[parislinguists] Séminaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) | mars-avril 2015

Mon Mar 23 10:36:27 UTC 2015

Bonjour,

 Pour information, veuillez trouver ci-dessous les prochains séminaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL).

 Bien cordialement, Claudia Pichon-Starke
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Laboratoire Parole et Langage

UMR 7309 CNRS |Université d’Aix-Marseille

5 avenue Pasteur – 13100 Aix-en-Provence (France)

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Vendredi 27 mars 2015

14h-15h   LPL, salle de cours A003, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

Benjamin Swets

Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA

The Role of Working Memory in Sentence Packaging

Résumé  Traditional psycholinguistic theories of language production have held that speakers plan linguistic material in an inflexibly incremental manner. On this view, all speakers will plan the same small amount of information (ranging from, e.g., a clause or a phonological word) prior to articulation, regardless of the contextual circumstances or individual who is speaking. A relatively new domain of research that challenges this strictly incremental view is to examine individual variation of planning scope among different speakers. I will present research along these lines. In this research, speakers described picture arrays to partners in a matching game. The arrays sometimes required speakers to note a contrast between a sentence-initial object (e.g., a four-legged cat) and a sentence-final object (e.g., a three-legged cat). We measured speakers’ working memory prior to the session, then we recorded their eye movements during speech. The eye-movement measures revealed that speakers with higher working memory capacity were more likely to gather a larger amount of visual information prior to speech. They did so by being more likely to look ahead and fixate the object to be described sentence-finally. These speakers were also more likely to reference the contrast early in speech (e.g., by telling their partners to move “the cat with three legs” rather than simply “the cat”), reflecting an increased capacity both to gather and to encode material linguistically prior to speech. Such analyses of individual differences from language production, as well as language comprehension, can help to develop theories about the nature of the cognitive system that processes speech. For example, they afford theoretical developments regarding the mechanistic role that working memory plays in speech planning, as well as the role that working memory might play in language processing more generally. I will argue that working memory allows for the efficient packaging of linguistic material for the purposes of planning and comprehending language.

Bio  After earning his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Michigan State University, Benjamin Swets served as a post-doctoral researcher at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York. Currently on sabbatical, he is now an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. His research interests lie in the cognitive mechanisms (especially memory) that underlie every day activities such as speaking, working in hectic environments, reading stories, and taking exams.

Plus d’infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1592

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Vendredi 3 avril 2015

9h30-12h15  LPL, salle de conférences B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

James German1, Ingo Feldhausen2, Amandine Michelas1

1 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS, AMU)

2 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.

Variability and Non-optimality in the Prosodic Realization of Focus in Romance Languages

Résumé  While it has long been assumed that languages have the possibility to mark focus and other types of information structure through prosodic means, a number of recent experimental studies have begun to explore this issue in detail. A recurring theme in the findings of these studies is that the association between focus and prosodic features in Romance Languages is not absolute, and does not show a direct mapping along the lines of what has been suggested for English and other Germanic languages in the so-called Focus-to-Accent approach.

In this seminar, we explore the issue of variability, competition, and communication in the association between focus and prosodic form in French, Spanish and Catalan, highlighting findings from three experimental studies involving primarily semi-spontaneous speech.

Programme

9:30 – 10:15 J. German
Direct Marking versus Probabilistic Cues: Evidence from the French Initial Rise

10:15 – 11:30 I. Feldhausen
Strategies of Focus Realization in Spanish, Catalan, and French

11:30 – 12:15 A. Michelas
Focus marking and prosodic boundary strength in French

Plus d’infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1598

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