Experimental Studies on Intonation:
Phonetic, Phonological and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Sentence Prosody

3rd Workshop of the DFG-Priority Programme #1234
"Phonological and Phonetic Competence"

University of Potsdam, January 5-7 2008
Neues Palais, Haus 8

Monday, January 5, 2009

12.00-13.00	Registration and Welcome
13.00-13.45	On the interaction between intonational prominence and phrasing - evidence from Swedish [ppt] Gosta Bruce, Lund University
13.45-14.30	Some properties of German high plateaus [zip] Caterina Petrone & Hubert Truckenbrodt, ZAS
14.30-15.00	Coffee
15.00-15.45	Prosody of recursive embedding in Hindi and German [pdf] Caroline Fery & Shravan Vasishth, Potsdam University
15.45-16.30	Interpreting prosodic boundaries [] Michael Wagner, McGill
16.30-17.00	Coffee
17.00-17.45	Implicit rhythm affects parsing decisions in reading [pdf] Gerrit Kentner, Potsdam University

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

9.15-10.00	On the interpretation of prosodically marked contrast in sentence comprehension Heeyeon Dennison & Amy Schafer, University of Hawaii
10.00-10.45	On the phonological status of pitch falls in English and Dutch: Evidence from semantic judgements [ppt] Carlos Gussenhoven, Radboud University Nijmegen
10.45-11.15	Coffee
11.15-12.00	On the production of contrastive accents in German [pdf] Frank Kuegler & Anja Gollrad, Potsdam University
12.00-12.45	Tonal and articulatory marking of focus domains: What do listeners hear? [pdf] Johannes Becker, Stefan Baumann, Martine Grice, Köln University
12.45-15.00	Lunch and Postersession Strategies for differentiating second occurence focus from background information Stefan Baumann, Doris Mücke, Johannes Becker Duration as the phonetic cue in German ambiguity resolution Anja Gollrad Prosody and pragmatics in processing negative scope ambiguities Gerrit Kentner Can prosody be derived from syntax? Manuela Korth On the production and perception of post-focal compression in Hindi contrastive ellipsis Frank Kügler Articulatory reduction strategies: Effects of information structure and word frequency Doris Mücke, Martine Grice, Pia Bergmann, Hanna Weyrauch On the interpretation of "only" Antje Sauermann, Frank Kügler, Heiner Drenhaus Boundary tone perception in German "out-of-the-blue" phrases Katrin Schneider, Grzegorz Dogil, Bernd Möbius The influence of context on the perception of boundary tones in German Katrin Schneider, Grzegorz Dogil, Bernd Möbius
15.00-15.45	Some articulatory and cerebral correlates of prosodic focus in French [pdf] Helene Loevenbruck, Grenoble University
15.45-16.30	Experimental investigations of the acoustics of information structure [ps] Mara Breen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
16.30-17.00	Coffee
17.00-17.45	The prosody of non-exhaustive narrow focus [pdf] Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun, University of Basque Country
19.00	Conference Dinner at Trattoria Pane e Vino

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

9.15-10.00	Experiments concerning boundary tone perception in German [ppt] Katrin Schneider, Stuttgart University
10.00-10.45	The privileged position of the phrase-final accent - perception theory and intonation in Kammu [pdf] David House, KTH Stockholm
10.45-11.15	Coffee
11.15-12.00	Intonationally marked contrast in instructed visual search: Intersective color vs. subsective scalar adjectives [ppt] Shari Speer, Ohio State University
12.00-12.45	Intonational constraints on processing [rtf] Lyn Frazier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
12.45-13.00	Farewell
13.00-14.30	Lunch
15.00-17.00	Sightseeing

last updated 23 January 2008