The invited speakers and presentation titles for the workshop are listed below, with links to each abstract, and to the keynote speaker’s short biography:

Keynote Speaker
Winifred Strange (Click here for Biography)
Automatic Selective Perception (ASP) of L1 and L2 speech: A working model

Dinner Address
Linda Polka, Ocke Bohn and Terry Gottfried
The joys of being a Strange student and colleague

Closing Address
James Jenkins
Looking back to see where we're going

Invited Speakers
Catherine Best, Louis Goldstein, Michael Tyler & Hosung Nam
Articulating PAM: Perceptual assimilation in relation to articulatory organs and their constriction gestures

Ocke Bohn & Linda Polka
Accounting for the accented perception of vowels: Universal preferences and language-specific biases

Laura Bosch & Marta Ramon-Casas
Phonetic variability in bilinguals´ acquisition of native-vowel category contrast

Patricia Kuhl
Infant MEG studies exploring neural links between sensory and motor representations for speech

Murray Munro
Accent and intelligibility from an applied perspective

Valerie Shafer
The development of English vowel perception in monolingual and bilingual infants: Neurophysiological correlates

Megha Sundara & Adrienne Scutellaro
How are speech sound categories acquired in bilingual first language acquisition?

Andrea Weber
The role of linguistic experience in lexical recognition

Suzanne Curtin, Janet Werker & Krista Byers-Heinlein
Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development

Reiko Akahane-Yamada
Designing the foreign language learning environment: From basic research towards product development