ICPhS XVII Satellite Workshop, 2011

 

 

 

 

Coarticulation in New Varieties of English

Tuesday 16th August 2011

Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Invited speaker: David Deterding

Associate Professor, University of Brunei Darussalam

 

Schedule

 

This free one-day satellite event, organised by Jane Setter of the University of Reading and Peggy Mok of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, brought together researchers working on coarticulatory aspects of New Varieties of English.  We had a rich and varied selection of presentations which reported on research findings in this exciting area.

The event was sponsored by the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and by a grant from the British Academy / Association of Commonwealth Universities special joint project.

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The schedule for the event appears below:

Time

Program

9:00-9:30

REGISTRATION

9:30-9:45

OPENING

9:45-10:15

Juncture Production in Hong Kong, Singapore and British English

Peggy Mok1, Jane Setter2 & Ee Ling Low3

1Chinese University of Hong Kong

2University of Reading

3National Institute of Education (Singapore)

10:15-10:45

Syllable and Word Linking in Taiwan English

Karen Chung

National Taiwan University

10:45-11:15

TEA/COFFEE

11:15-11:45

The Coarticulation between English and Thai Fricatives and Vowels, Uttered by Native-Thai Speakers

Rungpat Roengpitya

Mahidol University

11:45-12:15

Positional Devoicing of /r/ in Varieties of South African English

Sabine Zerbian

University of Potsdam

12:15-12:45

Coarticulation Features of Initial Consonant Clusters in Hong Kong English

Cathy Wong

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

12:45-2:00

LUNCH

2:00-2:30

The labiodental /r/ in Singapore English

Geraldine Kwek & Ee Ling Low

National Institute of Education (Singapore)

2:30-3:00

Correlation Between Coarticulation and Prosody in Two Varieties of Hong Kong English

Vessela Dimitrova & Peter Tinkler

University of Hong Kong

3:00-3:30

Tonal Coarticulation of English Spoken in Hong Kong

YIU Suet Yee Suki

University of Hong Kong

3:30-4:00

TEA/COFFEE

4:00-5:00

KEYNOTE

Final Consonant Cluster Reduction in the Englishes of South East Asia

David Deterding

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

5:00-5:15

CONCLUDING REMARKS

5:15

DRINKS

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