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SUMMARY:Speech perception in a probabilistic world: the role of phonetic d
 etail and language experience in compensation for assimilation - Meghan Cl
 ayards (University of York)
DTSTART:20090602T113000Z
DTEND:20090602T123000Z
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CONTACT:Mandy Carter
DESCRIPTION:The speech signal is notoriously variable and complex. Not onl
 y do listeners cope well with this variability and complexity\, they displ
 ay exquisite sensitivity to the co-occurrence and predictability of fine g
 rained aspects of the speech signal. In this talk I will discuss one such 
 example - variability in the place of articulation at the beginnings and e
 nds of words which is conditioned on the immediate phonetic context (place
  assimilation) and listeners' abilities to make use of this information (c
 ompensation and prediction). By comparing patterns of variability in produ
 ction and perception across two languages (French and English) I will disc
 uss the role of language experience in listeners' behaviour. Furthermore\,
  the temporal dynamics of word recognition in this case will be examined b
 y monitoring eye-movements using the visual world paradigm. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain
  Sciences
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