30.3574, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics/Canada

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Subject: 30.3574, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics/Canada

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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 03:11:59
From: Jessamyn Schertz [jessamyn.schertz at utoronto.ca]
Subject: Cue Weighting: Thinking Outside the Box

 
Full Title: Cue Weighting: Thinking Outside the Box 

Date: 05-Jul-2020 - 05-Jul-2020
Location: Vancouver, Canada 
Contact Person: Jessamyn Schertz
Meeting Email: cues.out.of.the.box at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/cues-out-of-the-box/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

Understanding how listeners integrate and weight various sources of
information in the incoming signal is an important component of any model of
speech processing. However, the methods traditionally used to measure cue
weighting are fairly limited: the majority involve an identification task
across many repetitions of systematically manipulated stimuli, and quantify
reliance as how well the manipulated dimension predicts listeners' responses.
Work done using this paradigm has taught us a lot about how listeners use
different sources of information to categorize phonemic contrasts, but it is
not clear to what extent findings can generalize to speech perception outside
of the sound booth. For example, long experiments might introduce attentional
demands, large cue conflicts may be treated differently than small conflicts
(as may be the case for audio-visual integration), listeners may adapt to the
unnatural lack of correlations among cues (adaptation to experiment conditions
has been found in many types of experiments), words in context may be treated
differently than those heard in isolation (e.g. because productions are
different) and these tasks may not work well for some populations (e.g.
children, those not familiar with computers). Furthermore, much of our
empirical knowledge comes from a limited number of languages and speech
styles. The goal of this session is to discuss how expanding our palette of
tasks, analyses, and cues/languages might lead to a more comprehensive
understanding of listeners' integration of different sources of information
during speech perception.

Presentations in this session may:

- highlight limitations of current methods
- introduce or share less standard tasks or analyses
- compare results across different tasks or analyses
- compare results between 'robust' and 'marginal' contrasts
- broaden the empirical scope of our knowledge of cue weighting by examining
understudied cues and/or languages


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations for Cue Weighting:
Thinking Outside the Box, a satellite workshop of LabPhon17. Please see our
website for submission details:
https://sites.google.com/view/cues-out-of-the-box/home

- Deadline for abstract submission: December 1, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2020




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