Michigan at the ICPhS 2015
Our department was very well represented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences that was held in Glasgow during August. We counted no fewer that twelve presentations by faculty, postdocs, students and alumni from our Department. These presentations included a plenary address by Pam Beddor as well an award-winning presentation by recent graduate Harim Kwon (on which more here). Few other Linguistics departments had such a large presence at the ICPhS, which is a testament to leadership position that Michigan Linguistics holds in the field of phonetics. The Michigan presentations at the ICPhS are listed below (with current and former UM people's names underlined). The text of the presentations can be accessed by clicking on the titles of the presentations.
- Bilingual speech rhythm: Spanish-Afrikaans in Patagonia (Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Nicholas Henriksen, and Daan Wissing)
- A kinematic analysis of prosodic structure in speech and manual gestures (Jelena Krivokapic, Mark K. Tiede, and Martha E. Tyrone)
- Spontaneous speech imitation and cue primacy (Harim Kwon)
- The articulation of contrastive and non-contrastive pre-stopped consonants in Kaytetye (Susan Lin, Mark Harvey, Myf Turpin, Alison Ross, and Katherine Demuth)
- Articulatory variability and fricative noise in apical vowels (Matthew Faytak and Susan Lin)
- An ultrasound investigation into articulatory variation in American /r/ and /s/ (Sarah Bakst and Susan Lin)
- Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category “goodness” (Matthew Masapollo, Linda Polka, and Lucie Ménard)
- The relation between language users' perception and production repertoires (plenary talk by Pam Beddor)
- Coarticulation and contrast: Neighborhood density conditioned phonetic variation in French (Rebecca Scarborough, Will Styler, and Luciana Marques)
- Gestural reduction of Hong Kong Cantonese syllable-final oral stops (Jonathan C. Yip)
- Frequency of occurrence of phonemes and syllables in Thai: Analysis of spoken and written corpora (A. Munthuli, C. Tantibundhit, C. Onsuwan, K. Kosawat, and C. Wutiwiwatcha)
- Constructing a speech banana for Thai consonants: Some considerations for male and female voices (N. Klangpornkun, C. Onsuwan, and C. Tantibundhit)
