SSRC: conference talks

For announcements of new conference presentations since Jan 2010: see the icon below. 2008 ticker... [60] talks

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2010 upcoming presentations

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160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and jointly 2nd PAN AMERICAN/IBERIAN MEETING ON ACOUSTICS, 7th Iberoamerican Congress on Acoustics , and 17th Mexican Congress on Acoustics) Special Session on Production and Perception of Spontaneous Speech, Cancun, Mexico, Nov 15-19, [http://asa.aip.org/cancun/cancun.html]

• James M Scobbie, Alice Turk, Christian Geng and others "The Edinburgh Speech Production Facility’s articulatory corpus of spontaneous dialogue "

2010 ASHA Convention (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), Philadelphia, USA, Nov 18–20, [http://www.asha.org/asha10/]

• Wael Dakroury, Nigel Hewlett, Jocelynne Watson and Hilary Gardner "Verbal characteristics of 4-5 years old Saudi males with ADHD "

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British Association of Academic Phoneticians, London, 29-31 March 2010 [link]

• de Leeuw, Esther, Mennen, Ineke Scobbie, James M. "L1 attrition of the lateral phoneme /l/"
• Zharkova, Natalia, Lickley, Robin "An acoustic and articulatory investigation of high vowels in Scottish English children and adults"
• Dickie, Catherine, Draxler, Christoph, Schaeffler, Felix, Jänsch, Klaus "Updating the Scottish accent map: preliminary formant data from the VOYS corpus"
• Schaeffler, Sonja, Scobbie, James M., Mennen, Ineke "Open-Mouthed or Stiff Upper Lip? Obtaining Data on Articulatory Settings in Bilingual Speakers"
• Lawson, Eleanor, Scobbie, Jim, Stuart-Smith, Jane "Variable tongue configuration in Scottish English postvocalic-/r/"
• Turk, Alice, Scobbie, James, Geng, Christian, King, Simon, Macmartin, Cedric, Nakai, Satsuki "The Edinburgh Speech Production Facility"
• Zharkova, Natalia "Development of segment-specific coarticulation: an ultrasound study"
• Schaeffler, Felix, Beck, Janet " Longitudinal voice monitoring using mobile devices"
• Gordeeva, Olga, Scobbie, James M "Acoustic quantification of aspiration in normal and whispered phonation"
  

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The Occupational Voice Symposium, University College London, London, 25th - 26th March 2009. [link]

• Linzi Fowler, Janet Mackenzie Beck and Felix Schaeffler "The highs and lows of vocal performance: tracking longitudinal fluctuations in teachers' voices"
• Janet Mackenzie Beck and Felix Schaeffler "A longitudinal study of voice features and vocal load in a contact centre environment"

National Cleft Palate SIG, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 25th March 2009

• Joanne Cleland, Electropalatography Therapy for Children with Down's Syndrome

American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas, 1st - 4th April 2009.[link]

• Christine DePlacido "Exploring acquired hearing loss; Perspectives from Dallas"

EPG Workshop, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 15th - 16th June 2009.

• Fiona Gibbon, Alan Wrench and Joanne Cleland title tba

7th International Symposium on Bilingualism. University of Utrecht, Netherlands; 8-11 July 2009

• de Leeuw, E. "Different strokes for different folks, or inter- and intrapersonal variation in phonetic L1 attrition"

19th European Second Language Association Conference. University of Cork, UK; 2–5 September 2009.

• de Leeuw, E. "Reassessing the concept of native speech"

• Fiona Gibbon "Imaging technology and the treatment of speech disorders"

2007 [back to top] - 66 talks!

UK Gauchers Association 15th Anniversary Conference, Wembley Plaza, Wembley, London, UK, 20-21 January 2007

• Pauline E Campbell "Deficits in the auditory brainstem pathway encoding of speech in children with neuronopathic Gaucher disease" (Invited talk)

KTH Speech, Hearing and Music Seminar, Stock[back to top] [back to top] [back to top] holm, Sweden. 24 January 2007

• Olga Gordeeva and James M Scobbie. "Phonetic dimensions and function of preaspirated voiceless fricatives in Scottish English"

Fifth International Scientific Conference on Lysosomal Disorders. Lisbon, Portugal 17-18 February 2007.

• Pauline E Campbell "Brainstem auditory evoked responses in Gaucher disease and in other Lysosomal Storage Diseases" (Invited talk)

2nd Northern Englishes Workshop, Edinburgh, 18-19 March, 2007.

• James M Scobbie, Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson "Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging"
• Jane Stuart-Smith & Claire Timmins "The role of television in the spread of L-vocalization in Glaswegian vernacular"

P Workshop, University of Edinburgh. March 27th 2007

• Natalia Zharkova "Coarticulation resistance of English consonants and vowels: an ultrasound study"

Gatlinburg Conference on research & theory in intellectual & developmental disabilities, Gatlinburg 7th-9th March 2007

• Sara Wood, Bill Hardcastle, Joanne McCann, Claire Timmins and Jennifer Wishart "Using electropalatograpy (EPG) to assess and treat speech articulation difficulties in children with Down's syndrome"

Journées des Sciences de la Parole, Charleroi, Belgium, 30th March 2007

• James M Scobbie "mailto:SPeppe@qmu.ac.ukingual/palatal contact in normal and disordered speech: an overview of Electropalatography research at QMU" (Invited talk)

Afasic 4th International Symposium, Warwick 2-5th April 2007
Poster Presentation:

• Joanne McCann, Claire Timmins, William Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Jennifer Wishart "Electropalatography Therapy for Articulation Disorders in Children with Down's Syndrome"

Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations, 2 April, Reading, UK [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/e Maison des Sciences de l'Homme -Alpes, Grenoble pu/Programme SPiAP 2007.pdf]

• Niall Watt, Ineke Mennen & Nicholas Miller "An autosegmental-metrical investigation of intonation in people with Parkinson’s Disease"Aspects of rhythm and intonation in ataxic dysarthria
• Sue Peppé "Assessment of prosodic ability in atypical populations" (Keynote talk)
• Catherine Dickie, Ann Clark and Mits Ota "Does the phonological deficit in developmental dyslexia extend beyond the segmental level?"
• Cordula Klein, Anja Lowit & Ineke Mennen "Aspects of rhythm and intonation in ataxic dysarthria"

The 16th InPLA (Interchange of Research in Applied Linguistics) Conference, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, April 30th-May 1st 2007

• Janet Beck "Short course on Vocal Profile Analysis" (2-5 May 2007)

1st World Conference on Cluttering, Katarino, Bulgaria. 12-14 May 2007

• Lickley, R.J. (2007). "Hesitation, error and repair in typical spontaneous speech: Baseline data for cluttering?"

6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Hamburg. 30 May - 2 June, 2007. [http://www.isb6.org/static/index.php]

• Esther de Leeuw "Perception of foreign Accent in Native Speech"

On Linguistic Interfaces (ONLI), University of Ulster, Belfast, 1-3 June 2007

• James M Scobbie "Interface and Overlap in Phonetics and Phonology" (Invited keynote talk)

8th EFAS Congress 2007, 6-9 June 2007, Heidelberg, Germany

• Campbell PE, Harris CM "What is 'normal hearing' in paediatric audiology?"
• Liddell A, Owens D, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Wolters M "Random gap detection testing: A useful measure of auditory processing in an aging population? "
• Owens D, Liddell A, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Wolters M "The influence of extended high frequency hearing thresholds on otoacoustic emissions in an aging population."
• Deplacido. Christine "Adult Aural rehabilitation:person centred or cost effective?"

Seminar Plymouth, UK June 13th 2007mailto:SPeppe@QMU.ac.uk

• Pauline E Campbell "Auditory brainstem processing in children with multi-sensory impairments" (Invited talk)

39th European Human Genetics Conference (EHGC), Nice, France, 16-19 June. 2007

• Vellodi A, Harris C, DeVile C, Davies E, Fitzgibbon A, Abel L, Campbell PE, van Schaik IN, Benko W, Timmons M, Schiffmann R (2007) Miglustat in Gaucher Disease Type 3: Results of a 24-month Study.

Child Language Seminar 2007, University of Reading, 18-20 July 2007 [http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/cls2007.html]

• Lori Leighton and Ann Clark "Specific Language Impairment: Is there a link between a child's semantic ability (expressive or receptive) and their ability to repeat non-words? Evidence from a Scottish Study"

New techniques in sound pattern research, Stanford, USA, July 14-15, 2007

• Marianne Pouplier and James M. Scobbie "Resyllabification in connected speech, or not: A new empirical study of English /l/ vocalisation" (Invited talk)

16th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS 2007), Saarbruecken, 6-10 August 2007 [http://www.icphs2007.de]

• Joanne McCann and Alan A Wrench "A new EPG protocol for assessing DDK accuracy scores in children: A Down's Syndrome study" [pdf]
• James M Scobbie, Marianne Pouplier and Alan A. Wrench "Conditioning factors in external sandhi: An EPG study of English /l/ vocalisation" [pdf]
• Claire Timmins, William J. Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Joanne McCann and Jennifer Wishart "Variability in fricative production of young people with Down's syndrome: an EPG analysis" [pdf]
• Maria Wolters, Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido, Amy Liddell, David Owens (2007) Does age-related extended high frequency hearing loss affect the intelligibility of synthetic speech? [pdf]
• James M Scobbie "Biological and social grounding of phonology: variation as a research tool." [pdf]
• Olga Gordeeva "Learnability of laryngeal abduction in voiceless fricatives: cross-linguistic evidence" [pdf]
• Sue Peppe "Prosodic boundary in the speech of children with autism" [pdf]
• Sonja Schaeffler and Vera Kempe "Mothers Are Less Efficient in Employing Prosodic Disambiguation in Child-Directed Speech than Non-Mothers: Is There a Trade-Off Between Affective and Linguistic Prosody? [pdf]
• Kirsten Lambert, Farhana Alam and Jane Stuart-Smith "Investigating British Asian accents: Studies from Glasgow" [pdf]
• Ineke Mennen, Felix Schaeffler and Gerard Docherty "Pitching it differently: a comparison of the pitch ranges of German and English speakers" [pdf]
• Catherine Dickie, Mitsuhiko Ota and Ann Clark "The phonological deficit in developmental dyslexia: is there a suprasegmental component?" [pdf]
• Esther de Leeuw, Monika Schmid and Ineke Mennen "Global foreign accent in native German speech" [pdf]
• Marko Liker and Fiona E. Gibbon "Articulatory characteristics of velar stops in adult English speakers" [pdf]
• Ivan Yuen, Alice Lee and Fiona E. Gibbon "Lingual contact in selected English vowels and its acoustic consequence" [pdf]
• Mariam Hartinger, William J Hardcastle and Fiona Gardiner "Effects of loudness and complex speech on spataial and temporal precision in Parkinson's Disease" [pdf

20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego USA 2007

• McMillan, C. T., Corley, M., and  Lickley, R.J. "Subphonemic exchange errors in speech: Evidence from Articulation."

13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Turku, Finland. August 24-27, 2007 http://amlap.utu.fi/

• McMillan, C. T., Corley, M., and Lickley, R.J. "Articulation and VOT evidence for partial phoneme selection in speech production."

7th Interspeech Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007

• Wolters M, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Liddell A, Owens D (2007) The role of outer hair cell function in the perception of synthetic versus natural speech.

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, Germany, August 22-24, 2007

• Maria K Wolters, Pauline E Campbell, Christine G DePlacido, Amy Liddell, David Owens "Making speech synthesis more accessible to older people"

BAAL 40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh, 6-8 September 2007 [http://www.baal.org.uk/conf2007/index.htm]

• Ben Matthews, Svenja Wurm, Graham Turner "British Sign Language and Written English Literacy Practices"

4th Annual Graduate Workshop on First Language Attrition, Amsterdam, January 2006

• Esther de Leeuw "Research Plans: An acoustic and articulatory ultrasound analysis of bi-directional interference in bilinguals"

Workshop on Auditory Processing in Speakers with Acquired or Developmental Language Disorders, Utrecht, Netherlands, 23-24 January 2006.

• James M Scobbie "Looking behind the curtain: Articulatory perspectives on disordered child speech".

British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Edinburgh, 10-12 April 2006

• John Laver “The field of phonetics” Key-note address
  Natalia Zharkova and Nigel Hewlett “Coarticulation and anti-coarticulation in Russian”.
• Ioulia Grichkovtsova “Child affective prosody in Scottish English and French”.
• Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez “Cross-linguistic study of closure-related tongue perturbations”.
• James Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith “Where the [l] [r] they? An ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish English liquids”.
• Sue Peppe, Ineke Mennen, Joanne McCann, Ivan Yuen, Robin Lickley, Pastora Martinez Castilla, Fiona Gibbon, Anne O’Hare, Marion Rutherford, and Joanna Keating “Prosodic boundary in children with autism:listener perceptions”.
• Jessica Roder, Anja Lowit, Ellika Schalling, Lena Hartelius, Pascal Auzou and Ineke Mennen “Rhythm in ataxic dysarthria: A cross-linguistic study ”.
• Sharynne McLeod “Cumulative maximum contact frames for eight Australians’ productions of lingual consonants” .
• Olga Gordeeva and James Scobbie “Phonetic conditioning of word-final ejective stops in the speech of Scottish pre-school children” [pdf]
• Ben Matthews “Lipspeaking: an evolving discipline”.
• Alice Lee, Susanna Brown and Fiona Gibbon:”Effect of linguistic background on perceptual judgements of hypernasality”. .
• Fiona Gibbon, Alice Lee, Ivan Yuen and Lisa Crampin: “Articulation of clicks in children with velocardiofacial syndrome”.
  

American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association ACPA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 5-8 April 2006.

• Alice Lee, Fiona Gibbon, Lisa Crampin and Ivan Yuen “The national CLEFTNET project for children with cleft palate”.
• Alice Lee, Fiona Gibbon, and Susanna Brown “The effect of linguistic background of listeners on perceptual judgements of hypernasality”.
• Alice Lee, Tara Whitehill and Valter Ciocca “Perceptual and instrumental measures of hypernasality”.

19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, USA 2006

• Corey T. McMillan, S. Moat, Martin Corley and Robin J. Lickley "Monitoring action slips: Unifying articulatory and cognitive models of speech production".

Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden (Germany), May 2-5, 2006

• Gordeeva, O. "Interaction between the Scottish English System of Prominence and Vowel Length" [abstract]

Conference of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy, Belfast 10-12 May, 2006

• Lianne Carroll "Prosodic Skill Development Over Time in Children
  with High-Functioning Autism"

Manchester Phonology Meeting (14MFM), Manchester, 25-27 May 2006.

• James M Scobbie, Koen Sebregts and Jane Stuart-Smith "From subtle to gross variation: an ultrasound tongue imaging study of Dutch and Scottish English /r/." [ppt pdf]

The 11th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Dubrovnik, Croatia May 31-June 3, 2006.

• Alan Wrench and Sarah Howard "Automatical determination of Diadochokinetic measures using EPG".
• Sue Peppé, Ineke Mennen, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon, Anne O’Hare & Marion Rutherford "Perception of atypical expressive prosody and assessment of prosodic ability in autism spectrum disorders".
• Fiona E. Gibbon "Current perspectives on clinical applications of EPG".
• Justine Goozée, Bruce Murdoch, Anne Ozanne, Yan Cheng, Anne Hill & Fiona Gibbon "Lingual kinematics and coordination in speech disordered children exhibiting differentiated versus undifferentiated lingual gestures".
• Pastora Martínez Castilla & Sue Peppé "Intonation features of the expression of emotions in Spanish: preliminary study for a prosody assessment procedure".
• Esther Sced, Fiona Gibbon & Sue Peppé "The relationship between socio-economic status and lexical development"
• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon, Anne O’Hare, Marion Rutherford "Prosodic ability in Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism".
• Sue Peppé, Ineke Mennen, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon, Anne O’Hare & Marion Rutherford "Perception of atypical expressive prosody and assessment of prosodic ability in autism spectrum disorders"
• William Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Jennifer Wishart, Joanne McCann & Claire Timmins "Assessment and treatment of impaired speech motor control in children with Down’s syndrome".
  

International Meeting for Autism Research(IMFAR), Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June.

• Lianne Carroll "Prosodic Skill Development Over Time in Children
  with High-Functioning Autism"

5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen, 7th-10th June 2006.

• Natalia Zharkova and Nigel Hewlett title "Studying coarticulation resistance with ultrasound"
• Fay Windsor, Nigel Hewlett, Fiona Gibbon Production accuracy and duration of experimental words with iambic stress in typical and impaired speech development.
• Ineke Mennen, Fiona Gardiner, Linda Morrison, Duncan Gray, Sharon Sutherland, Rhona Brown, John Broughton & Alan Wrench "An electropalatography study into the effects of LSVT on articulation in Parkinson's Disease"
• Alice Lee, Ivan Yuen, Fiona Gibbon, and Lisa Crampin "Clicks in Two Children with Velocardiofacial Syndrome (VCFS)"
• Valter Ciocca, Danny P.-W.Chen, Alice S.-Y. Lee, and Tara L. Whitehill "Acoustic correlates of hypernasality in consonants"

Tenth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 10), Paris, 29 June - 1 July 2006

• James M Scobbie, Koen Sebregts and Jane Stuart-Smith "From subtle to gross variation: an ultrasound tongue imaging study of Dutch and Scottish English /r/." [pdf]

Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland, 18-21 July 2006.

• Anna Bosch and James M Scobbie "Regional variation in the Gaelic nasal mutation: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland"

Child Language Seminar, Newcastle upon Tyne, July 19-21, 2006.

• Olga Gordeeva, Ineke Mennen, James M. Scobbie "Language interaction in early bilingual phonology and the continuity in phonological development" [pdf]

9th World Down Syndrome Congress, Vancouver 22-26th August 2006

• William J Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Jennifer Wishart, Joanne McCann, Claire Timmins "Electropalatography Therapy for Articulation Disorders in Children with Down Syndrome"
  

Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2006), Nijmegen, Netherlands, Aug 30-Sep 1 2006 [http://www.amlap.org/]

• Corey T. McMillan, Martin Corley and Robin Lickley (2006). Articulatory evidence for interactivity in speech production.

ICA's Philosophy of the Overlooked: Hesitation, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, September 7 2006. [http://www.londonconsortium.com/events/hesitation.htm]

• Robin Lickley "Hesitant Speech"

Making New Connections 2, City University, London, 13-15 September 2006

• Claire Timmins, Willaim J. Hardcastle, Jennifer Wishart, Sara Wood, Joanne McCann "Post-Aveolar Sibilant Errors in Young People with Down's Syndrome" [abstract]

The Fourth Language at Edinburgh Lunch, University of Edinburgh, 22 September 2006 (http://langlunch.tardis.ed.ac.uk)

• Lianne Carroll "Theory of Mind Development in Children with High-Functioning Autism"

Communication Matters Symposium, Leicester University, Sept 2006

• MacDonald, Alison and Siggs, M. "Beyond the Symbol Chart: Chatbooks and Want Cards"

Seminar on Assessing Prosodic Ability, INSERM, University of Bordeaux September 2006.

• Sue Peppe, "Assessing Prosodic Ability in Autism".

P-Workshop, Edinburgh University, 31 October 2006.

• Olga Gordeeva & James M Scobbie "On the function of preaspirated voiceless fricatives in Scottish Standard English"

British Academy of Audiology Conference, Telford, 22-24 November 2006

• Jo Edwards - Early Vocabulary Development in Children with Cochlear Implants and the Influence of Auditory Verbal Habilitation: A Longitudinal Study
• Chris DePlacido - Comparison of Screening Methods Used for Identifying Hearing Loss in School Age Children in Scotland
• Pauline Campbell - Human Auditory Brainstem Offset Responses
• Liz Ross - Study of Scottish Cochlear Implant Patients and Their Partners: Experiences of Pre and Post-implant Lives

Disordered Auditory Processing in the Child: Nature, Assessment and Intervention: A multidisciplinary approach. London, 3-5 December 2006.

• Anne O’Hare, Ruth Henderson, Jocelynne Watson, Marjorie Douglas, Lesley Carroll-Few "The clinical picture – a selection of contrasting cases"
• Pauline Campbell "Electrophysiological measurement of the
  auditory brainstem in APD"
• Jo Edwards "Diagnosis of APD following cochlear implant fitting: case studies"
  

The Seattle Club: Conference on Research and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilites, Kendal 11th-12th December 2006

• Joanne McCann, William Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Jennifer Wishart & Claire Timmins "Electropalatography (EPG) Therapy for Articulation Disorders in Children with Down’s Syndrome"
  
  Claire Timmins, William Hardcastle, Sara Wood, Jennifer Wishart & Joanne McCann "Speech Articulation Variability in Children with Down's syndrome"
  

7th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Ubatuba, Brazil, 13-15 December 2006. [www.cefala.org/issp2006]

• Alan A. Wrench and James M. Scobbie "Spatio-temporal inaccuracies of video-based ultrasound images of the tongue" [pdf]

2005 [back to top] (count: [51] talks)

English Language Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 2nd February 2005.

• James M Scobbie "The Scottish Vowel Length Rule and the distribution of /ai/ variants in word-internal contexts" [pdf here - warning, 5MB]

Non-native Prosody: Phonetic Descriptions and Teaching Practice (Nicht-muttersprachliche Prosodie: phonetische Beschreibungen und didaktische Praxis), Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, 4-5 March 2005.

• Ineke Mennen "Phonological influence in second language intonation" (Invited talk)

Scottish NHS Research Day, Royal College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh, 14 March 2005.

• Fiona E Gibbon "The National CLEFTNET Project for Children with Cleft Palate"

5th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5). Barcelona, 20-23 March 2005. Special Colloquium "Acquisition of phonological structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual context." (http://isb5.uab.es/eng/index.html)

• Olga Gordeeva "Bilingual acquisition of vowel duration conditioning in Russian-Scottish English bilingual children" [pdf]
• Ioulia Grichkovtsova "Affective prosody of bilingual children: a cross-linguistic study"
• Ineke Mennen "Distinguishing phonological from phonetic influences in the intonation of Dutch/Greek bilinguals" [pdf]
• James M Scobbie "Two dialects or two languages: does it matter for phonetics and phonology?" [pdf]
• Ben Matthews, Ineke Mennen and Duncan Robb "Code-switching in the written language of BSL users"

and see also the organiser's talk: Ghada Khattab "Acquisition of geminate consonants by Arabic-French bilingual children" [pdf]

XV Annual Pacific Voice Conference and First International Pacific Voice & Speech Foundation / PIXAR Animation Studios Conference on Voice Quality and Emotions. PIXAR Animations Studios, Emeryville, California, USA 11-13 March, 2005.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Child affective speech: A cross-linguistic study of bilinguals (Scottish English and French)"

Scottish NHS Research Day, Royal College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh, 14 March 2005.

• Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé, Fiona E Gibbon, Ann O'Hare and Marion Rutherford "Prosodic Ability in Children with Autism"

Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Conference, Swansea, Wales, 13-15 April, 2005 (http://www.cfsgb.org.uk/Meetings/2005Swansea/2005SwanseaHome.htm)

• Fiona Gibbon, Alice S.-Y. Lee, Lisa Crampin and Ivan Yuen "The National CLEFTNET Project for Individuals with Cleft Palate" (poster)
• Fiona Gibbon and Lisa Crampin “Articulation of Clicks in a Child with Velocardiofacial Syndrome” (oral paper)
• Fiona Gibbon and Maria Wolters “A New Application of Ultrasound to Image Tongue Behaviour in Cleft Palate Speech” (poster)
• Alice S.-Y. Lee, Tara whitehill, Valter Ciocca "Perceptual and Instrumental Measures of Hypernasality" (poster)

Third Ultrasound Workshop, Tucson Arizona, USA, 14-16 April, 2005

• James Scobbie and Koen Sebregts "Getting at variation with ultrasound: examples from Scottish and Dutch /r/" [powerpoint - 3MB] [pdf - 1.5MB]
• Natalia Zharkova "An ultrasound study of the trough effect in VhV sequences"
• Yolanda Vazquez Alvarez "The Trough Effect: Can we predict tongue lowering from acoustic data alone?" [pdf]

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 9th Spring Meeting, University of York, 18-21 April 2005.

• Ann O'Hare, Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé, Fiona E Gibbon and Marion Rutherford "Prosodic Ability in Children with High Functioning Autism"

International Meeting for Autism Research, Boston, Massachusetts USA, 5-7 May 2005.

• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon, Ann O'Hare and Marion Rutherford (2005) "Receptive and Expressive Prosody and Language Skills in Children with High-Functioning Autism"
• Lianne Carroll, Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé, Fiona E Gibbon, Ann O'Hare and Marion Rutherford "Prosody and Language in Children with Autism"

Acoustical Society of America 149th Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 16-20 May 2005. http://asa.aip.org/vancouver/vancouver.html

• McMillan, C., Corley, M., Lickley, R., & Hartsuiker, R. J."Relative contributions of feedback and editing in language production: Behavioural and articulatory evidence"

13th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, England, 26-28 May 2005. http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/13mfm.html

• Koen Sebregts and James M Scobbie "From facts to phonology: an empirical study of rhotic allophony"

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on the theme of Plasticity in Speech Perception (PSP 2005). UCL, London, 15-17 June, 2005. http://www.psp2005.org.uk/

• James M Scobbie "Interspeaker variation as the long term outcome of dialectally varied input: speech production evidence for fine-grained plasticity" [abstract]

1st International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-26 June, 2005. (http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/iclce/iclce2005.html)

• James M Scobbie "The 'end' of phonology: the theoretical significance of interface phenomena " [abstract]

14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental and Social Psychology. Würzburg, Germany, 19-23 July, 2005.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Child affective speech: A cross-linguistic study of bilinguals"

Xth International Congress For the Study of Child Language. Berlin, 25-29 July, 2005.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "A cross-linguistic study of affective speech in bilingual children" (poster paper)

5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research. Wageningen, The Netherlands, 30 August - 2 September 2005.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Child affective speech recording and its acoustic analysis in a cross-linguistic perspective"

AMLaP'05. Ghent, Belgium, 2-5 September 2005. [http://www.amlap2005.ugent.be/index2.htm]

• Corey T McMillan, Martin Corley and Robin Lickley "Determining the causes of speech errors: Evidence from articulation."

DiSS 05 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. Aix-en-Provence, France, 10-12 September 2005 [http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/Diss05/ ]

• Hannele Nicholson, Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Lickley, Anne H. Anderson, Catriona Havard & Yiya Chen "Disfluency & Behaviour in Dialogue: Evidence from Eye-Gaze"

Fifth Meeting of the UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 5). University of Aberdeen, 12-14 September 2005. [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/langling/uklvc5/]

• James M Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith "Ongoing variation and change in Glasgow liquids: a pilot ultrasound study" [pdf - 16Mb, no sound or movies]

National Autistic Society International Conference. London, 22-24 September 2005.

• Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé, Fiona E Gibbon, Ann O'Hare and Marion Rutherford "Prosody and Children with Autism"

 

4th International EPG Symposium, Edinburgh, 29-30 September 2005.

[http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/ssrc/conf/EPG4_2005]

• Bill Hardcastle, Fiona Gibbon and Alan Wrench "Opening Address"
• Fiona Gibbon, Alice Lee, Lisa Crampin and Ivan Yuen "The national CLEFTNET Project for individuals with cleft palate"
• Ivan Yuen, Alice Lee and Fiona Gibbon "Normal patterns of tongue palate contact during bilabials"
• James M Scobbie "How to decide if /l/ vocalisation in English is phonetic or phonological"
• Marko Liker, Alan Wrench and Fiona Gibbon "A Cross-linguistic investigation of affricates" (poster)
• Susanna Brown and Sara Wood "An electropalatographic investigation into tongue-palate contact symmetry in normal adults and adults with acquired aphasia" (poster)
• Jaclyn Dallas and Sara Wood "Electropalatographic study of misdirected articulatory gestures in connected speech of adults with acquired aphasia" (poster)
• Fiona Gibbon and Lisa Crampin "Articulation of clicks in a child with velocardiofacial syndrome" (poster)
• Fiona Gibbon and Lisa Paterson "A national survey on clients receiving EPG therapy 1993-2003" (poster)
• Lynne F. Adams and Fiona Gibbon "8. In phonetically identical contexts, do normal adult speakers’ productions of /t/, /d/ and /n/ have different EPG tongue palate contact patterns?" (poster)
• Joanne McCann "Using EPG therapy with a child with a phoneme-specific substitution and visual impairment" (poster)
• Simone Hull, Catherine Mayo and Fiona Gibbon "The relationship between naive listeners' evaluation of naturalness and EPG-induced articulatory changes: Pre- and post-therapy cleft palate speech" (poster)
• Robin J. Lickley, Corey T. McMillan, Martin Corley "Observing the production of speech errors using EPG" (poster)

Turbulences. Zentrum fuer allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, 13-14 October, 2005.

• Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez "Acoustic and aerodynamic correlates of the trough effect"

NWAV34 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation). New York University, 20-23 October, 2005. [http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/events/nwav34/]

• Anna Bosch and James M Scobbie "Variation in the Scottish Gaelic nasal mutation: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland" [pdf]

3rd Conference on Experimental Phonetics. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 24-26 October, 2005.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Scottish English and French affective prosody: a cross-linguistic study of bilingual children"
• Yolanda Vázquez Álvarez and Nigel Hewlett “The trough effect: an ultrasound study”

11th Annual Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology (McWOP 11). University of Michigan, 4-6 November, 2005. [http://www.ling.lsa.umich.edu/mcwop/]

• Anna Bosch and James M Scobbie "Variation in the Scottish Gaelic nasal mutation: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland"

Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). San Diego, USA, 18-20 November, 2005. [http://www.asha.org/about/events/convention/sandiego_05.htm]

• Lianne Carroll "Language, prosody, and theory of mind in children with autism"
• Boyle, J., McCartney, E. Mattey, M., Naftalin, L., Durrani, T., Cohen, W., O’Hare, A., Clark, A., Watson., J. "Predicting short-term outcomes of severe-receptive-expressive SLI." [Seminar]

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Tenth Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA10), Lafayette, Louisiana, 25-27 February 2004. (http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mjb0372/ICPLA10program.htm)

• Rachel Hamadé, Nigel Hewlett and Emer Scanlon "A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of a New Automatic Occlusion Device for Laryngectomees"
• Fiona Gibbon, Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé, Anne O'Hare and Margaret Rutherford "Articulation disorders in children with high functioning autism"

Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, University of Cambridge, 24-26 March 2004

• Olga Gordeeva and James M. Scobbie "Non-normative preaspiration of voiceless fricatives in Scottish English: a comparison with Swedish preaspiration" [powerpoint, 1MB]
• Ineke Mennen and Margit Aufterbeck "Pitch-accent realisation in Southern British and Scottish English"
• Richard Mullooly "An EMA analysis of [r]-insertion in English"
• Sue Peppé, Fiona Gibbon and Joanne McCann "How do you do pitch-accent in uptalk?"
• James Scobbie "Prevoiced, short lag, long lag: recurrent but not universal categories" [pdf 1.22MB]
• Yolanda Vazquez Alvarez, Nigel Hewlett and Natalia Zharkova "The 'trough effect': an ultrasound study" [pdf]

Also a paper by Maria in her Newcastle University role.

• Maria Wolters, Nicholas Miller and Ghada Khattab "An efficient annotation scheme for Alternate Motion Rate data"

The 6th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, University of Warwick, 27th-30th March, 2004.

• Fiona Paterson and Jocelynne Watson "The relationship between auditory memory and the ability to repeat and spell non-words in adult dyslexics".

Ultrapolooza (Ultrasound Round Table) The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 22nd-23rd April 2004.

• James M Scobbie "Labiodental /r/ from alveolar /r/: lip or lingual vs. lip & lingual" [powerpoint, 3.45MB]
• Yolanda Vazquez Alvarez, Nigel Hewlett and Natalia Zharkova "An ultrasound study of co-articulation & the "Trough Effect" in symmetrical VCV syllables: A report of work in progress" [pdf]
• Alan A Wrench "Matching, merging and means: Spline productivity tools for ultrasound"

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Neurodisability Group, Edinburgh, April 2004

• O’Hare, A., Boyle, J., Cohen, W., Durani, T., Hodson, A., McCartney, E., Mattey, M., Naftalin, L. and Watson, J. "Acoustically modified speech in receptive language impairment (FastForWord.)"

The 12th Annual Manchester Phonology Meeting Manchester, England, 22nd-24th May 2004.

• James M Scobbie "A hoarse horse, a brewed brood and a greyed grade: Contrastive, categorical and gradient distinctions in phonology and phonetics"
• Susanne Fuchs, James M. Scobbie, Pascal Perrier and Alan A Wrench "Final obstruent devoicing and neutralisation in German: an articulatory perspective" [poster in powerpoint]

"Multidisciplinary approaches to bilingualism" Tutorials in behavioural and brain sciences for PhD students, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Ehzerworld, Netherlands, 28 June-02 July, 2004.

• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Affective prosody of bilingual children". (Poster).
• Olga Gordeeva "The role of language input and structural linguistic differences in simultaneous bilingual acquisition of sound structure: Russian-Scottish English case studies". (Poster).

The 26th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Brisbane, Australia, 29th August-2nd September 2004.

• Fiona E Gibbon, Joanne McCann, Sue Peppé and Anne O'Hare "Articulation Disorders in Children with High Functioning Autism"
• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon and Anne O'Hare "Prosodic Ability in Children with Autism"
• William J Hardcastle and Sara E Wood "EPG Providing New Insights into Complex Speech Disorders"

North Western Centre for Linguistics --- Research Training for Postgraduate Linguistics Students, Manchester, England, 6th-10th September 2004.

• Ineke Mennen "Intonation" (lecture)
• James M Scobbie "Articulatory Phonetics" (lecture)
• Ioulia Grichkovtsova and Ineke Mennen "Affective prosody of bilingual children" (poster)

"ConnectingNeuro-cognitive, Diagnostic & Intervention Processes in Autism". Scottish Autism Research Group Seminar Series, Glasgow Caledonian University,14th September 2004.

• McCann, J., Peppé, S., O'Hare, A. and Rutherford, M. "Prosody and its relationship to language in children with high-functioning autism"

Developmental Paths in Phonological Acquisition, The University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL), The Netherlands, 16th-18th September 2004. (http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?c=39)

• Natalia Zharkova "Strategies in the acquisition of segments and syllables in Russian-speaking children" [abstract]

16th Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD), Edinburgh, Scotland, 7th-9th October 2004.

• Fiona E Gibbon and Elaine Dhouieb "Redesigning Services; Experience from the National CLEFTNET Project for Children with Cleft Palate and Community Services Redesign in Complex Disability"
• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann and Fiona Gibbon, Prosody in Autism. (satellite session on "Innovation in Diagnosis and Intervention for Autism and Related Disorders", 6th October)

American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention (ASHA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, 18th-20th November 2004.

• Fiona E Gibbon, convener of Special Session: "Focus on Ultrasound: An Affordable and Vital Clinical Tool"
• Ineke Mennen, Maria Wolters and N.Miller "Perception of speaker characteristics in people with Parkinson's Disease"
• Fiona E Gibbon, Lisa Crampin and Philippa Smeaton-Ewins "Tongue palate contact during vowels in children with cleft palate"
• Nigel Hewlett "Applications of ultrasound in phonetic research"

British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Conference, Manchester, 18th-20th November 2004. (http://www.baaudiology.org/Conference/Programme.htm)

• Sara E Wood "Can Electropalatography (EPG) improve intelligibility in deaf speech"

Symposium on New technology and the Investigation of the Articulatory Process and invited lecture series, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 11th December 2004.

• William J Hardcastle title tba (Invited talk)

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University of Newcastle upon Tyne Seminar, 27 February 2003.

• James M Scobbie "An articulatory investigation of word final /l/ and /l/-sandhi in three dialects of English." (invited talk)

The Fifth Annual Parliamentary Reception for Younger Researchers in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Technology ("SET for Britain. Taking science to parliament: The 2003 great British research and R&D show"), the House of Commons, London, 17 March 2003. [www.setforeurope.org]

• Joanne McCann and Sue Peppe "PEPS-C: A New Speech Science Software Programme for Assesing Prosody." Poster [pdf]

"In this together": 14th International Durham Conference on Autism. Van Mildert College, University of Durham, 9th-11th April 2003.

• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann and Fiona Gibbon "The way you say it: implications of disordered prosody for communication in autism and a procedure for assessing prosodic ability." [abstract]

Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Leeds, 9-11 April 2003.

• Fiona Gibbon and Lisa Crampin "Diagnosing abnormal articulation in children and adults with cleft palate using electropalatography (EPG)".

Invited research seminar, CLCS, Trinity College, Dublin, 17th April 2002.

• Fiona Gibbon

4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe Arizona USA, April 30 - May 3, 2003 (http://isb4.asu.edu/)

• Ineke Mennen, Tanvi Shah and Daphne Waters "The Ability of Three-Year-Old Bilingual Children to Play ‘I-Spy’" [abstract]
• Sally Johnston and Ineke Mennen "An Investigation into Speech and Language Therapy Services for Bilingual Children in Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow" [abstract]

University of Malta, May 2003.

• Ineke Mennen "Motor Speech Disorders in Adults" [invited talk]

Workshop on Spoken Corpora and their Applications, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-24, 2003.

• Robin Lickley two talks and panel discussion. [This conference was cancelled due to the SARS outbreak]

11th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, 22-24 May 2003. (http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html)

• James M Scobbie "Non-lambdicity in English: the phonetics and phonology of /l/ vocalisation and /l/-sandhi."

Child Phonology Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1-4 July, 2003.

• Fiona E. Gibbon, Catherine Mayo, James M. Scobbie & Benjamin Matthews " Children's production and adult's perception of undifferentiated gestures."

Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 9-11 July 2003. (CLS.visitnewcastlegateshead.com)

• Sue Peppé, Fiona Gibbon, Joanne McCann, Ann O'Hare, and Marion Rutherford. "Assessing prosodic ability in children with autism." [summary]

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (15th ICPhS), Barcelona 3-9 August 2003. (http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/inici.htm)

• Fiona Gibbon "New analysis methods and techniques in speech production" (invited symposium talk) [pdf of paper 2010]
• Janet Mackenzie-Beck "Is it possible to predict students’ ability to develop skills in practical phonetics?" [pdf of paper 0655]
• Nigel Hewlett, Cherry Kelsey and Robin Lickley "Children's perception of direct and indirect reported speech " [pdf of paper 1247]
• James M Scobbie and Alan A Wrench "An articulatory investigation of word final /l/ and /l/-sandhi in three dialects of English" [pdf of paper 294]
• Susanne Fuchs and Pascal Perrier "An EMMA/EPG study of voicing contrast correlates in German" [pdf of paper 536]
• Richard Mullooly "An Electromagnetic Articulographic study of consonantal resyllabification in non-rhotic English dialects" [pdf of paper 599]
• Olga Gordeeva, Ineke Mennen and James M. Scobbie "Vowel Duration and Spectral Balance in Scottish English and Russian" [pdf of paper 676]
• Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins and Alan A Wrench "Sex and gender differences in Glaswegian /s/" [pdf of paper 269] [ see also pdf of paper 838]

The 4th World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11-15 August 2003.

• Robin Lickley "Word-final consonant repetitions in an Italian adult male who stutters in English"
• Sally Johnston and Ineke Mennen. "An investigation into speech and language therapy services for bilingual children in Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow."
• Ineke Mennen, Tanvi Shah and Daphne Waters "The ability of three-year-old bilingual children to play ‘I-Spy’"

Eurospeech 2003, Interspeech 2003, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-4 September 2003. (http://www.symporg.ch/eurospeech/)

• Lickley, R.J., Nicholson, H., Bard, E.G., Anderson, A., Flecha-Garcia, M., Kenicer, D., Smallwood, L., Mullin, J. and Chen, Y. "Disfluency under feedback and time-pressure"

The Vth European CPLOL Congress "Evidence Based Practice : a Challenge for Speech and Language Therapists", Edinburgh, Scotland 5-7 September 2003. (http://www.cplol.org/en/cplol2003/cplol2003.html)

• Sara E Wood and James M Scobbie "Evaluating the clinical effectiveness of EPG in the assessment and diagnosis of children with intractable speech disorders" (oral paper). [draft]
• Jois Stansfield, Ineke Mennen, Thalia Zolotas and Katerina Nicolaidis "Academic collaboration for professional education: an evaluation of the early evidence from a Scottish-Greek initiative"
• Joanne McCann "The ability of children with autism to use prosodic cues for phrasal interpretation"
• Sue Peppé, Fiona Gibbon and Joanne McCann "Suprasegmental and segmental disorder: distinctions for clinical intervention"
• Ineke Mennen, Sally Johnston and Jois Stansfield "Are we meeting the challenge? Services to bilingual children"
• Fiona Gibbon, Fiona Stewart and Bryony Vernal "Outcome of EPG therapy for children with lateral lisps"

DiSS ’03 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Göteborg University, Sweden, September 5–8, 2003 (http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/diss03/indexNF.html)

• Finlayson, S., Forrest, V., Lickley, R.J. and Mackenzie Beck, J. "Effects of the restriction of hand gestures on disfluency"
• Hartsuiker, R., Corley, M., Lickley, R.J. and Russell, M. "Perception of Disfluency in people who stutter and people who do not stutter: results from magnitude estimation"
• Nicholson, H., Bard, E.G., Lickley, R.J., Anderson, A., Mullin, J., Kenicer, D. and Smallwood, L. "The Intentionality of disfluency: Findings from feedback and timing"

British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference, 8-10 September 2003, Newcastle, England

• Helen McGrane "Can post-stroke adults learn new vocabulary?"

6th NWCL Conference: Prosody and Pragmatics 14-16 November 2003, Preston, England.

• Sue Peppé, Joanne McCann, Fiona E Gibbon, Anne. O'Hare andMargaret Rutherford "Assessing prosodic and pragmatic ability in children with high-functioning autism"

ASHA"MasterClass" at the Annual Conference,Chicago, November 2003.

• Fiona Gibbon "Using EPG to diagnose articulation and phonological disorders".

Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, invited talks, University College London, 19 November 2003.

• James M Scobbie "English /l/: vocalisation from an articulatory perspective". [pdf]
• James M Scobbie "The Phonetics/Phonology interface".

6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, 7-10 December 2003, Australia

• Sallyanne Palethorpe, Karen Croot, Natalie Molloy, Fiona Gibbon and Jonathan Harrington "An electropalatographic investigation of sibilant production by children with repaired cleft palate".
• Susanne Fuchs, Pascal Perrier, Christian Geng and Christine Mooshammer "What role does the palate play in speech motor control? Insights from tongue kinematics for German alveolar obstruents". [Susanne is also an author on four other papers on research conducted entirely in Berlin.]
• Alan A. Wrench and James M Scobbie "Categorising vocalisation of English /l/ using EPG, EMA and Ultrasound." [pdf]

Note also that Susanne is coauthoring another four papers based on joint work at ZAS, not at QMUC, all of which are published in the proceedings:

• Ridouane, R., Fuchs, S. & Hoole, P. "Laryngeal Adjustments in the Production of Voiceless Obstruent Clusters in Berber."
• Geng, C., Fuchs, S., Mooshammer & Pompino-Marschall, B. "How does vowel context influence loops?"
• Hoole, P., Fuchs, S. & Dahlmeier, K. "Interarticulatory timing in initial consonant clusters."
• Pape, D., Mooshammer, C., Hoole, P. and Fuchs, S. "Devoicing of word-initial stops: A consequence of the following vowel?"

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2002 Symposium on Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Phoenix, Arizona, USA 27th February - 3rd March 2002.

• Fiona E Gibbon, The contribution of EPG to the diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech.

Workshop on "Prosody--Regional Variation, Social Variation, and Multilingualism" at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics Association) Mannheim, Germany, February 27 - March 1, 2002

• Ineke Mennen. "A normalising model for pitch variation across accents and languages."
  

Eleventh Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders & Speech Motor Control. Williamsburg, Virginia USA, March 14-17, 2002. (http://aac.unl.edu/aacmotor.htm) or (http://www.madonna.org/institute/Abstracts.htm)

• Susanne Fuchs, Pascal Perrier and Christine Mooshammer. "An EPG-EMA study of tongue-palate interaction for stop alveolar consonants in German: Implications for speech motor control."
• Susanne Fuchs, Christine Mooshammer and Phil Hoole. "The timing of laryngeal and lingual gestures of apical stops in dependence on syllable position: An EPG and transillumination study."

Creativity in Question 2002. An International, multidisciplinary conference. Edinburgh University Conference Centre, 22-24 March 2002 (http://mcdept.qmuc.ac.uk/creativity/default.htm)

• John Laver (QMUC) "Creativity in everyday verbal and non verbal performance".
  

British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle, England, 25-27 March, 2002.

• Janet Beck "Predicting the ability of Speech and Language Therapy students to develop skills in practical phonetics".
• Bob Ladd, Robin Lickley, & Astrid Schepman "Lab speech is real speech: the case of FO alignment in Dutch".
  
• Benjamin Matthews "On variability and the acquisition of vowels in normally developing Scottish children (18-36 months)".
• Richard Mullooly "An Electromagnetic Articulographic (EMA) study of alternating [r] in non rhotic English".
• James M Scobbie and Alice E Turk "An Articulatory (EMA) Study of English Voicing-Based Differential Vowel Duration". (postscript of poster, A3 size / pdf)
• Fay Windsor and Daphne Waters "An acoustic investigation of coarticulation in the speech of typically developing children, phonologically disordered children and adults".

Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech (TIPS), ISCA Workshop on Speech Perception, Aix-en-Provence, France, 8-10 April 2002. (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips/)

• Catherine Mayo, Alice Turk and Jocelynne MM Watson "Development of cue weighting strategies in children's speech perception". [pdf of abstract, published as Mayo, Turk and Watson (2002).]
• John Laver. Discussion of Coleman and Hawkins' papers.

Craniofacial Society Spring Meeting. East Grinstead, England. 11-12 April 2002.

• Lisa Crampin & Fiona Gibbon "CLEFTNET - Networking with electropalatography". CLAPA Invitied Lecture.

The 9th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Hong Kong, 1-4 May 2002. (http://www.hku.hk/speech/icpla/)

• Sara E Wood and James M Scobbie "Benefits and limits of instrumental acoustic analysis in the assessment and diagnosis of children with intractable speech disorders." [abstract]
• Fiona E Gibbon, Alison M McNeill, Sara E Wood, and Jocelynne MM Watson. "Linguapalatal Contact Patterns in a Child with Down Syndrome"
• Sara E Wood and William J Hardcastle. "Sequencing and timing abnormalities in adults with acquired aphasia."

Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 3-5 May 2002. (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~contrast/conference.html)

• James M Scobbie: "Fuzzy contrasts, fuzzy inventories, fuzzy systems: Thoughts on quasi-phonemic contrast, the phonetics/phonology interface and sociolinguistic variation." [abstract]

International Conference on Speech Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, May 10-11 2002. http://speech.hallym.ac.kr/icss/submit.htm

• William J Hardcastle "Measuring dynamic articulatory processes". Invitied Keynote Lecture.

23rd Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-19 May 2002.

• Ineke Mennen, "'Focus realisation in Greek yes/no questions: a comparative study of native and non-native speakers".

European Educational (EEO), Athens, 21-25 May.2002.

• Ineke Mennen "Changing needs of the profession" (invited talk).
• Jois Stansfield title tba (invited talk).

10th Manchester Phonology Meeting (10MFM), Manchester, England, 23-25 May 2002.

• James M Scobbie "Covert contrasts and covert errors: child speech from the adult's perspective". Invited contribution to Panel: "Phonological acquisition: paths and endowments".

Conference on English Phonology, Université de Toulouse, France, 27 - 28 June 2002.

• Richard Mullooly and James M. Scobbie "An EMA (articulatory) study of non-rhotic [r] and implications for ambisyllabicity"

The Annual Festival (Kieler Woche), Kiel, Germany, June 22-30 2002.

• Fiona E Gobbon "Identification and treatment of abnormal tongue movement in children with speech disorders".
  

Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Labphon 8) "Varieties of Phonological Competence", Yale University, USA, 27 - 30 June 2002. http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8

• James M Scobbie, "Flexibility in the Face of Incompatible English VOT Systems". [abstract] (contact author for draft of written version)
• Benjamin Matthews "On Variability and the Acquisition of Vowels in Normally Developing Scottish Children (18 -36 months)" [abstract]
• Richard Mullooly, James M Scobbie and Alan A Wrench "An EMA study of [r] in non-rhotic English". [poster in powerpoint or pdf]
  

Meeting of the EPG Special Interest Group, Sheffield, 27th August 2002.

• Alan A. Wrench "Demonstration of the new windows version of EPG"
• Fiona Gibbon "Update of the CLEFTNET Project"
• Sara E Wood "A summary of the Forth Valley Telespeech Project"
• Bryony Vernal "A summary of the Lanarkshire Telespeech Project"

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver USA, 16-20 September 2002. (http://www.icslp2002.org/home.html)

• Alan A Wrench, Fiona E Gibbon, Alison M McNeill and Sara E Wood "An EPG therapy protocol for remediation and assessment of articulation disorders." [online pdf]

12th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (Eurosla), University of Basel, Switzerland, 18-21 September 2002.

• Olga Gordeeva, "Language mixing in research on bilingual acquisition of prosody: a methodological review" (oral paper).
• Ineke Mennen and Gerard J Docherty "Cross-linguistic differences in pitch range: a study of mono- and bilingual speakers"

Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing AMLaP 2002, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 19-21 September, 2002.

• Ellen G Bard, Matthew P Aylett and Robin J Lickley. "Towards A Psycholinguistics Of Dialogue: Defining Reaction Time And Error Rate In A Dialogue Corpus"

Special Emphasis Panel in Treatment Efficacy, affiliated to the American Speech and Hearing Association, City University, London, 20-21 September 2002.

• Sara E Wood and James M Scobbie "Acoustic analysis and electropalatography in the assessment and treatment of children with intractable speech disorders" (poster). [online ppt poster, 1.3Mb]
• Anne P Walton, Jois Stansfield and Gwynneth Doherty-Sneddon " The communication effectiveness of carer/client ineractions" (poster).

Nordic Conference on Orofacial Therapy, Göteborg, Sweden, 14-15 October 2002.

• Sara E Wood "EPG as an instrument for evaluation of treatment" (invited paper).

Meeting of the British Aphasia Society/BNS, York, 3rd October 2002.

• Helen McGrane "Can aphasics demonstrate new learning of novel word forms with novel meanings?"

Seminar at the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds, 7th November 2002

• Ineke Mennen "Cross-linguistic differences in the pitch range of monolingual and bilingual speakers" (invited talk)

American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention (ASHA), Atlanta USA, 21-24 November 2002 (ASHA site)

• Fiona Gibbon, Fiona Stewart and Bryony Vernal "Outcome of Electropalatography Therapy for Children with Lateral Lisps"

Workshop of SLTs, clinical linguists and psychologists, Oslo Norway, 25th November 2002

• Fiona Gibbon (invited talk)

Scottish Augmentative Communication in Practice Study Day, Stirling University, November 2002

• Alison MacDonald and Mary Siggs "Adults with Learning Disabilities and High Tech Aids"

Meeting of COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action Group 277- Nonlinear Speech Processing, Edinburgh, 3rd December 2002 (http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~cost277/)

• Alan A Wrench "A new resource for production modelling in speech technology" (invited talk)

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Annual Scientific Conference of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, Eire, 28-30 March 2001.

• Fiona Gibbon (2001) "Labial-lingual double articulations in cleft palate speech."

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' National Conference, Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, England, 17-19 April 2001.

• Fiona Gibbon, F. Stewart, Lucy Ellis (2001) "Widening access to electropalatography (EPG) for children with persistent sound system disorders."
• Fiona Gibbon, Lucy Ellis, Lisa Crampin, William J. Hardcastle, Roz Razzell, Beverley Reynolds and Jan Wilson (2001) "An electropalatographic investigation of lingual stops in the speech of children with cleft palate."
• Bryony Vernal (2001) "An investigation of speech processing abilities in a young adult experiencing previously undiagnosed literacy difficulties of a developmental nature."
• Ann Hodson, Jacqueline Mok and Elisabeth Dean (2001) "Speech and language functioning in paediatric HIV disease."
• Jois Stansfield (2001) "Describe your most memorable student, or: competence beyond competencies."
• Steven Boyd and Nigel Hewlett ...

International Conference on Bilingualism, Bristol, England, 18-20 April 2001.

• W. Scharff, I. Mennen & G. Docherty (2001) "Speaking fundamental frequency in German/English bilinguals."

9th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of Manchester, England, 24-26 May 2001. (http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/9mfm/9prog.htm)

• Richard Mullooly and James M. Scobbie (2001) "An Electromagnetic Articulographic (EMA) study of alternating [r] in non rhotic English."

141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 4-8, 2001. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html

• Alice Turk, James M. Scobbie and Nigel Hewlett (2001) "Dialectal differences in vowel articulations in pre-consonantal contexts." [pdf of abstract, published as Turk, Scobbie and Hewlett (2001)]
• Mayo, C., Turk A. and Watson, J. (2001) "Flexibility of acoustic cue weighting in children's speech perception"
  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 2313. [pdf of abstract, published as Mayo, Turk & Watson (2001)]]

Fourth International Speech Motor Conference, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 13-16 2001. http://www.nici.kun.nl/speechmotconf/

• Fiona Gibbon (2001) "Undifferentiated gestures and positional variability in the speech of children with articulation/phonological disorders."
• Christine Mooshammer, Pascal Perrier, Susanne Fuchs, Christian Geng and Yohan Payan (2001) "The Control of Token-to-Token Variability: an Experimental and Modeling Study."
• William J.Hardcastle, Lucy Ellis, Sara Wood & Fiona Gibbon (2001) "EPG/EMA studies of speech motor coordination."
  

The 5th Newcastle Voice Therapy Conference "Developing voice therapy skills", Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 13-14 June 2001.

• Janet Beck (2001) "Perceptual voice quality rating skills." (keynote address)

ORAGE 2001: ORAlity and GEstuality. Aix-en-Provence, France. 18 - 22 June 2001. (http://gevoix.free.fr/ORAGE2001/gfx/en/programme.html or http://gevoix.free.fr/ORAGE2001/)

• John Laver and Janet MacKenzie Beck (2001) "Unifying principles in the description of voice, posture and gesture."

Seminar, Haskins Labs, July

• Susanne Fuchs (2001) "Syllabic organization and interarticulatory timing: a transillumination/EPG and EPG/EMMA study."
  

Talking about Electropalatography. University of Reading, England, 11 July 2001.

• Sara Wood & Fiona E Gibbon (2001) "Using EPG to remediate velar fronting in a 10 year old girl with Down's Syndrome".
• Fiona Stewart & Fiona E Gibbon (2001) " Widening access to EPG".
  

3rd UK Language Variation Conference. University of York, England, 19-21 July 2001. http://www.york.ac.uk/org/uklvc3/Web/

• James M. Scobbie and Marie Cluness (2001) "The phonetic detail of dialect levelling among three groups of young adult Shetlanders: an experimental variationist approach."

International Association of Logopaedics and Phoniatrics (IALP 2001), Montreal, 5-9 August 2001. http://www.caslpa.ca/ialp/html/Index.htm

• W. Sharff, N. Miller, I. Mennen & G. Docherty (2001) "Speaking fundamental frequency differences in the language of bilingual speakers."
  

Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, 3-7 September 2001. http://eurospeech2001.org/home.html

• Susanne Fuchs, Pascal Perrier and Christine Mooshammer (2001) "The role of the palate in tongue kinematics: an experimental assessment in VC sequences from EPG and EMMA data."

Crest Workshop Japan, September.

• Pascal Perrier, Susanne Fuchs, Christine Mooshammer, Gaelle Charbonnier, Julie Devignes & Rudolph Sock (2001) "An assessment of the influence of the palate on motor control in speech production."
  

Seminar, l'ICP, Grenoble, France, October.

• Susanne Fuchs (2001) "Syllabic organization and laryngeal-oral coordination.
  An EPG/transillumination and EPG/EMMA study."

Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition. Carry-le-Rouet (Marseilles), France, 6 - 8 October 2001. (http://www.ehess.fr/centres/lscp/persons/peperkamp/workshop.html)

• James M. Scobbie. "Sounds and Structures: Covert Contrast and Non-phonemic Aspects of the Phonological Inventory."

142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 3--7 December 2001

• Christine Mooshammer, Phil Hoole, Peter Alfonso, Susanne Fuchs "Intrinsic Pitch in German: A Puzzle?"
  

2000[back to top]

The tenth biennial conference on motor speech disorders and speech motor control, San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 3-6 2000.

• Gibbon, Fiona, Bruce Murdoch, William J. Hardcastle, Deborah Theodoros, Louise Cahill. "A Procedure for Profiling Impaired Speech Motor Control of the Tongue Using Electropalatography (EPG)."

Annual Scientific Conference of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Reading, UK., March 22-24 2000.

• Gibbon, Fiona and Lisa Crampin. "An Instrumental Investigation of Middorsum Palatal Stops in an Adult with Repaired Cleft Palate."

Meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP 2000), Glasgow, April 3-6 2000.

• Scobbie, James M., Jane Stuart-Smith, Nigel Hewlett and Alice Turk. "The Scottish Vowel Length Rule." (oral paper.) Meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP 2000), Glasgow, April 3-6 2000.
• Timmins, Claire, Jane Stuart-Smith and Alan Wrench. "Acoustic characteristics of voiceless fricatives (f T[theta] s) in a socially stratified sample of Glaswegian speech." (oral paper.)

Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology in Automatic Speech Recognition. University of Saarbrücken, Germany.

• Wrench, Alan A. "A multi-channel/multi-speaker articulatory database for continuous speech recognition research."

5th Seminar on Speech production: models and data and CREST workshop on models of speech production: motor planning and articulatory modelling. Kloster Seeon, Germany, May 1-4, 2000. http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~sps5/

• Ellis, Lucy and Hardcastle, William J. "Assimilation strategies in the production of alveolar to velar sequences: EPG and EMA data." (oral paper.)
• Wrench, Alan and Hardcastle, William J. "A multichannel articulatory speech database and its application for Automatic Speech Recognition." (poster paper.)
• Simonsen, Hanne Gram, Moen, Inger and Cowen, Steve (2000) "Retroflex consonants in Norwegian: Are they really? Evidence from EMA and EPG." (oral paper.)

Research Seminar on Categories in Phonology and Phonetics, Johns Hopkins University, April 28-May 5, 2000

• Scobbie, James M. and Ladd, D. Robert "External Sandhi in Sardinian".
• Scobbie, James M. and Ladd, D. Robert "Surface Structure - the Scottish Vowel Length Rule".

7th International Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Labphon VII), Nijmegen. June 29th - 1st July 2000.

• Scobbie, James M. Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., Tweedie, F., Hewlett, N. and Alice E. Turk. "Fieldwork in the urban jungle: an empirical phonological study of Glasgow English." (poster paper).

2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 4-7 July 2000.

• Gibbon, Fiona "Assessment and therapy of cleft palate speech using Electropalatography (EPG)."
• Gibbon, Fiona "Visual feedback therapy using electropalatography for articulation disorders associated with cleft palate."

The 11th International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) World Congress, Seattle, USA, August 1-6 2000.

• Walton, Anne P., Jois Stansfield and Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon. "Friends, Familiars and Strangers: Communicating with Young Intellectually Impaired Adults." (oral paper.)

8th Annual Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA 2000), Edinburgh 16-19 August 2000.

• Gibbon, Fiona "Features of impaired tongue control in children with articulation / phonological disorders." [Keynote talk.]
• Cohen, Wendy and Daphne Waters "Speech motor skills in young children with phonological disorder" (poster paper.)
• Gibbon, Fiona , Lucy Ellis, Lisa Crampin, William J. Hardcastle, Roz Razzell, Beverley Reynolds & Jan Wilson "An electropalatographic investigation of lingual stops in the speech of children with cleft palate. (poster paper.)
• Mackenzie Beck, J., Lawson, A., Mennen, I., and Cowen, S. "InterPHACE: extending clinical access to phonetic analysis procedures." (poster paper.)
• Mackenzie Beck, Janet and John Laver "Posture, gesture, face and voice: an integrative approach to clinical assessment" (poster paper.)
• Matthews, Ben "Acquisition of vowels in normally developing Scottish children" (poster paper.)
• Mennen, I., Fox, A., and Ellis, T. "Treating a dyslexic second language learner: targeting L1 or L2?" (poster paper.)
• Sutherland, Janie and Janet Mackenzie Beck "Tongue piercing and speech production" (poster paper.)
• Walton, Anne P., Jois Stansfield, and Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon (2000). "Communication in intellectually impaired adults: the effects of familiarity." (poster paper.).

British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) Conference 2000, Blackpool, September 13-15, 2000.

• Walton, Anne P.; Stansfield, Jois & Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth. "Communication in young adults with an intellectual impairment: interacting with friends, familiars and strangers." (Poster.)

Patterns of Speech Sounds in Unscripted Communication: Production - Perception - Phonology. University of Kiel, 8-11 October 2000

• Scobbie, James M. and Marie Cluness "Dialect levelling in a group of young Shetlandic adults of differing parental backgrounds".

American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA, 16-19 November 2000.

• Gibbon, Fiona, Karen Forrest, Marios Fourakis, Jan Edwards and Elaine Stathopolous (2000) "Assessment and Treatment of Persistent Speech Sound Disorders."

Research Methods in Speech Perception and Production: What We Do and How We Do It. Macarthur Auditory Research Centre, University of West Sydney, Bankstown. December 8-9, 2000.

• Beckman, Mary, Jan Edwards, Marios Fourakis, Fiona Gibbon "Centroid calculation in stop burst spectra (and some other related ways of trying to estimate front cavity length from the acoustics)"

1999[back to top]

Science, Engineering and Technology Week (SET 99), House of Commons, London, March 15 1999.

• Wood, Sarah "Electropalatography: a technique for assessment and treatment of speech disorders"

M.A.T.I.S.S.E Workshop (Method And Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education), University College London, April 16-17 1999.

• Beck, Janet MacKenzie, Alistair Lawson & Ineke Mennen "InterPHACE - internetworked links for phonetic analysis in clinical education"

Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, University College London, April 1999.

• Docherty, G.J., J. Beck, B. Heselwood, J. House, S. Howard Practical phonetics for the education and training of Speech and Language Therapists: a first look at standards."

The 7th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester 13-15 May 1999.

• Scobbie, James M., Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins, Eleanor Lawson, Alice E. Turk, Nigel Hewlett & Fiona Tweedie."Should phonologists trust their data?: an empirical phonological study of Scottish English"

Various Seminars at Universities of Queensland, Adelaide and Charles Sturt University, March-June 1999.

• Gibbon, F.E. "Covert contrasts in child speech"
• Gibbon, F.E. "Clinical applications of EPG." Invited workshop given to the Motor Speech Research Unit (MSRU), Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. April 13th 1999.
• Gibbon, F.E. "Towards a better understanding of lingual articulation in children with speech disorders." Invited seminar given to the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. April 29th 1999.
• Gibbon, F.E. "Undifferentiated lingual gestures in children with articulation / phonological disorders." Invited seminar given to the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Adelaide, South Australia. May 10th 1999.
• Gibbon, F.E. "Recent advances in the use of EPG." Invited talk given to the School of Community Health, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia. May 14th 1999.
• Gibbon, F.E. "Use of EPG with individuals with cleft palate." Invited seminar given to the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Queensland and speech and language pathologists working with cleft palate in the Brisbane area. June 23rd 1999.

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 17-21 May 1999.

• Gibbon, Fiona E. "Towards a better understanding of lingual articulation in children with speech disorders." Keynote Address.
• Gibbon, Fiona E. "Clinical innovations - EPG therapy for children with articulation/phonological disorders." Invited Paper.
• Gibbon, Fiona E. Phonology module discussant.

National Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology SIG study day. Newcastle upon Tyne, 14 May 1999.

• Waters, Daphne "A psycholinguistic approach to a child's severe developmental speech disorder."

Speech and Language Therapy Seminar, Borders Primary Care NHS Trust, Borders General Hospital, 27 May 1999.

• Wood, Sara "EPG in the assessment and treatment of speech disorders."

20th Annual Child Phonology Conference - Symposium on Child Phonology and Specific Language Impairment (SLI), University of Wales, Bangor, 7-10 July 1999.

• Fiona Gibbon and James M. Scobbie "Divergent information from instrumental and transcription analyses of speech from children with articulation/phonological disorders"

20th Annual Child Phonology Conference , University of Wales, Bangor, 7-10 July 1999.

• Ben Matthews, Janet Beck and James M. Scobbie "Acquisition of vowels in normally developing Scottish children"
• Catherine J. Mayo, Nigel Hewlett and James M. Scobbie "The development of phonemic awareness and perceptual weighting in relation to early and later literacy acquisition"
• James M. Scobbie "Onset-rime coarticulation in the production of /dai/ and /stai/ by four year old Scottish English speaking children: preliminary results" (poster paper).

XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), San Francisco August 1-7 1999.
There are ten papers by thirteen members of the department. This includes ten with first author status and five papers involving PhD students.

• Cohen, Wendy & Daphne Waters "Measuring speech motor skills in normally developing and phonologically disordered pre-school children"
• Ellis, Lucy & William J Hardcastle "An instrumental study of alveolar to velar assimilation in fast and careful speech"
• Gibbon, Fiona E. "Undifferentiated lingual gestures in children articulation/phonological disorder"
• Hewlett, Nigel, Ben Matthews & James M. Scobbie "Vowel duration in Scottish English speaking children"
• King, Simon & Alan Wrench "Dynamical system modelling of articulator movement"
• Mayo, Catherine J. "Perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness in pre-reading and early-reading children"
• Robson, Julie & Janet Beck "Hearing smiles - Perceptual, acoustic and production aspects of labial spreading"
• Scobbie, James M., Alice Turk and Nigel Hewlett "Morphemes, Phonetics and Lexical Items: The Case of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule"
• Wood, Sara & William J. Hardcastle "An EPG study of lingual errors in adults with acquired aphasia: Implications for models of speech production"
• Wrench, Alan "An investigation of sagittal velar movement and its correlation with lip, tongue, and jaw movement"

TASTLM Conference Countdown 2000, Edinburgh University, 22-24 Sept 1999.

• Stansfield, Jois "Secondment to research." Invited talk.
• Hardcastle, William J. "Models of research in undergraduate education." Invited talk.

ASHA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 18-21 November 1999.

• Lum, Carmel C., Richard J. Cox, Julie Morris & Jonathan Kilgour: "PATSy: A UK Web-based resource in clinical training". Workshop.

1998 [back to top]

Declarative Phonology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, January 22 - 23 1998. Jim Scobbie attended.

• James M Scobbie: "The acquisition of sound systems".

BAAP 98, British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Queen's University, Belfast. April 6-9 1998. Nigel Hewlett and Ben Matthews attended.

• Nigel Hewlett, Ben Matthews, James M. Scobbie and Alice Turk: "When do Scottish children get Scottish vowel length?"

CLS 34 (Chicago Linguistics Society). Panel. ChiPhon 98: The Acquisition of Spoken Language, University of Chicago, April 18 1998. Jim Scobbie and Cassie Mayo attended.

• James M Scobbie: "Interactions between the acquisition of phonetics and phonology".
• Catherine Mayo, Nigel Hewlett, James M. Scobbie, Daphne Waters: "A longitudinal study of perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness".

ED-MEDIA conference, Freiburg, June, 1998

• Carmel Lum and Richard Cox: "PATSy - A case-based, distributed multimedia approach to patient assessment skills training". [Abstract on-line].

CTIP-II, (Current Trends in Phonology). Royaumont Abbey, France, June 22 - 24 1998. Jim Scobbie attending.

• James M Scobbie, Nigel Hewlett and Alice Turk: "The Scottish Vowel Length Rule".

Labphon VI. Sixth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of York, July 2 - 4 1998. Jim Scobbie and Cassie Mayo attended.

• D. Robert Ladd and James M. Scobbie. "Post-lexical phonology does not reduce to phonetics: The case of Sardinian external sandhi.
• James M. Scobbie, Alice Turk and Nigel Hewlett. "The articulation of Scottish vowels". Poster paper.
• Catherine Mayo. "The developmental relationship between perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness." Poster paper, a4 postscript available [postscript, pdf].

Mini-Workshop On (Laboratory) Phonology , University of Edinburgh. 6,7 July 1998. Jim Scobbie, Lucy Ellis, Cassie Mayo, Anne Walton and Ben Matthews attended.

• D. Robert Ladd and James M. Scobbie. "Post-lexical phonology does not reduce to phonetics: The case of Sardinian external sandhi."
• Catherine Mayo. "The developmental relationship between perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness."
• Lucy Ellis. "Alveolar to velar coarticulation in fast and careful speech."

 The 24th International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) Congress, Amsterdam, 23-27 August 1998.

• Gibbon, F., Nairn, M. and Hardcastle, W.J. "Assessment and therapy of cleft palate speech using electropalatography (EPG)".
• Nairn, M., Hardcastle, W.J. and Gibbon, F. "CleftNet Scotland: a strategy for EPG assessment and treatment of cleft palate speech".
• Wood, Sara and W.J. Hardcastle "An EPG Study of the Sequencing and Timing of lingual Gestures in Aphasic Speech"
• Mackenzie Beck, J., J. Robson, A. Wrench, M. Jackson, G. Robertson and D. Soutar "A comparative study of the phonetic consequences of brachytherapy and surgical intervention in intra-oral cancer."

The 8th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Kwa Maritane, South Africa, 26-28 August.

• Linda Armstrong "Do story recall and picture description portray the same picture or tell a different story?".

Adult Neurology Special Interest Group (South East) study day in Acquired Neurogenic Disorders. School of Pharmacy, University of London, 17 September 1998.

• Sara Wood and Bill Hardcastle "Instrumentation in the assessment and therapy of motor speech disorders: A survey of techniques and case studies with EPG"

The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, Hong Kong October 1-3 1998.

• Fiona Gibbon. "Lingual deficits in developmental articulation/phonological disorders".
• Hardcastle, W.J. Gibbon, F., Whitehill, T.L. and Stokes, S.F. (1998) Cross-language studies of articulatory error patterns in cleft palate speech using EPG.

The 1998 Conference of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, Liverpool, 15-17 October 1998. Proceedings to be published.

• Fiona Gibbon, Lisa Crampin, William J Hardcastle, Moray J Nairn, Roz Razzell, Lis Harvey and Beverly Reynolds. "CleftNet Scotland: a network for the treatment of cleft palate speech using EPG".
• Fiona Young and Fiona Gibbon. "Normative Scottish data on the CELF-RUK: a pilot study.
• Carmel Lum and Richard Cox. "PATSy- Patient Assessment Training System- a multi-media Web-based patient database for neuropsychology, linguistics, medical and speech therapy clinical training".
• Wendy Cohen, Daphne Waters and Nigel Hewlett "DDK Rates in the paediatric clinic: a methodological minefield."
• Cecilia Santiago and Jois Sansfield (1998) Prioritisation in speech and language therapy departments in Scotland and Malaysia.
• Joanne Fillinghamand Carmel Lum. "A dissociation in spoken and written sentence production with class effects."

The Annual Speech and Language Therapy Student Conference, Liverpool, October 1998.

• Carmel Lum: "PATSy- Patient Assessment Training System.

Western General Hospital Medical Research Group - Invited talk

• Carmel Lum: "Is comprehension necessary for the production of familiar speech".

ICSLP 98: International Conference in Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, November 1998.

• Wrench, A.A., A.D. McIntosh, C. Watson and W.J. Hardcastle "Optopalatograph: Real-time feedback of tongue movement in 3D"
• Lunn, J., A.A. Wrench and J. Mackenzie Beck."Acoustic analysis of /l/ in glossectomees."
• Nguyen, Noël, Alan Wrench, Fiona Gibbon and William Hardcastle "Articulatory, acoustic and perceptual aspects of fricative/stop coarticulation."

1997 [back to top]

GALA 97 - Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing. 4th-6th April, 1997, University of Edinburgh.

• James M. Scobbie, William J. Hardcastle, Fiona Gibbon & Paul Fletcher: "Covert Contrasts in Child Speech" Poster. Abstract. Published 1997.

Lingusitics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Spring Conference, April 7th-9th, 1997, University of Edinburgh.

• James M. Scobbie, William J. Hardcastle, Fiona Gibbon & Paul Fletcher: "Aspects of phonetic and phonological acquisition in a child with developmental phonological disorder". Abstract.

Second European Conference on ELG and EPG. Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, 23-25 June 1997. Access to its web page here.

• Ellis, Lucy (1997) "Alveolar to velar coarticulation in fast and careful speech: some preliminary observations" To be published 1998.
• Fletcher, Janet (1997) "An EPG/EMA analysis of V to V coarticulation"
• Hardcastle, William J. (1997) "Overview of EPG"
• Watson Colin and Linda Flack (1997) "A windows implementation of EPG"
• Wrench, Alan (1997) "Introduction to the Speech Production Research Facility"
• Wrench, Alan (1997) "Optopalatography"

Fifth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster. University of Aberdeen 1-5 August 1997.

• Scobbie, James M., Nigel Hewlett and Alice Turk. "The ESRC Scottish Vowel Length Rule project: a new look at a familiar phenomenon."

ICPLA. Nijmegen.

• Nairn, M.J., W.J. Hardcastle, F. Gibbon, R. Razzell, L. Crampin, E. Harvey, B. Reynolds, J. Kerr and A. Watson. (1997) "CLEFTNET (Scotland) - a strategy for EPG assessment and treatment of cleft palate speech." Poster. To be published 1998.

5th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, EUROSPEECH 97. 1997, 22 - 25, September, Rhodes, Greece.

• Wrench, Alan, Alan D. McIntosh, William J. Hardcastle: "Optopalatograph: Development of a device for measuring tongue movement in 3D." Poster. Published.
• Beck, Janet, Bernard Camilleri, Hilde Chantrain, Marianne Leterme, Matti Lehtihalmes, Peter Schneider, Wilhelm Vieregge, Eva Wigforss: "Communication Science within Education for Logopedics/Speech and Language Therapy in Europe : the state of the art" Abstract. Published.

  ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications.. September 18-20, 1997, Athens, Greece.

• Mayo, Catherine J., Matthew Aylett and D. Robert Ladd: "Prosodic transcription in Glasgow English: an evaluation study of GlaToBI." Published.

Conference on "The Word as a Phonetic Unit". 1997, 22-23 October, Berlin.

• Ellis, Lucy and William J. Hardcastle (1997) "Alveolar to velar coarticulation in fast and careful speech:  some preliminary observations" Oral paper. Abstract. To be published 1998.

1996[back to top]

• The 4th Speech Production Seminar & 1st ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Production Modeling at Autrans, France, on 21-24 May 1996.

  Hardcastle, William.J., Béatrice Vaxelaire, Fiona Gibbon, Noël Nguyen & Phil Hoole (1996) EMA/EPG study of lingual coarticulation in /kl/ clusters. [Puiblished]

• Making New Connections: Developmental and Acquired Language Disorders, City University, AFASIC & Action for Dysphasic Adults, 21-23 June 1996.

  Nigel Hewlett, Fiona Gibbon & Wendy Cohen: "Psycholinguistic perspectives on a case of velar fronting." [Poster paper]

• The Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Labphon 5) at Northwestern University, Illinois USA, in July 1996.

  Jim Scobbie, Fiona Gibbon, Bill Hardcastle & Paul Fletcher: "Covert Contrast as a Stage in the Acquisition of Phonetics and Phonology." [Oral paper] [Published 1996, 1999]

• International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities, 10th World Congress. Helsinki Finland, July 8-13 1996.

  Laura Godwin, Jois Stansfield & Sally Cheseldine: "Speech and language therapy and challenging behaviour: a comparison of children's behaviours." (oral paper).

  Laura Stansfield, & Sally Cheseldine: "Speech and language therapy and challenging behaviour: a comparison of therapists' experiences." (oral paper).

• Seventh International Aphasiology Rehabilitation Conference, Boston USA, August 1996.

  Carmel Lum: "Why some aphasics show an advantage on some tests of automatic speech" (oral paper).

  Christine Skinner & Angela Speers "title" (oral paper).

  Linda Armstrong: "title" (oral paper).

• International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Fifth Annual Conference (ICPLA 96), Munich Germany, September 1996.

  Gibbon, Fiona, James M. Scobbie, William J. Hardcastle & Paul Fletcher: "Covert Contrast as a stage in the acquisition of phonetics and phonology." [Poster paper] [Published]

  Janet Beck: "Phonetics teaching within the education of Speech and Language Therapy students." (poster paper).

  Nigel Hewlett, Fiona Gibbon & Wendy Cohen: "When is an velar an alveolar?" (oral paper).

  Sara Wood, William J. Hardcastle, Fiona Gibbon & Christine Skinner: "An EPG study of audible and inaudible intrusive articulatory gestures in adults with acquired aphasia." (oral paper).

  Janet Beck, Alan Wrench, D. Soutar, A.G. Roberston, J. Laver & M. Jackson: "Surgical mapping and phonetic analysis in intra-oral cancer." (oral paper).

  Fiona Gibbon, Tara L. Whitehill, William J. Hardcastle & Stephanie F. Stokes: "Cross-language (Cantonese/English) study of articulatory error patterns in children with cleft palate using EPG." (oral paper).

• Human Capital and Mobility: Phrase-level Phonology, the final meeting, in Edinburgh, September 1996.

  D. Robert Ladd and James M. Scobbie: "Length and Strength in Sardinian." (oral paper).

• VIth Australian Conference on Speech Science and Technology in Adelaide, Australia, 10-12 December 1996.
• International Conference on Spoken Language Processing in Philadelphia USA, October 1996.

  Alan Wrench, Alan D. McIntosh & William J. Hardcastle: "Optopalatograph (OPG): A New Apparatus for Speech Production Analysis." [Poster paper.] [Published]

• Measuring Outcomes in the Voice Clinic, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle UK, October 11 1996.

  Janet Beck: "Auditory-perceptual voice measures." [Invited oral paper.]

• Academy of Aphasiology Conference, London, November 1996.

  Carmel Lum: "A methodological dilemma." [Poster paper] [Published]

  Suzanne Beeke and Elizabeth Dean: "Communicative competence in aphasic individuals: the linguistic contributions of the unimpaired partner." [Oral paper] [Published]

1995 [back to top]