Conference Programme

Conference Programme

Workshop Programmes

Workshop 6: Factors influencing the stability of phonetic contrasts and phonemic oppositions

Workshop Coordination

Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin)
jannedy@leibniz-zas.de
Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
melanie.weirich@uni-jena.de

Room SFG 1020

Workshop description

Programme of Workshop 6

06 March 2019
08:00 –09:00	Registration
08:00 –09:00	Welcome
09:30 –10:30	Plenary talk
10:30 –11:00	Presentation of the Wilhelm von Humboldt-Prize
11:00 –11:30	Coffee break
11:30 –12:30	Plenary talk
12:30 –13:45	Lunch break/ SIG Computational Linguistics: general assembly
13:45 –14:15	Stefanie Jannedy (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) & Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Introduction
14:15 –14:45	Johanna Stahnke (University of Wuppertal) Phonological (in-)stability in bilingual language acquisition
14:45 –15:15	Matthias Hahn (University of Leipzig) The spatial dimension of fortis and lenis in German near standard pronunciation: Opposition and contrast
15:15 –15:45	Nicola Klingler (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) On the instability of the voicing contrast in final position in the Viennese Standard variety
15:45 –16:30	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 1)
16:30 –17:00 cancelled	Daniel Márcio Rodrigues Silva (Federal University of Minas Gerais) & Rui Rothe-Neves (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Vowel reduction and auditory discriminability in stressed and unstressed syllables: A mismatch negativity study
16:30 –17:00 new	Markus Jochim (IPS, LMU München) Dialect contact, perceptual divergence, and the potential instability of the /s, ç, ʃ/ contrast in standard German.
17:00 –18:00	Andrew B. Wedel [invited speaker] (University of Arizona) Optimization for efficient lexical information transmission shapes systems of phonological contrast
19:30 –	Conference Dinner

07 March 2019
09:00 –09:30	Daniel Duran (University of Freiburg) From language change to phonetic convergence (and back again)
09:30 –10:00	Iona Gessinger (Saarland University), Bernd Möbius (Saarland University), Eran Raveh (Saarland University) & Ingmar Steiner (DFKI GmbH) Human-computer interaction: Convergence in allophonic contrasts
10:00 –10:30	Final discussion
10:30 –11:15	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)
12:45 –13:45	DFG InfoEvent (Helga Weyerts-Schweda) Lunch break/ Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 3)
15:00 –18:30	General Assembly of the DGfS
19:30 –	Reception in the foyer of the Übersee-Museum