<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>This semester's final Linguistics Colloquium talk will be of interest to many on these lists. Laura Dilley will be talking about her current research program, which incorporates consideration of social cues into her work on speech perception. I hope you'll be able to make it at this busy time of the semester!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Suzanne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: smit2297 <<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>><br>Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:25 PM<br>Subject: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium - Laura Dilley (11/30) - Wells B342<br>To: <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Nelson, Scott James <<a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu">nelso672@msu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br> <div dir="ltr"> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"></p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> Good afternoon, </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> <br> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee that our last colloquium of the Fall 2017 semester is this Thursday, November 30th at 4:30pm, in B342 Wells Hall. Our speaker is Professor Laura Dilley (Michigan State University), whose talk is titled "Speech perception as prediction: Extracting words, social cues, meaning, and structure from biological signals" (abstract below). We will have a coffee reception at 4PM in Wells B342, but there will not be a dinner following this week's talk. </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> <br> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> The schedule for the rest of the colloquium series can be found on our website. Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions or concerns. Thanks for being a part of the colloquium series this semester and we hope to see you on Thursday! </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> <br> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> Sincerely, </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> Kaylin Smith and Scott Nelson</p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee Co-Chairs <a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu" target="_blank">smit2297@msu.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:nelso672@msu.edu" target="_blank">nelso672@msu.edu</a></p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> <br> </p> <p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> _____________ </p> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><b>Speech perception as prediction: Extracting words, social cues, meaning, and structure from biological</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><b> signals</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"></span><br> <p></p> </div> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">Laura Dilley (Michigan State University)</span></div> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><br> </span></div> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"><span id="m_-1683120624965901616docs-internal-guid-4ad3413e-feb4-8148-262e-3100eadc6b7a"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></span></div> <span>There is a tremendous amount of variability in speech signals. Given this variability, how are human listeners so readily able to extract words and linguistic structures, as well as social cues, from speech? Current empirical and theoretical work views the brain as a complex prediction engine which attempts to minimize prediction error: the brain adaptively recapitulates a signal source and tries to compare it with incoming sensory information, and in minimizing the difference, arrives at an interpretation. Under this view, prediction enables the brain to extract information, including what a person is saying, what their intent is, and whether the person talking is female and/or African American. In this presentation I will discuss current research in my lab that relates to inferences drawn by listeners about words and social meanings from two sources of variability: variability in the prosody of context speech (e.g., its rhythm, pitch, and timing) and variability in formant frequencies (i.e., the dynamically-varying natural resonances of the vocal cavity). I will consider cases of both Standard American English and African American English dialects. It is argued that listeners take both short- and long-term statistics of acoustic cues in speech, including context prosody and formant frequencies, along with the social contexts in which speech signals occurred. This approach is argued to shed light on understanding how spoken language is effectively used by humans to convey communicative intent. </span> <div id="m_-1683120624965901616divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <br> </div> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br> lin-colloq mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu" target="_blank">lin-colloq@lin.msu.edu</a><br> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/lin-colloq" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/lin-colloq</a><br> </div></div></div>