31 May 2014

Tone Workshop this week

The Tone Workshop will be this Monday and Tuesday in the Life Sciences Laboratories N610. The program follows.

MONDAY, JUNE 2

9:30-10:30    Breakfast + coffee

10:30-11:30   Mark Liberman: Tone without pitch

11:30-12:30   Jianjing Kuang: The covariation between pitch and phonation: the case of creaky voice in Mandarin tones

12:30-1:00    Discussion

1:00-2:00     Lunch (served)

2:00-3:00     John Kingston: Tone in Chinantec

3:00-4:00     Christian DiCanio: Moraic alignment of Mixtec tone: exploring complex timing relations in Oto-Manguean tonal systems

4:00-5:00     Discussion

Workshop dinner at Kristine Yu’s house.


TUESDAY, JUNE 3

9:30-10  Breakfast + coffee

10-11    Bert Remijsen: Further evidence for contrastive alignment in falling contours

11-12    Kristine Yu on Bole; Scott Myers reaction from African perspective

12-12:30 Discussion

12:30-2  Lunch (served)

2-3      James Kirby: Tonogenesis in Khmer

3-4      Yi Xu: Toward parametric representation of tone: Articulatorydynamics and computational modeling

4-5      Discussion