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Oral Presentations

Monday 8 March
Chair: Sven Mattys, University of Bristol
13:40 - 14:00 Welcome and introduction
14:00 - 14:40 Martin Cooke Active speaking? Some recent findings on the effect of noise on speakers
14:40 - 15:20 Valerie Hazan What can speaker-listener interaction tell us about speech perception in adverse listening conditions?
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:20 Holger Mitterer Perception of phonologically reduced variants in conversational speech
16:20 - 17:00 Laurence White Segmentation cues in spontaneous and read speech
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Session 1
Tuesday 9 March
Chair: Stuart Rosen, UCL
09:30 - 10:10 Sophie Scott The neurobiology of speech comprehension: roles of acoustics, phonetics and effort
10:10 - 10:50 Matt Davis The adaptive nature of human speech recognition
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:50 Dennis Norris Can feedback ever help speech recognition?
11:50 - 13:30 Poster Session 2
Lunch break
Chair: Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University
14:30 - 15:10 John Field A journey with few maps: the strategic behaviour of the second language listener
15:10 - 15:50 María Luisa García Lecumberri Non-native perception and training in noise
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:50 Anne Cutler (presented by Mirjam Broersma) Competition dynamics in second language listening
17:00 - 18:30 Poster Session 3
Wednesday 10 March
Chair: Laurence White, University of Bristol
09:30 - 10:10 Jennifer Aydelott Finding meaning in a cocktail party: auditory sentence priming in competing speech
10:10 - 10:50 Kathy Pichora-Fuller Do signal distortions make younger adults listen to speech like older listeners?
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:50 Sven Mattys Effects of cognitive load on speech recognition
11:50 - 12:30 Ann Bradlow Linguistic masking in speech-in-speech perception
12:30 - 13:00 Concluding remarks and open mic

Poster Presentations

Poster Session 1 - Monday 8 March

P101 Widerin B., Hummer P., Kaltenbacher T., Röhm D. & Haider H. Speechreading in dyslexia: multimodal speech processing under difficult conditions
P102 Uslar V., Brand T., Hanke M., Carroll R., Ruigendijk E., Hamann C. & Kollmeier, B. Development of a speech corpus with varying linguistic complexity for speech intelligibility measurements
P103 Valkenier B. & Andringa T. C. A dual representation of the speech signal
P104 Fort M., Spinelli E., Savariaux C. & Kandel S. Examining the contribution of visual information in lexical processing in primary school children: evidence from vowel detection in noise
P105 Baker R. & Hazan V. Acoustic characteristics of clear speech produced in response to three different adverse listening conditions
P106 Carroll R. & Ruigendijk E. Understanding complex sentences in noise: a shift of influence from structural to acoustic cues?
P107 Oliver G. & Iverson P. Individual variation in the production and perception of second-language phonemes: French speakers learning English /i-I/
P108 Broersma M., Escudero P. & Simon E. Learning minimally different words in a third language: the importance of second language English proficieny
P109 Pinet M., Iverson P. & Huckvale M. Second-language experience and speech-in-noise recognition: the role of talker-listener accent similarity
P110 Ali A. N. Word juncture recognition by native and non-native listeners: effect of speaking rate in adverse listening conditions
P111 MacGregor L. J., Corley M., Collard P. & Donaldson D. I. What disfluency tells us about the comprehension of spontaneous speech
P112 Fernandes T., Ventura P. & Kolinsky R. Stop listening to the static! Statistics and coarticulation as segmentation cues in artifical languages: peceptual vs. cognitive load
P113 Janse E. & Ernestus M. Recognition of reduced words, context use, and age-related hearing loss
P114 Brouwer S., Mitterer H. & Huettig F. Comprehension of and accommodation to reduced speech: evidence from the shadowing task
P115 Rauch, O., White, L., Wiget, L. & Mattys, S. L. Segmentation of English conversational speech by native speakers of Italian and Czech

Poster Session 2 - Tuesday 9 March

P201 Giezen M., Baker A. & Escudero P. Speech recognition in profoundly deaf children with a cochlear implant
P202 Baskent D. Perceptual restoration of speech with simulations of cochlear implants and electric-acoustic stimulation
P203 Rudner M., Rönnberg J. & Lunner T. The role of cognition in understanding speech in noise with hearing aids
P204 Takeuchi F. & Koyama S. Cortical magnetic responses to m-sequence modulated speech sounds
P205 Viswanathan N., Magnuson J. S. & Fowler C. A. Evaluating accounts of perceptual accommodation to coarticulation using sinewave speech
P206 Peelle J. E., Gross J. & Davis M. H. The relationship between speech acoustics and cortical oscillations depends on intelligibility: an MEG investigation of vocoded sentence processing
P207 Ramirez J.-P., Ketabdar H. & Raake A. Intelligibility assessment for fluctuating masking sources
P208 Mair K. & Rosen S. Speech-on-speech masking in autism spectrum disorder
P209 Boulenger V., Hoen M., Ferragne E., Pellegrino F. & Meunier F. Understanding speech-in-speech: frequency effects of multi-talker babble on word lexical access
P210 Meunier F., Monatte V., Gautreau A., Dole M. & Hoen M. Let's all speak together! Exploring the impact of specific linguistic characteristics in various languages on stream segregation processes and the comprehension of speech in multi-linguistic babble
P211 Van Engen K. J. Learning to tune in and out: a comparison of speech-in-noise training conditions
P212 Rosen S., Barwell J., Lyall Z. & Mair K. Cocktail parties are best left to adults: developmental trends in susceptibility to informational and energetic masking of speech
P213 Beeston A. & Brown G. J. Perceptual compensation for adverse effects of room reverberation on speech recognition: a model based on auditory efferent processing
P214 Goverts S. T., Huysmans E. & Festen J. M. The effect of reduced linguistic ability on speech processing: the distortion-sensitivity approach in psycholinguistics
P215 Valkenier B. & Gilbers D. Frequency effects in the perception of incomplete primary and secondary cardinal vowels
P216 Hervais-Adelman A., Johnsrude I. S., Carlyon R. & Davis M. H. Effortful comprehension of noise vocoded speech recruits a speech-motor network
P217 Rogers J., Marslen-Wilson W. & Davis M. H. The adverse effects of semantic and phonological ambiguity on processing spoken words: behavioural and neural evidence
P218 Rodd J. M., Johnsrude I. S., Ford M. & Davis M. H. Understanding speech in dual-task conditions: the impact of semantic ambiguity
P219 Johnsrude I. S., Davis M. H., Rodd J. M. & Hakyemez H. Semantic ambiguity as a factor influencing speech comprehension in noise
P220 Merickel J. & Newman R. Top-down lexical knowledge integration in toddlers

Poster Session 3 - Tuesday 9 March

P301 Heinrich A., Bruhn K. & Hawkins S. Young and old listeners' perception of English-accented speech in a background of English- and foreign-accented babble
P302 Adank P. & Janse E. Perceiving a novel accent in young and elderly listeners
P303 Butler J., Duffy H., Durrant S., Momber S., Floccia C. & Goslin J. Segmentation of fluent speech in 10 month-olds in familiar and unfamiliar accents
P304 Butler J., Goslin J., Farag R. & Floccia C. Effect of unfamiliar dialect and foreign accent in word recognition: data from an immediate versus delayed cross-modal matching task
P305 Tamati T. N. Perception of unfamiliar regional dialects
P306 Trude A. M. & Brown-Schmidt S. Accommodating regional accents in online speech processing
P307 Duffy H., Bridges D., Wallington H., Floccia C. & Goslin J. Electrophysiological comparison of regional and foreign accent processing
P308 Di Betta A. M., McQueen J. M. & Weber A. Adaptation to Italian-accented English: a comparison of native and nonnative listeners
P309 Pemberton R., van Heuven W., Conklin K., Pitchford N., Tam M., Yang C. L. & Dowens M. Discrimination of English phonemes by native Cantonese speakers as a function of age and position
P310 Broersma M.& Scharenborg, O. Native and non-native listeners' perception of English consonants in three types of noise
P311 Kempe V., Brooks P. J. & Thoresen J. C. Individual differences in the perception of a non-native tonal contrast
P312 Ezzatian P., Avivi M. & Schneider B. A. Do nonnative listeners benefit as much as native listeners from spatial cues that release speech from masking
P313 Roessler A. & Sebastian-Gallés N. The role of variability in word recognition: bilinguals vs. monolinguals
P314 Cao Y. The perception of spoken language with emotional tones
P315 Gooskens C., van Heuven V. J., van Bezooijen R. & Pacilly J. J. A. Is spoken Danish intrinsically less intelligible than spoken Swedish?
P316 Jesse A. & Janse E. Seeing a speaker talk when also hearing a competing speaker benefits elderly adults
P317 Woodfield A. & Akeroyd M. A. The use of the Metrical Segmentation Strategy for segmenting continuous speech by older adults with normal and impaired hearing
P318 Pelletier M., Goy H., Coletta M., Giroux R. & Pichora-Fuller, K. The effect of semantic context and the type and amount of acoustical distortion on lexical decision
P319 Goy H., Pichora-Fuller K. & van Lieshout P. Acoustic and articulatory changes accompanying different speaking instructions and listening situations