Production, Perception, Attitude: Programme

 

  • The registration desk will be in the entrance hall of the Convent of Chièvres
  • The oral presentations and the poster session will take place in the St. Barbara room in the Convent of Chièvres
  • Lunches as well as the Thursday evening reception will be in the nearby Begijnhof Congres Hotel

 

Thursday April 2


08:45-09:30 Registration and coffee  

09:30-09:45 Opening remarks  
09:45-10:45 Invited talk: Roeland van HoutRadboud University NijmegenListen up! The role of perception and evaluation in the variation patterns of regional Dutch accents. [abstract]

10:45-11:15 Coffee  

11:15-11:45 Christoph PurschkePhilipps-Universität MarburgConcepts of Hessian ? Cognitive prototypes and subjective language areas [abstract]
11:45-12:15 Gunther De Vogelaer & Gert De SutterFlemish Research Foundation / Ghent University, University College GhentModelling geographical variation: pronominal and adnominal gender in Flemish dialects of Dutch. [abstract]

12:15-13:45 Lunch  

13:45-14:45 Invited talk: Janet PierrehumbertNorthwestern UniversityLearning mechanisms and dialectal differentiation. [abstract]
14:45-15:15 Kevin Watson & Karen MattockLancaster UniversityThe effect of speakers? geographical mobility on their production and perception of a phonological merger: evidence from nurse and square in Liverpool English [abstract]

15:15-15:45 Coffee  

15:45-16:15 Alexandra N. LenzUniversity of GroningenOn the emergence of varieties through reevaluation. [abstract]
16:15-16:45 Wilbert Heeringa & Frans HinskensMeertens Institute AmsterdamSChanges in Dutch Dialect Varieties; how does production relate to perception? [abstract]
16:45-17:15 John NerbonneUniversity of GroningenRecognizing Dialect Areas. [abstract]
17:15-18:00 Poster introductions  
18:00-19:00 Poster session  
  Josefina Carrera-SabatéUniversitat de BarcelonaA Catalan ongoing phonetic change: perception and attitudes from schooling children and university students. [abstract]
  Christina CuonzUniversity of Basle (Switzerland)?Like Oil and Water?: The Evaluative Perception of Diglossia in Switzerland [abstract]
  Julie GrovesHong Kong Baptist UniversityMeasuring language attitudes in China: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong. [abstract]
  Damien HallUniversity of York (UK)Production, attitudes and social factors in the Regional French of Normandy. [abstract]
  Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman & Adriaan SpruytUniversity of Leuven, University of GhentAffective priming as a new method for measuring language attitudes. [abstract]
  Galina KedrovaMoscow State Lomonosov UniversityDiversity and stability in individual speech articulation patterns. [abstract]
  Therese LeinonenUniversity of GroningenClassifying Swedish dialects based on vowel pronunciation. [abstract]
  Chris MontgomeryUniversity of EdinburghMethodological approaches to mapping the perceptions of non-linguists. [abstract]
  Daniel Redinger & Carmen LlamasUniversity of York (UK)Innovations in the measurement and analysis of language attitudes. [abstract]
  Justyna RobinsonUniversity of SheffieldWords and senses: Production, perception, and change. [abstract]
  Barbara SoukupUniversity of Vienna, AustriaAustrian listeners' perceptions of standard-dialect shifting: an experimental approach. [abstract]
  Susan Tamasi & Keith KennetzEmory University, Emirates College for Advanced EducationNew Methods Bring New Ideas: A Cognitive Approach to Language Attitude Research. [abstract]

19:00-21:00 Reception  

Friday April 3

09:00-09:30 Paul Kerswill, Eivind Torgersen, Arfaan Khan & Susan FoxLancaster University, Queen Mary, University of LondonInvestigating language and ethnicity in London: Production and perception data. [abstract]
09:30-10:00 Phillip TiptonUniversity of EssexAn experimental approach to the relationship between sociolinguistic variation, speech perception and the cognitive representation of lexical frequency. [abstract]
10:00-10:30 Gerard Docherty, Christian Langstrof & Paul FoulkesNewcastle University, University of Freiburg & University of YorkListener evaluation of sociophonetic variability: probing constraints and capabilities. [abstract]

10:30-11:00 Coffee  

11:00-11:30 Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty & Damien HallUniversity of York (UK), Newcastle University (UK)Phonological productions, perceptions and attitudes in the Scottish/English borderland. [abstract]
11:30-12:00 Anita SzakayUniversity of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)Prosodic Variation and Attitudes towards Minority Groups. [abstract]
12:00-12:30 Ken HugoniotSIL InternationalCombining qualitative linguistic and sociolinguistic methodologies to study linguistic diversity among little-known and closely-related vernacular languages [abstract]

12:30-14:00 Lunch  

14:00-14:30 Charlotte Gooskens, Sebastian Kürschner & Renée van BezooijenUniversity of GroningenIntelligibility of Low and High German among speakers of Dutch. [abstract]
14:30-15:00 Renée van Bezooijen & Jessica KoppersUniversity of GroningenApproximant [r] in Friesland? An evaluative study among girls. [abstract]
15:00-15:30 Leen Impe & Sebastian KuerschnerUniversity of Leuven, University of GroningenLinguistic distance as a determinant of the mutual intelligibility between Netherlandic and Dutch language varieties. [abstract]

15:30-16:00 Coffee  

16:00-17:00 Invited talk: Dennis PrestonOklahoma State UniversityThe Cycle of Regard, Perception, and Production [abstract]
17:00 Closing Remarks