Final programme

Thursday, 20 April 2006

 

08.30–

Registration

09.00–09.20

Welcoming remarks

09.20–09.30

Remarks by the organizers

09.30–10.00

Coffee break

10.00–11.00

Invited talk

Moira Yip

The symbiosis between perception and grammar in loanword phonology

11.00–11.20

Coffee break

11.20–13.00

Phonology I

11.20–11.40

Franc Marušič

*Aff-stem-ix: Are there any discontinuous affixes?

11.40–12.00

Tatjana Marvin

The interaction between structure and pronunciation in English affixation

12.00–12.20

Sašo Živanovič

How does the size of the mental lexicon influence the range of phonological theory?

12.20–12.40

Alja Ferme

Final sonorant clusters

12.40–13.00

Peter Jurgec

On the phonolgical status of schwa in Slovene

13.00–15.00

Lunch break

15.00–16.00

Invited talk

Jože Toporišič

Standard Slovene sounds and accent (as they are)

16.00–16.20

Coffee Break

16.20–17.40

Phonology II

16.20–16.40

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16.40–17.00

Teodor Petrič

Phonological development of a Slovenian child – Consonants and consonant clusters

17.00–17.20

Vlado Nartnik

On delimitation of contoids and vocoids in the Slovenian grammars

17.20–17.40

Agata Šega

Some phonetic characteristics of bases for older latinisms or romanisms in Slovene

17.40–18.00

Coffee Break

18.00–18.40

Phonetics of Slovene I

18.00–18.20

Peri Bhaskararao, Nina Golob

What matters in Slovene accent? An acoustic comparison of stress and pitch accents

18.20–18.40

Peter Jurgec, Karmen Kenda Jež

Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in the Slovene dialect of Ukve

20.00–?

Reception (Ms. Danica Simšič, the mayoress of Ljubljana)

 

 

Friday, 21 April 2006

 

09.30–10.30

Invited talk

Bernd Möbius

Exemplar-based speech representation

10.30–11.00

Coffee Break

11.00–12.20

Language Technologies I

11.00–11.20

Tomaž Šef, Tea Tušar, Andrej Bratko, Matjaž Gams

Comparison between humans and machines on the task of accentuation of Slovene words

11.20–11.40

Jerneja Žganec Gros, Varja Cvetko - Orešnik, Primož Jakopin, Aleš Mihelič

The SI-PRON pronunciation lexicon

11.40–12.00

Matej Rojc, Darinka Verdonik

Using SIlex and LC-STAR lexica for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of foreign names

12.00–12.20

Andrej Žgank, Darinka Verdonik, Aleksandra Zögling Markuš, Zdravko Kačič

Expanding the Slovenian BNSI Broadcast News speech database for improved acoustic modeling

12.20–14.00

Lunch break

14.00–15.20

General phonetics

14.00–14.20

Ivo Škarić

Spatioception and hearing

14.20–14.40

Gordana Varošanec Škarić

Vibrato in trained male voices

14.40–15.00

Ana Zwitter Vitez

Prosodic strategies in spontaneous speech: analysis and applications

15.00–15.20

Branko Starc

Vocographics and its application in phonetics

15.20–15.40

Coffee Break

15.40–17.00

Language Technologies II

15.40–16.00

Tomaž Rotovnik, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec, Darinka Verdonik

Discussing spontaneous speech recognition problems with examples from speech corpus Turdis-1

16.00–16.20

Simon Dobrišek, Boštjan Vesnicer, France Mihelič in Nikola Pavešić

A biometric system for speaker recognition

16.20–16.40

Ekaterina Panova

Principles of compiling sound components in concatenative synthesis for closely related languages

16.40–17.00

Matej Rojc, Andrej Žgank, Tomaž Rotovnik, Bojan Kotnik

Speech-to-speech translation system BABILON for Slovenian-German language pair

17.00–17.20

Coffee Break

17.20–18.40

Language Technologies III

17.20–17.40

France Mihelič, Maša Novak, Simona Lustek, Grega Milharčič, Tadej Trebec

Statistical analysis of formant frequencies for Slovene vowels using standard software tools

17.40–18.00

Primož Jakopin

Vowels and Consonants in the Nova beseda corpus

18.00–18.20

Tomaž Erjavec, Matija Ogrin

Phonetic characters in digital editions

18.20–18.40

Jana Zemljarič Miklavčič, Marko Stabej

How to write down what cannot be written down (transcribing spontaneous speech for spoken corpus)

 

 

Saturday, 22 April 2006

 

9.50–11.10

Contrastive studies

9.50–10.10

Elenmari Pletikos, Jelena Vlašić, Jordan Bićanić

The realization of lexical accents within different focuses in Croatian

 

Charalampos Karypidis, Antonia Colazo - Simon, Angelica V. Costagliola

Asymmetry in vowel perception in L2: evidence from articulatory synthesis of an /i/~/e/ continuum

10.10–10.30

Rastislav Šuštaršič

English-Slovene Contrastive Phonetics and its Applications in Teaching English Phonetics

10.30–10.50

Damir Horga, Vesna Požgaj - Hadži, Marko Liker

Temporal parameters of Croatian and Slovene in their linguistic contact as foreign languages

10.50–11.10

Hotimir Tivadar, Matea Hotujac

Articulatory and acoustic description of the Slovene-Croatian language system

11.10–11.30

Coffee Break

11.20–12.20

Phonetics and speech rehabilitation

11.30–11.50

Irena Hočevar Boltežar, Miha Žargi

Changes in the articulation of the vowels in deaf subjects after cochlear implantation

11.50–12.10

Martina Ozbič

Intelligibility of talk of people with disturbance of hearing: Contribution of the transients, formants, voice, speech and articulation and articulation elements

12.10–12.30

Tanja Kocjančič, Stefan Werner

Acoustic analysis of diadochokinesis in neurologically impaired speech

12.30–14.00

Lunch Break

14.00–15.40

Phonetics of Slovene II

14.00–14.20

Hotimir Tivadar

Contemporary standard Slovene between writing and speech (on the radio and television)

14.20–14.40

Damjan Huber

Influence of some sociolinguistic factors to (speech) perception of standard Slovene vowels in the case of high shool students in Pomurje

14.40–15.00

Nina Novak

Elements of spontaneous speech in the minutes

15.00–15.20

Zdravko Zupančič

Reflection – A missing link between »Verbum Mentis« and »Vis Sermonis«

15.20–15.40

Concluding remarks

 

The conference will be held at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, SRC SASA, Novi trg 4, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

20 minutes for individual presentations include 5 minutes for discussion.