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 Hout | Radboud University Nijmegen | Listen 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 Purschke | Philipps-Universität Marburg | Concepts of Hessian ? Cognitive prototypes and subjective language areas [abstract] |
11:45-12:15 | Gunther De Vogelaer & Gert De Sutter | Flemish Research Foundation / Ghent University, University College Ghent | Modelling geographical variation: pronominal and adnominal gender in Flemish dialects of Dutch. [abstract] |
12:15-13:45 | Lunch | ||
13:45-14:45 | Invited talk: Janet Pierrehumbert | Northwestern University | Learning mechanisms and dialectal differentiation. [abstract] |
14:45-15:15 | Kevin Watson & Karen Mattock | Lancaster University | The 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. Lenz | University of Groningen | On the emergence of varieties through reevaluation. [abstract] |
16:15-16:45 | Wilbert Heeringa & Frans Hinskens | Meertens Institute Amsterdam | SChanges in Dutch Dialect Varieties; how does production relate to perception? [abstract] |
16:45-17:15 | John Nerbonne | University of Groningen | Recognizing Dialect Areas. [abstract] |
17:15-18:00 | Poster introductions | ||
18:00-19:00 | Poster session | ||
Josefina Carrera-Sabaté | Universitat de Barcelona | A Catalan ongoing phonetic change: perception and attitudes from schooling children and university students. [abstract] | |
Christina Cuonz | University of Basle (Switzerland) | ?Like Oil and Water?: The Evaluative Perception of Diglossia in Switzerland [abstract] | |
Julie Groves | Hong Kong Baptist University | Measuring language attitudes in China: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong. [abstract] | |
Damien Hall | University of York (UK) | Production, attitudes and social factors in the Regional French of Normandy. [abstract] | |
Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman & Adriaan Spruyt | University of Leuven, University of Ghent | Affective priming as a new method for measuring language attitudes. [abstract] | |
Galina Kedrova | Moscow State Lomonosov University | Diversity and stability in individual speech articulation patterns. [abstract] | |
Therese Leinonen | University of Groningen | Classifying Swedish dialects based on vowel pronunciation. [abstract] | |
Chris Montgomery | University of Edinburgh | Methodological approaches to mapping the perceptions of non-linguists. [abstract] | |
Daniel Redinger & Carmen Llamas | University of York (UK) | Innovations in the measurement and analysis of language attitudes. [abstract] | |
Justyna Robinson | University of Sheffield | Words and senses: Production, perception, and change. [abstract] | |
Barbara Soukup | University of Vienna, Austria | Austrian listeners' perceptions of standard-dialect shifting: an experimental approach. [abstract] | |
Susan Tamasi & Keith Kennetz | Emory University, Emirates College for Advanced Education | New 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 Fox | Lancaster University, Queen Mary, University of London | Investigating language and ethnicity in London: Production and perception data. [abstract] |
09:30-10:00 | Phillip Tipton | University of Essex | An 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 Foulkes | Newcastle University, University of Freiburg & University of York | Listener 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 Hall | University of York (UK), Newcastle University (UK) | Phonological productions, perceptions and attitudes in the Scottish/English borderland. [abstract] |
11:30-12:00 | Anita Szakay | University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) | Prosodic Variation and Attitudes towards Minority Groups. [abstract] |
12:00-12:30 | Ken Hugoniot | SIL International | Combining 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 Bezooijen | University of Groningen | Intelligibility of Low and High German among speakers of Dutch. [abstract] |
14:30-15:00 | Renée van Bezooijen & Jessica Koppers | University of Groningen | Approximant [r] in Friesland? An evaluative study among girls. [abstract] |
15:00-15:30 | Leen Impe & Sebastian Kuerschner | University of Leuven, University of Groningen | Linguistic 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 Preston | Oklahoma State University | The Cycle of Regard, Perception, and Production [abstract] |
17:00 | Closing Remarks |