26-28 September 2008 • The University of Texas at Austin
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Papers

Abstracts are posted below, in PDF format. Please note: PDF documents require Adobe’s Acrobat Reader software, a free download from Adobe’s website.

Alvord:
Vowel Quality in Miami-Cuban Spanish (32K)

Amengual and Blanco:
Final consonant clusters in Majorcan Catalan verbs (92K)

Bosch:
The Acquisition of Language­specific Sound Categories from a Bilingual Input (31K)

Colantoni and Marinescu:
The scope of stop weakening in Argentine Spanish (88K)

Face:
Intonational Cues and the Perception of Focal Context in Castilian Spanish (63K)

Face and Menke:
Acquisition of the Spanish Rhotics by L2 Learners (90K)

Freedman and Barlow:
Lexical and Sublexical Influences on Children’s Spanish Production Accuracy (91K)

Henriksen and Willis:
Acoustic Characterization of Trill Production in Jerezano Andalusian Spanish (456K)

Lahoz:
Posición de la Mandíbula y fuerza consonántica en las Labiales y Coronales del Español (12K)

Lain:
[Voice] Category Maintenance, Interactions with Articulation (72K)

Lee, Martinez-Gil, and Beckman:
The Intonational Expression of Incredulity in Absolute Interrogatives in Buenos Aires Spanish (21K)

Mack:
A Laboratory Perspective on Perceptions of Sexual Orientation (20K)

Mazzaro:
‘Operation-approximant’ and How They Change Identities: The Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis of Spanish Labial and Velar Approximants (105K)

Méndez:
La Entonación en los Andes Venezolanos: una Aproximación Fonético-Fonológica (67K)

Nibert:
The Gliding of Mid Vowels in the Read Speech of Intermediate­level Adult Learners of Spanish with L1 English (102K)

Olson and Ortega-Llebaria:
Code-switching and Intonation- the Interaction of Two Methods of Creating Focus (119K)

O’Rourke:
Dialect differences and the bilingual vowel space in Peruvian Spanish (20K)

Ramírez:
Current Approaches to Data Analysis in Experimental Speech Studies (17K)

Rao:
Final Lengthening and Pause Duration in Three Dialects of Spanish (65K)

Saalfeld:
Acquisition of Spanish Stress by Native Speakers of English: An Instructional Study (87K)

Simonet:
Sentence-final Pitch Accents in Catalan and Spanish: Contrast and Language Contact (61K)

Velázquez:
Prosodic Comparative Study of the Spoken Spanish Varieties of Mexico City and Madrid (68K)

Willis and Henriksen:
Intonational Utterance Signaling in Léon Spain Spanish (98K)