All abstracts (in programme order) for ordinary papers now available to download (see bottom of page for link)
See below for the final draft of the VaLP 2011 programme. Any further changes will be announced on this page, so please keep checking back for updates.
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Monday 11th
April 2011
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Time
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Event
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Speaker(s)
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Venue (TBC)
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11:00-13:00
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Registration
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Binks Building Foyer
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12:00-13:00
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Lunch
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Whites
Dining Rooms
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13:00-13:15
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Welcome
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Professor
Chris Walsh, Head of the Department of English (University of Chester)
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Binks 107
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13:15-14:15
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PLENARY ONE
(Title TBC)
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Professor
Gerry Docherty (Newcastle
University)
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Binks 107
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14:15-14:45
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Imaging
studies of the processing of propositional and indexical information in
speech
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D. Robert
Ladd (University of Edinburgh), Patricia Bestelmeyer (University of Glasgow),
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh) and Pascal Belin (University of
Glasgow)
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Binks 107
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14:45-15:15
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Acoustic
input and articulatory output as the source of sound change – some
articulatory evidence.
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Eleanor
Lawson (Queen Margaret
University), Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)
and James M. Scobbie (Queen
Margaret University)
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Binks 107
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15:15-15:45
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Afternoon
Tea
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Whites
Dining Rooms
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15:45-16:15
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The effects
of gradient phonetic biases on the evolution of sound patterns
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Marton
Soskuthy (University
of Edinburgh)
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Binks 107
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16:15-16:45
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Capturing listeners’ real-time reactions to local
and supralocal linguistic features
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Kevin Watson (Lancaster
University) and Lynn Clark (Lancaster University) |
Binks 107
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16:45-17:45
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PLENARY TWO
Over to you:
variationist sociolinguistics, phonology and turn-finality
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Professor
David Britain (University
of Bern)
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Binks 107
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18:00
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Dinner
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White’s
Dining Rooms
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Tuesday 12th April 2011
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Time
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Event
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Speaker(s)
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Venue (TBC)
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09:00-10:00
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PLENARY THREE
'To interact or not to
interact?' - a challenging question for sociophonetics
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Dr Jane
Stuart-Smith (University
of Glasgow
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Binks 107
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10:00-10:30
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“How can you call yourself a
MeFite when you say it like that?!” – Sociophonetic Variation in an Online
Community of Practice
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Kim Witten (University of York)
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Binks 107
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10:30-11:00
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Variations in the use of “I” in casually spoken
English
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Michael Pace-Sigge (University of Liverpool)
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Binks 107
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11:00-11:30
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Morning Coffee
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Whites Dining Rooms
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11:30-12:00
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Production and Perception of
Retroflex /r/ in São Paulo Portuguese
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Ronald
Beline Mendes and Livia Oushiro (University
of Sao Paulo)
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Binks 107
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12:00-12:30
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Lexical effects on incomplete
sibilant neutralisation of Taiwan Mandarin
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Yingshing Li (Institute of Linguistics,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Binks 107
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12:30-13:00
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The Production of
Spanish-English Code-Switching
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Page
Piccinini and Amalia Arvaniti (University
of California, San Diego)
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Binks 107
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13:00-14:00
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LUNCH
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Whites Dining Rooms
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14:00-14:30
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A different kind of
variation?: an acoustic phonetic study of Scottish Gaelic vowels
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Claire
Nance (University
of Glasgow)
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Binks 107
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14:30-15:00
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The development of
intrusive-r in variably-rhotic East Lancashire
English
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William
Barras (University
of Aberdeen
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Binks 107
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15:00-15:30
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Acoustic evidence for /l/
variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals
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Jonathan
Morris (University
of Manchester)
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Binks 107
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15:30-16:00
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Language Processing and
Relative Clauses in Dorset English
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Caroline
Piercy (Stanford University), John Rickford (Stanford
University), Thomas Wasow (Stanford University),
T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) and Ewart Thomas (Stanford
University) |
Binks 107
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16:00-16:30
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Afternoon Tea
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Whites Dining Rooms
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16:30-17:00
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Socially-motivated garden
pathing: When social expectations influence sentence comprehension
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Kodi
Weatherholtz (The Ohio
State University)
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Binks 107
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17:00-17:30
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Cognitive analysis of
persuasive communication
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Jens Koed
Madsen (University College London)
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Binks 107
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17:30-18:30
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PLENARY FOUR
Sources of similarity and individual variation in the acquisition and
processing of logical meaning
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Dr
Napoleon Katsos (University
of Cambridge)
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Binks 107
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18:45
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VaLP business meeting
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Binks 107
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19:30
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Conference Dinner
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Whites Dining Rooms
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Wednesday 13th April 2011
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Time
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Event
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Speaker(s)
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Venue
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09:00-09:30
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Salience in language change
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Marie Jensen (Northumbria University)
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Binks 107
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09:30-10:00
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Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation
to Foreign-Accented English
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Page Piccinini (University of California,
San Diego)
and Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University)
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Binks 107
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10:00-10:30
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The role of gender and
context in the interpretation of Greek wh-question melodies
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Mary Baltazani (University of Ioannina),
Stella Gryllia (University of Potsdam)
and Amalia Arvaniti (University of California, San
Diego) |
Binks 107
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10:30-11:00
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Morning Coffee
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Whites Dining Rooms
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11:00-11:30
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Implications of individual
variation in socio-cognitive processing on sound change
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Alan Yu (University of Chicago)
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Binks 107
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11:30-12:00
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Variables as implicit
associations
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Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State
University)
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Binks 107
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12:00-12:30
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Vocal aesthetics, sex
typicality, and their relationships with voice and phoneme processing
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Grant McGuire (University of California,
Santa Cruz) and Molly Babel (University of British
Columbia)
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Binks 107
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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Whites Dining Rooms
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13:30-14:00
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Variation and ethnicity in Sheffield English stop consonants
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Sam Kirkham (University
of Sheffield)
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Binks 107
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14:00-14:30
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The Effect of Speaker Ethnicity on the Perception
of “Ethnic” Socio-Phonetic Variation
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Christopher M. Stewart (University
of Texas, Arlington)
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Binks 107
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14:30-15:30
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PLENARY FIVE Arizona Englishes: Social Networks and Language Background affect Voice Onset Timing in Tucson, Arizona |
Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)
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Binks 107
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15:30
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Conference close
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Binks 107
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