MONDAY 12 November
08.45 – 09.00 Welcome
09.00 – 09.45 Invited talk: Dr. Joan-Carles Mora and Dr. Roger Gilabert, Individual factors in utterance and perceived fluency: some empirical issues
09.45 – 10.15 Nel de Jong: Short and longer term effects of time pressure on fluency in second language learners
10.15 – 10.45 Hans Rutger Bosker, Hugo Quené, Ted Sanders, and Nivja H. de Jong: Perceiving the fluency of native and non-native speakers
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee/tea
11.00 – 11.45 POSTER SESSION II
11.45 – 12.30 Invited talk: Dr. Martin Corley, Where do disfluencies go to?
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Ian Finlayson, Robin J. Lickley, and Martin Corley: Testing the disfluency-as-signal hypothesis
14.00 – 14.30 Frank Jansen and Daniël Janssen: Filled pauses as an indicator of reluctance to convey bad news: an effect study
14.30 – 15.00 Charlotte Wollermann, Eva Lasarcyk, Ulrich Schade, & Bernhard Schröder: The Impact of Fillers and Pauses on the Perception of Uncertainty in Speech from an Articulatory Synthesiser
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee/tea
15.30 – 16.30 final discussion, led by prof. Antje Meyer
16.30 FAREWELL DRINKS
TUESDAY 13 November
09.00 – 09.15 Registration with coffee/tea
09.15 – 09.30 Welcome by Prof. Henriette de Swart (director Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS)
09.30 – 10.15 Invited talk: Prof. Robert Hartsuiker, Where do disfluencies come from?
10.15 – 10.45 Mária Gósy and Viola Váradi: The effect of self-repairs on the fluency of speech
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee/tea
11.15 – 11.45 Cornelia Moers, Esther Janse, and Antje Meyer: Effects of Transitional Probabilities on Word Durations in Read Speech of Younger and Older Speakers
11.45 – 12.15 Leendert Plug: Semantic and discourse constraints on repair timing and prosody
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.00 Invited talk: Prof. Norman Segalowitz, Toward a framework for the systematic study of L1 and L2 fluency: What are the important questions?
14.00 – 14.30 Clare Wright: Testing changes in disfluency in second-language English among international students
14.30 – 15.00 Lorenzo García-Amaya: Disfluencies and language use in L2 Spanish: Longitudinal data from the study abroad and at-home contexts
15.00 – 15.30 Troy Cox and Wendy Smemoe: The relationship between L1 fluency and L2 fluency across difference proficiency levels
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee/tea
15.45 – 16.30 POSTER SESSION I
16.30 – 17.15 Invited talk: Prof. John De Jong, Rasch measurement for testing subjects, data and hypotheses
19:00 WORKSHOP DINNER at Restaurant Broers