Welcome to the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
hosted by the University of New Mexico
Conference Dates: 8-10 July 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection of submitted abstracts: 1 February 2010
Abstract submission is now closed. Thank you for your submissions. Reviewing is underway; reviewers can find detailed instructions here.
The theme of this conference is “Gesture as language, gesture and language.” We have an exciting list of invited speakers who will address this theme from different perspectives. Contributed papers and posters that relate to the conference theme will be solicited. There will also be non-thematic sessions to allow for contributions on other topics of interest to the LabPhon community.
Session themes and invited participants
- Speech as gesture
Invited speaker: Marianne Pouplier, LMU München
Discussant: Lucie Ménard, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Phonology of signed language
Invited speaker: Onno Crasborn, Radboud University
Discussant: Martha Tyrone, Haskins Laboratories
- Gesture with language
Invited speaker: Dan Loehr, Georgetown University and MITRE
Discussant: Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico
- Audiovisual aspects of speech
Invited speaker: Marc Swerts, Tilburg University
Discussant: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, University of British Columbia
- Diversity of speech gestures, focusing on Native American languages
Invited speaker: Sharon Hargus, University of Washington
Discussant: Heriberto Avelino, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Modulation of speech gestures through prosody or sound change
Invited speaker: José Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Marie Huffman, SUNY Stony Brook