LINGUIST List 21.2329 Mon May 24 2010 Confs: Chinese, Japanese, English, Thai, Phonetics, Phonology/China Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Jeroen van de Weijer, International Phonetics-Phonology Conference Shanghai Message 1: International Phonetics-Phonology Conference Shanghai Date: 24-May-2010 From: Jeroen van de Weijer <jeroen.van.de.weijergmail.com> Subject: International Phonetics-Phonology Conference Shanghai E-mail this message to a friend International Phonetics-Phonology Conference Shanghai Short Title: IPPCS Date: 28-May-2010 - 30-May-2010 Location: Shanghai, China Contact: Xiaolei Wan Contact Email: engdeptshisu.edu.cn Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) English (eng) Japanese (jpn) Thai (tha) Meeting Description: International Conference on Phonology and Phonetics The College of English Language and Literature at Shanghai International Studies University (SHISU) will host an International Conference on Phonology and Phonetics from May 28 until May 30, 2010 (Friday-Sunday). The conference theme is "Accent on Tone", but panel discussions will focus on a number of topics: 1. General phonology and phonetics 2. Phonology and phonetics of Chinese languages 3. Interface between phonology and phonetics with morphology, syntax and semantics 4. The description and analysis of Shanghainese (not limited to phonology and phonetics) 5. Pronunciation teaching and interference in L2-acquisition 6. Tone and intonation 7. Historical phonology and language change 8. Other topic: _________ (if applicable) Call for Participation: Updated Program: Friday, May 28, 2010 Location: Conference centre (No.1 Conference Hall), SISU Chair: Prof. Jeroen van de Weijer 8:30 Opening address by Prof. Mei Deming, Dean of the College of English Language and Literature 8:45 - 9:00 Group photo 9:00 - 10:00 First keynote address: Prof. Xu Yi (University College London): Prosodic Focus with and without Post-focus Compression: A Global Typological Divide? 10:00 - 10:45 Zhu Lei (Shanghai International Studies University): Rhotics and Rhotacism in Sino-Tibetan 10:45 - 11:30 Gwendolyn Hyslop (University of Oregon): On the Role of Sonority in a Tonogenetic Typology 11:45 - 13:00 Lunch (Dining hall, Jinjiang Inn) 13:30 - 16:30 Panels I-IV (all in Building 1): I. General phonology and phonetics (Room 504) II. Phonology and phonetics of Chinese languages (Room 506) III. Pronunciation teaching and interference in L2-acquisition (Room 304) IV. Tone and intonation (Room 508) 17:30 Dinner (Dining hall, Jinjiang Inn) Saturday, May 29, 2010 Location: Conference centre (No.1 Conference Hall), SISU Chair: Prof. Jeroen van de Weijer 8:30 - 9:30 Second keynote address: Prof. Haruo Kubozono (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo): The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone in Koshikijima Japanese 9:30 - 10:15 Prof. Zhang Jisheng & Wei Yuqing (East China Normal University): An OT Analysis of the Neutral Vowels in Uyghur Vowel Harmony 10:15 - 11:00 Prof. Hsieh Feng-fan (National Tsinghua University): Rhyme Phonotactics in Sinitic Languages: An Enhancement Perspective 11:00 - 12:00 Third keynote address: Prof. Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen and Queen Mary University London): Intonation in New Englishes: Word Melodies and Pitch Accents 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch (Dining hall, Jinjiang Inn) 13.30 - 15.45 Panels I-IV (all in Building 1): I. General phonology and phonetics (Room 202) II. Phonology and phonetics of Chinese languages (Room 404) III. Pronunciation teaching and interference in L2-acquisition (Room 304) IV. Tone and intonation (Room 406) 16:00 - 17:00 Report from the panel chairs Closing remarks by Prof. Yu Dongming, Vice Chairman of the China Stylistics Studies Association. Group photo distribution 17:30 Dinner (Dining hall, Jinjiang Inn) Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:30 Assembly at SISU campus (fountain) for joint trip to the World Expo (packed lunch included) 18:00 Return from Expo and goodbye Workshop schedules (updated May 24, subject to change): I. General phonology and phonetics (20 mins + 5) Friday, May 28, 13:30-16:30, Room 504, Building 1 Chair: Prof. Zhang Jisheng 1. Nishihara, Tetsuo: On Syllable-Timed Stress and Stress-Timed Rhythm in World Englishes 2. Zurinskas, Tom: Truespel Phonetics and Chinese 3. Liu Qinghua: Names Phonetic Optimization in Linguistic Culturology 4. Liu Quanhou: Comparative Research on Chinese Word Formation and Its Iconicity 5. Chen, Si: New Typology of Japanese Compound Accents and an Analysis in Optimality Theory 6. Jacobs, Haike: What Phonetics tells Phonology: Degemination, Ambisyllabicity and the Duration of Dutch Intervocalic Consonants Saturday, May 29, 13:30-15:45, Room 202, Building 1 7. Ahmadkhani Mohammad Reza: Phonological Metathesis in Persian: Synchronic, Diachronic and the Optimality Theory 8. Wen Jinhai PU Jingxin: On the Function of the Syllable in the Distinctive Understanding of Speech: a Cognitive Perspective 9. Zhang Lichang: On the Bi-dimensionality of Semantic Phonological Realization: An Holistic Assumption 10. Xu Ximing: On Continuum of Sound Change Triggered by the Presence and Absence of Stress in English II. Phonology and phonetics of Chinese languages (20 mins + 5) Friday, May 28, 13:30-16:30, Room 506, Building 1 Chair: Prof. Liu Minggang 1. Hsu, Hui-Chuan, Lu, Bo-Hong: Coda Place Perception in Taiwan Southern Min 2. Huang, Ting L., Peng, Adam Yin-Hung: Toward the Role of Non-peripheral Vowels in Pan-Quanzhou Southern Min 3. Tai, Yunglin, Tsay, Jane: A Phonetic Study of Voicing in a Child Acquiring Southern Min 4. Tsay, Jane, Tai, Yunglin: Onset and coda errors of a child acquiring Southern Min 5. Hu Wei: A Comparative Study of the Vowel Systems among three Xiangxi Miao Dialects -- Explaining synchronic differences through diachronic variations 6. Lu, Dan: Phonetic Resemblance and Its Role in Creation of Primitive Chinese-English Code-Mixing 7. Yu, Wenting: An OT Analysis of the Simplification of Complex Word Initial Consonants in the Shanghai Dialect Saturday, May 29, 13:30-15:45, Room 404, Building 1 8. Liang Jie YANG Xinlu: The Perceptual and Acoustic Study on Prosodic Hierarchical Structure of Uygur in Sichuan: An OT Analysis 10. Chen Lu: Double Doubling in Disyllables Reduplication in Mandarin 11. Guo Li: The Development of Ru rhymes (???) and Yin rhymes (???) in Wuhan Dialect 12. Deng, Haili: On Textual Iconicity in the Sound Patterns of Guanju 13. Yang, Zhongwei: An OT Analysis of Tone Sandhi of Disyllabic Compounds in Qidong III. Pronunciation teaching and interference in L2-acquisition (15 mins + 5) Friday, May 28, 13:30-16:30, Room 304, Building 1 Chair: Prof. Cheng Bing 1. Chen, Ao, Rene? Kager:, Liu Liquan: Early Acquisition and Categorical Perception of Acoustically Similar Lexical Tones by Native and Non-native speakers 2. Chen, Rebecca Hsueh Chu: Phonological Changes in Code-Mixing and Foreign Accent: a Comparative Study 3. Gu, Yan, Aoju Chen, Carlos Gussenhoven: Intonation and Reference Maintenance in Chinese Learners of Dutch 4. In Bean Lim, Sugiyama Chisato: L1 Interference in Japanese Pitch Accent Realization by Korean Advanced Learners 5. Nisihara, Fumiaki, AOKI, Rika: Production of Chinese and English stops by Japanese Learners 6. Oh, Sunyoung: English Pronunciation Training with the IPA: A Case Study of Cantonese Speakers in Hong Kong 7. Suriyong Limsangkass: An Interlanguage Study of English Intonation in Thai Students Speaking Pattani Malay as their Mother Tongue: Focusing on Tune 8. Wang Zhen: The Negative Transfer of Chinese Phonetics in the English Phonetic Acquisition and the Implications for English Phonetic Teaching 9. Zhang Guizhi: Studies in the teaching of English Intonation with H.E. Palmer's Intonation Theory 10. Zhang Xuhong: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese-English Phonological Structures and Processes 11. Cheng Bing Zhang Yang: The Relationship between Speech Perception and Production of English Consonants in Chinese EFL Learners Saturday, May 29, 13:30-15:45, Room 304, Building 1 12. Tsukada, Kimiko: Native vs. Non-native Perception of Vowel Length Contrasts in Arabic and Japanese: Results from Three Groups of Listeners 13. Guo Jianguo: It is Best to Teach 48 Sounds 14. Li Ge: Phonetic Transfer in Spanish 15. Liu Xiaoling: Making Use of the IPA Vowels in the Teaching of English Pronunciation 16. Wang, Houhong: A Shift in the Models of Pronunciation Teaching in China: a Case Study of Pronunciation Teaching Classrooms to English Majors in China 17. Zhou Yang: On Local Mandarin and English Phonetics 18. Chen Jie: Phonetics, Word order and Translation 19. Guo Zhiyan: The Application of English Phonetics and Phonology in Test-oriented Listening Practice IV. Tone and intonation (20 mins + 5) Friday, May 28, 13:30-16:30, Room 508, Building 1 Chair: Prof. Jeroen van de Weijer 1. Brunelle, Marc, H? Ki?u Ph??ng & Martine Grice: Intonation in Northern Vietnamese 2. Chang, Yueh-Chin & HSIEH, Feng-Fan: Tonal Coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien 3. Chow, Daryl: The Grammaticalization of Tone: the Case of Utterance-final Particles 4. Chuang, Ching-Ting: Tonal Patterns of Nan'an Southern Min Spoken in China, Malaysia and Singapore 5. Greif, Markus: Contrastive Focus in Mandarin Chinese 6. Maeda, Hiroyuki: Tonal Feature Borrowing and Change in the History of Sino-Japanese Stem-level Verb Compounds 7. Awirutthiyothin, Tamjai: An Acoustic Analysis of Standard Thai Tones in the Speech of Bangkok and Southern Speakers Saturday, May 29, 13.30-15.45, Room 406, Building 1 8. Huang, Yi-Jen, YEH, Chia-Hsin, and LU, Chi-Jui: Compensatory Effects of Focus on Taiwanese Tones 9. Matsukawa, Kosuke: Tone Alteration Patterns with First Person Clitics in Three Triqui Languages 10. Mueller-Liu, Patricia: Intonation and attitude in Mandarin Chinese--Reopening the discussion on Y.R. Chao's Tonal Additions 11. Li, Wenxin: Directionality of Tone Sandhi and Harmonic Serialism 12. 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