The 50th Language Lunch Date: 2015-12-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Northern Arizona: Sound Change and Dialect Contact Lauren,Hall-Lew; LEL; Lauren.Hall-Lew@ed.ac.uk Mirjam,Eiswirth; PPLS; s1322502@sms.ed.ac.uk Mary-Caitlyn,Valentinsson; None; None William,Cotter; None; None This poster reports on the English short-a ‘nasal split’ in progress in Northern Arizona. Two subsets of acoustic data from 2002 were analyzed for social predictorsContinue reading The 50th Language Lunch

The 48th Language Lunch Date: 2015-06-11 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Are Comprehension-Elicited Lexical Predictions Specified at a Phonological Level within the Speech Production System? Eleanor,Drake; PPLS; e.k.e.drake@sms.ed.ac.uk The generation of comprehension-induced predictions affects both the timing and articulatory realization of spoken output (e.g., Drake, Schaeffler, & Corley, 2014). The current study investigates whether these effectsContinue reading The 48th Language Lunch

The 47th Language Lunch Date: 2015-04-30 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum An fMRI study of semantic diversity effects upon the semantic network Ellise,Suffill; None; None Semantic diversity in language has been found to increase processing costs on both a behavioural (RT) and neural basis, reflecting diversity within the mental representation required to process a concept, orContinue reading The 47th Language Lunch

The 46th Language Lunch Date: 2015-02-19 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The source of ‘said’, the overlooked English determiner Brett,Reynolds; None; None Dictionaries almost universally list said as an adjective in cases like a true copy of (the) said document, and the fact that the is optional or even redundant for some speakers is broadly overlooked.Continue reading The 46th Language Lunch

The 45th Language Lunch Date: 2014-11-24 Location: Mini Forum 2, Informatics Forum An investigation of the application of dynamic sinusoidal models to statistical parametric speech synthesis Qiong,Hu; None; None This paper applies a dynamic sinusoidal synthesis model to statistical parametric speech synthesis (HTS). For this, we utilise regularised cepstral coefficients to represent both the staticContinue reading The 45th Language Lunch

The 44th Language Lunch Date: 2014-10-13 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks Xingxing,Zhang; None; None We propose a model for Chinese poem generation based on recurrent neural networks which we argue is ideally suited to capturing poetic content and form. Our generator jointly performs content selection (“what to say”) andContinue reading The 44th Language Lunch

The 43rd Language Lunch Date: 2014-06-18 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum ParCor 1.0: A parallel pronoun-coreference corpus to support statistical MT Liane,Guillou; informatics; None ​We present ParCor, a parallel corpus of texts in which pronoun coreference (reduced coreference in which pronouns are used as referring expressions) has been annotated. The corpus is intended to be usedContinue reading The 43rd Language Lunch

The 42nd Language Lunch Date: 2014-03-20 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Relative f0-excursion as a stylistic variable in (dis)agreements Mirjam,Eiswirth; PPLS; s1322502@sms.ed.ac.uk Pitch prominence is highly variable in the four types of (dis)agreements identified by Pomerantz (1984), agreement, same assessment, downgrading and disagreement. Even though sociolinguists and discourse analysts have studied (pitch) prominence of disagreement andContinue reading The 42nd Language Lunch

The 41st Language Lunch Date: 2014-02-07 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Against gradual phonologization Josef,Fruehwald; PPLS; None The conventional wisdom regarding phonologization is that it progresses as a sequence of gradual reanalyses: natural acoustic, physiological and perceptual phenomena are reanalyzed as gradient coarticulatory processes, which are then reanalyzed as categorical phonological processes (Ohala, 1981; Bermudez-Otero, 2007).Continue reading The 41st Language Lunch

The 40th Language Lunch Date: 2013-11-28 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A study about inhibitory control in bilinguals. Marta Tessmann Bandeira,; PPLS; None This study examines bilingualism and executive functions from the perspective of dynamical systems, and aims to compare the performance of multilingual children evaluated in 2008 and the same participants four years later, onContinue reading The 40th Language Lunch