Programme and Abstract booklet 6th – 8 th November 2013 2 Ultrafest VI Welcome to the 6 th Ultrafest meeting. We are pleased to welcome you all to Edinburgh. The venue for the meeting is the University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum. Lunch, coffee and teas will be served each day in the Atrium outside the seminar room. The drinks reception on Wednesday night will be held in the Atrium next to the Exhibition stands. There will be a three course meal and ceilidh at the Ghillie Dhu on Friday 8 th November. We will gather outside the Informatics Forum at 6.30pm or you can make your way to the Ghillie Dhu for 7.00pm. There are limited places so please sign up for this at the registration desk. (This is a 1.5km walk from the Informatics Forum, directions are at the back of this booklet.) Organising Committee: James M. Scobbie, Alan Wrench, Claire Timmins, Zoe Roxburgh, Natalia Zharkova, Eleanor Lawson, Sonja Schaeffler, Joanne Cleland, Korin Richmond Conference sponsors: Grant EP/I027696/1: Ultrax Grant ES/K002597/1 CONFERENCE FLOOR PLAN 1 Ultrafest VI Programme Wednesday 6 th November 8.30 – 9.15 REGISTRATION 9.15 – 9.30 Welcome: Prof. James M Scobbie 9.30 – 9.50 Diana Archangeli Jeff Berry UltraPraat: Software & database for Paul Boersma simultaneous acoustics and articulatory Session David Ellison analysis One Chair Gus Hahn-Powell 9.50 – 10.10 Diana Archangeli Jae- Hyun Sung Testing AutoTrace: a machine-learning Doug Marissa Cooper approach to automated tongue contour data Whalen Gustave Hahn-Powel extraction Jeff Berry 10.10 – 10.30 COFFEE Ultraspeech-tools: acquisition, processing and 10.30 – 10.50 Thomas Hueber visualization of ultrasound speech data for Session phonetics and speech therapy Two 10.50 – 11.10 Ryan Bennett Quantitative measures for the degree of Chair Grant McGuire palatalization/velarization: Irish ultrasound Máire Ní Chiosáin data Doug Jaye Padgett Whalen 11.10 – 11.30 Susan Lin Benjamin Davies Kaytetye consonant contrasts without contours Katherine Demuth 11.30 – 12.30 Discussion on Methodology and technical issues including overview: Alan Wrench 12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH (1.00 – 1.30) AAA workshop in plenary room (recording/analysis) 1.30 – 1.50 Eleanor Lawson The role of gesture timing in postvocalic /r/ James M. Scobbie Session lenition: an ultrasound study Jane Stuart-Smith Three 1.50 – 2.10 Jeff Mielke Ultrasound + corpus study of phonetically- Chair Christopher Carignan motivated North American French and English An ultrasound and acoustic study of consonant Diana 2.10 – 2.30 Reza Falahati cluster simplification in Persian Archangeli 2.30 – 2.45 BREAK (Posters to be put up) 2.45 – 4.45 COFFEE and POSTER SESSION 1 Chair 4.45 – 5.45 KEYNOTE 1: TANJA SCHULTZ Korin Richmond 5.45 – 7.30 DRINKS RECEPTION 2 Thursday 7 th November 9.00 – 9.20 Sonya Bird Scott R. Moisik Laryngeal contributions to weak vs. strong Session John Esling ejectives Four Peter Jacobs Chair 9.20 – 9.40 Sang-Im Lee Kim Morphological effects on the darkness of Lisa Davidson English intervocalic /l/ 9.40 – 10.00 Alexei Kochetov James M N. Sreedevi, An ultrasound study of retroflex and alveolar Scobbie Midula Kasim laterals in Kannada R. Manjula 10.00 – 10.30 COFFEE Comparing principal component analysis of 10.30 – 10.50 Marianne Pouplier ultrasound images with contour analyses in a Philip Hoole study of tongue body control during German coronals Session Lingual coarticulation and articulatory 10.50 – 11.10 Natalia Zharkova Five constraints in adolescents Chair Phonetic effects on the timing of gestural 11.10 – 11.30 Jonathan Yip coordination in Modern Greek consonant clusters Stefan 11.30 – 11.50 Douglas H. Whalen Frisch Khalil Iskarous An ultrasound analysis of tongue shape in Lucie Ménard Parkinson’s Disease Amélie Prémont Katherine M. Dawson 11.50 – 12.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION TIME (topic to be confirmed) 12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH (1.00 – 1.30) AAA workshop in plenary room (more analysis) Getting away from the midline: biomechanical Session 1.30 – 1.50 Bryan Gick devices and the role of ultrasound Six Chair An ultrasound study of the acquisition of North 1.50 – 2.10 Lyra Maglouglin /ٖ / American English 2.10 – 2.30 Thomas Magnuson, What happens as listeners become speakers Natalia Cristopher Coey during face-to-face conversation? Zharkova 2.30 – 3.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION TIME (topic to be confirmed) 3.00 – 5.00 COFFEE and POSTER SESSION 2 3 Friday 8 th November Estimating lingual cavity volume in click Session 9.00 – 9.20 Amanda Miller consonant production from combined lingual Seven ultrasound and palatographic data Chair sC(C) clusters in German-Italian bilingual 9.20 – 9.40 Lorenzo Spreafico speakers Maureen 9.30 – 10.00 Akitsugu Nogita Stone The Japanese unrounded back vowel /ɯ/ is in Sonya Bird fact rounded central/front [ʉ - ʏ] Noriko Yamane 10.00 – 10.30 COFFEE 10.30 – 10.50 Angelika Nair Garyth Nair The low mandible maneuver Session Maureen Stone Eight Chair 10.50 – 11.10 Ian Wilson Julian Villegas Lateral tongue bracing in Japanese and English Terumasa Doi Bryan Ultrasound and acoustic study of gutturals and 11.10 – 11.30 Majed Al Solami Gick emphatics in three Arabic dialects 11.30 – 12.30 General discussion time (Topic: comparing tongue curves) James M. Scobbie 12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH (1.00 – 1.30) AAA workshop in plenary room (Feedback) Chair 1.30 – 2.30 KEYNOTE 2: Penelope Bacsfalvi Tim Bressman 2.30 – 3.00 COFFEE 3.00 – 3.20 Stefan A. Frisch Velar coarticulation and tongue twisters in Alissa Belmont people who stutter 2: disfluent utterances Nathan D. Maxfield Session 3.20 – 3.40 Tara McAllister Byun Retroflex versus bunched /r/ in ultrasound Nine Elaine Hitchcock intervention: one shape does not fit all? Chair 3.40 – 4.00 Tim Bressmann Ultrasound biofeedback therapy for –r- Irina Zhylich distortions: is it worth the effort? Gajanan V. Kulkarni Joanne 4.00 – 4.20 Zoe Roxburgh Can seeing help you hear? Acoustic vs. Cleland James M. Scobbie Ultrasound information in the diagnosis of Joanne Cleland speech sound disorders associated with cleft Sara Wood palate 4.20 – 4.40 GENERAL DISCUSSION TIME (topic to be confirmed) 4.40 – 5.00 CLOSING 7.00 – late DINNER AND CEILIDH (Meet outside Informatics at 6.30pm) (limited places, ask at registration desk for ticket) 4 Poster Session One: Wednesday 6 th November Aurore Jaumard-Hakoun, S. K. Al Kork, M. Adda-Decker, A. Amelot, L. Buchman, Gerard Dreyfus, T. Capturing, analyzing, and transmitting intangible 1 Fux, Pierre Roussel, Claire Pillot- cultural heritage with the i-Treasures project Loiseau , Maureen Stone, Bruce Denby Statistical analysis of tongue shape in ultrasound Sarah Ghrenassia, Catherine 3 video sequences: tongue tracking and population Laporte, Lucie Ménard analysis Christopher Coey, John Esling, Ultrasound images in the new ‘iPA Phonetics’ 5 Scott R. Moisik App Ultrasound in language documentation: some 7 Rosey Billington observations on lingual movement in Lopit vowel contrasts Simon Gonzalez, Mark Harvey, Segment constants and speaker constants in 9 Susan Lin, Katherine Demuth English coronal obstruents Diana Archangeli, Daniel Brenner, Probe skewing effects & Kinect head-tracking in 11 Rolando Coto, Samuel Johnston tongue contour Imaging Katherine M. Dawson, Douglas H. A comparison of methods for tongue shape 13 Whalen, Mark K. Tiede analysis Quantitative analysis of ultrasound data 15 Natalia Zharkova, Nigel Hewlett collected with and without head stabilisation Investigation of gestural coordination in the Aline Mara de Oliveira Vassoler, 17 production of consonant clusters in children with Larissa Cristina Berti typical development and deviant language Tongue contour in / ʃ/ sound for Brazilian Haydée Wertzner, Danira 19 Francisco, Luciana Pagan-Neves Portuguese-speakers with SSD: a pilot study using ultrasound An exploratory ultrasound investigation of 21 Natalia Lapinskaya emphatic articulation in Cairene Arabic Glottal stop in Arabic: the insufficiency of a 23 Laura Ryals landmark underspecification account Describing the pharyngeal constriction gesture in 25 Sarah Hamilton, Suzanne Boyce Turkish Contextual patterns of /l/-darkening in accents 27 Danielle Turton of English An ultrasound study of Mandarin fricatives and 29 Ming Xiu, Didier Demolin affricate 5 Poster Session Two: Thursday 7 th November Stefan A. Frisch, Alissa Belmont, Velar coarticulation and tongue twisters in 2 Nathan D. Maxfield people who stutter 1: fluent utterances An investigation of tongue movement in patients 4 Sina Koch, Tim Bressmann with lingual hemiparalysis Jae-Hyun Sung, Diana Archangeli, Ian Clayton, Daniel Brenner, The articulation of Scottish Gaelic plain and 6 Samuel Johnston, Michael palatalized consonants Hammond, Andrew Carnie Giovana Ferreira-Gonçalves, An ultrasound analysis of the acquisition of 8 Mirian Rose Brum-de-Paula, rounded French vowels /y/ and /ø/ by native Giulian Silva-Pinto speakers of Brazilian Portuguese An ultrasound study of oral and nasal central 10 Lilian Kuhn vowels in Brazilian Portuguese Comparing the effect of pronunciation and Tanja Kocjančič Antolík, Claire ultrasound trainings to pronunciation training 12 Pillot-Loiseau, Takeki Kamiyama, only for the improvement of the production of Cécile Fougeron the French /y/-/u/ contrast by four Japanese learners of French An ultrasound analysis of tongue shape for the 14 Ai Mizoguchi, Douglas H. Whalen Japanese nasal mora Many-to-one articulatory-acoustic mappings in 16 Will Dalton, Jeff Mielke Canadian French vowels Factors affecting the articulatory and acoustic 18 Jae Yung Song characteristics of vowels in clear speech Francesco Sigona, Antonio Stella, A new head-probe stabilization device for Barbara Gili Fivela, Francesco 20 synchronized ultrasound and electromagnetic Montagna, Alfonso Maffezoli, articulography recordings Alan Wrench, Mirko Grimaldi Alessandro Vietti, Lorenzo An ANN approach to the recognition of UTI- 22 Spreafico, Vittorio Anselmi based Italian words Enhancing Measures of Reaction Time with UTI Sonja Schaeffler, James M.