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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:32:13
From: Beth Hume [beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz]
Subject: The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Sound Patterns

The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Sound Patterns 

Date: 10-Dec-2016 - 11-Dec-2016 
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact: Beth Hume 
Contact Email: beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz 
Meeting URL: http://sst2016.westernsydney.edu.au/index.php/predictability-symposium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

A growing body of research in phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics
suggests that human language sound patterns are influenced by the
predictability of the higher level linguistic units they signify, e.g. words.
The relevant context for computing predictability arguably takes into account
all levels of linguistic representation in which the sound pattern is
embedded. Relevant patterns have been observed at both the level of individual
languages as well as cross-linguistically regarding, for example, preferred
contexts and likely outcomes of a range of phonetic and phonological processes
(see, e.g., Aylett & Turk 2004; Buz et al., in press; Cohen Priva 2012, 2105;
Hall 2009; Hume & Bromberg 2005; Hume et al. 2013; Jurafsky 1996; Kleinschmidt
& Jaeger 2015; Oh et al. 2015; Piantadosi et al. 2011; Seyfarth 2014; Shaw et
al. 2014; van Son & Pols 2003; Wedel et al. 2013). In quantifying
predictability, these studies appeal to concepts and/or formal tools from
information theory. The symposium welcomes a wide range of formal approaches
to quantifying predictability and to evaluating its impact on phonetic and
phonological variation. Submissions that use experimental or corpus-based
methods are particularly welcome.

Host Institution: Western Sydney University

Speakers:

Harald Baayen, University of Tübingen
Uriel Cohen Priva, Brown University
Shigeto Kawahara, Keio University
Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
Kathleen Currie Hall, University of British Columbia
Andy Wedel, University of Arizona
Beth Hume, University of Canterbury
Jason Shaw, Western Sydney University

In addition to talks and posters, the symposium will feature two workshops
introducing corpora and computational tools for evaluating predictability in
relation to phonological and phonetic patterns.

Workshops:

- Phonological CorpusTools (Kathleen Currie Hall)
- Alveo Virtual Laboratory for Human Communication Science (Dominique Estival
& Steve Cassidy)

Any questions about the symposium can be addressed to the organizers, Beth
Hume (beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz), Jason Shaw (J.Shaw at WesternSydney.edu.au),
and Dominique Estival (D.Estival at westernsydney.edu.au)

Program:

The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Systems

Day 1, 10 December 2016:

9:15-9:30:
Welcome and Thematic Overview 
Jason Shaw (Yale), Beth Hume (Canterbury) 

9:30-10:30:
Message-Oriented Phonology
Kathleen Hall (UBC), Beth Hume (Canterbury), Florian Jaeger (Rochester), Andy
Wedel (Arizona)

10:30-11:00: Morning Tea

11:00-12:30
Non-stationarity and other critical mathematical problems for channel
coding-based explanations. 
Eric Meinhardt (University of California, San Diego)

Korean vocative truncation and Information Theory: A perspective from
Message-oriented phonology. Seunghun Lee (International Christian University),
Shigeto Kawahara (Keio)

12:30-2:00: Lunch and Alveo Data workshop
Dominique Estival (Western Sydney University)

2:00-3:30:
Effects of average and specific context probability on reduction of function
words BE and HAVE. Danielle Barth (Australia National University)

Durational contrast in germination and informativity
Shin-ichiro Sano (Keio)

Chasing the frequency effect: Modeling durational variation of function words
in conversational French. 
Yao Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Laurent Prévot (LPL, Aix-Marseille
Université), Christine Meunier (LPL, Aix-Marseille Université)

3:30-4:00: Afternoon Tea

4:00-5:00
An interplay between Information, duration, and lenition
Uriel Priva Cohen (Brown)

7:00: Symposium Dinner

Day 2, 11 December 2016:

9:30-10:30: 
Predicting lexical decision in humans and baboons: deep learning or wide
learning?
Harald Baayen (Tübingen)

10:30-11:00: Morning Tea

11:00-12:00:
Token predictability in sound category learning: The log frequency hypothesis.
Paul Olejarczuk, Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)

Effects of cue variability on prediction error during acoustic cue acquisition
Jessie Nixon (Univ. of Potsdam), Catherine Best (MARCS Institute)

Can accent pre-exposure tune the beholder's ear to shifted vowel systems?
Effects on vowel categorization across English regional accents
Catherine T. Best (MARCS), Jason Shaw (Yale), Gerry Docherty (Griffith),
Bronwen Evan (UCL), Paul Foulkes (York), Jen Hay (Canterbury)

12:00-1:30: Lunch and Workshop on Phonological Tools
Kathleen Currie Hall (UBC)

1:30-2:30:
Evaluating information loss from phonological dimensionality reduction Jayden
Macklin-Cordes (Queensland), Erich Round (Queensland), Steven Moran (Zurich)

Why do speakers try to predict the unpredictable? Adam Albright (MIT) Michelle
Fullwood (MIT), Jongho Jun (Seoul National University)

2:30-3:30: 
Case study: Uncertainty effects in Japanese phonetics & phonology 
Shigeto Kawahara (Keio), Jason Shaw (Yale)

3:30-5:00: 
Discussion/Future Directions, Drinks and Nibbles

5:00: 
Farewell

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