Global Utilities

Linguistics Program

Workshops

Semester 2, 2007

Workshop On The Phonetics And Phonology Of Australian Languages

3rd and 4th December 2007
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Room 330, David Myers Building East

Supported by:

  • ASSTA (Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association)
  • La Trobe University.

Abstracts (pdf, 208KB)

To register your interest please contact Dr Marija Tabain on (03) 9479 1521 or m.tabain@latrobe.edu.au

 

Monday    
09:30 WELCOME COFFEE  
10:00 Instrumental Studies Chair - Ingram
10:00 Stopped Laterals in Iwaidja Butcher, Birch, Evans, Fletcher
10:40 Positional Variation in Consonant Articulation in Warlpiri Fletcher, Butcher, Loakes
11:20 The absence of anticipatory nasalisation in the Northern Australian language, Kunwinjku Kun-Wok, a dialect of Bininj Gun-Wok Stoakes
12:00 An EPG study of apical harmony in Arrernte Tabain
12:40 LUNCH  
14:00 Apicals Chair - Butcher
14:00 Reflecting on retroflexion Breen
14:40 Coronal place oppositions Baker, Harvey
15:20 AFTERNOON TEA  
16:00 Intonation Chair - Fletcher
16:00 Intonational marking of focus in Warlpiri narratives Chapman
16:40 Phrasing and boundary tones in two Arrernte narratives Rickard
17:20 FINISH  
19:30 DINNER  
Tuesday    
09:00 "Periphals" Chair - Baker
09:00 What's up with /u/? Breen
09:40 Phonetic and phonological aspects of Aboriginal English Butcher
10:20 Phonological features of Kaytetye song Turpin
11:00 MORNING COFFEE  
11:30 Processes Chair - Tabain
11:30 Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Arrernte VCV sequences Graetzer
12:10 Gradients of lenition in Warlpiri rhotics and phonetic conditions of sound change Ingram, Laughren
12:50 Phonotactic structure and word forms in Lamalama, an initial-dropping language of Cape York Peninsula Pentland
13:30 FINISH AND FAREWELL LUNCH  

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