USC at Interspeech 2012

USC had several representatives at the Interspeech 2012 Conference, this year in Portland, Oregon, on September 9-13. The conference covers speech and language processing and includes very interdisciplinary research not only in linguistics but in psychology, engineering, medicine, and other fields. Presenters from the Department of Linguistics, and the topics of their presentations follow:

Accounting for Speech Rate in Spoken Word Recognition

David Li and Elsi Kaiser

Syllable Perception Depends on Tone Perception

Iris Chuoying Ouyang and Khalil Iskarous

Characterizing Covert Articulation in Apraxic Speech Using Real-time MRI

Christina Hagedorn, Michael Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini (UC-San Francisco), Shrikanth Narayanan

Emphatic Segments and Emphasis Spread in Lebanese Arabic: a Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Assaf Israel, Michael Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Khalil Iskarous, Shrikanth Narayanan