Speaking of prosody

Conference Theme

The conference will focus on new insights into prosody, pragmatics, and their related brain functioning.

Program and abstracts

Invited speakers

• Kai Alter, Newcastle University
  Processing voices - Why are onomatopoeias different?
• Carlos Gussenhoven, Radboud University, Nijmegen
  Tonal varieties of English
• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York
  Prosodic Entrainment in Conversational Speech
• Inger Moen, Oslo University
  Prosody and "the foreign accent syndrome" (FAS)
• Valéria Molnár, Lund University
  "Fundament"-al aspects of information structure: On the relevance of the left periphery - from a typological perspective
• Tomas Riad, Stockholm University
  Linguistic prosody as meter
• Mikael Roll and Magnus Lindgren, Lund University
  Working memory, time, and prosodic phrases
• Eva Strangert, Umeå University
  Speaking Style, Cognitive Processing, and Prosodic Output
• Yury Shtyrov, Medical Research Council, Cambridge
  Neural Access to Mental Lexicon as a Reflex

Poster presentations

• Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Johan Frid, Lund University
  Pitch accent timing, height, and shape in the encoding of given, new, and unexpected information in German and two Swedish dialects
• Frank Kügler, Potsdam University
  Post-focal pitch register compression as a prosodic cue for disambiguation in Hindi
• Kristina Lundholm Fors, University of Gothenburg
  Categorization of pauses in conversational speech
• Toshihiro Oda, Fukuoka University, Japan
  Phonetic grounding in the markedness constraint banning on onset velar nasal
• Pelle Söderström, Lund University
  Perceiving Swedish word accents
• Marcus Uneson, Lund University
  Swedish lexical prosody in cognates and loan words: An outlook