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Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference , SST2014

Dec 2-5 2014, Christchurch, New Zealand

Editors Jennifer Hay and Emma Parnell

Frontpiece of proceedings can be found here

Forensics 1 10:25-12:05, 3^rd December 2014, Session Chair: Viktoria Papp
16	*LR-based forensic comparison under severe test-data scarcity.* Yuko Kinoshita¹, Michael Wagner¹ ¹University of Canberra
20	*Replicate mismatch between test and background/development databases: The effect on the performance of likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison* Shunichi Ishihara¹ ¹Australian National University
24	*Regional variation and the definition of the relevant population in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison using cepstral coefficients* Vincent Hughes¹, Paul Foulkes¹ ¹University of York
28	*Comparison between speech parameters for forensic voice comparison using mobile phone speech* Esam Alzqhol¹, Balamurali B T Nair¹, Bernard Guillemin¹ ¹University of Auckland
PANZE 10:25-12:05, 3^rd December 2014 ,Session Chair: Kevin Watson
32	*Phonologisation of vowel duration and nasalised /æ/ in Australian English* Felicity Cox¹, Sallyanne Palethorpe² ¹Macquarie University, ²ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
36	*Why the SQUARE vowel is the most variable in Sydney* Nhung Nguyen¹, Jason Shaw¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
40	*Identifying /el/-/æl/: A comparison between two regional Australian towns* Deborah Loakes¹, John Hajek¹, Joshua Clothier¹, Janet Fletcher¹ ¹University of Melbourne
44	*Comparing acoustic analyses of Australian English vowels from Sydney: Cox (2006) versus AusTalk* Jaydene Elvin¹, Paola Escudero¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
L2 Acquisition 14:00-14:50, 3^rd December 2014, Session Chair: Jeanette King
49	*Segmental and tonal errors in L2 Mandarin speech produced by Australian English learners* Wentao Gu¹, Ting Zhang¹, Chiharu Tsurutani² ¹Nanjing Normal University, ²Griffith University
53	*Does immersion experience reduce /r/-/l/ category overlap for Japanese learners of English?* Michael Tyler¹, Saya Kawase¹, Mark Antoniou¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
Pitch 15:15-16:30, 3^rd December 2014,Session Chair: James Gruber
58	*Tonal Alignment of Focal Pitch Accents in Two Varieties of Indian English* Olga Maxwell¹, Janet Fletcher¹ ¹University of Melbourne
62	*Amplitude and F0 as acoustic correlates of Kelantan Malay word-initial geminates* Mohd Hilmi Hamzah¹, Janet Fletcher², John Hajek², ¹Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, ²University of Melbourne
66	*Pitch accents and prosodic properties of the Clitic in Yukulta (Tangkic)* Cicely Bonnin¹ ¹University of Queensland
Perception 1 15:15-16:30, 3^rd December 2014. Session Chair: Lynn Clark
71	*Effects of short-term exposure to unfamiliar regional accents: Australians' categorization of London and Yorkshire English consonants* Jason Shaw¹, Catherine Best¹, Karen Mulak¹, Gerard Docherty², Bronwen Evans³, Paul Foulkes⁴, Jen Hay⁵, Jalal Al-Tamimi⁶, Mike Peek⁵, Katharine Mair³, Sophie Wood⁴ ¹University of Western Sydney, ²Griffith University, ³University College London, ⁴University of York, ⁵University of Canterbury, ⁶Newcastle University
75	*Listeners cope with speaker and accent variation differently: Evidence from the Go/No-go task* Buddhamas Kriengwatana¹, Paola Escudero,² Josephine Terry² ¹Leiden University, ²University of Western Sydney
79	*Acoustic distance explains speaker versus accent normalization in infancy* Paola Escudero¹, Karen Mulak¹, Samra Alispahic¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
New Technologies 1 11:25-12:40, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Catherine Theys
84	*Comparison of localised and feature-based variants of the mixelgram algorithm to perform audio-visual speaker association* Trent Lewis¹, Patrick Klaosen¹ ¹Flinders University
88	*Spectral enhancement of sounds by the stellate microcircuit of the ventral cochlear nucleus* Timothy Esler¹, David Grayden¹ ¹University of Melbourne
92	*Resources created for building New Zealand English voices* Catherine Watson¹, Amelie Marchi² ¹University of Auckland, ²Grenoble INP - ENSE3
Acoustic Phonetics 11:00-12:40, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Jen Hay
97	A spectral analysis of laterals in three Central Australian languages Marija Tabain¹, Andy Butcher²,Gavan Breen³, Richard Beare⁴ ¹La Trobe University, ² Flinders University, ³Institute for Aboriginal Development, ⁴Monash University
101	Revisiting the pressure impulse in Australian languages: Bininj Gun-wok Hywel Stoakes¹, Andy Butcher², Janet Fletcher¹ ¹University of Melbourne, ²Flinders University
105	An acoustic study of the five Thai tones produced by ASD and TD children Therdpong Thongseiratch¹, Jariya Chuthapisith¹, Rungpat Roengpitya¹ ¹Mahidol University
109	Mr. White goes to market - running speech and citation tones in a southern Thai bidialectal Phil Rose^1,2 ¹Australian National University, ²Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Articulatory Phonetics 14:30-15:20, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Donald Derrick
114	*An electro-palatographic study of consonant sequences in Iwaidja* Janet Fletcher¹, Andrew Butcher², Deborah Loakes¹ ¹University of Melbourne, ²Flinders University
118	*'Advanced Tongue Root' in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence* Rosey Billington¹ ¹University of Melbourne

Perception 2 14:30-15:20, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Lynn Clark
123	*Improvements to vowel categorization in non-native regional accents resulting from multiple- versus single-talker training: A computational approach* Sarah Wright¹, Jason Shaw¹, Catherine Best¹, Gerard Docherty², Bronwen Evans³, Paul Foulkes⁴, Jen Hay⁵, Karen Mulak¹ ¹University of Western Sydney, ²Griffith University, ³University College London, ⁴University of York ⁵University of Canterbury
127	*Thai phonetically balanced word recognition test: Test-retest reliability and error analysis* A. Munthuli¹, C. Tantibundhit¹, C. Onsuwan¹, K. Kosawat² ¹Thammasat University, ²Thailand National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Forensics 2 15:45-16:10, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Paul Foulkes
132	*A first attempt at compensating for effects due to recording-condition mismatch in formant-trajectory-based forensic voice comparison* Ewald Enzinger¹ ¹University of New South Wales
136	*Looking into the real world: LR variability under forensically realistic conditions* Yuko Kinoshita¹ ¹Australian National University
Speech Production 1 14:30-15:20, 4^th December 2014, Session Chair: Catherine Theys
141	*Temporal planning in the production of Australian English compounds* Ivan Yuen¹, Nan Xu Rattanasone¹, Gretel McDonald¹, Rebecca Holt¹, Katherine Demuth¹ ¹Macquarie University
145	*Time spent talking in retirement* Nina Fhärm¹, Frida Wigelius Skoglund¹, Jan van Doorn¹ ¹Umeå University
New Technologies 2 10:10-11:50 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: Catherine Watson
150	*Automatic detection of speech truncation and speech rate* Chung Ting Justine Hui¹, Teh June Chin¹, Catherine Watson¹ ¹University of Auckland
154	*Short utterance PLDA speaker verification using SN-WLDA and variance modelling techniques* Ahilan Kanagasundaram¹, David Dean¹, Sridha Sridharan¹ ¹Queensland University of Technology
158	*Rescaling clustering trees using impact ratios for robust hierarchical speaker clustering* Houman Ghaemmaghami¹, David Dean¹, Shahram Kalantari¹, Sridha Sridharan¹ ¹Queensland University of Technology
162	*Phonetic spoken term search using topic information* Shahram Kalantari¹, David Dean¹, Sridha Sridharan¹ ¹Queensland University of Technology
Speech Production 2 10:10-11:50 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: Beth Hume
167	*Retention of Spanish coda /s/ by speakers of Kashibo-Kakataibo* Sally Bowman¹, Roberto Zariquiey Biondi², Marija Tabain¹ ¹La Trobe University, ²Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
171	*Assibilation in Trans-New Guinea languages of the Bird’s Head region* Fanny Cottet¹ ¹Australian National University
175	*Iconicity in Korean consonantal symbolism* Nahyun Kwon¹ ¹University of Queensland
179	*Some initial findings regarding first language influence on playing brass instruments* Matthias Heyne¹, Donald Derrick^1,2 ¹University of Canterbury, ²University of Western Sydney
Prosody 12:40-13:55, 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: James Gruber
184	*Sociophonetic and prosodic influences on judgements of sentence type* Paul Warren¹ ¹Victoria University of Wellington
188	*Stress-meter alignment in American hip hop* Casey Tait¹, Marija Tabain¹, Ingrid Sykes¹ ¹La Trobe University
192	*Examining the influence of pitch accents on word learning in German* Michael Walsh¹, Katrin Schweitzer¹, Hinrich Schütze², Dermot Lynott³ ¹University of Stuttgart, ²Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, ³Lancaster University
Perception 3 12:40-13:55, 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: Michael Tyler
197	*A restriction on minimal words, or word endings?* Jason Brown¹, Forrest Panther¹ ¹University of Auckland
201	*Orthographic effects on phonetic cue weighting* Grant McGuire¹ ¹University of California Santa Cruz
205	*Frequency in the input affects perception of phonological contrasts for native speakers* Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen^{1, 2}, Brett Baker³ ¹La Trobe University, ²University of Western Sydney, ³University of Melbourne
Perception 4 14:20-15:35 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: Jen Hay
210	*Influence of phonological, morphological, and prosodic factors on phoneme detection by native and second-language adults* Valeria Peretokina¹, Michael Tyler¹, Catherine Best¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
214	*Perception of Italian and Japanese consonant length by native speakers of Australian English and Italian: A pilot study* Kimiko Tsukada¹, Felicity Cox¹, John Hajek², Yukari Hirata³, ¹ Macquarie University, ²University of Melbourne, ³Colgate University
218	*Is more always better? The perception of Dutch vowels by English versus Spanish listeners* Samra Alispahic¹, Paola Escudero¹, Karen Mulak¹ ¹University of Western Sydney
Child Language Acquisition 14:20-15:10 5^th December 2014, Session Chair: Jeanette King
223	*Consonant inventory of infants aged 0-6 months* Adele Gregory¹, Marija Tabain¹, Michael Robb² ¹La Trobe University, ²University of Canterbury
227	*Investigating the effect of intrusive noise levels on speech perception in an open-plan kindergarten classroom* Kiri Mealings¹, Katherine Demuth¹,Jorg Buchholz^1,2, Harvey Dillon² ¹ Macquarie University, ²National Acoustics Laboratories

*Posters*
242	*The voiced emphatic coronal stop[ḍ] in the Ḥaḍrami Arabic: A socio-phonetic study* Hamad Altari¹ ¹University of Auckland
243	*Contour-based analysis of EGG data from words in isolation and connected speech* Stephen Bier¹, Catherine Watson¹, Clare McCann¹ ¹University of Auckland
244	*Venezuelan Spanish intransitives: More prosodic than you’d think* Sasha Calhoun¹, Erwin La Cruz¹, Ana Olssen¹ ¹Victoria University of Wellington
245	*Recency effects on word-medial /t/ in New Zealand English: initial observations* Lynn Clark¹, Liam Walsh¹ ¹University of Canterbury
246	*F0 as a word boundary cue for segmenting New Zealand English ethnolects* Kylie Fitzgerald¹, Viktoria Papp¹, Jen Hay¹ ¹University of Canterbury
247	*Distinguishing dysarthric speech: Vowel acoustics and measurements* Annalise Fletcher¹ Megan McAuliffe¹, Kaitlin Lansford²,Julie Liss³ ¹University of Canterbury, ²Florida State University, ³Arizona State University
248	*Ability to identify unfamiliar speech sounds negatively correlates with second language* *proficiency* Yurika Hashimoto¹, Ian Wilson¹, Younghyon Heo¹ ¹University of Aizu
249	*Why Indo-Aryan languages adapt English alveolars as reʈroflexes: Acoustic evidence from Punjabi* Qandeel Hussain¹ ¹Macquarie University
250	*I Bag Your Pardon: The Albertan æ/ɛ shift and community grammars* Jacqueline Jones¹, Stephen Winters¹ ¹University of Calgary
251	*Diphthong trajectories in Māori* Jeanette King¹, Catherine Watson², Margaret Maclagan¹, Peter Keegan², Ray Harlow³ ¹University of Canterbury, ²University of Auckland, ³University of Waikato (Retired)
253	*Preliminary comparison of New Caledonian & Metropolitan French mid vowels* Eleanor Lewis¹ ¹University of Melbourne
254	*Eye movements reveal Cantonese listeners use statistical information to assess category membership of acoustic cues* Jessie Nixon¹, Jacolien van Rij¹, Harald Baayen¹, Peggy Mok², Yiya Chen³ ¹University of Tübingen, ² Chinese University of Hong Kong, ³Leiden University
255	*Articulatory coordination in Nama click consonants* Michael Proctor¹, Yinghua Zhu², Adam Lammert², Asterios Toutios², Bonny Sands³, Shrikanth Narayanan², ¹Macquarie University, ²University of Southern California, ³Northern Arizona University
256	*Blocking in linguistic associative learning* Darcy Rose¹, Peter Racz¹, Jen Hay¹, Beth Hume¹ University of Canterbury
257	*Synthesizing speech using the AusTalk corpus* Zhijie Shao¹, Richard Leibbrandt¹, Trent Lewis¹ ¹Flinders University
258	*The neurophysiological correlates of overt speech productions: Dissociation of the speech production phases and test-retest reliability* Catherine Theys¹, Maarten De Vos², Megan McAuliffe¹ ¹University of Canterbury, ²University of Oldenbury
259	*Intergenerational vowel change in several Russian-English speakers* Ben Volchok¹ ¹University of Melbourne

Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference , SST2014

Dec 2-5 2014, Christchurch, New Zealand

Forensics 1

PANZE

L2 Acquisition

Pitch

Perception 1

New Technologies 1

Acoustic Phonetics

Articulatory Phonetics

Perception 2

Forensics 2

Speech Production 1

New Technologies 2

Speech Production 2

Prosody

Perception 3

Perception 4

Child Language Acquisition

Posters