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Welcome to the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology

hosted by the University of New Mexico


Conference Dates: 8-10 July 2010 (three full days)

Information about submitting manuscripts to the journal will be posted soon ...

Poster presenters
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The theme of this conference is “Gesture as language, gesture and language.” This theme will be addressed from different perspectives by an exciting list of invited speakers, as well as by contributed oral presentations and posters. Non-thematic sessions (both oral and poster) will include 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