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| 8:30-9:00 | REGISTRATION (ARTS 509) |
| 9:00-9:15 | WELCOME (ARTS 509) |
| ARTS 509 Chair: Alan Yu | |
| 9:15-10:05 | Determining linguistic competence in the non-verbal autistic child John Connolly McMaster University |
| 10:05-10:30 | Individual differences in judgments of prosodic disorder Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Melissa Redford, and Jolynn Cornell-Fabiano University of Oregon |
| 10:30-10:55 | BREAK |
| 10:55-11:45 | Early preferences for speech and faces as predictors of language development in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder Suzanne Curtin and Athena Vouloumanos University of Calgary |
| 11:45-12:35 | Is prosody a bellwether behavior of the autism spectrum? (by videoconference) Joshua Diehl University of Notre Dame |
| 12:35-14:30 | LUNCH |
| ARTS 509 Chair: Lyra Magloughlin | |
| 14:30-15:20 | Auditory cortical underpinnings of language impairments in autism spectrum disorder Janis Cardy University of Western Ontario |
| 15:20-15:45 | Differential Processing of Word Stress as a Predictor of Word Production at 12-months in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Jennifer Ference and Suzanne Curtin University of Calgary |
| 15:45-16:10 | The domain-generality of working memory resources for language Edward Gibson and Evelina Fedorenko Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 16:10-16:30 | BREAK |
| 16:30-16:55 | Language Generalization in Children with Autism Matt A Johnson Princeton University |
| 16:55-17:45 | Individual and group differences in declarative and procedural memory: The impact on normal and disordered language acquisition and processing Michael Ullman Georgetown University |
| SIMARD 425 Chair: Suzanne Curtin | |
| 9:00-9:50 | Individual differences in auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder: insights from behavior, the brain and genetics Krista Hyde McGill University |
| 9:50-10:15 | Autism Spectrum Conditions, dyslexia and lexical effects on speech perception Mitsuhiko Ota, Andrea I. Clark, and Mary E. Stewart University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University |
| 10:15-10:35 | BREAK |
| 10:35-11:25 | Individual differences are crucial for language variation and change Alan Yu University of Chicago |
| 11:25-11:50 | Effects of gender, vocal attraction, and emotional reactivity on unconscious phonetic imitation Alexis Black University of British Columbia |
| 11:50-12:15 | Imitation of individual voices varying in attractiveness and stereotypicality Molly Babel, Grant McGuire, Alice Nicholls, and Sophie Walters University of British Columbia and University of California at Santa Cruz |
| 12:15-14:00 | LUNCH |
| SIMARD 425 Chair: Tania Zamuner | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Individual Differences in the Perception of Children's Speech Benjamin Munson University of Minnesota |
| 14:50-15:15 | Individual articulatory differences in sound change: bunched and retroflex rhotics in French and English Jeff Mielke University of Ottawa |
| 15:15-16:05 | COMMENTARY Janet Pierrehumbert Northwestern University |
| 16:15-18:00 | POSTER SESSION |
| Individual phonetic differences as triggers of sound change: the case of SENĆOŦEN /qi/ and /iq/ sequences Sonya Bird and Bryan Gick University of Victoria and University of British Columbia | |
| The role of listeners' "autistic" traits in the interpretation of prosody and contrastive focus
Jason Bishop University of California at Los Angeles | |
| When inferring lingual gestures from acoustic data goes wrong: The case of high vowels in Canadian French Will Dalton University of Ottawa | |
| Individual differences in the development of L2 phonological processing: The contribution of cognitive abilities and executive functions Isabelle Darcy, Hanyong Park, Chung-Lin Yang, and Andrew Gleiser Indiana University and University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee | |
| The skewed input advantage: Sensitivity to learning mode Matt A Johnson Princeton University | |
| Individual differences and the acquisition of North American English /r/: An ultrasound study Lyra Magloughlin University of Ottawa | |
| Investigating AQ score as a factor in phonetic imitation Jeff Mielke, Lyra Magloughlin, and Kuniko Nielsen University of Ottawa and Oakland University | |
| Effects of Linguistic Experience and Hearing Loss on Speech Perception: Individual Differences under High-Variability Listening Conditions Terrin N. Tamati, Jaimie L. Gilbert, Sushma Tatineni, and David B. Pisoni Indiana University | |
| With a friend or with an oven: The role of empathy in the processing of human and non-human stimuli Alexandra Wild and Vsevolod Kapatsinski University of Oregon | |
| Interference "licensing" of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences Ming Xiang, Julian Grove, and Anastasia Giannakidou University of Chicago | |
| 19:00-21:00 | DINNER |
| SIMARD 425 Chair: Jeff Mielke | |
| 9:00-9:50 | Individual differences in language processing within the Autism Spectrum Aparna Nadig McGill University |
| 9:50-10:15 | Pragmatic Communication and Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders -- A Descriptive Pilot Study Mackenzie Salt McMaster University |
| 10:15-10:40 | Analysis of pragmatic behaviour in monolingual and bilingual adolescents with HFA and AS Marina Marukhnyak University of Toronto |
| 10:40-11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:00-11:25 | The interpretation of nonliteral language: cognitive factors on individual variation Mai Kuha and Elizabeth M. Riddle Ball State University |
| 11:25-11:50 | Shifting and separating: Directions in individual lifespan linguistic change Suzanne Evans Wagner and Madeline Shellgren Michigan State University |
| 11:50-12:40 | COMMENTARY Charles Boberg McGill University |
| 12:40-14:00 | LUNCH AND GENERAL DISCUSSION |