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Montanari, S., Mayr, R. & Subrahmanyam, K. (2019). Bilingual speech sound development during the preschool years: The role of language proficiency and cross-linguistic relatedness. Oral presentation. 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 23-28 June, 2019.
Morris, J. & Mayr, R. & Roberts, L. (2019). Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. 12th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC), UCL and Queen Mary University, London, 3-5 September, 2019.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2018). ‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent perception in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. BAAP 2018 Symposium, University of Kent, 12-14 April, 2018.
Mayr, R., López-Bueno, L. & Tome-Lourido, G. (2018). Plasticity in the vowel productions of Galician-Spanish bilinguals: An examination of the effects of dual language switch. Poster presentation. BAAP 2018 Symposium, University of Kent, 12-14 April, 2018.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2017). Perceptions of Llanelli English: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. United Kingdom Language Variation and Change conference (UKLVC 11), Cardiff University, 29-31 August 2017.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2017). Speech learning across generations: The production of stop consonants by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. Oral presentation for thematic panel: Plasticity of native language phonetic and phonological domains in the context of bilingualism. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Ireland, 11-15 June 2017.
Morris, J. & Mayr, R. (2017). ‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. Oral presentation for thematic panel: Phonetic transfer in minority language contact settings. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Ireland, 11-15 June 2017.
Mayr, R. (2017). Accent and identity in Wales: Disentangling the effects of language contact and bilingualism. Invited talk, Research Seminar, Department of Applied Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 6 April 2017.
Mayr, R. (2017). When your first language sounds foreign: First language attrition of speech. Public Uni 15, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 31 March 2017, http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/events/view/public-uni-15/.
Mennen, I., Kelly, N., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2016). Convergence of lexical stress cues in Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at the 2nd workshop on Second Language Prosody (SLaP), University of Graz, Austria, 18-19 November 2016.
Mennen, I. Mayr, R., Kelly, N. & Morris, J. (2016). Lexical stress production in a long-term contact situation: The case of Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at CLC9, the 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, 1-2 September, 2016.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2016). Being properly Welsh: Accent and identity among new and traditional speakers in Wales. Paper presented at the New Speakers Workshop, UCL, London, 11 July 2016.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2016). Speech learning across generations: The production of stop consonants by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. Paper presented at New Sounds 2016, the 8th International Symposium on Second-Language Speech, Aarhus University, Denmark, 10-12 June 2016.
Mayr, R. (2016). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition of speech. ACE networking event. Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4 April 2016.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2016). Inter-generational transmission in a minority language setting: Stop consonant production by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults, Poster presentation. BAAP 2016 Symposium, University of Lancaster, 30 March- 1 April 2016.
Mayr, R. & Montanari, S. (2015). Differentiation and interaction in the vowel productions of trilingual children. Poster presentation. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
Mennen, I., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2015). Influences of language contact and linguistic experience on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English, Poster presentation. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
Mayr, R., Morris, J., Mennen, I. & Williams, D. (2015). Disentangling the effects of language contact and individual bilingualism: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Mennen, I., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2015). Lexical stress production and the role of the home language in English monolinguals and Welsh-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Montanari, S. & Mayr, R. (2015). Cross-linguistic interaction in trilingual phonological development: The role of the input in the acquisition of the voicing contrast. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Lewis, R., Mayr, R., Sanders, L. & Thomas, E. (2015). Early atypical development in bilingual speech: From phonetics to phonology. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Mennen, Ineke, Mayr, Robert & Morris, Jonathan. (2014). Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: The case of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. Poster presentation. SinFonIJA VII, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria, 25-27 September 2014.
Mayr, Robert & Montanari, Simona (2014). Stop consonant production in simultaneous trilingual children: An acoustic study. Poster presentation. 13th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), University of Amsterdam, 14-18 July 2014.
Mayr, Robert, Morris, Jonathan, Mennen, Ineke & Williams, Daniel (2014). Interaction effects in a language
contact situation: monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English, Paper presented at the BAAP 2014 Symposium, University of Oxford, 7-9 April, 2014.
Morris, Jonathan, Mayr, Robert & Mennen, Ineke (2014). Interaction effects in a language contact situation: The case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English, Paper presented at The First Southern Englishes Workshop, University of Brighton, 8-9 March, 2014.
Mayr, Robert, Mennen, Ineke & Morris, Jonathan (2013) Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English, Poster presentation, UKLVC 9, 2-4 September 2013, University of Sheffield.
Mennen, Ineke, Mayr, Robert & Price, Sacha (2013) Segmental and prosodic effects of L1 attrition in the speech of monozygotic twin sisters. Paper presented at New Sounds 2013, 17-19 May 2013, Concordia University, Montreal.
Mayr, Robert (2013). When your native language sounds foreign-accented: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twins, Invited Talk, Research Seminar, Birmingam City University, 6 March 2013.
Mayr, Robert & Jones, Danna (2012). Asymmetries in phonological development: the case of consonant cluster acquisition in Welsh-English bilingual children, Poster presentation, Workshop on Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society, Bangor University, 21 July 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2012). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twin sisters, Paper presented at the Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction Conference, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University, 30 March - 1 April 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2012). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twins, Paper presented at the BAAP 2012 Symposium, University of Leeds, 26-28 March 2012.
Mayr, Robert (2012). When your native language is foreign-accented: L1 attrition in bilingual monozygotic twin sisters. Invited Talk, Foreign Accent Day, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, 9 March 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2011). L1 attrition in the speech of Dutch-English bilinguals: the case of monozygotic twin sisters, Paper presented at the 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8), University of Oslo, Norway, 15-18 June 2011.
Mayr, Robert (2011). Speaking a native language with a foreign accent: phonological acquisition and attrition in bilinguals. Invited Talk, Research Seminar, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University, 28 March 2011.
Mayr, Robert (2010). Phonological acquisition in Welsh-English bilingual children. RCSLT Study Day ‘Working with bilingual children and their families’, The Angel Hotel, Cardiff, 24 November 2010.
Mayr, Robert (2010). Is the NURSE vowel in South Wales English a front rounded vowel? An acoustic and articulatory investigation, Paper presented at the BAAP 2010 Symposium, University of Westminster, London, 29-31 March, 2010.
Mayr, Robert & Davies, Hannah (2009). The monophthongs and diphthongs of North-eastern Welsh: an acoustic study, Poster presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), 6-10 September, Brighton.
Mayr, Robert & Escudero, Paola (2008) “Individual Variation in L2 perceptual development: the case of rounded German vowels by English learners”, Paper presented at the BAAP 2008 Symposium, 31 March – 2 April 2008, University of Sheffield.
Escudero, Paola & Mayr, Robert (2007). Explaining individual variation in L2 perceptual development: the acquisition of rounded German vowels by English learners, Paper presented at New Sounds 2007: Fifth international symposium on the acquisition of second-language speech, 25-28 November 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil.
Mayr, Robert & Escudero, Paola (2007). Explaining difficult cases in L2 perception: German rounded vowels by English listeners, Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), 30 May – 2 June 2007, University of Hamburg.
Mayr, Robert & Müller, Torsten (2007). Prosody and deixis in English and German football commentary, Paper presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), University of Siegen, Germany, 28 February – 2 March 2007.
Mayr, Robert (2005). On cross-linguistic similarity, category formation and L2 distinctiveness: a critical appraisal of Flege’s Speech Learning Model. Paper presented at the Workshop on Models of L1 and L2 Phonetics/ Phonology. Utrecht University, 8-9 November 2005.
Mayr, Robert, Howard, Sara & Weinert, Regina (2005). On Flege’s notion of category formation in a second language: evidence from German, Poster presented at the 1st ASA Workshop in Second Language Speech Learning, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2005.
Mayr, Robert (2004). The perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German, Paper presented at the University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing 2004), University of Cambridge, England, 19 March 2004.
Mayr, Robert (2004). Gestern ging ich spät ins Beet: the perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German, Research Seminar, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, May 2004.
Montanari, S., Mayr, R. & Subrahmanyam, K. (2019). Bilingual speech sound development during the preschool years: The role of language proficiency and cross-linguistic relatedness. Oral presentation. 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 23-28 June, 2019.
Morris, J. & Mayr, R. & Roberts, L. (2019). Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. 12th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC), UCL and Queen Mary University, London, 3-5 September, 2019.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2018). ‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent perception in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. BAAP 2018 Symposium, University of Kent, 12-14 April, 2018.
Mayr, R., López-Bueno, L. & Tome-Lourido, G. (2018). Plasticity in the vowel productions of Galician-Spanish bilinguals: An examination of the effects of dual language switch. Poster presentation. BAAP 2018 Symposium, University of Kent, 12-14 April, 2018.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2017). Perceptions of Llanelli English: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. Oral presentation. United Kingdom Language Variation and Change conference (UKLVC 11), Cardiff University, 29-31 August 2017.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2017). Speech learning across generations: The production of stop consonants by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. Oral presentation for thematic panel: Plasticity of native language phonetic and phonological domains in the context of bilingualism. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Ireland, 11-15 June 2017.
Morris, J. & Mayr, R. (2017). ‘He’s definitely a Welsh speaker’: The effects of linguistic experience, language mode and familiarity on accent in a language contact situation. Oral presentation for thematic panel: Phonetic transfer in minority language contact settings. 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Ireland, 11-15 June 2017.
Mayr, R. (2017). Accent and identity in Wales: Disentangling the effects of language contact and bilingualism. Invited talk, Research Seminar, Department of Applied Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 6 April 2017.
Mayr, R. (2017). When your first language sounds foreign: First language attrition of speech. Public Uni 15, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 31 March 2017, http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/events/view/public-uni-15/.
Mennen, I., Kelly, N., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2016). Convergence of lexical stress cues in Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at the 2nd workshop on Second Language Prosody (SLaP), University of Graz, Austria, 18-19 November 2016.
Mennen, I. Mayr, R., Kelly, N. & Morris, J. (2016). Lexical stress production in a long-term contact situation: The case of Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at CLC9, the 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, 1-2 September, 2016.
Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2016). Being properly Welsh: Accent and identity among new and traditional speakers in Wales. Paper presented at the New Speakers Workshop, UCL, London, 11 July 2016.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2016). Speech learning across generations: The production of stop consonants by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. Paper presented at New Sounds 2016, the 8th International Symposium on Second-Language Speech, Aarhus University, Denmark, 10-12 June 2016.
Mayr, R. (2016). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition of speech. ACE networking event. Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4 April 2016.
Mayr, R. & Siddika, A. (2016). Inter-generational transmission in a minority language setting: Stop consonant production by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults, Poster presentation. BAAP 2016 Symposium, University of Lancaster, 30 March- 1 April 2016.
Mayr, R. & Montanari, S. (2015). Differentiation and interaction in the vowel productions of trilingual children. Poster presentation. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
Mennen, I., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2015). Influences of language contact and linguistic experience on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English, Poster presentation. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
Mayr, R., Morris, J., Mennen, I. & Williams, D. (2015). Disentangling the effects of language contact and individual bilingualism: the case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Mennen, I., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2015). Lexical stress production and the role of the home language in English monolinguals and Welsh-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Montanari, S. & Mayr, R. (2015). Cross-linguistic interaction in trilingual phonological development: The role of the input in the acquisition of the voicing contrast. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Lewis, R., Mayr, R., Sanders, L. & Thomas, E. (2015). Early atypical development in bilingual speech: From phonetics to phonology. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10), Rutgers University, NJ, 20-24 May 2015.
Mennen, Ineke, Mayr, Robert & Morris, Jonathan. (2014). Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: The case of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. Poster presentation. SinFonIJA VII, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria, 25-27 September 2014.
Mayr, Robert & Montanari, Simona (2014). Stop consonant production in simultaneous trilingual children: An acoustic study. Poster presentation. 13th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), University of Amsterdam, 14-18 July 2014.
Mayr, Robert, Morris, Jonathan, Mennen, Ineke & Williams, Daniel (2014). Interaction effects in a language
contact situation: monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English, Paper presented at the BAAP 2014 Symposium, University of Oxford, 7-9 April, 2014.
Morris, Jonathan, Mayr, Robert & Mennen, Ineke (2014). Interaction effects in a language contact situation: The case of monophthongs in Welsh and Welsh English, Paper presented at The First Southern Englishes Workshop, University of Brighton, 8-9 March, 2014.
Mayr, Robert, Mennen, Ineke & Morris, Jonathan (2013) Socio-phonetic variation in a language contact situation: the case of Welsh and Welsh English, Poster presentation, UKLVC 9, 2-4 September 2013, University of Sheffield.
Mennen, Ineke, Mayr, Robert & Price, Sacha (2013) Segmental and prosodic effects of L1 attrition in the speech of monozygotic twin sisters. Paper presented at New Sounds 2013, 17-19 May 2013, Concordia University, Montreal.
Mayr, Robert (2013). When your native language sounds foreign-accented: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twins, Invited Talk, Research Seminar, Birmingam City University, 6 March 2013.
Mayr, Robert & Jones, Danna (2012). Asymmetries in phonological development: the case of consonant cluster acquisition in Welsh-English bilingual children, Poster presentation, Workshop on Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society, Bangor University, 21 July 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2012). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twin sisters, Paper presented at the Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction Conference, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University, 30 March - 1 April 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2012). When your native language sounds foreign: L1 attrition in the speech of bilingual monozygotic twins, Paper presented at the BAAP 2012 Symposium, University of Leeds, 26-28 March 2012.
Mayr, Robert (2012). When your native language is foreign-accented: L1 attrition in bilingual monozygotic twin sisters. Invited Talk, Foreign Accent Day, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, 9 March 2012.
Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2011). L1 attrition in the speech of Dutch-English bilinguals: the case of monozygotic twin sisters, Paper presented at the 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8), University of Oslo, Norway, 15-18 June 2011.
Mayr, Robert (2011). Speaking a native language with a foreign accent: phonological acquisition and attrition in bilinguals. Invited Talk, Research Seminar, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University, 28 March 2011.
Mayr, Robert (2010). Phonological acquisition in Welsh-English bilingual children. RCSLT Study Day ‘Working with bilingual children and their families’, The Angel Hotel, Cardiff, 24 November 2010.
Mayr, Robert (2010). Is the NURSE vowel in South Wales English a front rounded vowel? An acoustic and articulatory investigation, Paper presented at the BAAP 2010 Symposium, University of Westminster, London, 29-31 March, 2010.
Mayr, Robert & Davies, Hannah (2009). The monophthongs and diphthongs of North-eastern Welsh: an acoustic study, Poster presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), 6-10 September, Brighton.
Mayr, Robert & Escudero, Paola (2008) “Individual Variation in L2 perceptual development: the case of rounded German vowels by English learners”, Paper presented at the BAAP 2008 Symposium, 31 March – 2 April 2008, University of Sheffield.
Escudero, Paola & Mayr, Robert (2007). Explaining individual variation in L2 perceptual development: the acquisition of rounded German vowels by English learners, Paper presented at New Sounds 2007: Fifth international symposium on the acquisition of second-language speech, 25-28 November 2007, Florianopolis, Brazil.
Mayr, Robert & Escudero, Paola (2007). Explaining difficult cases in L2 perception: German rounded vowels by English listeners, Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), 30 May – 2 June 2007, University of Hamburg.
Mayr, Robert & Müller, Torsten (2007). Prosody and deixis in English and German football commentary, Paper presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), University of Siegen, Germany, 28 February – 2 March 2007.
Mayr, Robert (2005). On cross-linguistic similarity, category formation and L2 distinctiveness: a critical appraisal of Flege’s Speech Learning Model. Paper presented at the Workshop on Models of L1 and L2 Phonetics/ Phonology. Utrecht University, 8-9 November 2005.
Mayr, Robert, Howard, Sara & Weinert, Regina (2005). On Flege’s notion of category formation in a second language: evidence from German, Poster presented at the 1st ASA Workshop in Second Language Speech Learning, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2005.
Mayr, Robert (2004). The perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German, Paper presented at the University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing 2004), University of Cambridge, England, 19 March 2004.
Mayr, Robert (2004). Gestern ging ich spät ins Beet: the perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German, Research Seminar, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, May 2004.