VALP4 2019 Program
4th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP4)
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
23rd-25th January 2019
Wednesday 23rd January
8:45-9:15 Arrival – Registration - Coffee
9:15-9:30 Welcome to Country
9:30-10:30 Keynote 1: Associate Professor Katie Drager – University of Hawai`i at Mānoa Effects of attention, expectations, and context on speech perception
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea Break
11:00-12:40 Session 1: Perception I
- Abby Walker - Janet van Hell - Mike Bowers Listener ratings of accentedness (somewhat) predict ease of lexical access
- Jonny Kim - Amy Schafer - Katie Drager Preparatory attention to sociophonetic incongruence facilitates word identification
- Erik Schleef - Lydia Speyer Processing ‘gender-neutral’ pronouns: A self-paced reading study of learners of English
- Rebecca Holt - Carmen Kung - Katherine Demuth Listeners use speaker’s accent to facilitate processing of morphosyntactic violations
12:40-1:40 Lunch
1:40-3:20 Session 2: Perception II
- Kimiko Tsukada - John Hajek Cross-language perception of Italian and Japanese length contrasts: A comparison of native Italian listeners with and without Japanese language learning experience
- Joshua Penney - Felicity Cox - Anita Szakay Listener reaction time to co-varied coda voicing cues
- Chloé Diskin - Deborah Loakes Categorisation of short front lax vowels by Irish and Chinese migrants in Melbourne: Variability in cross-dialect and cross-language processing in a dialect-familiar context
- Andy GibsonSpeech Perception in Music, Noise and Silence
3:20-3:45 Afternoon Tea Break
3:45-5:00 Session 3: Language Acquisition
- Alexandra D'Arcy Triangulating evidence for transmission and incrementation: Community, caregiver, child
- Drew Weatherhead - Padmapriya Kandhadai - Geoff Hall - Janet Werker Same word, Different meaning: Speaker race influences word-learning strategies in monolingual and bilingual infants
- Titia Benders - Elise Tobin - Anita Szakay Infant-Directed Speech may not be across-the-board breathy, but has a variable voice quality
5:00 Informal Reception
Thursday 24th January
9:15-9:30 Arrival - Coffee
9:30-10:30 Keynote 2: Dr Lynn Clark – University of Canterbury Do opposites attract or do birds of a feather flock together? Exploring the repetition and co-variation of linguistic variables within and across speakers.
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea Break
11:00-12:40 Session 4: Production
- Sarah Tasker - Márton Sóskuthy - Paul Foulkes Is variation between English /ɪ/ and /ə/ categorical? A Bayesian process-based approach
- Louise Ratko - Felicity Cox - Michael Proctor Displacement and duration in AusE vowel length contrast
- Dan Villarreal - Viktória Papp - Lynn Clark - Jen Hay - Kevin Watson Telling a new story with old data: Random-forest classification of non-prevocalic (r) in Southland New Zealand English
- Michael Proctor - Max Coltheart - Louise Ratko - Tünde Szalay - Ken Forster - Felicity Cox Variability in Responses to Masked Priming: an EMA study
12:40-1:40 Lunch Break
1:40-3:20 Session 5: Variation I
- Alex Baratta Putting an accent on British teaching: Linguistic processing as social judgement of teachers
- Haidee Kruger - Sofie Labat - Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Language processing, variation and change across speech and writing: Relative clauses in British and Australian English parliamentary debates
- Hielke Vriesendorp Does ‘y’all’ prime ‘GUNS’? Semantic priming effects between variety-specific words and indexical meaning
- Michael Walker - Anita Szakay - Felicity Cox Stuffed toys and speech perception in Australia
3:20-3:45 Afternoon Tea Break
3:45-5:00 Session 6: Variation II
- Stacey Sherwood - Robert Mailhammer - Mark Antoniou - Jason Shaw - Shigeto Kawahara The asymmetry of politeness in Japanese: when explicit abstract rules override implicit linguistic experience
- Rania Habib The variable use of the discourse markers yaʕni and ʔinnu: in Syrian Arabic
- Duna Gylfadottir The Production and Perception of an Ongoing Split: Seseo in Seville
5:00-7:30 Travel to Conference Dinner
7:30 Conference Dinner at Ventuno, Walsh Bay
Friday 25th January
10:15-11:00 Arrival - Morning Tea
11:00-12:40 Session 8: Perception III
- Jim Hoskin - Paul Foulkes Linguistic variation in the asylum context: applied research on perceptions of language imitation
- Yuhan Lin On the Role of Social Factors: Linking Phonetic Accommodation and Social Perception
- Daisy Leigh The phonetic constrains the social: Effects of phonetic distance and social evaluation on convergence behavior
- Elise Tobin - Titia Benders Interpretations of Uptalk in Australian English: Low confidence, unfinished speech, and variability within and between listeners
12:40-1:40 Lunch Break
1:40-2:55 Session 9: Bilingualism I
- Daniel Williams - Paola Escudero - Adamantios Gafos Do bilinguals use acoustic-phonetic cues in the same way as monolinguals to perceive phonological categories and socio-indexical information?
- Yuliya Leshchenko - Tatyana Ostapenko Cross-lingual lexical variation in bilingual speech: A case-study of Komi-Permyak – Russian native speakers
- Chun-Mei Chen Dual Identity, Agency, and Language Shift of Bilingual Children in Migration Communities
2:55-3:25 Afternoon Tea Break
3:25-4:40 Session 10: Bilingualism II
- Daniel Williams - Paola Escudero - Adamantios Gafos Phonological distinctiveness and constancy are handled differently by monolinguals and bilinguals in cross-accent novel word recognition
- Xin Wang Supra-segmental information in bilingual language processing
- Anita Szakay - Ksenia Gnevsheva - Sandra Jansen Does incongruence between word-dialect and speaker-dialect affect L2 lexical access?
4:40-5:40 Keynote 3: Distinguished Professor Katherine Demuth – Macquarie University Resolving Variation: Listeners, Learners & Grammar
5:40-5:50 Close and Farewell