You can download the workshop's sessions and abstractsfrom the ASA web site for the Portland main meeting, at http://asa.aip.org/portland/program.html
Thursday afternoon May 21
This is a special extension of the workshop, to be held at the main ASA meeting site. [NB you will be able to register for the workshop at this poster session.]
Poster Session A: Cross-language speech perception and linguistic experience
Friday May 22
Models and Recent Findings
| 8.00 - 8.45 am |
Registration |
8.45 - 9.00 am |
Welcome |
9.00 - 10.15 am |
Oral Presentation Session 1 (Invited Talks): New perspectives on models of cross-language speech perception |
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Accounting for the accented perception of vowels: Universal preferences and language-specific biases
Ocke Bohn & Linda Polka |
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Articulating PAM: Perceptual assimilation in relation to articulatory organs and their constriction gestures
Catherine Best, Louis Goldstein, Michael Tyler & Hosung Nam |
10.15 - 10.30 am |
Coffee/tea Break |
10.30 am - 12.15 pm |
Oral Presentation Session 2 (Invited Talks): Research and applications to L2 speech perception |
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Accent and intelligibility from an applied perspective
Murray Munro |
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The role of linguistic experience in lexical recognition
Andrea Weber |
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Designing the foreign language learning environment: From basic research towards product development
Reiko Akahane-Yamada |
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Discussion |
12.15 - 1.30 pm |
Lunch
(Sky Bridge Terrace) |
1.30 - 3.00 pm |
Poster Session B Cross-language speech perception and linguistic experience (Sky Bridge Terrace - on display all day) |
3.00 - 3.15 pm |
Coffee/tea Break |
3.15 - 5.00 pm |
Oral Presentation Session 3 (Contributed Talks): Training and Adaptation of Speech Perception in Laboratory Contexts |
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Experience with computerized speech-perception training (SPATS-ESL) for speakers of other languages learning English
James D Miller |
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The role of selective attention in the acquisition of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: comparison of three training methods
Maria V Kondaurova |
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Investigating non-native category learning using a video-game-based training paradigm
Sung-Joo Lim |
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Perception-production loop in native-nonnative dialogs: phonetic convergence
Natalie Lewandowski |
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Second language influence on perception of first language phonotactics
Cynthia Kilpatrick |
5.00 - 5.45 pm |
Keynote Address: Winifred Strange
“Automatic Selective Perception (ASP) of L1 and L2 Speech: A working model” |
5.45 - 6.15 pm |
Discussion |
6.30 - 9.30 pm |
Pre-Dinner Entertainment: Afro-Cuban jazz band & singers, hosted by Catherine Evleshin
Dinner (Sky Bridge Terrace)
Dinner Address: Linda Polka, Ocke Bohn and Terry Gottfried
“The joys of being a Strange student and colleague” |
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Saturday May 23
Developmental Perspectives
9.00 - 10.15 am |
Oral Presentation Session 4 (Invited Talks): New perspectives on developmental models |
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Infant MEG studies exploring neural links between sensory and motor representations for speech
Patricia Kuhl |
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Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development
Suzanne Curtin, Janet Werker & Krista Byers-Heinlein |
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Discussion |
10.15 - 10.30 am |
Coffee/tea Break |
10.30 am - 12.15 pm |
Oral Presentation Session 5 (Invited Talks): Early bilingual development |
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Phonetic variability in bilinguals´ acquisition of native-vowel category contrast
Laura Bosch & Marta Ramon-Casas |
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How are speech sound categories acquired in bilingual first language acquisition?
Megha Sundara & Adrienne Scutellaro |
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The development of English vowel perception in monolingual and bilingual infants: Neurophysiological correlates
Valerie Shafer |
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Discussion |
12.15 - 1.30 pm |
Lunch
(Sky Bridge Terrace) |
1.30 - 3.00pm |
Poster Session C: Cross-language speech perception and linguistic experience |
3.00 - 3.15 pm |
Coffee/tea Break |
3.15 - 5.00 pm |
Oral Presentation Session 6 (Contributed Talks): Development of Speech Perception: Shaping the acquisition of spoken language |
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Newborn infant perception of vowels is affected by ambient language
Christine Moon |
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Visual speech information improves discrimination of non-native phonemes in late infancy
Robin Panneton |
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Brain, behavioral and socio-cultural factors in bilingual language learning
Adrian Garcia-Sierra |
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Bilinguals mind their language (mode): Vowel perception patterns of simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers
Monika Molnar |
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Korean-English bilinguals' perception of phonetic contrasts in their two languages
Jessica Maye |
5.00 - 5.45 pm |
Closing Address: James Jenkins
“Looking back to see where we're going” |
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