Schedule
All events will be held in the McCune Conference room (6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building).
The conference will have CART captioning: links are here
(Schedule may be subject to change!)
Friday, Nov 6
| Time | Event/Speaker | Title (link to abstract) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕ | 1:00 - 1:30 | Coffee, snacks, catch-up! | |
| Session chair: Simon Todd | |||
| 🏺 | 1:30 - 2:30 | Invited Talk by Annie Lamar | Sing, Muse, of Small Data: Computational Approaches to Homer’s Odyssey |
| Session chair: Laurel Brehm | |||
| 🐋 | 2:30 - 3:30 | Invited Talk by Gašper Beguš | Language as informative imagitation |
| 📘 | 3:30 - 3:40 | Cedar Brown | Brief notes on past/present language diversity |
| 🏞️ | 3:40 - 5:00 | Invited Panel | A primer on community-centered field research |
| Moderator and session chair: Simon Todd | |||
| * Lina Hou | |||
| * Jessica Ivani | |||
| * Maziar Toosarvandani | |||
| * James Yee |
Saturday, Nov 7
| Time | Event/Speaker | Title (link to abstracts) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕🥐 | 9:00 | Coffee and breakfast | —— |
| 👋 | 9:30 | Laurel Brehm & Simon Todd | Welcome! |
| A | Session chair: Zoe Cheung | ||
| A | 9:40 - 10:05 | Sophie Atkins, Tovah Irwin & Idan Asher Blank | Decomposing Surprisal Into Semantic Features: A Case-Study Of Animacy |
| A | 10:05 - 10:30 | Esra Eldem Tunc, Zuzanna Fuchs & Elsi Kaiser | The Role of Coherence Relations in Null and Overt Pronoun Interpretation in Turkish- English Heritage Speakers and Late Bilinguals |
| ☕🖼️ | 10:30 - 11:45 | Coffee and poster session 1 | —– |
| B | Session chair: Jesse Harris | ||
| B | 11:45 - 12:10 | Linh Pham, Elsi Kaiser & Zuzanna Fuchs | Effect of Predictability on similarity-based interference in Vietnamese Wh-Constructions |
| B | 12:10 - 12:35 | Noemy Condori Arias & Sherry Chien | Prosody Beyond Morphology: Encoding Topic in South Bolivian Quechua |
| 🥪🍎 | 12:35 - 1:40 | Lunch | —– |
| C | Session chair: Brandon Woo | ||
| C | 1:40 - 2:05 | Joseph M Denning, Tovah Irwin & Idan Asher Blank | Lexico-semantic features reveal a dissociation between episodic and mentalizing brain networks during naturalistic English comprehension |
| C | 2:05 - 2:30 | Yaqing Tang & Laura Gwilliams | OPM-MEG Provides Robust Time-Resolved Decoding of Naturalistic Speech |
| ☕🖼️ | 2:30 - 3:45 | Coffee and poster session 2 | —– |
| D | Session chair: Ariel Chan | ||
| D | 3:45 - 4:10 | Shawn N. Cummings, Sreyoshi Basu, Chigusa Kurumada & Xin Xie | Toward Distributional Analyses of Accented Speech Production: The ADAPT Corpus and a Fricative Voicing Case Study |
| D | 4:10 - 4:35 | Will Chih-Chao Chang, Srikantan Nagarajan, John Houde, Connor Mayer & Gregory Hickok | On the Nature of Planning Targets for Casual and Clear Speech |
| D | 4:35 - 5:00 | Sherry Chien & Argyro Katsika | Dissociable Articulatory Strategies for Tone and Focus in Taiwan Mandarin |
Sunday, Nov 8
| Time | Event/Speaker | Title (link to abstracts) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕🥐 | 9:00 | Coffee and breakfast | —– |
| E | Session chair: Laurel Brehm | ||
| E | 9:20 - 9:45 | Zoe Ka Pui Cheung & Zoe Liberman | Judging by How You Speak: The Role of Accent Strength in Children’s Evaluations of Speakers |
| E | 9:45 - 10:10 | Giselle Ellen Ferrer, Kaitlin Lee, Shawn N. Cummings & Xin Xie | How perceptual is lexically guided perceptual learning? |
| E | 10:10 - 10:35 | Yumeng Shen & Sarah C. Creel | Using ASR to Scale Talker N in L2 Speech Research |
| ☕ | 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break | —– |
| F | Session chair: William Matchin | ||
| F | 11:00 - 11:25 | Metehan Oğuz & Elsi Kaiser | Processing non-local reflexives: Delayed semantic role cues in Turkish anaphor resolution |
| F | 11:25 - 11:50 | Victoria Chang & Alexander LaTourrette | No Evidence for Cross-situational Syntactic Bootstrapping in Adults |
| 👋 | 11:50 - 12:00 | Laurel Brehm & Simon Todd | Closing remarks |
| 🏖️🌮 | 12:20 - 2:00 | Picnic lunch at Goleta Beach Area B | —– |