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December 14, 2010

Sala Stemmi

Satellite Event

10:00-12:00
William Labov
Workshop on Automatic Vowel Analysis
THE REGISTRATION TO THIS EVENT IS CLOSED. NO MORE PEOPLE CAN BE ADMITTED

 

December 14, 2010

Aula Dini

13:00
Registration

14:00
Opening

14:15-15:15
William Labov
“What is to be learned” PDF

15:15-16:00
Adrian Simpson
“Epiphenomenal, sociophonetic and interactional ejectives in English and German” PDF

16:00-16:20
Coffee break

16:20-17:05
Jane Stuart-Smith
“Derhoticisation in Scottish English: the story so far”

17:05-17:30
Ying Ying Tan
“Social correlates of /r/ in Singapore English” PDF

Sala Azzurra

17:30-19:30
Poster session I

Buffet

 

December 15, 2010

Sala Stemmi

09:00-9:45
Rosanna Sornicola
“The diphtongs of the Phlegraean area and the theory of speech variability”

09:45-10:10
Rosalind Temple
“What and where is -t/-d deletion?” PDF

10:10-10:55
Gerard Docherty
"Contact, change and conundrums: a case study of phonological variation along the English-Scottish border"

10:55-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-12:00
Giovanna Marotta
“Weight, thickness and size of sociophonetic indexes. Production data and perception evidence from some Italian varieties” PDF

12:00-12:45
Sarah Hawkins
"Mechanisms mediating accommodation to others in spoken interaction and music-making" PDF

12:45-14:30
Lunch

Sala Azzurra

14.30-16.30
Poster session II

16:30-17:00
Coffee break & best poster prize-giving

Sala Stemmi

17:00-17:25
Shawn Nissen
“Sex-specific differences in young children’s speech production: An acoustic evaluation” PDF

17:25-18:30
Gillian Sankoff
"Social dimensions of diphthongization and moophthongization in Montreal French" PDF

 

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Poster session I

Francesca Biliotti & Silvia Calamai
“Linguistic opinions and attitudes in Tuscany: verbal guise experiments on the varieties of Arezzo and Florence” PDF

Judit Bóna & Alexandra Markó
“Fundamental frequency patterns: the factors of age and discourse type” PDF

Alida Chevalier
“Social Class Differentiation in South African Indian English: A Sociophonetic Study of Three Vowel Variables” PDF

Anne Fabricius & Dominic Watt
“Developing graphical methods in sociophonetics: outlines of a research agenda” PDF

Maria Chiara Felloni & Daniele Avesani
“The global interrogative intonation as a social index in Parma linguistic community” PDF

Nicholas Flynn
“A Preliminary Investigation of the Sociophonetics of Nottingham Adolescents” PDF

Sandra Jansen
“High back vowel fronting in the north-west of England” PDF

Svetlana Kaminskaia
“Tonal variation in Ontario French (Canada)” PDF

Malgorzata Kul
“Quantifying hyper-and hypo/articulation” PDF

Sandarenu Wijesiriwardane Kumarasamy
“Sri Lankan English: mapping speech variation in a ‘Linguistic Area’” PDF

Katalin Mády
“Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian: a perceptual loss?” PDF

Folke Müller
“What about historical sociophonetics? Some thoughts on a prosodic study of German sound movies of the 1930s to 1950s” PDF

Nadia Nocchi & Lorenzo Filipponio
“Lo vuoi co[z]ì o co[s]ì? A sociophonetic study on sibilants in the regional Italian of Livorno (Tuscany)” PDF

Beatrice Pacini
“Spirantizzazione fiorentina: da 'covert prestige' a 'overt prestige'?” PDF

Hanna Ruch
“Aspiration of /st/-clusters in Western Andalusian Spanish: Variation and change from a sociophonetic point of view” PDF

Ying Ying Tan
“Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification” PDF

Tracey Toefy
“The Coloured GOOSE: a study of /u/ fronting amongst young Coloured people in Cape Town, South Africa” PDF

Presentation:
Miriam Voghera
“VoLIP: a linguistic resource for the study of variation in the Italian language” PDF

 

Poster session II

Katharine Barden & Sarah Hawkins
“Adaptation to accents in a polysystemic perceptual framework: a role for morphological structure” PDF

Paolo Bravi
“Phonetic shift as correlate of identity sentiment, ideology and social practices” PDF

Silvia Calamai & Chiara Celata
“Towards a sociophonetic explanation of progressive and regressive assimilation in nasal clusters” PDF

Letizia Cerqueglini
“Arabic Sociophonetics: language contact in South Semitic” PDF

Rachele Delucchi, Francesco Cangemi & Michele Loporcaro
“Sociolinguistic interpretation needs geography (and dialectology): final unstressed vowels in some southern Campanian dialects” PDF

Antonella Gaillard-Corvaglia
“Empirisme et sociolinguistique cladistique : analyse d’un réseau d’idiolectes salentins” PDF

Stephanie Lain
“Acoustic [voice] correlate variation by dialect: Data from Venezuelan Spanish” PDF

Bernard Laks & Basilio Calderone
“Le traitement quantitatif et qualitatif de la variation, Loi de Zipf et répertoires : le cas de la liaison variable en français”

Sylvia Moosmüller
“The roles of stereotypes, phonetic knowledge, and phonological knowledge in the evaluation of dialect authenticity” PDF

Dimitris Papazachariou
“The phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics of clitic stress in Patras’ dialect” PDF

Hans Georg Piroth and Peter Skupinski
“Merging and Splitting Processes in Mountain Silesian: A Comparison to the Standard German Vowel System” PDF

Valentina Russo, Noerbert Dittmar & Bernd Pompino-Marshall
“The early days of oral language teaching: the diffusion of German in fascist Italy” PDF

Stephan Schmid
“Segmental features of Swiss German ethnolects” PDF

Isao Ueda
“On the status of the ‘p-initial emphatic verbs’ in Shizuoka Japanese” PDF

Alessandro Vietti
“Variazione sociofonetica e contatto linguistico” PDF