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Speech production, cognitive processes & big data

Friday, October 2, 2015 10:30to15:00
Room 501, Goodman Cancer Centre, 1160 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC, CA
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Free

CRBLM Workshop featuring a Distinguished Lecture by Matt Goldrick, PhD (Northwestern)

 

Please join us for "Speech production, cognitive processes and big data.” a CRBLM workshop accompanying Dr. Matt Goldrick’s October 2nd Distinguished Lecture: "Phonetic echoes of cognitive processing." The workshop begins at 10:30 am and features brief talks by centre faculty and students, who will explore the intersection between variability in speech production, cognitive processes, and tools for creating and analyzing large linguistic datasets.  

Catered lunch will be provided, and the event will culminate with Dr. Goldrick’s Distinguished Lecture, beginning at 1:30 pm.

All are welcome to attend all talks, but registration is required by 24 September if you will attend lunch. You will not be added to a mailing list, so please use your real name and coords folks.  http://www.crblm.ca/events/speech_production_cognitive_processes_and_big...

Those wishing to meet with Dr. Goldrick during his visit to the centre are asked to contact student organizer, Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron (first.last-last [at] mail.mcgill.ca).

 

 
 

Workshop Programme and Distinguished Lecture Abstract

10h35-11h00

Nicolas Bourguignon
(Université de Montréal/CHU Sainte-Justine/CRBLM)
Plasticity of phonetic targets for Speech Production

11h00-11h25

Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron
(McGill /CRBLM)
The role of production planning in allophonic variation

11h25-11h50

Morgan Sonderegger & Michael Wagner
(McGill /CRBLM),
Production planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous speech

11:50-12:15

Michael McAuliffe
(McGill/CRBLM)
Statistical phonological analysis in corpora using Phonological Corpus Tools

12:15

Catered luncheon

13h30-14:30

Matt Goldrick, PhD
(Northwestern University Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Programs)
 

Phonetic echoes of cognitive processing

For many years, theories of language production assumed a strict functional separation between peripheral phonetic encoding processes and more central cognitive processes. The output of lexical access—the processes mapping intended messages to utterance plans—was assumed to yield a plan that was simply executed by more peripheral processes. Recent work has challenged such proposals, showing that on-line disruptions to lexical access can affect gradient phonetic properties (e.g., phonological speech errors influence the phonetic properties of speech sounds; Goldrick & Blumstein, 2006). I'll discuss two sets of projects from my lab that extend this work. Large data sets, enabled by machine-learning based techniques for automated phonetic analysis, provide new insights into the consequences of cognitive disruptions for monolingual speech. I'll then discuss how cognitive disruptions modulate cross-language interactions in multilingual speakers.
 
Bio:
Dr. Matt Goldrick is professor and chair of Linguistics at Northwestern University, where he is affiliated with the Cognitive Science and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Programs. His research—utilizing behavioral experiments as well as computational and mathematical modeling—focuses on theories of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic knowledge and processing in mono- and multilingual speakers (supported by the US National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.) He currently serves as an associate editor of Psychological Science and secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
   
 

 

 

Matt Goldrick, PhD (Northwestern University)

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