FOS: Fwd: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium - Tyler Kendall (2/18)

[Suzanne Evans Wagner]

FOS,

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.

Suzanne

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cara Feldscher <feldsch3 at msu.edu>
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:20 PM
Subject: [lin-colloq] Michigan State University Linguistics Colloquium -
Tyler Kendall (2/18)
To: lin-colloq at lin.msu.edu


Good afternoon,

This is a reminder from the MSU Linguistics Colloquium Committee that our
next talk is this upcoming Thursday, *February 18th* at *4:30pm* 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).

The rest of the colloquium series schedule can be found on our website
<http://msulinguists.weebly.com/colloquium-and-events.html>. Please do not
hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We hope to see you
Thursday!

Sincerely
Cara and Ni-La
MSU Linguistics Colloquium Colloquium Co-Chairs
feldsch3 at msu.edu, lenila at msu.edu

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*U.S. Regional Vowel Patterns in Production and Perception*
Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon

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).

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