Program & Abstracts

Thursday, February 17

8:45-9:00am Welcome

Session 1

9:00-9:30am Ander Beristain, C-to-V coarticulation induced formant dynamics variability in L1/L2/HL Spanish vowels

9:30-10:00am Dan Bates, The acquisition of Spanish vowels by native English speakers: A perception study

10:00-10:30am Carolina González, Gabrielle Isgar, Gavin Byrd, Susan Cox, and Christine Weissglass, Creaky voice in L2 Spanish

10:30-11:00am Break

Session 2

11:00-11:30am Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, Paige Cordero, Katriese DeLeon, Shannon Sullivan, and Hugo Salgado Creating new categories vs. learning new distributions in L2: Acquisition of Spanish voiced stops by L1 English learners

11:30am-12:00pm Megan Solon and Matthew Kanwit, Acquisition of sociophonetic competence: Exploring the relationship between preference and production

12:00-12:30pm Jack Carter, Improving L2 Spanish diphthongs with musical training

12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break

Session 3

1:30-2:00pm Timothy Face, Production of Acoustic Correlates of Stress by L2 Spanish-Speaking Immigrants to Spain

2:00-2:30pm Emily Kuder, Mixed methods unveil rhetorical stress in naturally-occurring L2 instructional speech

2:30-3:00pm Joseph Casillas, Juan José Garrido Pozú, Nicole Rodríguez, Kyle Parrish, Laura Fernández Arroyo, Robert Esposito, Isabelle Chang, Kimberly Gómez, Gabriela Constantin-Dureci, Jiawei Shao, Iván Andreu, and Katherine Taveras, Using intonation to disambiguate meaning: The role of empathy and proficiency in L2 perceptual development

3:00-3:30pm Break

Session 4

3:30-4:00pm Danielle Daidone, Silvina Bongiovanni, Ryan Lidster, Alisha Reaves, Jamie Root, and Chisato Kojima, High variability phonetic training in two Spanish pronunciation courses: data and lessons learned

4:00-4:30pm Sara Zahler and Danielle Daidone, Documenting instructor oral input in the Spanish language classroom

Friday, February 18

9:00-10:00am Plenary 1, Jennifer Cabrelli

10:00-10:30am Break

Session 5

10:30-11:00am Joo Kyeong Kim and Jenny Choi, Production of fricatives by Korean learners of L3 Spanish

11:00-11:30am Linda Ahima, Gabriela Martínez Loyola, Laura Spinu, and Yasaman Rafat, The third language imitation of Spanish rhotic-lateral contrast by Akan-English bilingual children and adults: the effect of first versus second language transfer, orthography, and age of acquisition 

11:30am-12:00pm Kyle Parrish, L3 French Voice-Onset Time at first exposure by Spanish-English bilinguals

12:00-12:30pm Sofía Fernández, Audrey Chery, and Michael Gradoville, L3 French VOT: Comparing Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners

12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break

Session 6

1:30-2:00pm Diana Velázquez-López and Leire Echevarría Canal, Computer-mediated instruction to facilitate L2 pronunciation: The case of the Spanish occlusives

2:00-2:30pm Charlie Nagle, Germán Zárate-Sández, and Amanda Huensch, Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech

2:30-3:00pm Jenna Conklin, Olga Dmitrieva, Ye-Jee Jung, Weiyi Zhai, and Emma Ismail, Impact of reduction on perceptions of affect, competence, and linguistic ability in Spanish-English bilinguals

3:00-3:30pm Break

3:30-5:00pm Ignite (10 minutes per presentation/30 minutes Q&A)

• André Zampaulo, Practicing Portuguese /s/-voicing at morpheme and word boundaries
• Robert Strong, Matched-Guise as Instrument of Motivation, Self-Awareness and Empathy in the Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation Course
• Isaiah O’Bryon, Diphthongs to the beat of the metronome
• Jack Carter, Musical Chants to Improve Rising Diphthong Production in L2 Speakers
• Gavin Byrd, Using Praat to display the difference between present and preterite tense visually
• Susan Cox and Gabrielle Isgar, Have you warmed up yet? Coaching alveolar trill production with techniques from speech pathology

Saturday, February 19

9:00-10:00am Plenary 2, Germán Zárate-Sández

10:00-10:30am Break

Session 7

10:30-11:00am Ana Paula Huback and Raquel Márcia Fontes Martins, Pronúncia do português brasileiro: o que e como ensinar em cursos elementares

11:00-11:30am Sergio Casado Ariza, Gillian Lord, Sabrina Cohen, The acoustic and perceptual effects of face coverings on Spanish sounds

11:30am-12:00pm Carlos Andrés Rojas, Computerized pronunciation training of Spanish rhotics

12:00-1:00pm Lunch Break

Session 8

1:00-1:30pm Juan José Garrido Pozú, L2 lexical segmentation: L2 learners’ sensitivity to syllabic structure in speech perception

1:30-2:00pm Nicole Rodríguez, Perceptual gains via instructional games: An examination of the perception and production of lexical stress in Spanish-English heritage bilingual children

2:00-2:30pm Kendall Aycock, The effects of online classroom training in the production and perception of Spanish declarative intonation by intermediate Spanish learners