ProPro2017: Programme

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Festsaal (Alte Aula, Münzgasse 30, Tübingen)

08:45 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 9:30	Welcome
09:30 - 10:30	Sarah Bibyk: Listeners interpret rising and falling intonation prior to the final boundary Slides
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Special Session: SpeechNet BaWü
12:30 - 13:00	Cong Zhang (University of Oxford): Identifying Interrogative Tunes in Tianjin Mandarin
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch (individually in the Old City, recommendations see Abstract Booklet)
14:30 - 15:00	Talina Weber (University of Konstanz), Muna Schönhuber & Janet Grijzenhout: Intonation of polar questions produced by 2.5- to 4-year-olds Slides
15:00 - 15:30	Nádia Barros (University of Lisbon) & Sónia Frota: Prosodic Phrasing in European Portuguese varieties Slides
15:30 - 16:00	Simon Wehrle (University of Cologne), Timo B. Roettger & Martine Grice: Tracking the Perceptual Effects of Backchannel Behaviour in Asperger Syndrome and L2 Speech Slides
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Kiwako Ito: *Investigating development of linguistic and non-linguistic prosody* *Slides* *Slides (pptx, with videos)* Background Literature
19:00	Workshop Dinner: Alte Kunst, Marktgasse 8, 72070 Tübingen

Friday, September 1, 2017

Festsaal (Alte Aula, Münzgasse 30, Tübingen)

09:00 - 10:00	Giuseppina Turco & Sabine Zerbian: Testing for processing advantages of linguistic effects of focus in L1 and L2 Slides
10:00 - 10:30	Aya Takeda (University of Hawaii), Amy J. Schafer, & Bonnie D. Schwartz: Intonational marking of Information Structure in L2 English Slides
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch (provided)
14:00 - 14:30	Antje Hey (Bielefeld University), Katharina Nimz & Petra Wagner: Comprehensibility in L2 speech: lexical stress versus sentence accent Slides
14:30 - 15:00	Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University), Heather Kember, Robert Mailhammer & Anne Cutler: Pitch and syntactic disambiguation in English and German: An Eye-tracking Study Slides
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30	Anne Cutler: What is special about prosody in processing? Slides
16:30 - 16:45	Farewell
18:00-20:00	Social Event: Stocherkahnfahren (only with prior registration) - meeting point: Evangelisches Stift, Klosterberg 2, 72070 Tübingen

Special session (Thursday, 11:00-12:30): SpeechNet BaWü

Members of SpeechNet BaWü present their work conducted in collaboration with Anne Cutler and Heather Kember (the research was supported by a DAAD research grant (Australia – Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme)).

Yuki Asano, Ann-Kathrin Grohe, Heather Kember, Andrea Weber: Perception of Australian English Uptalk

Heather Kember, Ann-Kathrin Grohe, Katharina Zahner, Bettina Braun, Andrea Weber, Anne Cutler: Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English

Katharina Zahner, Heather Kember, Bettina Braun: Mind the peak – When museum is temporarily understood as musical in Australian English

Poster session (Friday, 11:00-12:30)

1. L. Ann Burchfield (Western Sydney University) & Heather Kember: Effect of Language Background on L2 Focus Perception

2. Hui-Ching Chen (University of Potsdam), Stephen Crain & Barbara Höhle: Comprehension of prosodic and syntactic focus marking in Mandarin Chinese - Data from children and adults

3. Syrine Daoussi Díaz (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Lorraine Baqué & Marta Estrada: Are French speakers… “stress deaf”?

## cancelled ### 4. Sichang Gao (Shanghai International Studies University): The Study of Prosodic Grouping by Chinese as a Second Language Learners

5. Alastair Graham-Marr (Tokyo University of Science): Do prosodic differences between English and Japanese disadvantage Japanese learners of English?

6. Sergio Quiroz (Humboldt University of Berlin): Is intonation susceptible to the asymmetrical language switch cost?: A theoretical exploration

7. Chikako Takahashi (Stony Brook University), Hyunah Baek, Sophia Kao & Alex HL Yeung: Processing and production of English focus prosody by native English vs. Mandarin speakers

8. Thanh Lan Truong (University of Tuebingen) & Yuki Asano: Udon Know Me: HL or LH? Pitch accent in spoken word recognition

9. Sin Kwan Yuen (University of Tuebingen) & Yuki Asano: Processing tonal contrast between native Chinese and English listeners