MCGUIRE IN NEW ZEALAND

Meanwhile, Grant McGuire travelled to the other end of the earth to attend the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology conference in Christchurch, New Zealand /Aotearoa. Grant presented a paper entitled, Orthographic effects on phonetic cue weighting. Grant reports:

This was a nice gathering of Antipodeans as well as North Americans and Europeans. We had a lovely conference dinner at a wildlife preserve that had Kiwi as well as many other endangered NZ species. We also got to experience a Maori pōwhiri, practice poi dancing and haka, and eat pit barbecue, called hāngi. The evening was concluded with the phonetician’s tradition of a spectrogram reading contest.To quote my hosts, it was “sweet as”!

The conference proceedings (including Grant’s paper) are already available here.