| ULTRAFEST IV Schedule | September 28-29, 2007 | New York University |
The conference will be held at the Kimmel Center on the NYU Campus. Friday’s meeting will be in Kimmel 802 and Saturday’s meeting is in Kimmel 803. The Kimmel Center is located at 60 Washington Square South, on the southwest corner of the intersection of Washington Square South and Laguardia Place (map).
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 (KIMMEL 802)
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast and Greeting |
| Technical I: Setup & Analysis | |
| 9:00-9:25 | Naoya Horiguchi, Ian Wilson (U. Aizu). Head movement and tongue compression with a fixed ultrasound probe but a free head. abstract presentation |
| 9:25-9:50 | Alan Wrench, Jim Scobbie, & Marietta van der Linden (Queen Margaret U.). Evaluation of a helmet to hold an ultrasound probe. abstract |
| 9:50-10:15 | Alan Wrench (Queen Margaret U.). Articulate Assistant Advanced: Ultrasound module. abstract |
| 10:15-10:35 | Break |
| Technical II: Imaging & Analysis | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Stefan Frisch, John Lum (U. South Florida). An ultrasound analyzer tool built from National Instruments LabView software. abstract presentation |
| 11:00-11:25 | Catherine Hau, Tim Bressmann, Roxanna Smallwood, Willy Wong (U. Toronto). 3D ultrasound on a budget: Reconstruction of 3D tongue shapes from multiple coronal planes. abstract presentation |
| 11:25-11:50 | Jeff Mielke (U. Ottawa). Are we looking at the same thing? abstract presentation |
| 11:50-12:10 | Discussion |
| 12:10-1:20 | LUNCH |
| Keynote Speech | |
| 1:20-2:20 | Yuedong Wang (UCSB). Spline Smoothing with Potential Applications to Tongue Shape Data Analysis. presentation |
| 2:20-2:30 | Break |
| Developmental & Clinical I: Acquisition of /r/ | |
| 2:30-2:55 | Peter Richtsmeier (U. Arizona). An articulatory analysis of gliding using ultrasound. abstract presentation |
| 2:55-3:20 | Bryan Gick, Barbara May Bernhardt, Penelope Bacsfalvi, Ian Wilson, Sunyoung Oh (U. British Columbia). A motor differentiation model for liquid substitutions: English /r/ variants in normal and disordered acquisition. abstract presentation |
| 3:20-3:45 | Lisa Davidson, Harriet Klein, Maria Grigos (NYU). Perceptual, kinematic, and ultrasound measurement of /r/ development in children with phonological delay. abstract presentation |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| Phonology & Phonetics I: Coarticulation | |
| 4:00-4:25 | Natalia Zharkova (Queen Margaret U.). Coarticulation resistance quantification in several Scottish English phonemes. abstract presentation |
| 4:25-4:50 | Matthew Gordon, Robert Kennedy, Diana Archangeli, and Adam Baker (UCSB, U. Arizona). Distributed effects in coarticulation: an ultrasound study. abstract presentation (appendix of additional slides) |
| 4:50 | Discussion |
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 (KIMMEL 803)
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
| Technical III: Multiple Methodologies | |
| 9:00-9:25 | Thomas Hueber, Gerard Chollet, Bruce Denby, Maureen Stone (ESPCI-Paristech, ENST-Paristech, U. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI; U. Maryland). Ouisper: Toward an ultrasound-based silent speech interface. abstract presentation |
| 9:25-9:50 | Mirko Grimaldi, Barbara Gili Fivela, Michele Tavella, Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Laila Craighero, Giulio Sandini, Luciano Fadiga (U. Salento, U. Genoa, U. Ferrara). Synchronized acquisition of Italian speech articulatory data using ultrasound, 3D-articulograph and laryngograph: First results. zipped presentation with ppt and movie files (authors’ site: clicking this link will begin large download ~14MB) |
| 9:50-10:15 | Marisa Fenos, Tim Bressmann, Roxanna Smallwood, Elizabeth Ackloo, Heather Flowers, Willy Wong, Jonathan C. Irish (U. Toronto). Beyond the midsagittal plane: Multi-planar paced imaging, cross-plane imaging, and dynamic volumetric imaging of tongue motion in speech. abstract presentation |
| 10:15-10:35 | Break |
| Phonology & Phonetics II | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Jeff Mielke (U. Ottawa). Ultrasound in a model of phonetic similarity. abstract presentation |
| 11:00-11:25 | Tanja Kocjancic (Queen Margaret U.). Measuring tongue movements in complex onsets: an ultrasound study. abstract presentation |
| 11:25-11:50 | James M Scobbie, Jane Stuart-Smith, Eleanor Lawson (Queen Margaret U.). Ultrasound tongue imaging for sociophonetics. abstract | 11:50-12:15 | Sylvie Wodzinski, Stefan Frisch, and Adrienne Stearns (U. South Florida). Update of research on velar stop consonant production. abstract presentation |
| 12:15-12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30-1:45 | LUNCH |
| Phonology & Phonetics III: Crosslinguistic Data | |
| 1:45-2:05 | Amanda Miller (Cornell U.). Tongue Shape and Airstream Contrasts in N|uu Clicks: Predictable information is phonologically active. abstract presentation |
| 2:05-2:30 | Adam Baker, Alina Twist, Yuko Watanabe and Diana Archangeli (U. Arizona). Lingual implementations of non-lingual features: cross-linguistic data from Turkish, Japanese, and French. abstract presentation |
| 2:30-2:55 | Ian Wilson, Naoya Horiguchi, Bryan Gick (U. Aizu, UBC). Japanese articulatory setting: the tongue, lips and jaw. abstract presentation |
| 2:55-3:10 | Break |
| Developmental & Clinical II | |
| 3:10-3:35 | Tim Bressmann, Orchid Rastadmehr, Jonathan C. Irish (U. Toronto). Tongue movement and speech after lateral glossectomy: Results from 2D and 3D ultrasound imaging. abstract presentation |
| 3:35-4:00 | Lucie Ménard, Jérôme Aubin, Amélie Brisebois, and Mélanie Thibeault (UQAM). A study of the development of speech motor control using ultrasound recordings. abstract |
| 4:00-4:25 | Mélanie Thibeault, Amélie Brisebois, Annie Leclerc, Jérôme Aubin and Lucie Ménard (UQAM). Speech production in blind and sighted speakers: an analysis of tongue positions in different prosodic contexts. abstract |
| 4:25 | Discussion |