Location: Haines Hall 220 When phonological learning is not statistical: how learning biases have reshaped Malagasy paradigms One view of phonological learning is that it is driven by a domain-general bias towards frequency-matching, and therefore predictable from statistical distributions of the language (Albright 2002; Ernestus & Baayen 2003; Nosofsky 2011). A competing view is that...

Location: Haines Hall 220 What is “adapted” in adaptive speech perception? The acoustic-phonetic realization of the same linguistic categories (e.g., phonemes, syllables, or words) can vary considerably both within and across talkers. This variability poses a challenge for listeners, who must be able to perceive speech accurately despite these changes. Empirical data suggest that listeners adapt to cross-talker...

Representing individuals In this talk I will consider what is known about how the human mind and brain represents individuals non-linguistically, and what the implications are for our theories of linguistic interpretation. In standard model-theoretic semantics, individuals are simply taken for granted as part of the world model; and I too will assume that the...