| TUE | 13 May 2014 | |
| 15.00 | Paul Boersma Tutorial on pitch analysis: What to do and what not to do; how to handle difficult cases; the difference between linguistic tone and micropitch; how to analyse corpora; how to create stimuli; pitch synthesis and manipulation. |
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| 17.00 | Clinic: Consultation on cases presented by participants; questions. | |
| 18.00 | End | |
| WED | 14 May 2014 | |
| 8.30 | Registration open | |
| 9.25 | Opening | |
| 9.30 | K1 | Keynote 1: Christian DiCanio (Haskins Laboratories, Yale University) Phonetic patterns in Oto-Manguean tonal systems |
| 10.20 | O1 | Timothy Mathes (New York University) Extreme tonal depressor effects in Khoisan: Evidence from Tsua |
| 10.45 | Break | |
| 11.15 | O2 | Bert Remijsen & Otto Gwado Ayoker (University of Edinburgh) Evidence for contrastive tonal alignment in Shilluk |
| 11.40 | O3 | Amalesh Gope & Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati) Lexical tones in Sylheti |
| 12.05 | O4 | Inga McKendry (SIL International) Evidence for tone shift in South-Eastern Nochixtlán Mixtec |
| 12.30 | LUNCH (Gymnasion, North entrance) | |
| 14.00 | O5 | Savio Megolhuto Meyase (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Four versus five: The number of tones in Tenyidie |
| 14.25 | O6 | Virpi Ouattara (University of Turku) & Maija S. Peltola (SIL International) Tone neutralization and tone spreading in the verb system of Samue (Niger-Congo, Gur) |
| 14.50 | O7 | Fatima Hamlaoui, Siri Gjersøe & Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso Phonological phrases in Basàá |
| 15.15 | Break | |
| 15.40 | POSTER SESSION I | |
| P1 | Irina Shport (Louisiana State University) Variation in prosodic phonology: individual differences in production of the pitch-accent contrast |
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| P2 | Daise Ribeiro Carpes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Juan Manuel Sosa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Simon Fraser University) & Izabel Christine Seara (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) Perception of tonal contrasts of non-exhaustivity in Brazilian Portuguese: an experimental study |
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| P3 | Jeremy Perkins (University of Aizu) Non-local consonant-tone interaction in Thai |
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| P4 | Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) On the relationship between tones and initials of the dialects in the Shànghăi area |
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| P5 | Li-chiung Yang (Tunghai University) Tonal ambiguity in Mandarin |
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| P6 | Shao-ren Lyu & Ho-hsien Pan (National Chiao Tung University) Tone merging in Hailu Hakka: A production study |
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| P7 | Yuan Jia (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Tonal and sandhi patterns of Shandong dialects |
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| P8 | Matthijs Westera (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Grounding topic and focus in biological codes |
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| P9 | Gilbert Ambrazaitis & Johan Frid (Lund University) F0 peak timing, height, and shape as independent features |
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| P10 | Suki Yiu (University of Hong Kong) Tone spans of Cantonese English |
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| 16.45 | O8 | Xinlu Yang (Tongji University, Xinjiang Normal University), Jie Liang (Tongji University) & Marjoleine Sloos (Aarhus University) Tone and intonation production in the Urumqi dialect of Chinese |
| 17.10 | K2 | Keynote 2: Haruo Kubozono (National Institute of Japanese Language and linguistics, Tokyo) Japanese Pitch Accent in a Typological Perspective |
| 18.00 | End of day programme | |
| THU | 15 May 2014 |
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| 9.30 | K3 | Keynote 3: Patrick Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)The neurophysiology of tone: Four decades of research |
| 10.20 | O9 | Chierh Cheng, Jenn-Yeu Chen (National Taiwan Normal University) & Yi Xu (University College London) An acoustic analysis of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi elicited from an implicit priming experiment |
| 10.45 | Break | |
| 11.15 | O10 | Alan Yu, Hyunjung Lee, Jackson Lee (University of Chicago) Variability in perceived duration: pitch dynamics and vowel quality |
| 11.40 | O11 | Christian Hoffmann, Makiko Sadakata (Radboud University Nijmegen), Ao Chen (Utrecht University), Peter Desain (Radboud University Nijmegen) & James McQueen (Radboud University, MPI Nijmegen) Within-category variance and lexical tone discrimination in native and non-native speakers |
| 12.05 | O12 | Jinghua Ou, Sam Po Law (University of Hong Kong), Roxana Fung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) & Sabrina Ho (University of Hong Kong) The role of individual differences in cognitive ability in tone processing in Cantonese: Preliminary findings |
| 12.30 | LUNCH (Gymnasion, North entrance) | |
| 14.00 | O13 | Anqi Yang (Utrecht University) & Aoju Chen (Utrecht University, MPI Nijmegen) Prosodic focus marking in child and adult Mandarin Chinese |
| 14.25 | O14 | Mechtild Tronnier (Lund University) & Elisabeth Zetterholm (Linnaeus University) Swedish word accent production by L2-speakers with different tonal L1s |
| 14.50 | O15 | Wencui Zhou (MPI Nijmegen) & Mirjam Broersma (Radboud University Nijmegen) Perception of birth language tone contrasts by adopted Chinese children |
| 15.15 | O18 | Break |
| 15.40 | O19 | POSTER SESSION II |
| P11 | Jingwen Li, Robert Bo Xu & Peggy Pik Ki Mok (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Effect of orthography on L2 production of Mandarin tones |
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| P12 | Junru Wu & Yiya Chen (Leiden University) Tonal variants in the bilingual mental lexicon |
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| P13 | Shao Jing & Bin Li (City University of Hong Kong) Development of sensitivity to tone correlates by learners of Mandarin |
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| P14 | Constantijn Kaland & Marie Postma-Nilsenová (Tilburg University) Sound symbolic effects of intrinsic pitch and intrinsic intensity in Dutch vowels |
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| P15 | Albert Lee, Yi Xu (University College London) & Santitham Prom-on (King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi) Modeling Japanese F0 contours using the PENTAtrainers and AMtrainer |
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| P16 | Marie Postma-Nilsenová, Eric Postma & Yu Gu (Tilburg University) No effect of language experience on spectral/fundamental listener type distribution: A comparison of Chinese and Dutch |
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| P17 | Priscila Marques Toneli (State University of Campinas), Marina Vigário (University of Lisbon) & Maria Bernadete Abaurre (State University of Campinas) Distinguishing empathic and PW initial stresses: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese |
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| P18 | Björn Köhnlein (Leiden University) Pitch accents in Uspanteko: A metrical approach |
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| P19 | Yizhou Lan & Sunyoung Oh (City University of Hong Kong) The effect of tone on Mandarin English learners´ perception and production of English consonant clusters |
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| P20 | Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University), Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki (University of Tokyo) Prosodic patterns of Mandarin disyllabic words by Japanese learners |
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| P21 | Bei Yang & Nuoyi Yang (University of Wisconsin) A pilot study of tonal influence on weak syllables in Mandarin |
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| 16.45 | O16 | Yen-Chen Hao (University of Tennessee) The application of the Speech Learning Model to the L2 acquisition of Mandarin tones |
| 17.10 | K4 | Keynote 4: Karen Mattock (University of Western Sydney) The perception of tone in early language acquisition: Insights from infants, toddlers, and the role of experience |
| 18.00 | End of day programme | |
| 19.00 | Drinks and conference dinner at Restaurant Beau | |
| FRI | 16 May 2014 | |
| 9.30 | O17 | Frank Kügler & Susanne Genzel (Potsdam University) On the elicitation of focus: Prosodic differences as a function of sentence mode of the context? |
| 9.55 | O18 | Robert Bo Xu, Jingwen Li & Peggy Mok (Chinese University of Hong Kong) The effect of orthography on L2 perception |
| 10.20 | O19 | Qingrong Chen & Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University) Effects of text segmentation on silent reading of Chinese regulated poems |
| 10.45 | Break | |
| 11.15 | O20 | Seunghun Lee (Central Connecticut State University) & Siri Gjersøe (Humboldt University of Berlin) Segmental effects on tone: An acoustic analysis of tonal polarity in Xitsonga |
| 11.40 | O21 | Ao Chen (Utrecht University), Aoju Chen (Utrecht University, MPI Nijmegen) René Kager (Utrecht University) & Patrick Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Rises and Falls in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese |
| 12.05 | O22 | Liquan Liu & René Kager (Utrecht University) The discrimination of tonal contrasts by monolingual and bilingual adults |
| 12.30 | LUNCH (Gymnasion, North entrance) | |
| 14.00 | O23 | Rabea Landgraf (Kiel University) Are you serious? Irony and the perception of emphatic intensification |
| 14.25 | O24 | Niamh Kelly & Rajka Smiljanić (University of Texas at Austin) The effects of pragmatic focus on Norwegian tonal accent |
| 14.50 | O25 | Francisco Torreira, Seán Roberts & Harald Hammarström (MPI Nijmegen) Functional trade-off between lexical tone and intonation: Typological evidence from polar-question marking |
| 15.15 | Break | |
| 15.45 | K5 | Keynote 5: Vincent van Heuven (Leiden University) Word and sentence stress: Acoustic correlates and perceptual cues |
| 16.25 | Closing session |