Program

2:00 - 2:30 |  Registration

2:30 - 2:35 |  Opening Remarks

Session One

Session Chair: Phil Monahan (University of Toronto)

2:35 - 3:00 |  Talk 1 - Radu Craioveanu (University of Toronto Scarborough), Laura Griffin (University of Toronto), Michael Bulkaam (University of Toronto), Samuel Akinbo (University of Toronto)

Acoustics of aspirated fricatives in Tal

3:00 - 3:25 |  Talk 2 - Robin Huo (University of Toronto) 

Computational investigations on the differential emergence of new CV contrasts in Japanese

3:25 - 3:50 |  Talk 3 - Xinyu Liao (University of Toronto)

Tone-to-stress adaptation of Mandarin loanwords in English 

3:50 - 4:15 |  Talk 4 - Juhyung Cho (University of Toronto) 

The role of morphology in loanword adaptation

4:15 - 4:30 |  Coffee Break 

Session Two

Session Chair: Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto)

4:30 - 4:55 |  Talk 5 - Brett Reynolds (Humber Polytechnic/University of Toronto)

Degrees of wrongness: Phonological vs. morphosyntactic violations 

4:55 - 5:20 |  Talk 6 - Amanda Doucette (McGill University), Timothy J. O'Donnell (McGill University), Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University) 

Causal discovery of lexical constraints 

5:20 - 5:45 |  Talk 7 - Michael Dow (Université de Montréal), Julien Labonté (Université de Montréal), Philippe Larkin (Université de Montréal) 

You (in)complete me: Partial devoicing and vowel duration in a large corpus of Dutch 

5:45 - 6:10 | Talk 8 - Nathalie Dion (University of Ottawa)

Capturing the facts of variability in formal phonological models: A corpus-based assessment of MaxEnt

9:00 - 9:30 |  Registration

Session Three

Session Chair: Pocholo Umbal (University of Toronto)

9:30 - 9:55 |  Talk 8 - Jasmine Corona (Carleton University)

The production of Spanish liquids by a Korean learner of Spanish

9:55 - 10:20 |  Talk 9 - Mariana Cortés Kandler (University of Ottawa)

A cross-linguistic comparison of acoustic and articulatory variability across four languages

10:20 - 10:45 | Talk 10 - Massimo Lipari (McGill University), Eleanor Lawson (University of Strathclyde), Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)

The role of dialect and tongue shape in English /ɹ/ formant dynamics

10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break

Session Four

Session Chair: Ewan Dunbar (University of Toronto)

11:00 - 11:25 | Talk 11 - Chao Han (University of Toronto Scarborough), Katie Ma (University of Toronto Scarborough), Philip J. Monahan (University of Toronto Scarborough),  Yoonjung Kang (University of Toronto Scarborough)

The neurophysiological encoding of voice onset time and fundamental frequency in the perception of voicing contrasts in English

11:25 - 11:50 | Talk 12 - Irene Smith (McGill University), Meghan Clayards (McGill University) 

Perception of PIN-PEN merger in Southern and non-Southern American-English listeners

11:50 - 12:15 | Talk 13 - Weiyi Zhai (McGill University), Meghan Clayards (McGill University)  

Variation in lexical bias in speech perception: Individual differences, contrast-specific effects, and the role of L1 background

12:15 - 1:30 | Lunch

Session Five

Session Chair: Elan Dresher  (University of Toronto)

1:30 - 1:55 | Talk 14 - Thomas Kettig (York University) 

Dissimilation of /t/ to [k] in Niʻihau Hawaiian

1:55 - 2:20 | Talk 15 - Billie Nell (University of Ottawa)

(t,d) or not (t,d)? That is the question: Lifespan change and stable variability, a case study

2:20 - 2:45 | Talk 16 - Chuqiao Wu (York University)

Vowel space in heritage Teochew speakers in Toronto

2:45 - 3:10 | Talk 17 - Jeanne Brown (McGill University)

Gender and age effects of creaky voice acoustics: Mediation by f0

3:10 - 3:25 | Coffee Break

Session Six

Session Chair: Nathan Sanders (University of Toronto)

3:25 - 3:50 | Talk 18 - Beth MacLeod (Carleton University), Benjamin Crawford (Carleton University) 

How does baseline task type affect the conclusions of a phonetic imitation study? 

3:50 - 4:05 | Talk 19 - Shahad Badr (University of Toronto Mississauga), Jessamyn Schertz (University of Toronto Mississauga)

You sound just like me: A comparative study of phonetic imitation in adults and children

4:30 - 4:55 | Talk 20 - Laura Escobar (University of Toronto)

The voice of the anime girl: How Japanese women’s voices are perceived and performed on and off the screen

4:55 - 5:20 | Talk 21 - Anissa Baird (University of Toronto)

Phonetic convergence & gender nonconformity: What is “social” enough?