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For SST2016, we invited submission of 4-page papers (for a 20-minute oral presentation or a poster presentation and publication in the proceedings) and 1-page abstracts (for poster presentation only and publication in the conference programme). The submissions were all blind peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers, and papers were selected on the basis of reviewer comments and scores. Authors resubmitted final deanonymised versions of their papers and abstracts that took into account the reviewers’ comments.
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SST2016 Conference
Novotel Sydney Parramatta |
| Wednesday 7 December 2016 |
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Oral Sessions 11:00-12:15 |
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L1 ACQUISITION
Chair: Titia Benders |
SPEECH PROSODY
Chair: Sasha Calhoun |
| 11:00-11:25 |
Fundamental
frequency characteristics of infant vocalisations: A study in voice quality |
Perception of
statement and question intonation: Cantonese versus Mandarin |
| Adele Gregory and Marija Tabain |
Una Chow and Stephen Winters |
| 11:25-11:50 |
3-year-olds
produce pitch contours consistent with Mandarin tone 3 sandhi |
Prosodic
characteristics of Japanese polite speech spoken by native and non-native
speakers |
| Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ping Tang, Ivan Yuen, Liqun Gao and
Katherine Demuth |
Chiharu Tsurutani, Shuju Shi
and Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 11:50-12:15 |
The
role of positive affect in the acquisition of word-object associations |
Accentual
lengthening in 5-year-old AusE-speaking children: Preliminary results |
| Nicole Traynor, Karen Mulak, Rachel Robbins, Gabrielle Weidemann
and Paola Escudero |
Ivan Yuen, Nan Xu Rattanasone,
Elaine Schmidt, Gretel Macdonald, Rebecca Holt and Katherine Demuth |
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Oral Sessions 1:05-2:20 |
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AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGES
Chair: Rikke
Bundgaard-Nielsen |
L2 ACQUISITION
Chair: Karen Mulak |
| 1:05-1:30 |
A
comparative ultrasound study of manner contrasts in Arrernte and Kannada:
Manner contrasts |
Tailoring
phonetic learning to the needs of individuals on the basis of language
aptitude |
| Marija Tabain, Alexei Kochetov, Richard Beare and Narayan
Sreedevi |
Mark Antoniou and Melissa Blair |
| 1:30-1:55 |
Verbal
reduplication and minimal words in Kaytetye |
L2 phonological
category formation and discrimination in learners varying in L2 experience |
| Forrest Panther, Mark Harvey, Harold Koch, Myfany Turpin and
Michael Proctor |
Mona Faris, Catherine Best and
Michael Tyler |
| 1:55-2:20 |
Short
vowels in L1 Aboriginal English spoken in South-Western Victoria |
The effects of
training order and intensity on the perception and production of English
/e/-/ae/ by Cantonese ESL learners |
| Deborah Loakes, Janet Fletcher, John Hajek, Joshua Clothier and
Ben Volchok |
Janice Wing Sze Wong |
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Oral Sessions 2:40-3:55 |
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APPLICATIONS OF SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Adam Vogel |
SOCIOPHONETICS
Chair: Debbie Loakes |
| 2:40-3:05 |
The
Australian SpIN� speech in noise test |
Similarity in
global accent promotes generalized learning of accent markers |
| Peter Blamey, Maryam Zargarbashi, Jeremy Blamey and Elaine
Saunders |
Ann-Kathrin Grohe, Margarita
Downing and Andrea Weber |
| 3:05-3:30 |
Using
optical flow and electromagnetic articulography in multimodal speech research |
Patterns of
gender variation in the speech of primary school-aged children in Australian
English: The case of /p t k/ |
| Samantha Gordon Danner, Louis Goldstein, Eric
Vatikiotis-Bateson, Robert Fuhrman and Adriano Barbosa |
Casey Tait and Marija Tabain |
| 3:30-3:55 |
Acoustic
monitoring of speech impairment in motor neuron disease associated with
frontotemporal dementia: A case series |
Change in
Māori focus/topic ko:
The impact of language contact on prosody |
| Matthew Poole, Amy Brodtmann, David Darby and Adam Vogel |
Sasha Calhoun, Naoko Yui and
Karena Kelly |
| Thursday 8 December 2016 |
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Oral Sessions 10:30-12:10 |
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SPEECH
PERCEPTION I
Chair: Heather Kember |
SPECIAL SESSION: EFFECTS OF
EARLY LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT AND LINGUISTIC INPUT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH
PERCEPTION SKILLS IN THE FIRST YEARS OF LIFE
Chair:
Marina Kalashnikova |
ARTICULATORY PHONETICS
Chair: Donald Derrick |
| 10:30-10:55 |
Disambiguation
of Australian English vowels |
Does a vowel by
any other accent sound the same � to toddler ears? |
Exploring
articulatory characteristics of linking /ɹ/ in British English |
| Tunde
Szalay, Titia Benders, Felicity Cox and Michael Proctor |
Catherine Best, Christine
Kitamura, Sophie Gates, and Angela Carpenter |
Mitsuhiro Nakamura |
| 10:55-11:20 |
Regional priming
in Australian English kit, dress and trap vowels |
Measuring
sensitivity to phonological detail in monolingual and bilingual infants using
pupillometry |
Tongue positions
corresponding to formant values in Australian English vowels |
| Michael
Walker, Anita Szakay and Felicity Cox |
Katalin Tam�si, Thilanga
Wewalaarachchi, Barbara H�hle and Leher Singh |
Arwen Blackwood Ximenes, Jason
Shaw and Christopher Carignan |
| 11:20-11:45 |
The relative
contributions of duration and amplitude to the perception of
Japanese-accented English as a function of L2 experience |
Sensitivity to
vowel, consonant and tone variation in early childhood |
Nasal
aerodynamics and coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: Smoothing spline analysis
of variance |
| Saya
Kawase, Jeesun Kim and Chris Davis |
Thilanga D. Wewalaarachchi and
Leher Singh |
Hywel Stoakes, Janet Fletcher
and Andrew Butcher |
| 11:45-12:10 |
The role of
closure duration in the perception of word-initial geminates in Kelantan
Malay |
The effects of
allomorphic variation on children�s acquisition of plural morphology |
Preliminary
investigations into the Australian English articulatory vowel space |
| Mohd
Hilmi Hamzah, Janet Fletcher and John Hajek |
Benjamin Davies, Nan Xu
Rattanasone and Katherine Demuth |
Louise Ratko, Michael Proctor,
Felicity Cox and Sean Veld |
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Oral Sessions 1:10-2:25 |
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BILINGUALISM
Chair: Mark Antoniou |
FORENSIC SPEECH SCIENCE I
Chair: Eugenia San Segundo Fernandez |
SPEECH REGISTERS
Chair: Denis Burnham |
| 1:10-1:35 |
The early
bilingual influence on speech and music processing |
Preliminary
performance comparison between PCAKLR and GMM-UBM for computing the strength
of speech evidence in forensic voice comparison |
Free labeling of
audio-visual attitudinal expressions in German |
| Liquan
Liu |
Hanie Mehdinezhad and Bernard
Guillemin |
Hansj�rg Mixdorff, Angelika
H�nemann and Albert Rilliard |
| 1:35-2:00 |
Monolingual and
bilingual adults can successfully learn foreign language words implicitly |
Impact of
various GSM network factors on forensic voice comparison |
An analysis of
Lombard Effect on Thai lexical tones: The role of communicative aspect |
| Hana
Zjakic, Alba Tuninetti and Paola Escudero |
Balamurali Nair, Esam Alzqhoul
and Bernard Guillemin |
Chariya Boontham, Chutamanee
Onsuwan, Tanawan Saimai and Charturong Tantibundhit |
| 2:00-2:25 |
The bilingual
advantage in the language processing domain: Evidence from the Verbal Fluency
Task |
Adapted Gaussian
Mixture Model in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison using long
term fundamental frequency |
Whispered and
Lombard speech: Different ways to exaggerate articulation |
| Gloria
Pino Escobar, Marina Kalashnikova and Paola Escudero |
Carolin Elisabeth Buncle
Diesner and Shunichi Ishihara |
Chris Davis and Jeesun Kim |
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Oral Sessions 2:50-4:05 |
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SPEECH
PERCEPTION II
Chair: Laurence Bruggeman |
SPEECH ENHANCEMENT
Chair: Julien Epps |
PITCH ACCENT
Chair: Chiharu Tsurutani |
| 2:50-3:15 |
Revisiting the
interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit |
Comparison of
speech enhancement algorithms for forensic applications |
Searching for
importance: Focus facilitates memory for words in English |
Chang
Shu, Ian Wilson and
Jeremy Perkins |
Ahmed Hasan, David Dean,
Bouchra Senadji and Vinod Chandran |
Heather Kember, Jiyoun Choi and
Jenny Yu |
| 3:15-3:40 |
Speech
normalization across speaker, sex and accent variation is handled similarly
by listeners of different language backgrounds |
A Kalman
filtering algorithm with joint metrics-based tuning for single-channel speech
enhancement |
Pitch accent
type affects lexical activation in German: Evidence from eye tracking |
| Gloria
Pino Escobar, Josephine Terry, Buddhamas Pralle Kriengwatana and Paola
Escudero |
Aidan George, Stephen So, Ratna
Ghosh and Kuldip Paliwal |
Katharina Zahner, Muna
Sch�nhuber, Janet Grijzenhout and Bettina Braun |
| 3:40-4:05 |
Cross-accent
word recognition is affected by perceptual assimilation |
A comparison of
estimation methods in the discrete cosine transform modulation domain for
speech enhancement |
Evidence and
intonational contours: An experimental approach to meaning in intonation |
| Sarah
Wright, Mark Lathouwers, Catherine Best and Michael Tyler |
Aidan George, Christine
Pickersgill, Belinda Schwerin and Stephen So |
Byron Ahn, Stefanie
Shattuck-Hufnagel and Nanette Veilleux |
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Oral Sessions 4:30-5:45 |
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MORPHOPHONOLOGY
Chair: Mark Harvey |
SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Chair: Frantz Clermont |
LEXICAL TONE
Chair: Ivan Yuen |
| 4:30-4:55 |
�She has many...
cat?�: On-line processing of L2 morphophonology by Mandarin learners of
English |
A noise-robust
linear prediction analysis for efficient speech coding |
Normalization of
Zhangzhou citation tones |
| Valeria
Peretokina, Catherine Best, Michael Tyler and Bruno Di Biase |
Aadel Alatwi, Stephen So and
Kuldip Paliwal |
Yishan Huang, Mark Donohue,
Phil Rose and Paul Sidwell |
| 4:55-5:20 |
Pause
acceptability is predicted by morphological transparency in Wubuy |
Synthesizing
attitudes in German |
Comparing
normalisation strategies for citation tone F0 in four Chinese dialects |
| Brett
Baker and Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen |
Angelika H�nemann and Petra
Wagner |
Philip Rose |
| 5:20-5:45 |
Morphological
status and acoustic realization: Findings from New Zealand English |
Exploring text
to speech synthesis in non-standard languages |
Perception of
tonal contrasts: High-variability perceptual training with iconic visual
information |
| Julia
Zimmermann |
Jesin James, Catherine Watson
and Deepa Gopinath |
Yan Chen |
| Friday 9 December 2016 |
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INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH
Chair: Nan Xu
Rattanasone |
AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Chair: Catherine Watson |
| 11:15-11:40 |
Exploring
the association of infant temperament on maternal fundamental frequency
contours |
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| Alix Woolard, Titia Benders, Linda Campbell, Frini Karayanidis,
Joerg Mattes, Vanessa Murphy, Olivia Whalen and Alison Lane |
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| 11:40-12:05 |
Emotion-related
explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech |
Noise-robust
linear prediction cepstral features for network speech recognition |
| Titia Benders |
Aadel Alatwi, Stephen So and
Kuldip Paliwal |
| 12:05-12:30 |
The
role of affect processing on infant word learning |
Formant dynamics
and durations of um improve the performance of automatic
speaker recognition systems |
| Jessica Bazouni, Liquan Liu, Gabrielle Weidemann and Paola
Escudero |
Vincent Hughes, Paul Foulkes
and Sophie Wood |
| 12:30-12:55 |
Exploring
quantitative differences in mothers� and fathers� infant-directed speech to
Australian 6-month-olds |
Eigenfeatures:
An alternative to Shifted Delta Coefficients for language identification |
| Christa Lam-Cassettari and Paige Noble |
Sarith Fernando, Vidhyasaharan
Sethu and Eliathamby Ambikairajah |
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Oral Sessions 1:45-3:25 |
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ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
Chair: Hywel
Stoakes |
SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION
Chair: Vincent Hughes |
| 1:45-2:10 |
Secondary
tongue retraction in Arabic emphatics: An acoustic study |
Lacking vision:
Insights into the automatic classification of emotion in AMC�s the walking
dead |
| Hamed Altairi, Catherine Watson and Jason Brown |
Joanne Quinn |
| 2:10-2:35 |
Sound
change or experimental artifact? A study on the impact of data preparation on
measuring sound change |
Depression
prediction via acoustic analysis of formulaic word fillers |
| Catherine Watson and Zoe Evans |
Brian Stasak, Julien Epps and
Nicholas Cummins |
| 2:35-3:00 |
Temporal
correlates of Lopit singleton and geminate glides |
Time to embrace
emotion change: Selecting emotionally salient segments for speech-based
emotion prediction |
| Rosey Billington |
Zhaocheng Huang and Julien Epps |
| 3:00:3:25 |
Child
Kriol has stop distinctions based on VOT and constriction duration |
Continuous
spoken emotion recognition based on time-frequency features of the glottal
pulse signal within stressed vowels |
| Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker and Elise Bell |
Li Tian and Catherine Watson |
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Oral Sessions 3:45-5:00 |
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CROSS-LANGUAGE VOWEL PERCEPTION
Chair:
Kimiko Tsukada |
FORENSIC SPEECH SCIENCE II
Chair: Bernard Guillemin |
| 3:45-4:10 |
Can
Australian English listeners learn non-native vowels via distributional
learning? |
The effect of
sampling procedures on the performance of likelihood ratio based forensic
voice comparison: F0 distributional parameters |
| Jia Hoong Ong, Josephine Terry and Paola Escudero |
Shunichi Ishihara |
| 4:10-4:35 |
The
relationship between Australian English speakers� non-native perception and
production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels |
Exploring
forensic accent recognition using the Y-ACCDIST system |
| Jaydene Elvin, Paola Escudero, Daniel Williams and Catherine
Best |
Georgina Brown |
| 4:35-5:00 |
Lebanese
Arabic listeners find Australian English vowels easy to discriminate |
Holistic
perception of voice quality matters more than L1 when judging speaker
similarity in short stimuli |
| Ronda Aboultaif, Jaydene Elvin, Daniel Williams and Paola
Escudero |
Eugenia San Segundo, Paul
Foulkes and Vincent Hughes |
