Oxford 2-5 April
European Science Foundation Network "Tone and Intonation in Europe"
Oxford 2-5 April
Experimental Approaches to Tone and Intonation
Program
Wednesday 2 April
Tutorial
Kai Alter, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig:
Neurocognition of Prosody: Methods, first studies and scope for further research
10.00 — 11.00 Tutorial I: The Application of Event Related Potentials to Research on Prosody.
11:00 — 11.30 Coffee
11:30 — 12.30 Event Related Potentials: Overview of Recent Findings.
12.30 — 15:00 Lunch
15:00 — 16:00 ERP: Recent Findings continued. Limitations of Research on Prosody using ERP.
16:00 — 16:30 Coffee
16:30 — 17:30 Tutorial II:The Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Research on Prosody.
Tutorial sessions take 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes of question time.
17:30 Reception in the Taylor Institute; Music from Voice & Mood (group of singing Oxford linguists)
Thursday
09.30 — 10:15 Shari Speer: Intonational disambiguation in sentence processing.
10.15 — 11.00 Marc Swerts: On the interaction of prosody and word order variation in Dutch verbal endgroups.
11.00 — 11.30 Coffee
11.30 — 12.15 Aoju Chen: Perception of intonational meaning in L2: L1 interference or universal tendencies?
12.15 — 15.00 Lunch
15.00 — 15.45 Svetlana Godjevac and Amalia Arvaniti: Phonological structure and
phonetic realization of Serbian pitch accent.
15.45 — 16.45 Coffee and Posters
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POSTER: Sam Hellmuth: Revealing the (lack of) deaccentuation within phrases and within sentences in Cairene Arabic: preliminary evidence for cross-linguistic & cross-dialectal prosodic variation.
POSTER: Elinor Keane: Tamil intonation: a preliminary investigation.
POSTER: Brechtje Post: French phrasing and accentuation in different
speaking styles.
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16.45 — 17.30 Martine Grice and Jonathan Harrington: Tonal Realisation
in Two Varieties of German.
18.30 Drinks in Christ Church Picture Gallery; short introduction to the gallery by the Curator
Friday
9:30 — 10:15 Bob Ladd: Phonological and Phonetic Factors in F0 alignment: a Review of the Evidence.
10:15 — 11.00 Pilar Prieto: Tonal Alignment Patterns in Clash Conditions in Catalan.
11:00 — 11.30 Coffee
11.30 — 12.15 Mariapaola D’Imperio: An articulatory hypothesis for the alignment of high tonal targets in Italian.
12.15 - 15.15 Lunch
15:15 — 16:00 Christiane Ulbrich: Prosodic features of three German standard varieties
16.00 — 16.45 Marina Vigário and Sonia Frota: The intonation of Standard and Northern European Portuguese: A comparative intonational phonology approach.
16.45 — 17.15 Coffee
17:15 — 18.00 Amalia Arvaniti and Svetlana Godjevac: Declination, downstep and final lowering in English and Greek.
In Christ Church:
19:15 Mini-Concert: a selection of European
music. Tenor: Philip Fine (a member of the Research Group at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory)
20.00 Workshop Dinner
Saturday
09:30 — 10:15 Chilin Shih: A mathematical intonation model grown from tonal variations.
10:15 — 11.00 Joerg Peters: Tone accents in Cologne and Dueren.
11:00 — 11.30 Coffee
11.30 — 12.15 Aditi Lahiri and Allison Wetterlin: Word status in Norwegian and Swedish.
12.15 Lunch
20.00 Dinner in Christ Church for ESF participants