Day 1 (Sept. 19)

9:00 – 10:30 Pick up bag, name tag, program, coffee
10:30 – 11:00 Opening Ceremony
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote 1 – Tracey M. Derwing – Putting an accent on the positive: Making the most of L2 pronunciation instruction
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote 2 – Shigeto Kawahara – Teaching phonetics using sound symbolism
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Oral Sessions 1 & 2
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel Oral Sessions 3 & 4

Oral Session 1

14:00 – 14:30 C.C. Tseng – The effect of lexical tones on voice onset time in L2 Mandarin production by English speakers
14:30 – 15:00 S. Kawase – Producing L2 speech in noise: Different use of temporal and formant cues
15:00 – 15:30 P. Imsri – The application of project – based learning on English pronunciation training

Oral Session 2

14:00 – 14:30 L. Quesada Vázquez & J. Romero – The improvement of Spanish/Catalan EFL students' prosody by means of explicit rhythm instruction
14:30 – 15:00 C. Crison, D. Romero, & J. Romero – The practical application of hand gestures as a means of improving English intonation
15:00 – 15:30 N. Yamane, B. Teaman, A. Fujimori, I. Wilson, & N. Yoshimura – Haptic effect on intonation learning

Oral Session 3

16:00 – 16:30 C. Guillemot – The role of L1 durational correlates in L2 acquisition: A production study of Japanese geminates by Italian, French and English L2 learners
16:30 – 17:00 J. Moore – Initial cluster timing in Japanese English
17:00 – 17:30 T. Kimura, M. Fernández, & G. Fernández – Teaching Spanish pronunciation to Japanese students in communication classes

Oral Session 4

16:00 – 16:30 S. Mizuguchi, T. Mahrt, & K. Tateishi – How L2 learners perceive English prosody
16:30 – 17:00 M. Mahesh – Phonetics and phonology of secondary stress in Malayalam
17:00 – 17:30 Y. Hiranuma – The investigation of suprasegmental transfer by American learners of Japanese

Day 2 (Sept. 20)

9:30 – 11:00 Poster Session
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote 3 – Takayuki Arai – Intuitive education in acoustic phonetics and speech science
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote 4 – Natasha Warner – Spontaneous speech in the teaching of phonetics and speech perception
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Oral Sessions 5 & 6
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Parallel Oral Sessions 7 & 8
17:00 – 17:30 Break
17:30 Buses leave for Washington Hotel (banquet)
18:00 – 20:00 Banquet

Poster Session

T. Isei – Jaakkola & K. Ochi – Frequency and durational comparisons of pauses in reading two short stories by Japanese L1 and EL2 and English L1
T. Kimura, C. Tejedor, M. Machuca, A. Ríos, & D. Escudero – Japañol, a computer assisted pronunciation tool for Japanese students of Spanish based on minimal pairs
T. Kondo, J. Inoue, & J. Blake – Pronunciation scaffolder: Annotation accuracy
D. Romero, C. Crison, & J. Romero – Producing sounds in contact by raising awareness of final – ed consonant clusters in English
M. Ueno, T. Magoku, & A. Nishiyama – The possible features of natural English pronunciation for Japanese learners and native speakers of English
H. Watanabe, I. Wilson, & K. Suzuki – Android version of Visual Learning

Oral Session 5

14:00 – 14:30 S. Bird & M. Miyashita – Teaching phonetics in the context of indigenous language revitalization
14:30 – 15:00 I. Grenon, C. Sheppard, & J. Archibald – Discrimination training for learning sound contrasts
15:00 – 15:30 N. Kebboua Chaker & J. Romero – Integrating information technology in the teaching of English pronunciation

Oral Session 6

14:00 – 14:30 K. Takahashi – What are good Japanese-into-English interpretations to the audience?
14:30 – 15:00 A.J. Kilpatrick, S. Kawahara, R.L. Bundgaard – Nielsen, B.J. Baker, & J. Fletcher – Illegal Japanese nasals elicit both perceptual assimilation and epenthesis
15:00 – 15:30 D. Derrick, C. Carignan, W. Chen, M. Shujau, and C.T. Best – 3D printable ultrasound transducer stabilizer

Oral Session 7

16:00 – 16:30 M. Ploquin – From phonetics training to pronunciation teaching
16:30 – 17:00 N. Minematsu, Y. Inoue, S. Kabashima, D. Saito, Y. Yamauchi, and K. Kanamura – Natives' shadowability as objectively measured comprehensibility of non – native speech

Oral Session 8

16:00 – 16:30 S.J. Lee – Using field data in phonetics classes                                                                                                                                               

Day 3 (Sept. 21)

9:30 – 10:30 Workshop 1 (part 1) – Julián Villegas – Introduction to statistical analysis of phonetic data in R
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Workshop 1 (part 2) – Julián Villegas – Introduction to statistical analysis of phonetic data in R
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Workshop 2 (part 1) – Bryan Gick & Sonya Bird – Ultrasound biofeedback in pronunciation teaching and learning
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:30 Workshop 2 (part 2) – Bryan Gick & Sonya Bird – Ultrasound biofeedback in pronunciation teaching and learning