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Phonology Seminar

2122 Campbell Hall

Talk:  Andy Xu, “Uneven sonority sequencing steps: Bayesian reanalysis of sonority projection.” Poster:  Noah Elkins and Jennifer Kuo, “A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy”

AIS: Iara Mantenuto, CSUDH

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Psycholing/CompLing Seminar: Christian Muxica & Jesse Harris

2122 Campbell Hall

Selecting contextually relevant alternatives during comprehension An expression in focus is standardly taken to evoke a contextually salient set of alternatives to itself (Rooth 1992). In an influential study, Husband and Ferreira (2016) proposed that these alternative sets are derived online from the set of semantic associates primed by processing a word in focus. The...

Colloquium: Modeling early phonetic learning from natural speech- Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland

Haines Hall A25

Theories of language acquisition have typically been developed using an idealization of the phonetic learning problem.  For example, phonetic category learning models have used input that is much less variable than the speech children hear and have assumed that learners already know which dimensions of the speech signal to pay attention to.  In this talk,...