Welcome to The Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone conference 2011

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The Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone (PLRT) conference will be held in Hong Kong on August 22-23, 2011, as a satellite of the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS; Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011). The conference will identify a worldwide network of researchers and laboratories actively conducting advanced research on tone, and will be held in Hong Kong, at the centre of an area in which a large proportion of the world’s tone languages are spoken. We hope to attract researchers from linguistics, phonetics, speech science, psychology, engineering, speech pathology, and having the conference as a satellite to ICPhS will enhance accessibility and delegates’ access to home-institution conference funding.

The aims are to

(a) promote research on tone, a distinct but relatively neglected aspect of speech;
(b) explore research issues raised especially by tones, e.g., tone vs intonation, lexical tone vs musical pitch, left vs right hemisphere processing, amusia and aphasia; and
(c) facilitate information transfer and collaboration between researchers from diverse areas, e.g., psychology, neuroscience, music cognition, phonetics and phonology, engineering and computer science.

The PLRT conference is jointly sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong