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Conference Program



Wednesday, June 24th
Thursday, June 25th
Friday, June 26th
08:30
Registration, Coffee, tea, morning treats
Registration, Coffee, tea, morning treats
Registration, Coffee, tea, morning treats

Early childhood development Chair: Benjamin Munson
Later childhood development Chair: Jessica Barlow
Bilingualism Chair: Ghada Khattab
09:00
Introductory remarks
• Carrie Dyck, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Faculty of Arts
• Phil Branigan, Head, Department of Linguistics
Developmental differences in the effect of production on word-learning
Tania Zamuner
Elizabeth Morin-Lessard
Stephanie Strahm
Mike Page
Are baby-talk words shaped by biomechanical constraints on articulation?
Mits Ota
Barbora Skarabela
Judit Fazekas
Lovisa Wihlborg
09:30
Sources of phonological complexity in one child’s lexical avoidance
Anne-Michelle Tessier
Kayla Day
Microvariation trajectories in children’s nonword repetitions
Sharon Inkelas
Keith Johnson
Context and task effects on English past tense marking: The case of bilinguals
Jessica Barlow
Sonja Pruitt-Lord
Philip Combiths
10:00
Consonant harmonies and acquisition of natural classes
Christophe dos Santos
Naomi Yamaguchi
Sophie Kern
Pre-schoolers’ categorisation of speakers by phonological variables
Ella Jeffries
Paul Foulkes
Carmen Llamas
The role of between-language interaction in the diagnosis of phonological disorders in bilingual children
Leah Fabiano-Smith
10:30
Break
Break
Break

Early childhood development
Chair: Jessica Barlow
Later childhood development Chair: Anna Sosa
Wrapping up
11:00
Isolated words in input to infants: A critical wedge?
Marilyn Vihman
Tamar Keren-Portnoy
Robin Lindop-Fisher
Using pupillometry to study early lexical representations
Katalin Tamási
Cristina McKean
Adamantios Gafos
Barbara Hoehle
Business meeting
11:30
Using spontaneous child data as a proxy for frequencies in the adult targets
Ghada Khattab
Shaima Al-Qattan
The relationship between early lexical and phonological development: What we can learn from children with atypical phonology
Carol Stoel-Gammon
Closing remarks
12:00
Lunch (2 hours)
Lunch (2 hours)






Language disorders Chair: Christophe dos Santos
Poster Session

14:00
Cluster simplification in a nonword repetition study of Russian children with SLI
Darya Kavitskaya
Sharon Inkelas
[see list of posters below]

14:30
Grammatical conditioning in the development of phonological productions
Kelly Burkinshaw


15:00
Identification of subclasses of children with speech sound disorders using the PCC, PWP intersect
Alycia Cummings
Alexia Larson


15:30
Break



Acoustic analysis Chair: Mits Ota
PhonBank update and discussion

16:00
Motor-acoustic mappings shape child phonology: evidence from a circular chain shift
Tara McAllister Byun
Adam Buchwald
*Appendix: A-map paper
Phon and PhonBank support toward acoustic and clinical studies
Yvan Rose
Gregory Hedlund

16:30
Listener bias in categorical and continuous measures of children’s production of fricatives
Benjamin Munson







Posters



Differential effects of motor and phonetic variability on speech production in children with SLI
Sara Benham
Lisa Goffman

Direction of coarticulation in vowel-fricative sequences in L1-German children
Felicitas Kleber

Measuring the relationship between lexical and phonological ability in 2- and 3-year olds
Brooke Santos
Anna Sosa

Phonological development in a bilingual Arabic-English speaking child with bilateral cochlear implants: A longitudinal case study
Manal Sabri
Leah Fabiano-Smith

Rhotic vowel production in young children with and without speech sound disorders: Acoustic analysis
Hyunju Chung
Jaslyn Dunger
Janice Bedard
Karen Pollock

The effect of common versus uncommon speech substitutions on the recognition and processing of words
Breanna Krueger
Holly Storkel
Jacquelyn Vorndran
Laura Neenan

The impact of language experience on a non-word repetition task: Testing bilingual children
Jeanie Morry
Maureen Scheidnes

Tongue shape complexity of correct and distorted rhotics in school-age children
Jonathan Preston
Patricia McCabe
Mark Tiede
Douglas Whalen

Who needs early intervention? A phonological screening tool for young children with cleft palate
Line Dahl Jørgensen

Babbling as a potential predictor of difficulty in segmental acquisition
Kayla Day