The articulatory basis of C-V coordination and accentual prominence in Italian. The challenge of Articulatory Phonology
Prof Mario Vayra, Università di Bologna

The accentual marking of information status in Italian
Dr Cinzia Avesani, ISTC-CNR Padova

Computational modelling of visual word recognition and reading aloud
Max Coltheart, Macquarie University

Postgraduate student information session
Mel Gallagher

Syllable structure in a coupled oscillator model of timing articulatory gestures
Louis Goldstein
Yale University Department of Linguistics, and Haskins Laboratories

Vowels and Tones in Infant Directed Speech: Hyperarticulation for Both, but Different Developmental Patterns
(EPC Practice Talk)
Nan Xu

Audio-teleconferencing systems: Interacting in a contemporary cocktail party environment
(EPC Practice Talk)
Natalie Hughes

Listening in the real world - what you need to solve the cocktail party problem
Simon Carlile
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory
University of Sydney

Auditory-Visual Speech Perception of Phones and Tones: The Role of Rigid and Non-Rigid Face and Head Motion
(EPC Practice Talk)
Denis Burnham

No Spaces between Words: Reading Acquisition in Thai
(EPC Practice Talk)
Benjawan Kasisopoa

Some thoughts on machine processing of speech: Reflections from 20 years work on Thai Speech Technology
Professor Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin
Centre for Research on Speech and Language Processing, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

The inter-generational transmission of social fears from mother to infant: Insights from experimental and community studies
Marc De Rosnay
School of Psychology
University of Sydney

Men’s care: men caring for partners with MS
Dr Elizabeth Watson, School of Social Sciences & Social Justice and Social Change Research Unit, UWS

What's a WARC?
Mark Antoniou

SPSS: A brief overview and guide to planned comparisons
Bettina Keresztesi & Nan Xu

Planned comparisons, simultaneous contrast testing, and introduction to WinPsy
Denis Burnham

Infant-Directed Speech Predicts Social Cognition and Speech Perception in Infancy: A Longitudinal Study
(COC Practice Talk)
Sevda Bahtiyar

How to write a literature review
Kate Stevens and Damien Smith

3D face data acquisition, analysis and reconstruction
Takaaki Kuratate

Using repetition blindness to investigate lexical retrieval and reading
Sally Andrews
School of Psychology
University of Sydney

Electromagnetic Articulography: Measuring the 'hidden' speech articulators
Christian Kroos

Some methods for analysis of gait
Shaun Halovic

Asymmetries in infant vowel perception: A window on how humans structure the vowel space
Prof Ocke-Schwen Bohn
Aarhus University, Denmark

From soundscape to auditory information in public spaces: Methodology and application to the train stations
Dr Julien Tardieu, IRCAM, France

Perceptual Investigation into Envelopment, Spatial Clarity, and
Engulfment in Reproduced Multi-Channel Audio: Compositional
Approaches in 3D Electroacoustic Music
Robert Sazdov

Chapters of our lives: Life narratives of lower-income midlife and older women
Assoc Prof Rosemary Leonard, Social Justice and Social Change Research Unit, UWS

NB: lunch provided

What services are available for UWS Postgraduate students?
Richard Martino, PAUWS and Julie Sloggett, RSN (Research Student Network)

Preparing for your Confirmation of Candidtaure (COC)
Jemma Harris

Foreign accented vowels are just as intelligible as vowels spoken in an unfamiliar dialect
Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen

Reading without awareness
Prof Kenneth Forster
University of Arizona

It's not just all about sound: Investigating marimba performance as an auditory and visual experience
Mary Broughton

Anxiety, depression and anger in medical patients
Professor Ephrem Fernandez, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Tuning hearing aids for infants' ears
Elizabeth Beach, MARCS

The Evolution of Infant Attention to Mothers' Affective Intent
Christa Lam, MARCS

The Thummer Mapping Project (ThuMP)
Dr Garth Paine,
MARCS Auditory Labs & School of Communication Arts, UWS

1. McGurk illusion obtained from MRI movie stimuli

2. Audio-tactile, visuo-tactile, and audio-visual temporal synchrony perception

Dr. Waka Fujisaki,
Human and  Information Science  Laboratory,
NTT  Communication Science  Laboratories

Jul 11

Performance:
16.00 to 17.20
VIPRe space, Bldg 9
(By registration only)

Episodes from the iPod Opera 2.0
William Duckworth/Nora Farrell

Virtual Piano, improvised/composed performance
Roger Dean/austraLYSIS

Sync : Œexperimental music of our time
Michael Atherton and Garth Paine

Register by email to:
k.mcconachie@uws.edu.au

Colloquium:
17:30 to 19.00
Conference Rm 2. Bldg 23

Virtual Music: The Theater of the Ear
Prof. William Duckworth, Department of Music, Bucknell University, USA
abstract, bio, links

Musical tension: Linking cognition and emotion
Prof Carol Krumhansl Cornell University

Jul 18
5.LG.13

Developing phonetic perception in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition
Megha Sundara, UCLA
abstract

*NB: Room 5.LG.13, Bldg 5

Investigating the cognitive features of heuristic-based information acquisition
(COC Practice Talk)
Ben Morrison

Audio-visual attention: From the laboratory to the real world
(COC Practice Talk)
Natalie Hughes

Experiences of people with cancer and their carers
Dr Stacy Carter, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Uni of Sydney

LABOUR DAY HOLIDAY

Perceptual assimilation of ambiguous /r/-/l/ speech tokens
(New Sounds Conference Practice Talk)
Michael Tyler

Confirmation of candidature practice talk
Jennifer Le

SFC: a trainable prosodic model
Gerard Bailly
ICP, Grenoble, France

Challenging normative sexualities: Relational psychoanalytic and constructivist perspectives on interracial sexual intimacy
Dr Annie Stopford, psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice & adjunct fellow at the School of Psychology, UWS