Colloquium: Modeling early phonetic learning from natural speech- Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland
Haines Hall A25Theories 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,...
AIS: Travis Major, USC
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Phonology Seminar: Practice AMP Posters
Campbell Hall 2122Jinyoung Jo, “Inter-speaker variation in the realization of stem-final coronal obstruents in Korean” Jake Aziz, “Malagasy vowel devoicing as gestural alignment” Jennifer Kuo, “Markedness effects in paradigm reanalysis: the case of Malagasy consonant alternations” Yang Wang and Bruce Hayes, “Learning underlying representations: The role of Expectation-Maximization and the KK Hierarchy”
CompLing/Psycholing Seminar: Liu/Mateu/Hyams practice BU Talk
2122 Campbell HallPlease join us this Thursday at 4:15 for this practice BU talk: Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives Minqi Liu, Victoria Mateu, and Nina Hyams In Mandarin, passives with an external argument (EA) – “long passives” (1a) – are structurally different from “short passives” (1b), in which the EA is not projected (e.g.,...
AMP 2022 @ UCLA
Royce Hall 314The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), founded in 2013, is held every Fall, and showcases high quality research in all areas of phonology. UCLA is proud to host this year’s conference, from 21-23 October, 2022. The conference will be held in person in 314 Royce Hall at UCLA. To attend, participants will be required to show...
Graduate School In Linguistics
Campbell 2122A/BInterested in learning more about pursuing graduate school in Linguistics? Come to our Graduate School in Linguistics info session on Tuesday, October 25, 2-3pm in Campbell 2122A to learn about how to prepare, how to apply, and how to know grad school is right for you. If you will be attending, please fill out the RSVP form by Friday, October...
Phonology Seminar: Journal Club
Campbell Hall 2122Guidelines for participation forthcoming...