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The second VariAMU Workshop will be held at the Speech and Language Laboratory (Laboratoire Parole et Langage), in Aix-en-Provence, the 20th and 21st August 2014. PROGRAMMEWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20th9h Welcome                                                                                                                     Room B0119h15 Language Technology Session                                                                  Room B011 Variation and FeedbackLaurent PrévotAdding Cantonese into SPPASBrigitte Bigi &#38; Roxana FungStochastic Analysis of Natural Conversation Corpora, with automatic detection of speech detailsEmilien GorenneOrtolang: Tools Grégoire de MontcheuilMetaphor is Ontological IncongruityChu-Ren Huang10h45 Coffee Break11h-12h  Working Session 1                                                                                    Room B011Corpora &#38; Tools  (Chair: Chu-Ren Huang / Brigtte Bigi)12h-14h Lunch14h-15h15 Lab / Facilities Visit15h15 - 15h30 Coffee Break15h30 - 17h Linguistics &#38; Phonetics Session                                                  Room B011 Voice quality and speech prosody: An exploration of the phonological distinctions in two accents of CantoneseRoxana FungAdvancements in the "Vowel variations in conversational speech" projectChristine MeunierAn Exploration of Word Stress in Hong Kong EnglishCathy WongGender variations in “genderless” languages: An English/Cantonese comparisonJulie AbbouTHURSDAY, AUGUST 21st9h Language Pathologies Session                                                                   Room A -102 The use of sub-character units in writing Chinese charactersDustin LauAdvancements in the “Speech in bilingual Parkinson's disease patients" projectSerge Pinto10h15 Coffee Break10h30-12h  Working Session 2                                                                          Room A -102Preparation of the Voice Training in HK (Chair: Mantak Leung / Serge Pinto)12h-14h Lunch14h-15h15 Organisation, schedule and project management               Room B01115h15 - 15h30 Coffee Break15h30 - 17h Working Session 3                                                                            Room B011Variations in Linguistics (Chair: Cathy Wong / Christine Meunier)17h-17h30 Closing session                                                                                    Room B011