Author Archives: chael

two conferences in montréal

By chael | Published: May 1, 2012
Exploring the Interfaces I: Word Structure McGill University May 6-8 2012 7th North American Phonology Conference Concordia University May 4-5, 2012
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daniel büring at mcgill

By chael | Published: September 20, 2011
Daniel Büring will be visiting McGill Linguistics this weekend for etap and stay on for a couple of days afterwards, funded by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group. Here’s the ABC of his visit: A. Invited Talk at ETAP2: Saturday, September 24 9:00-9:30am New Residence, Ballroom B (directions) Daniel Büring: Correspondence at the Syntax–Phonology Interface [...]
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etap

By chael | Published: September 20, 2011
The second conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is taking place this weekend at McGill University. Check out the conference program. If you’d like to participate, please register here.
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cataphoric focus marking

By chael | Published: September 17, 2011
Shifting prominence to mark focus requires a linguistic antecedent, so if you say ‘A red apple’, chances are you or someone either said something like ‘green apple’, or there is some other reason why antecedents of this sort are salient, for example, someone might have asked: What kind of apple do you want? Marking focus [...]
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etap2

By chael | Published: September 17, 2011
The second conference on experimental and theoretical advances in prosody is just around the corner. It will take place at the New Residence at McGill from Fri 23-Sun 25. If you plan to attend, please register at the conference website.
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subscribe to prosody.lab by email

By chael | Published: September 17, 2011
if you’d like to get a digest emails with posts to this blog, you can subscribe to it
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prosodylab aligner

By chael | Published: July 14, 2011
The Prosodylab-Aligner is a set of Python and shell scripts for performing automated alignment of text to audio of speech using Hidden Markov Models developed in our lab by Kyle Gorman. It is designed to be easy to use as possible, and with laboratory data in mind. While it ships with pre-trained North American English [...]
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prosody in the lab

By chael | Published: July 14, 2011
Prosody in the lab is a class that I’m currently teaching at the 2011 LSA Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I’ve posted more information on class website.
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etap deadline extended

By chael | Published: May 15, 2011
The etap deadline was extended until June 1st. See the conference website for the call for papers.
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workshop on rhythm in speech and music

By chael | Published: April 18, 2011
The CRLMB and CRMMT are hosting a workshop on rhythm in speech and music at mcgill this week. I’m copying the announcement: CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Ani Patel (co-sponsored by CRLMB) Dr. Ani Patel (The Neurosciences Institute) will give a lecture entitled “Relations between linguistic and nonlinguistic sound systems: Empirical studies,” on April 21st [...]
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