APAP 2025 - Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics

8:20-8:50

Registration

8:50-9:00

Conference opening

9:00-10:00

Plenary Session 1

Haike Jacobs
Three decades of OT. What did it bring and what not? 

10:00-10:30

 Geoff Schwartz
Why phoneticians should be proponents of substance-free phonology

10:30-11:00

 Naoya Watabe
High feature in palatalisation: a case study of Ukrainian vowel reduction 

11:00-11:30

 Coffee break

11:30-12:00

Reinhold Greisbach & Anne Hermes
Beyond perception: durational differences in the components of minimal pairs

12:00-12:30

Mariola Kaszycka
Acoustic correlates of focus marking in Polish: the role of pitch, intensity, and duration

12:30-13:00

Sławomir Zdziebko
Affricate Palatalization in Polish: an autosegmental account of a stem-specific change 

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-14:30

Eugeniusz Cyran
The Ukrainian laryngeal system as a challenge to phonological theory

14:30-15:00

Tomasz Łuszczek
OT-CC shows tenacity in tackling opacity: evidence from Podhale Goralian 

15:00-15:30

Csaba Csides
Absolute and relative silence in English phonology 

15:30-16:00

 Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Göktuğ Börtlü, Tobias Scheer & Eugeniusz Cyran
Minimal word constraint in Turkish final devoicing

16:30-17:00

 Artur Kijak
Coronal palatalization gets [ʃtʃɹ]onger: the case of s-retraction and coronal affrication in contemporary English 

17:00-17:30

Krzysztof Jaskuła
The Japanese-Hawaiian-Māori triangle – loanword adaptation and related matters in selected Pacific tongues 

17:30-19:00

Walk through the city centre and the Old Town

19:00

Conference dinner (“Sielsko-Anielsko” restaurant, Rynek 17)

9:00-10:00

Plenary Session 2

Arkadiusz Rojczyk
 How much do we imitate in a non-native language?
Methodological foundations and research paths in L2 speech imitation 

10:00-10:30

Anna Balas, Danielle Daidone, Ryan Lidster, Ewelina Wojtkowiak & Iryna Kravchuk
Comparing methodologies in non-native speech perception research:
Polish consonant perception by Ukrainian listeners 

10:30-11:00

Ewelina Wojtkowiak, Kamil Kaźmierski, Maral Asiaee, Rafia Canyurt & Geoff Schwartz
How do L1 Polish speakers perceive non-modal phonation

11:00-11:30

 Coffee break

11:30-12:00

Charles Vancaeyzeele
Capturing dialectal variation through the formal approach:
arguments for a “diasystemic” analysis of the Arabic linguistic continuum 

12:00-12:30

Aleksandra Matysiak
The novelty effect in phonetic drift:
Polish immigrants’ production of English and Polish voiceless stops

12:30-13:00

Łukasz Stolarski
Efficacy of vowel normalization methods for factors other than inter-speaker variability 

13:00-14:00

 Lunch break

14:00-14:30

Osama Omari
The acoustics of the uvular stop in the Durzi community in Jordan 

14:30-15:00

Weronika Polakowska
The perception of Polish geminates: a study on geminate articulation and social meaning 

15:00-15:30

Anita Buczek-Zawiła
Phonologically adapted anglicisms facilitate or hinder English pronunciation learning?
The case of Spanish and Italian advanced English as foreign language speakers 

15:30-16:00

 Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Piotr Steinbrich
The vanishing auxiliary: the reduction of does to ’s in spontaneous British English speech

16:30-17:00

Agnieszka Bryła-Cruz
“I went to France” or “I went to Bronx”? Insights into L2 learners’ listening problems 

17:00-17:30

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska
Pronounceable and unpronounceable word-final 2-consonant clusters in Polish.
Theoretical implications 

17:30

Conference closing