Nordic Prosody XIV · Stockholm · –

Preliminary programme

The schedule is subject to minor changes only; any changes will be verified with presenting authors. Do return here regularly as we will add details and information as the event approaches.
Monday 17 August 13:00 TMH 75 celebrations* Tuesday 18 August 12:30 13:30 Registration 13:30 14:00 Welcome 14:00 15:00 Keynote I Jens Edlund Julia Hirschberg The importance of speech prosody 15:00 15:50 Session 1: Voice Chair: David House 15:00 15:25 Effects of Body Posture on Voice Quality JohanSundberg HelenaEngström ChristineEricsdotter Nordgren SusanneFuchs MattiasHeldner PatrycjaStrycharczuk MarcinWlodarczak Presenter: TBA 15:25 15:50 Laryngeal and Supralaryngeal Contributions to Speaking Style DonnaErickson JuliánVillegas KarenPerta ZhaoyanZhang JeffMoore ZenNagatsuka YuyaGoto SeunghunLee Presenter: TBA 15:50 16:20 Coffee 16:20 18:00 Session 2: L2 Chair: Eva Liina Asu 16:20 16:45 Realizations of sentence intonations in L1 and L2 Finland Swedish(es) HeiniKallio HennaHeinonen Presenter: TBA 16:45 17:10 Cross-Linguistic Influence at the Phonetic-Prosodic Interface: Asymmetric Vowel Reduction and Bidirectional Transfer in English-Icelandic Bilinguals ChristianeUlbrich NicoleDehé Presenter: TBA 17:10 17:35 Swedish prosody transferred into L2 Spanish: Pragmatic effects on Spanish native speakers BeritAronsson LarsFant Presenter: TBA 17:35 18:00 Uncovering Interlanguage systematicity: Micro-analysis of L2 Japanese interrogative intonation by L1 Swedish speakers NatsumiGoto MitsuhikoOta ShinichiroIshihara Presenter: TBA 18:30 19:00 Lab tour Speech, Music and Hearing, Lindstedtsvägen 24, ground floor 19:00 Reception Wednesday 19 August 09:00 10:40 Session 3: Multimodal Chair: Frank Kügler 09:00 09:25 The alignment of beat gestures with accented syllables in Estonian PärtelLippus AndraAnnuka-Loik Eva LiinaAsu Liisa KaiSiimut LenToots Presenter: TBA 09:25 09:50 Multimodal prosody and syntactic completion in overlapping speech in Central Swedish conversation MargaretZellers Presenter: TBA 09:50 10:15 Embodied behavior during pausing in L2 Finnish at different fluency levels RiikkaUllakonoja PauliinaPeltonen MikkoKuronen AskoTolvanen Presenter: TBA 10:15 10:40 STS-net -- a phonological property prediction model for Swedish sign language JonasBeskow Presenter: TBA 10:40 11:10 Coffee 11:10 12:50 Session 4: Dialect and speaker variation Chair: Mattias Helldner 11:10 11:35 Initial analyses of Storspigg-TBI: a Swedish multispeaker corpus ChristinaTånnander JimO'Regan JensEdlund Presenter: TBA 11:35 12:00 Prosodic stability and segmental mobility: Preliminary results from Kronoberg origin speakers living in Stockholm ErikÅkerdal ChristineEricsdotter Nordgren PéturHelgason Presenter: TBA 12:00 12:25 Inter- and intra-dialectal phonetic differences in Danish stød production in Copenhagen and Aarhus AndreaSiem Presenter: TBA 12:25 12:50 On the role of focal lengthening in two different dialects of Swedish GilbertAmbrazaitis MechtildTronnier Presenter: TBA 12:50 14:00 Lunch† 14:00 15:00 Keynote II Tomas Riad Prosody as meter 15:00 15:50 Session 5: Tools and demos Chair: TBA Effects of embodied pronunciation training on learners’ perception of the Swedish length contrast Gilbert Ambrazaitis How to collect jaw-movement data using the non-invasive MARRYS helmet DonnaErickson OliverNiebuhr Presenter: Donna Erickson Krake: interactive preparation of texts for text-to-speech synthesis ChristinaTånnander Presenter: Christina Tånnander Multi-axis speech similarity search JimO'Regan Presenter: Jim O'Regan Fonadyn StenTernström Presenter: Sten Ternström 15:50 16:20 Coffee 16:20 18:00 Session 6: Accents Chair: Gilbert Ambrazaitis 16:20 16:45 Initiality accent in focus – a matter of scaling and alignment FrankKügler SaraMyrberg Presenter: TBA 16:45 17:10 When Context Hears the Wrong Tone: Contextual Evidence and Decision Dynamics in Swedish Tone Accent Perception JinheeKwon MikaelRoll Presenter: TBA 17:10 17:35 Timing or Privativity? Perceptual Evidence for the Phonological Representation of Urban East Norwegian Tonal Accents ManuelLipstein CorinnaLanger FrankKügler Presenter: TBA 17:35 18:00 The functional status of pitch accents in Standard Lithuanian: Phonetic interaction with other prosodic elements EvaldasŠvageris Presenter: TBA 19:00 Conference dinner at Oljebaren. This is a little over a half hour walk, or a short bus ride, from the conference venue. Thursday 20 August 09:00 10:40 Session 7: Prominence and boundaries Chair: Pärtel Lippus 09:00 09:25 Prosodic realisation of Information Structure under language contact: a study of Livonian-Latvian bilinguals TuuliTuisk Eva LiinaAsu HeeteSahkai Presenter: TBA 09:25 09:50 What motivates word stress adaptation in Estonian? HeeteSahkai LiisiPiits MeelisMihkla HillePajupuu LiisErmus Presenter: TBA 09:50 10:15 Calculating prosodic boundaries from articulatory data DonnaErickson JohanFrid MalinSvensson Lundmark Presenter: TBA 10:15 10:40 Speaker transition patterns in conversations with delay QiangXia EmerGilmartin MarcinWłodarczak Presenter: TBA 10:40 11:10 Coffee 11:10 12:25 Session 8: Models Chair: Christiane Ulbrich 11:10 11:35 Investigating traces of language contact using speech embeddings TuukkaTörö FionnÓ Dubhairle AnttiSuni JurajŠimko Presenter: TBA 11:35 12:00 Predicting Word-Level Prominence in Swedish News Speech with Self-Supervised Speech Representations JohanFrid GilbertAmbrazaitis DavidHouse Presenter: TBA 12:00 12:25 Speech Timing and Heteroclinic Networks MichaelO'Dell Presenter: TBA 12:25 13:15 Session 9: Deviant speech Chair: Heini Kallio 12:25 12:50 Prosodic Dynamics in Finnish-Speaking Autistic Preadolescents Ida-LottaMyllylä MarttiVainio MariWiklund Presenter: TBA 12:50 13:15 Speech Tasks and Prosodic Features in Early Parkinson's Disease: Insights from Automatic Speech Analysis AnnaSlocinska FarhadJavanmardi PaavoAlku BrentWilson NellyPenttilä Presenter: TBA 13:15 13:30 Closing session 14:00 15:00 Nordic Prosody Board meeting