<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: smit2297 <<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu">smit2297@msu.edu</a>><br>Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:43 AM<br>Subject: Reminder-- Laura Dilley colloquium today 4:30PM (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>>, <a href="mailto:lin-grad@lin.msu.edu">lin-grad@lin.msu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:lin-grad@lin.msu.edu">lin-grad@lin.msu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br> <div> <div id="m_8517191241520418050divtagdefaultwrapper" 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"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Good morning,</span></p> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span> <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"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></p> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span> <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"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></p> <div id="m_8517191241520418050x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics </span><span class="m_8517191241520418050currentHitHighlight" id="m_85171912415204180500.27479425924191725" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Colloquium </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Committee that our </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">last </span><span class="m_8517191241520418050highlight" id="m_85171912415204180500.6714345995904616" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">colloquium</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> of the fall semester </span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">is today at 4:30pm, in B342 Wells Hall. </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">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). </span><span class="m_8517191241520418050contextualExtensionHighlight m_8517191241520418050ms-font-color-themePrimary m_8517191241520418050ms-border-color-themePrimary m_8517191241520418050ident_484_596" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">We will have a coffee reception at 4PM in Wells B342, but there will not be a dinner following today's talk.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></p> <p><br> </p> <p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">The schedule for the rest of the </span><span class="m_8517191241520418050highlight" id="m_85171912415204180500.642710120766244" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">colloquium</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 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 </span><span class="m_8517191241520418050highlight" id="m_85171912415204180500.5737845477775447" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">colloquium</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> series this semester and we hope to see you there! </span></p> <p><br> </p> <p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sincerely,</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kaylin and Scott</span></p> <p><br> </p> <p>_____________ </p> <b>Speech perception as prediction: Extracting words, social cues, meaning, and structure from biological</b><b> signals</b><br> <p></p> </div> <div id="m_8517191241520418050x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> Laura Dilley (Michigan State University)</div> <div id="m_8517191241520418050x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <br> </div> <div id="m_8517191241520418050x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <span id="m_8517191241520418050x_x_docs-internal-guid-4ad3413e-feb4-8148-262e-3100eadc6b7a"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></div> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">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><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px"></span> <div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px"> <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br> </span></div> <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"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></p> <div><br> </div> <div id="m_8517191241520418050Signature"> <div id="m_8517191241520418050divtagdefaultwrapper" 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><br> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br> lin-grad mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:lin-grad@lin.msu.edu" target="_blank">lin-grad@lin.msu.edu</a><br> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/lin-grad" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/lin-grad</a><br> </div></div>