The bi-ennual Speech Prosody conference was held  from July 1-6, 2024 at the University of Leiden. Michigan Linguistics was very well represented with several presentations by faculty, current and former graduate students. Our PhD student Jungyun Seo was also selected as one of the recipients of an International Phonetic Association (IPA) student award to support the registration fee for the conference.  

Presentations by Michigan Linguists at Speech Prosody:

Csilla Tatár, Jonathan Brennan, Jelena Krivokapić, and Ezra Keshet: Examining melodiousness in sarcasm: wiggliness, spaciousness, and contour clustering

Jelena Krivokapić, Mark Tiede (Yale University), Martha Tyrone (Gallaudet University), Ruaridh Purse, and Jungyun Seo: The role of 20 prosodic structure in the planning of coordinated speech and manual gestures

Jungyun Seo, Ruaridh Purse, and Jelena Krivokapić: Interaction between speech planning and prosodic structure in English.