UltraFest IX

Ultrasound Imaging for Speech and Language

Virtual Conference

October 21-24, 2020

#UltraFestIX

Following up on the great scientific meeting of UltraFest VIII, hosted by Dr. Aude Noiray and colleagues in Potsdam, Germany, in 2017, we invite you to participate in UltraFest IX, the 9^th meeting of researchers interested in ultrasound imaging for speech and language.

~~Registration~~ ~~is $100 ($50 for students). Anyone who was a student in May 2020 can take advantage of the student rate. Registration will remain open through the last day of the conference.~~

Registration is closed.

UltraFest IX will take place virtually, using the Whova and Gather platforms. All oral presentations and Master Classes will be live using Zoom embedded within the conference Whova website. All poster presentations and social events will be live using the conference Gather website.

· Watch this ~30 minute video to get a live tour of using Whova, Zoom, and Gather for the UltraFest IX conference!

· Watch this ~7 minute video for instructions about how to enjoy the concert during the Friday Morning Social!

· Enter the UltraFest IX Whova website

· Enter the UltraFest IX Gather website

Instructions for presentations can be found here (or in slightly condensed form as a PDF), including:

· For oral presentations

· For poster presentations

· For Master Classes

Information for attendees (including presenters) can be found here (or in slightly condensed form as a PDF), including:

· Hardware and software requirements/recommendations

· Navigating the conference

The conference schedule is anchored in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States, i.e. -4 UTC. The schedule is as follows:

Wednesday October 21, 2020

Opening and Keynote Presentation :: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Welcome and Introductions – Steven M. Lulich

[abstract] Keynote: 3D reconstruction of vocal tract-related skeletal muscle: Dissection, digitization, and 3D modeling – Anne Agur

Social Meet and Greet :: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Enter the UltraFest IX Gather website. Explore the Gather space, enjoy each other’s company.

Master Classes :: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm :: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

[abstract] Timesaving features of AAA: Tongue and hyoid tracking, shape measures and exporting data – Alan Wrench

[abstract] Ultrasound image segmentation – Sherman Charles

Oral Session #1: Performing Arts :: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

[abstract] Preliminary investigation of tongue motion and its role in clarinet multiphonic production – Jack Liang

[abstract] Head-corrected ultrasound during the second passaggio acoustic transition of sopranos – Richard C. Lissemore, Christine H. Shadle, Kevin D. Roon, Douglas H. Whalen

[abstract] Articulatory phonetics of voice actors – Colette Feehan

Thursday October 22, 2020

Oral Session #2: Speech Therapy :: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

[abstract] A new ultrasound probe stabilizer for speech therapy – Elaine Hitchcock, Joseph Reda

[abstract] [slides] Improving children’s ultrasound-based lingual complexity measures by quantifying midsagittal alignment – Heather Kabakoff, Tara McAllister, Douglas H. Whalen, Mark Tiede

[abstract] Tongue part movement variability in /r/-final syllables measured by automatically tracking ultrasound images – Sarah R. Li, Sarah Dugan, Colin Annand, Kathryn Eary, Michael Swearengen, Gregory Terrell, Suzanne Boyce, Michael A. Riley, Douglas Mast

Poster Session #1a :: 12:00 pm – 1:00pm

[abstract] Articulation of Brazilian Portuguese palatal laterals – Sherman Charles

[abstract] Beyond the midsagittal: Toward a three-dimensional conceptualization of click consonants – Jeremy Coburn

[abstract] Change measures for ultrasound: Relating pixel difference on raw data to nearest neighbor on splines – Pertti Palo, Sonja Schaeffler, James Scobbie

[abstract] Alveolar stops exhibit greater coarticulatory resistance than retroflexes and dentals in Malayalam – Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy, Indranil Dutta, Maumita Bhaumik

Poster Session #1b :: 1:00 pm – 2:00pm

[abstract] Sex differences in voiceless fricative production in Canadian English – Nicole van Rootselaar, Amanda Scherer, Brianna Olson, Leanne Watson, Fangfang Li

[abstract] Undershoot in Kyrgyz short vowels is articulatory conditioned – Nathaniel Ziv Stern, Jonathan Washington

[abstract] [poster] Distance vs. time: Articulatory trade-off in Polish vowel reduction – Patrycja Strycharczuk, Malgorzata Cavar

[abstract] Biplane ultrasound imaging of lingual grooving and sagittal displacement during the production of three sibilant sounds – Tim Bressmann, Marc Yarascavitch, Siew-Ging Gong, Bryan Tompson

Master Classes :: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm :: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

[abstract] [slides] Ultrasound imaging in clinical speech settings – Heather Kabakoff

[abstract] How to “GetContours” from ultrasound imaging – Mark Tiede

Oral Session #3: Second Language Acquisition :: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

[abstract] An ultrasound study of English vowel production by newly-arrived Mandarin-speaking young children – Boram Kim, Megan Keough, Young-Hsiang Shawn Chang

[abstract] Articulatory gestures and acoustic categories transfer in non-native speech production – Madeleine Oakley

[abstract] Individual variation in pre-/ɹ/ stop retraction in L2 English – Jae-Hyun Sung, Gwanhi Yun, Soohyun Kwon, Tae-Jin Yoon

Friday October 23, 2020

Oral Session #4: [Continuant] Sounds :: 10:00 am – 10:30 am

[abstract] [slides] Lingual articulatory evidence of fricative-vowel coarticulation in Japanese devoiced vowels – Rion Iwasaki, Kevin D. Roon, Jason A. Shaw, Douglas H. Whalen

Morning Social :: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Enter the UltraFest IX Gather website. Explore the Gather space, learn to make a selection of mixed drinks, enjoy each other’s company.

From 11:00 am – 12:00 pm we will be joined for a live performance by the Aviara Trio! The concert program is available here. Feel free to enjoy the music as a concert, or as background music while you continue to socialize. See the instructional video for enjoying the concert.

Poster Session #2a :: 12:00 pm – 1:00pm

[abstract] Post-collection synchronization of ultrasound and audio – Sarah Bakst, Susan Lin

[abstract] Biplane ultrasound imaging of lingual motion in chewing – Tim Bressman, Marc Yarascavitch, Siew-Ging Gong, Bryan Tompson

[abstract] Tongue positioning during Seoul Korean lax, tense, and aspirated obstruents – Harim Kwon, Suzy Ahn

[abstract] How dark or light is L2 speakers’ production of English /l/? An ultrasound study of variations in /l/ realization by Korean learners of English – Soohyun Kwon, Tae-Jin Yoon, Jae-Hyun Sung, Gwanhi Yun

Poster Session #2b :: 1:00 pm – 2:00pm

[abstract] Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study covert contrasts in second-language learners’ acquisition of English vowels – Jae Yung Song, Fred Eckman

[abstract] [poster] Rounded palatal vowels as a model for sound-change processes in dialect-speaking children – Lia Saki Bucar Shigemori, Philip Hoole, Katrin Wolfswinkler, Jonathan Harrington

[abstract] Testing predispositions in consonant harmony – Douglas H. Whalen, Mark K. Tiede

[abstract] Tongue root position in Mandarin Chinese aspirated and unaspirated obstruents – Suzy Ahn, Matthew Faytak, Harim Kwon

Master Classes :: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm :: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

[abstract] [slides] Ultrasound visualization and analysis using WASL – Steven M. Lulich

[abstract] [github] Developing and customizing ultrasound image processing tools with MATLAB – Catherine Laporte

Oral Session #5: Software solutions for tongue surface/contour segmentation :: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

[abstract] UltraTrace: A free/open-source cross-platform tool for manual annotation of ultrasound tongue imaging data – Kevin Murphy, Nathaniel Ziv Stern, Daniel Swanson, Caleb Ho, Jonathan Washington

[abstract] Automatic tongue surface extraction from 3D ultrasound using 3D SLURP – Steven M. Lulich, Enamundram M. V. Naga Karthik, Catherine Laporte

[abstract] MTracker – a CNN-based tool for automatic tracking of tongue contours – Jian Zhu, Will Styler, Ian Calloway

Evening Social :: 6:30 pm – open ended

Enter the UltraFest IX Gather website. Explore the Gather space, learn to make a selection of mixed drinks, enjoy each other’s company.

Saturday October 24, 2020

Oral Session #6: Languages of Central Eurasia :: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

[abstract] Ultrasound imaging of Hungarian geminates – Maida Percival, Tamás Gábor Csapó, Márton Bartók, Andrea Deme, Tekla Etelka Gráczi, Alexandra Markó

[abstract] An ultrasound study of dorsal stops in Tatar and Qumuq – Jonathan Washington, Denis Tokmashev, Alsu Badrtdinova, Zarema Tarkovskaya, Mark Zimin, Vera Maltseva, Nikolay Urtegeshev, Tatiana Ryzhikova, Valeriya Lemskaya, Anna Dybo