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Speech Prosody 2026

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26-29 May 2026

General Chairs: Jianjing Kuang; Mark Liberman

Technical Program Chairs: Jason Bishop, Sunghye Cho, Delphine Dahan, Keelan Evanini, Shelome Gooden, Marta Ortega-Llebaria, Irene Vogel, Seth Wiener
doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2026
ISSN: 2333-2042











Poster Session A – Structure, Tone, and Intonation


Relationship Between Perceptual Accuracy and Productive Distinctness of Question and Statement Intonations in Mandarin
Tong Li, Yao Yao

The Cantonese Advantage in English Lexical Stress Discrimination: A Perceptual Assimilation Perspective
William Choi, Cheuk Lun Isaac Lee, Doris Yu

Dynamic Prosodic Grouping—Evidence from Recitation of Classical Chinese Poetry
Jiangxin Zhang, Zhuyin Feng, Yi Xu

Language Use index and Articulation rate variation in a minority Canadian French
Svetlana Kaminskaia, Luke Hagar

L1 Swedish transfer of stress and F0 peak alignment in L2 Japanese prosody
Natsumi Goto, Shinichiro Ishihara, Mitsuhiko Ota

Phonetic graduality behind categorial phonological footing in Soikkola Ingrian
Natalia Kuznetsova, Elena Markus

Prosodic effect on initial coronal nasal /n/ and post-nasal vowel nasalization in Beijing Mandarin
Yijing He, Wai-Sum Lee, Chu Yan Ho

Stress placement variability and acoustic stress correlates. The case of Northern Kashubian
Andrzej Żak

Articulatory Dynamics of Quantity and Stress in Estonian Prosody
Argyro Katsika, Eva Liina Asu, Matthew Gordon, Pärtel Lippus, Anton Malmi, Yining Qu, Sherry Chien

A Phonological Analysis of Sentence Types in Amis (Formosan): Wh-interrogatives and Imperatives
Tsu-im Khuat

Local Non-Modal Voice Quality Dynamics in Japanese Anime Speech
Carlos Ishi, Akira Utsugi, Ichiro Ota

Phonological Encodings of Speaker Surprise in American English Rising and Falling Nuclear Tunes
Rebekah Stanhope, Jennifer Cole

Falling in Two Dimensions: Pitch and Temporal Properties in Feixiang Chinese Falling Tone Contrast
Jianfeng Guo

Mandarin vowels: Intrinsic properties and interaction with tone
Lorna McGregor-Smith, Irena Yanushevskaya

The Effects of Task Complexity and Phonotactic Well-formedness on Tone Sandhi Application in Xiamen Southern Min
Weijun Zhang, Huangyang Xie, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

Distinct Articulatory Effects of Tone and Focus in Taiwan Mandarin
Sherry Chien, Argyro Katsika

F0 focus marking in two Mexican Spanish ethnolects
Gilly Marchini, Jeremy Steffman

Focus marking in a language contact context: A comparison of focus-induced f0 effects in Nanning Mandarin and Standard Mandarin
Xinzi Hou, Eleanor Chodroff

The Effect of Focus on Different Weak Elements Categories: In the Case of Tianjin Mandarin
Zhijie Li, Hui Feng

Prosodic Realization of Focus and Interrogative Intonation in Kunming Mandarin
Siqi Lu, Hui Feng, Cong Zhang

Tongugbe Ewe yes-no question prosody: revisiting the frequency code and lax prosody
Man Yan Priscilla Lam, Yiya Chen

Register Realization under Tonic Neutralization in Wenzhounese
Ziru Chen, Jeremy Steffman

Duration of accentual phrases in French
Philippe Martin

On the prosodic realization of pre- and post-verbal objects in Itelmen
Lena Borise, Jonathan David Bobaljik

Acoustic correlates of positional prominence in Kom
Matthew Faytak, Tianle Yang, Ivo Forghema Njuasi

Question Intonation in Bilingual Speakers of Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish
Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva, Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke

Greek polar question tunes: Insights from naturalistic speech
Maria Lialiou, Jeremy Steffman, Mary Baltazani, Elinor Payne, Martine Grice

Multicultural London English Intonation: Pattern and Performance
Sam Hellmuth, Elisa Passoni

Perception of interrogativity in Basque by native and L2 speakers
Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka, Jose Ignacio Hualde

Jaw movements shape the rhythm of prose and poetry reading: evidence from speakers with vocal expression skills
Plinio Barbosa

Optimizing Utilization: Language Experience and F0 Dimension-weighting in Thai Tone Perception
Runqing Cheng, William Choi

Mask-Wearing Facilitates Cantonese Tone Discrimination
Jiaqing Zu, Tianyu Chu, William Choi

True voicing and F0 perturbations: evidence from Tantou Southern Min
Jiexiong Zheng, Jingfen Zhang


Poster Session B – Multimodality, Focus, and Speech Technology


Detection of Lombard Speech Using Different Model Architectures and Speech Features
Judith Bauer, Frank Zalkow, Meinard Müller, Christian Dittmar

The interaction between vowel quality and voice quality in English
Jiaang Dong

Effects of F0-based Prosodic Prominence on the Perception of the English Tense-Lax Vowel Contrast
Juhyung Cho, Yoonjung Kang, Jessamyn Schertz

Effects of lexical frequency and semantic priming on durational patterns in German
Tianyi Zhao, Alice Turk, Tina Bögel

ML Classification in a Benchmark of Prosodic Minimal Pairs
Sahya Lagisetty, Mats Rooth

The Prosody of Rhetorical Questions in Mongolian
Anujin Munkhbat

Prosodic Disambiguation of Wh-Words: In the Case of "ma" in Tianjin Mandarin
Tianqi Geng, Hui Feng, Cong Zhang

Holistic distributional signatures of F0 dynamics
Khalil Iskarous, Simon Roessig, Doris Mücke

Comparing acoustic cues to phrase boundary in Hindi and Indian English
Mildred Pereira, Preeti Rao, Hansjoerg Mixdorff

Signalling language redundancy: The acoustic salience of in/definite articles in German
Mila Freiseis, Tianyi Zhao, Tina Bögel

Investigation for Relative Voice Impression Estimation
Kenichi Fujita, Yusuke Ijima

Prosodic Realization of Attachment Ambiguity: Length and Wh-Intonation in Korean
So Young Lee

Examining the role of prosody and information structure in Hungarian speech and co-speech gestural coordination: An EMA study
Csilla Tatar, Ezra Keshet, Jelena Krivokapić

Tone-Driven Preference in Cantonese Double Expletive Constructions
Alex Hong-Lun Yeung

The Interaction of Tonotactics, Lexicality, and Psychoacoustics in Evaluating Perceptual Distinctiveness
Pauline Bolin Liu, Mingxing Li

Equilibrium Dynamics of Near-Merger: Functional Load Effects in Cantonese Tone Contrast
Tianyi Ni, Rebecca Morley

Enhancing Cantonese tone learning in Mandarin speakers: The role of visual feedback and individual differences
Yuqin Shu, Mingxi Lu, Gaode Zhang, Ran Tao, Gang Peng

Mandarin Tone 2/3 confusion revisited
Zixuan Li, Zeyu Xie, Shijing Yu, Yi Xu

Production and perception of Checked Syllables Opening in progress: A case study from Datong Jin Chinese
Zhenyi Liao, Lei Liang

A Multi-Dimensional Pipeline for Holistic Prosodic Visualization: Integrating f0, Intensity, and Syllabic Rate using VIP2VIP
Federico Lo Iacono, Antonio Romano

Dual Routes of Vocal Influence on Microteaching Evaluations: Speech Rate for Cognition, Pitch for Affect in Pre-Service Teacher Training
Shota Shirasaka

What kind of informativity could drive phonetic duration modification: Focus structure or semantic likelihood?
Ivan Yuen, Bernd Moebius, Bistra Andreeva, Mitko Sabev

Audiovisual Emotion Perception in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers with Cochlear Implants: Visual Dominance and Balanced Eye-Mouth Attention
Ruowei Wu, Qiunan Xu, Zheyu Song, Yi Li, Shanpeng Li, Ping Tang

The Prosody of Poetic Performance in Robert Creeley’s “I Know a Man”
Stefan Blohm, Chris Mustazza, Plínio Barbosa

Automatic and Non-Automatic Downstep in Igbo Are Not Realized the Same
Vincent Nwosu

Multimodal prosody in German – Evidence for the additive nature of gestural and accentual prominence in form and timing
Klymentii Myslyvyi, Janne Lorenzen, Stefan Baumann

The prosody of English since-when questions
Youngdong Cho, Fengyue Lisa Zhao, Chloe Dokyung Kwon

Is Prosody Encoded in the Neural Audio Codec Mimi?
Nicolas Ballier, Artem Saloev, Erin Pacquetet, Taylor Arnold

Visual prosody in Persian: Tracking 3D head movement patterns with electromagnetic articulography
Doris Muecke, Lena Pagel, Philip Georgis, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Simon Roessig

Assessing the Effect of Beat Gestures on the Perception of Lexical Stress in Full Spanish Sentences
Floris Cos, Lieke van Maastricht, Hans Rutger Bosker, Matteo Maran, Esther Janse

Gestural-Based Production of Ambiguous Mandarin Tones: A Multimodal Comparison of Native and Non-native Speakers
Haohan Zhang, Yedong Wu, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Xiao Xiao

Individual strategies in multimodal hyperarticulation
Alina Gregori

Speaking "loud" and its effect on speech intelligibility and naturalness in Parkinson's disease
Alexandra Barnes, Caroline Menezes

Position-Dependent Integration of Pitch Accent and Focus in Chinese EFL Learners: An ERP Study
Xiaoli Ji, Can Wang, Yuhan Zhu, Aijun Li


Poster Session C – Cognition, Development, and Multilingualism


Speech Reduction and Perceived Clarity: Just a Matter of Rate?
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hartmut Pfitzinger, Noam Amir, Angelika Hönemann

Dominant role of temporal–prosodic cues in sentence-level voice discrimination: Insights from interpretable machine learning
Tianze Xu, Xiaoming Jiang, Volker Dellwo

Evidence of Absence? Abstract Metrical Structure in Speech Planning
Yang Di, Mara Breen

Musician Advantage for Speech Emotion Recognition: Beyond Prosody
Jing Qi, Shuting Qi, Kaile Zhang

Prosodic features of awe: What makes the voice sound in awe?
Valerie Coulombe, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau, Laura Monetta, Maxime Montembeault

An Exploratory Study of Farsi Speakers’ Imitation of English Lexical Stress
Mohammad Ghorbani, Ronald Scherer, Sara Kalhoriboroujerdi

Prosodic Boundary Perception in Mandarin Heritage Speakers
Liuxu Yang, Jiang Liu

Prosodic fluency in spoken productions of The Cat in the Hat predicts reading comprehension skill in 6-10-year-olds
Mara Breen, Katerina Drakoulaki

Melodic and Temporal Markers of French Ambiguous Prosodic Boundaries in Natives’ and Chinese L2 Learners’ Speech Production
Lei Xi

The Prosody Assessment Application as a Tool to Evaluate Prosody in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children
Kara Hawthorne, Nahar Albudoor

Prosody during tongue twisters in verbally fluent autistic children: Sex differences and correlations with symptom severity
Wei Lai, Mark Liberman, Azia Knox, Meredith Cola, Riccardo Fusaroli, Julia Parish-Morris, Sunghye Cho

Visualizing intonation and politeness: A GAM-based analysis of Mexican Spanish offers
Bruno Staszkiewicz

Interactions between Code-switching and Contrastive Focus in Bilingual Language Production
Xiaotian Wang, Robert Xu, Kathryn Franich

Keep Calm and Listen: Subjective Cognitive Decline Modulates Cortical Tracking of Speech and Music in Different Expressive Styles
Matthew King-Hang Ma, Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Yun Feng, Cloris Pui-Hang Li, William Shiyuan Wang

Pitch Declination Development in Spontaneous Speech of 3-5-year-old Mandarin-Speaking Children
Yuhan Jiang, Lu Chen, Aijing Yu, Qiang Fu, Ting Wang

Discourse Context in the Perception of Mandarin Tone-Intonation Ambiguity
Yining Qu, Laurel Brehm, Geoffrey Raymond, Argyro Katsika

From Independence to Trade-offs: Developmental Shifts in Lexical Tone Processing among Mandarin-Speaking Children
Jiaxin Li, Yi Weng, Yicheng Rong, Gang Peng

Process vs. Result: Evidence for Coarticulatory Process Difficulties in French-speaking Learners of Mandarin
Yingyu Yan, Jorina Brysbaert, Anne-Catherine Simon

Prosodic and Syntactic Cue Integration in L2 English Focus Processing
Yanjing Zhang, Sarah Phillips

Prosodic Focus Production in Mandarin-speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Atypical Acoustic Cue Distribution
Honghui Deng, Xiyu Wu

Using an incremental guessing game to study the role of empathy in prosodic processing
Céline Pozniak, Giuseppina Turco, Barbara Hemforth, Mariapaola D'Imperio

Predictability and Task-Irrelevant Auditory Distraction: A Perception-Based Functional Approach
Hae-Sung Jeon, John Marsh

Dialectal Variation in Korean: Sensitivity to F0 in the Discrimination of L2 Lexical Stress
María Teresa Martínez-García, Sandra Schwab

Mandarin Speakers of English: Universal and language-specific timing of syllabic jaw movement with acoustic vowel onset
Plinio Barbosa, Gustavo Silveira, Donna Erickson

English with Brazilian beat: Brazilian English word stress and vowel reduction
Amanda Post da Silveira

Quantity Convergence, Quality Divergence: Disentangling Fluency and Accuracy in L2 Mandarin Prosody
Yuqi Shi, How Yang, Xiyao Lu, Jinsong Zhang

Disentangling the Musical Dimensions related to L2 Stress Perception: Evidence from German, French, and Korean Learners of Spanish
Sandra Schwab, María Teresa Martínez García

Cross-Linguistic Influences on Rhythm in Trilingual Learners of French: A Multidimensional Analysis
Yufeng Yang, Fabián Santiago

Singing to Children in Igbo: An Acoustic Analysis of Pitch and Voice Quality
Vincent Nwosu

Development of Focal Accent Perception in 3- to 9-Year-Old Mandarin-Speaking Children: Evidence from Prosodic Continua
Sichen Zhang, Aijun Li

Prosodic prominence does not facilitate lexical access in a lexical decision task
Martina Penke, Barbara Zeyer

Perception of Northern Vietnamese Tones: A Cross-Language Training Experiment
Hồng Quang Chāu, Ioana Chitoran, Hiyon Yoo

The neural basis of lexical tone in bilingual language processing: A MEG study
XinDong Zhang, Junjie Wu, Judy Zhu, Xin Wang

The Bai Lens: Examining Mandarin Tone Development in Bilingual Preschoolers
Zenghui Liu, Shufen Liang, Ao Chen


Poster Session D – Conversation, Clinical Prosody, and Social Meaning


Prosodic Markers in Mandarin Stand-Up Comedy: An Acoustic and Perceptual Study of Pauses
Ruiyao Zhong, Xiyu Wu

Speech rate and syllable structure effects on the perception of Mandarin medial /j/ by native and Japanese listeners
Yuyan Niu, Albert Lee

Attunement to Prosodic Cues in Mexican Spanish: Social Profiles and Dialect Perception
Marta Ortega-Llebaria, Natalia Mazzaro

Ironic Prosody Perception in Mandarin: The Role of Autistic Traits
Aijing Yu, Yuhan Jiang, Lu Chen, Ting Wang

Rapid-ToBI for Phrasing: Comparing Methods for (Faster) Annotation of Prosodic Phrase Structure
Jason Bishop, Boram Kim, Sun-Ah Jun

Speaking to Win: How Prosodic Features Predict Success in Mandarin Public Speaking Competitions
Dongmei Lin, Oliver Niebuhr, Rongjie Shi

Utterance-final devoicing and creaky voice in Inari Saami
Helen Wilbur

Perception and social meanings of Nuclear Configurations in Nigerian English
Oluwasegun Amoniyan, Shelome Gooden

From Calm to Command: Acoustic Strategies of Corporate Leaders and Guided Meditation Coaches
Oliver Niebuhr, Anabell Hacker

An exploratory eye-tracking study into the time course of sincere and sarcastic speech recognition
Isabella Noor Warner, Sueah Kim, Thomas Zhao, Ryuki Matsuura, Seth Wiener

Computational Analysis of Prosody for Clinical Psychiatry
Jeremiah Joyce, Erik Clemens, Josh Boesche

The Impact of Perceived Emotions on Purchase Intention in Synthesized Advertising Speech
Mizuki Nagano, Kenichi Fujita, Yusuke Ijima, Sadao Hiroya

Filled and silent pause production in remote, collocated and hybrid meetings
Ghazaleh Esfandiari Baiat, Ambika Kirkland, Jens Edlund

Rise or fall-rise? On the perception of English intonation by French listeners
Antoine Regis, Sophie Dufour, Sophie Herment, Amandine Mihelas

Tone Production in a Toisanese Speaker with Dysarthria
Stanley Chen, Nancy Eng, Stella Yank

The realization of prosodically-conditioned segmental alternations in Tagalog
Alessa Farinella

Tone-Tune Correspondence in Chinese Musicals: A Quantitative Study
Ruizhuo Zhang, Jiangping Kong

iMiGUE-Speech: A Spontaneous Speech Dataset for Affective Analysis
Sofoklis Kakouros, Fang Kang, Haoyu Chen

Encoding of emotions in L2 and multidialectal English speech
Jacqueline Alomenu, Lluisa Astruc, Zsuzsanna Barkanyi

Classification of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children’s Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Finnish, French, and Slovak
Sofoklis Kakouros, Ida-Lotta Myllylä

A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Alzheimer’s Detection Through Voice Biomarkers
Zahid Rashid Sheikh, Asma Irfan, Navid Yazdi

Cross-linguistic Prosodic Analysis of Autistic and Non-autistic Child Speech in Finnish, French and Slovak
Ida-Lotta Myllylä, Sofoklis Kakouros

Rapid Prosody Transcription as a tool to assess the perception of phrase-level prominence in Mandarin
Patrick Louis Rohrer, Yuting Sun, Yiya Chen, Hans Rutger Bosker

How speakers living with Down syndrome produce monosyllabic interrogative and declarative sentence types Challenges of a preliminary laboratory phonology experiment
Kornélia Juhász, Julianna Jankovics, Katalin Pirsel, Alexandra Markó

Voice parameter shifts and the perception of emotion in Irish synthetic utterances
Anna Maria Giovannini, Zihan Wang, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Christer Gobl

Enhancing and reducing prosodic cues: A preliminary investigation of turn-end prediction in listeners with hearing loss
Lorenza Zaira Curetti, Hae-Sung Jeon, Lauren Hadley

Rhythm Variability in NotebookLM Podcasts
Artem Saloev, Nicolas Ballier

I don’t have grudges, I have a wish: Cantonese Suprasegmental Adaptation in Conversations
Ivan Fong, Haoyao Ruan, Dawn Behne, Allard Jongman, Joan Sereno, Paul Tupper, Yue Wang

Perceptual Correlates of Lexical Tone in Brajbhasha
Neetesh Kumar Ojha, Shakuntala Mahanta

Rhythm Variation in Regional Accented Putonghua: A Continuum Perspective
Zhiwei Wang, Aijun Li

Prosodic Strengthening and Focus Type in Persian: an EMA Study
Simon Roessig, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Lena Pagel, Doris Mücke



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Oral Session 1: Intonation Phonology

Oral Session 2: Tone: Structure, Variation, and Representation

Oral Session 3: Prosodic Structure Across Languages

Oral Session 4: Multimodal Prosody and Embodied Coordination

Oral Session 5: Prominence, Focus, and the Syntax–Prosody Interface

Oral Session 6: Speech AI and Prosodic Evaluation

Oral Session 7: Neural and Cognitive Processing of Prosody

Oral Session 8: Language Acquisition and Developmental Prosody

Oral Session 9: L2, Bilingual, and Multilingual Prosody

Oral Session 10: Conversational Prosody

Oral Session 11: Clinical Prosody and Voice Biomarkers

Poster Session A – Structure, Tone, and Intonation

Poster Session B – Multimodality, Focus, and Speech Technology

Poster Session C – Cognition, Development, and Multilingualism

Poster Session D – Conversation, Clinical Prosody, and Social Meaning

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