VIU 2010
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Monday, 11th October: arrival
11th October evening: Informal Meeting at 18.30 p.m. at the vaporetto station on San Servolo for a trip to Venice.
| Room 7A | |
| 12th October | "Similarity from Distinct Point of Views" |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | Key Note Speech John Nerbonne Inducing segmental similarity from dialectal distributions |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break (in the seminar room) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Jonathan Harrington Similarities between synchronic and diachronic change |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Michael Cysouw Using language-internal similarities to compare languages |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Klaus Schulz Fast search for similar words |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | PhD-Presentations Nina Kottenhagen: Applying distance to genetic and linguistic data Clara Tillmanns: Perception skills and imitation |
| Room 7A | |
| 13th October | "Similarity from Distinct Point of Views" |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Friedrich Leisch Similarities and differences: How they are used in statistics |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break (in the seminar room) |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | PhD-Presentations Nicole Weidinger: Gestures with and without speech in childrens` narratives: How are they related to verbal and nonverbal skills? Mareike Plüschke: Peak Alignment in Estonian Veronika Neumeyer: Acoustic Characteristics of the Speech of Cochlear Implantees |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | PhD-Presentations Barbara Baumeister: On the Effect of Alcoholisation on Fundamental Frequency Christian Heinrich: Rhythmical features of alcoholized and non-alcoholized speech |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Christoph Draxler Web-based perception experiments for the study of dialectal distributions |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee break (in the seminar room) |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Heinrich Hußmann Similarity as a concept in constructing user interfaces |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Closing |
| Room 7A | 14th October | |
| 09:00 - 13:30 | ESP-Lecturers internal meeting |
PhD-Students meeting |
| afternoon | free time | free time |
Friday, 15th October: Workshop "Speaker characteristics"
Guest lecturers: Janet Fletcher, Hans Tillmann
Speakers: Claudia Kuzla, Stefania Marin, Tina John
| Room 7A | |
| 15th October | "Speaker characteristics" |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Janet Fletcher |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Stefania Marin |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break (in the seminar room) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Claudia Kuzla |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Hans Tillmann |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Tina John |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Closing |
Lecturers of the PhD program (Munich University)
Dr. Michael Cysouw, Quantitative Language Comparison
PD Dr. Christoph Draxler, Phonetics and Speech Processing
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Harrington, Phonetics and Speech Processing
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Hußmann, Media Informatics
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch, Computational Statistics
PD Dr. Florian Schiel, Phonetics and Speech Processing
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schulz, Computer Linguistics
Guest Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Janet Fletcher, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne, Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen
Prof. Dr. Hans Tillmann, Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich University
ESP PhD-Students (Munich University)
Barbara Baumeister
Christian Heinrich
Veronika Neumeyer
Mareike Plüschke
Clara Tillmanns
Guest PhD-Students
Nina Kottenhagen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Nicole Weidinger, Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group, Munich
Research Scientists
Tina John, Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of Kiel
Dr. Claudia Kuzla, Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich University
Dr. Stefania Marin, Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich University
Coordinator
Sibylle von Tiedemann 
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Liegewagen (organized by the coordinator)
Munich, 10.10.2010, 21.03 Uhr - Venezia Santa Lucia, 11.10.2010, 6.38 Uhr
Venezia Santa Lucia, 16.10.2010, 22.51 Uhr - Munich, 17.10.2010, 6.30 Uhr
Early birds: Christoph Draxler, Gabi Draxler, Claudia Kuzla, Sibylle von Tiedemann, Clara Tillmanns, Nicole Weidinger
Trip during the day (organized by the coordinator)
Munich, 11.10.2010, Gleis 13, 9.31 - Venezia Santa Lucia, 17.10
Change: in Verona arrival at 15.01, departure 15.59 Uhr
Venezia Santa Lucia, 16.10.2010, 11.03 - Munich, 18.25 Uhr
Late riser: Barbara Baumeister, Christian Heinrich, Stefania Marin, Veronika Neumeyer, Mareike Plüschke, Florian Schiel
Self organized travel
Participants with individual length of stay or from other cities than Munich or by other reason.
Shared rooms
Barbara Baumeister, Veronika Neumeyer, Tina John
Mareike Plüschke, Nina Kottenhagen, Nicole Weidinger
Claudia Kuzla, Stefania Marin, Clara Tillmanns
Christoph Draxler, Gabi Draxler
Florian Schiel, Christian Heinrich
How to get to San Servolo (from the airport or the train station)
Michael Cysouw: 11th - 14th
Janet Fletcher: 11th - 17th
Jonathan Harrington: 10th - 15th
Heinrich Hußmann: 13th - 14th
Friedrich Leisch: 12th- 16th
John Nerbonne: 11th - 13th
Klaus Schulz: 11th - 15th
Opening hours
Breakfast: 7.30 - 9.30
Lunch: 12.30 - 14.30
Dinner: 19.00 - 21.00
Bar: 7.30 - 19.00
Prices
Breakfast: 5.00 euro
Lunch & dinner: 8.00 euro
Prof. Dr. Janet Fletcher: TBA
Prof. Dr. Hans Tillmann: TBA
Tina John: TBA
Dr. Claudia Kuzla: Voice assimilation in Czech: phonological, prosodic and dialectal aspects
Dr. Stefania Marin: Romanian diphthongs and vowels: Speaker-independent and speaker-specific articulatory characteristics