Workshop on Sound Change

Program

Thursday, 21 October
8:45- 9	Opening session
9-10	John Ohala The listener as a source of sound change: An update
10-10:40	Pam Beddor Perceptual grammars and sound change
10:40- 11:10	Coffee break
11:10-12:10	Joan Bybee Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change
12:10-12.50	Silke Hamann Is /u/-fronting in Southern British English simply hypocorrection?
12.50-13.30	Discussion session Chair: Alan Yu
13.30-15	Lunch
15-16	Louis Goldstein Dynamical stability in speech production and sound change
16-16:40	Marianne Pouplier Re-examining the contribution of articulatory effort to sound change
16:40-17:40	Coffee break Poster session 1
17:40-18:20	Joaquin Romero Durational conditionings in historical assibilation of rhotics
18:20-19	Discussion session Chair: Ioana Chitoran

Friday, 22 October
9-10	Joseph Salmons Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change
10-10:40	Mark Hale Attested but seemingly impossible sound changes: New evidence from New Caledonia
10:40- 11:10	Coffee break
11:10-11:50	Daniel Recasens Interaction of phonetic cues in dark /l/ vocalization
11:50-12.30	Maria-Josep Solé The role of phonetic detail in determining patterns of sound change
12:30-13:15	Discussion session Chair: Michele Loporcaro
13.15-15	Lunch
15-16	Gerry Docherty Evaluating the role of social and dialectal variation in sound change
16-16:40	Jonathan Harrington Evidence of a mismatch between the perception and production of coarticulation during a sound change in progress
16:40-17:40	Coffee break Poster session 2
17:40-18:20	Michael Grosvald The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change
18:20-19	Discussion session Chair: Jane Stuart-Smith

Poster Session 1 \| Thursday, 21-10-2010
A perceptual approach to the derivation of ChaoShan dialect Man-ni Chu Explaining a sound change in Chinese Eric Zee & Wai-Sum Lee Schwa vs. syllabic /l/ in English. A perceptual approach Inmaculada Arboleda Guirao Romance lenition revisited: Articulatory and model evidence from Spanish Benjamin Parrell Post-oralization of nasal initials in Chinese dialects Fang Hu Complexity and distinctiveness in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian Peter Rebrus & Peter Racz Change in progress or allophonic variation? Unstressed medium vowels in Western Catalan Josefina Carrera-Sabaté Some evidence for the front to back sound change in rhotics Didier Demolin Lexical diffusion in the loss of the /a/ - /ɑ/ distinction in Parisian French? Anita Berit Hansen Lexical diffusion of gradual phonetic changes: Evidence from Forest Enets Olesya Khanina & Andrey Shluinsky The incomplete phonologization of the non-sibilant dental fricatives in American English Bridget J. Smith A statistical study of pronunciation variation of schwa in Portuguese Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão & Arlindo Veiga Registrogenesis in Bunong Becky Butler Thompson Coupling of tone and oral constriction gestures in Italian and German Henrik Niemann, Doris Mücke, Hosung Nam, Martine Grice, Louis Goldstein Mixture models of phonologization James Kirby A physiologically grounded approach to the loss of initial /kn/ clusters in Germanic languages Lasse Bombien, Philip Hoole and Christine Mooshammer VC coarticulation and historical vowel breaking María Riera & Joaquín Romero Variation in cognitive processing style as a source of listener misperception-based sound change Alan C. L. Yu Word frequency and sound change in groups and individuals Nicolai Pharao

Poster Session 2 \| Friday, 22-10-2010
Nasals and nasalization in Xiangxiang Chinese Ting Zeng Cross-generational reorganization in the vowel space of Southern American English Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert Allen Fox The opposition of /i/ and /u/ in Scottish English children: Acoustic and articulatory evidence Natalia Zharkova Tuscan-like final vowel system in Vallo di Diano dialects Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Cangemi, Rachele Delucchi & Stephan Schmid To be or not to be nasal: A case study of Basque Oroitz Jauregi & Irantzu Epelde On the origins of a sound change: Preaspirated /pp tt kk/ in Italian Mary Stevens On-going sound change in the Catalan of Barcelona: Differences across districts Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet Linguistic variation and identity: Sound change along a national border Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt,Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall & Jennifer Nycz Investigating the articulatory bases of a sound change in progress: An ultrasound study of derhoticisation in Scottish English Eleanor Lawson & Jane Stuart-Smith Tracking social change through sound change: The lot/thought merger among Chinese- & Irish-Americans in San Francisco, California Lauren Hall-Lew Will Catalan ieisme become global? Imma Creus & Joan Julià-Muné Palatalisation and velar-to-dental changes in velar + lateral clusters: The role of stop burst duration in German and Italian listeners Daniela Müller Sound change…how learning to read and write diminishes the dialectal traits Isabel Henriques Development of the so-called "Middle Bavarian e-confusion" in the city dialects of Salzburg and Vienna Sylvia Moosmüller & Hannes Scheutz Crossdialect evidence of historical vowel change in Majorcan Catalan Lucrècia Rallo Fabra, Joaquín Romero & Leticia García Gómez A secondary voicing of stops in Spanish? Eugenio Martínez Celdrán, Ana Maria Fernández Planas & Paolo Roseano Do words or phonemes change? Evidence from lenition processes in progress José I. Hualde, Miquel Simonet & Marianna Nadeu Speaking on the edge: Contact-induced sound variation in the laboratory Alessandro Vietti Testing hypotheses about sound change against "nature-made controls": The high vowels of Lezgi Ioana Chitoran & Egidio Marsico Sound change from Latin to Spanish: The emergence of trills Beatriz Blecua & Assumpció Rost Prosodic change in the vernacular of the French suburban youth Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Octubre 2009