<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>FOS,</div><div><br></div><div>This week's linguistics colloquium presentation will be given by sociolinguist Tyler Kendall (U Oregon). It's likely to be a really great talk, so I hope that many of us can make it. Full details are below.</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cara Feldscher</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:feldsch3@msu.edu" target="_blank">feldsch3@msu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:20 PM<br>Subject: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium - Tyler Kendall (2/18)<br>To: <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu" target="_blank">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Good afternoon,<div><br></div><div>This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee that our next talk is this upcoming Thursday, <b>February 18th</b> at <b>4:30pm</b> in Wells Hall, room B342. Our speaker is Professor Tyler Kendall from the University of Oregon, and his talk is titled "U.S. Regional Vowel Patterns in Production and Perception" (abstract below).</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="2">The rest of the colloquium series schedule can be found on our <a href="http://msulinguists.weebly.com/colloquium-and-events.html" target="_blank">website</a>. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We hope to see you Thursday!<br><br>Sincerely<br>Cara and Ni-La<u></u></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="2">MSU Linguistics Colloquium Colloquium Co-Chairs<u></u><u></u></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="2"><a href="mailto:feldsch3@msu.edu" target="_blank">feldsch3@msu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:lenila@msu.edu" target="_blank">lenila@msu.edu</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="2">--------</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b>U.S. Regional Vowel Patterns in Production and Perception</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">In this talk, I present continuing work from a collaborative project with Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno), which is exploring the relationship between speech production and perception at both the regional and individual level (Kendall and Fridland 2012, Fridland and Kendall 2012, Fridland, Kendall, and Farrington 2014). We examine vowel production and perception patterns from speakers in 8 U.S. states (CA, IL, NC, NV, NY, OR, TN, VA) across the South, West, and Inland North (Labov et al. 2006). Building on other recent work (Evans and Iverson 2004, 2007, Sumner and Samuel 2009, Fridland and Kendall 2012), we are investigating questions such as (a) whether differences in regional speakers’ production patterns implicate differences in perception, (b) whether individual differences in production relate to individual differences in perception, and, (c) whether different vowel sub-systems (e.g. tense and lax mid-front vowels, low back vowels) vary in the way that this linkage between production and perception is realized. I discuss the current status of this work along with some of our recent findings with respect to the above questions. I also discuss some new directions for our work, including an examination of how the addition of social information about the stimuli voice’s regional identity influences listener perceptions and an attempt to map perceptual data (vowel identification patterns from 500+ participants around the U.S.) using methods from dialectometry (Kendall and Fridland 2016).</div></div></div>
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