric
    Depressor consonants and the tones of Tongúgbé (44)
    (PDF)
  4. Kaile Zhang, Matthias Sjerps, Caicai Zhang and Gang Peng
    Extrinsic normalization of lexical tones and vowels:Beyond a simple contrastive general auditory mechanism (26)
    (PDF)

12:50 - 14:30

  Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:10

  Oral Session 9 (chair: James German)
  Cross-linguistic study of tone languages and non-tone languages

  1. Yi Liu and Jinghong Ning
    The perception of Mandarin focus intonation by native English speakers (3)
    (PDF)
  2. Yaqing Zhang and Ying Chen
    Kazakh Learners’ Production of Mandarin Tones in Colloquial Contexts (38)
    (PDF)
  3. Irene Vogel and Angeliki Athanasopoulou
    The roles of pitch and phonation in Vietnamese and Mandarin (35)
    (PDF)
  4. Yen-Chen Hao and Chung-Lin Yang
    The role of orthography in L2 segment and tone encoding by learners at different proficiency levels (15)
    (PDF)
  5. Shuangshuang Hu, Ao Chen and Rene Kager
    Influence of pitch dimensions on non-native tone perception by Dutch and Mandarin listeners (14)
    (PDF)

16:10 - 16:30

  Closing Remarks