conferences de Cathy Best dans le cadre du labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics)

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Subject: conferences de Cathy Best dans le cadre du labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics)

Catherine Best, University of western Sydney, "Native language tuning effects on perceptyion of consonants, vowels and spoken words". 22/04, 29/04, 13/05, 20/05.
Labex EFL: Catherine Best’s four seminar presentations

 
Who? Catherine Best is a Labex EFL International Chair in 2014 and will be working at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie from April 14 to May 21. 

She is a Professor and Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at MARCS Institute and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney  (Australia), is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phonetica, and has also been selected as the ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (International Speech Communicaiton Association) for 2014-2016. 

Professor Best is most well-known for her Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) of nonnative speech perception and empirical findings within that framework, which has more recently been extended to cross-language perception by second language learners and bilingual listeners. Her current work has also extended the principles of cross-language speech perception to address how adult and infant listeners deal with regional accent differences within their own native language when recognizing spoken words. 



Where? Salle Las Vergnas (Centre Censier, 3ème étage, 17 rue Santeuil, Censier-Daubenton) 



When? Tuesday 22 and 29 April, 13 and 20 May, 4 to 6 p.m., except 29 April (5 to 7 p.m.) 



What?

Talk #1: April 22, 16-18h: 

title: "Devil or angel in the details? Phonetic variation and the complementary principles of phonological distinctiveness and phonological constancy” 

abstract:The phonetic patterns of ambient speech provide the raw materials for infants to discover the principles of their native language. By 10-12 months they show attunement to phonetic variations that are relevant in their language, and declining sensitivity to distinctions that are irrelevant to it, laying the cornerstone for mature listeners’ rapid and automatic recognition of native words. But what makes a phonetic distinction ‘relevant’ versus ‘irrelevant?’ The answer lies in how listeners relate the phonetic details of a word to its phonological structure, while taking into account the extensive phonetic variations in a given word across talkers, speech styles, and regional accents. Those phonetic variations are not “noise,” instead providing crucial information about two complementary principles that together define the phonological structure of words. One principle is phonological distinctiveness, which refers to language-specific minimal contrasts that meaningfully distinguish otherwise identical spoken forms. The complementary principle is phonological constancy, which permits listeners to recognize a word across talker and accent differences. A spoken word’s structure is co-defined by the phonetic variations that alter its phonological form and those that leave it intact. Discovering the balance between those two sides of native speech variability requires both episodic and abstract learning, which moves the child beyond attunement and into the realm of word recognition, and provides the foundation for adults' rapid, automatic recognition of native language words.



Talks #2-4:Her subsequent 3 talks will be (final titles and abstracts will be posted later):

April 29 (17-19h): Cross-language speech perception: Naive, second-language and bilingual listeners

May 13 (16-18h): Spoken word recognition across regional accent variation I: Native and second language adults

May 20 (16-18h): Spoken word recognition across regional accent variation: II. Development in young children  




ces conférences pourront être suivies en temps réel sur le site de Paris
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