Workshop on Tone Language Processing

Preliminary Schedule

09:30

Robert Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute and CRBLM
Opening remarks and introduction

09:40

Robert Ladd
University of Edinburgh
Individual differences in pitch perception and the typology of tone languages

10:40

Lara Pierce, Denise Klein, Jen-Kai Chen and Fred Genesee,
McGill University Dept. of Psychology; Montreal Neurological Institute, and CRBLM
Lost and found: Neural evidence for the maintenance of a lost tonal language. A study with international adoptees

11:20

Pan Liu and Marc Pell
McGill University, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and CRBLM
Culture and cultural immersion modulate brain responses to human expressions of emotion: ERP evidence from Chinese speakers

12:00

Lunch Break

13:00

Dominique Vuvan and Isabelle Peretz

Université de Montréal Dept of Psychology, BRAMS Laboratory and CRBLM
Tone language fluency: Helper or hinderer of pitch discrimination?

13:40

Rushen Shi
Université du Québec à Montreal, Dept. of Psychology and CRBLM
Infants’ perception of lexical tones

14:20

Patrick C. M. Wong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Linguistics and Modern Languages
Lexical tone processing: Learning and disorder

15:20

Final Discussion

15:35

End of workshop