Dear all,
Our workshop 'Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication' is held next Tuesday (26 June) at Cambridge. The registration is open until 5pm *TODAY* (18 June). Please register on-line (http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/cgworkshop/Registration.html) if you would like to attend the workshop. Please see below for more information.
Hope to see many of you at the workshop!
Hae-Sung
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Meeting Description:
We are delighted to announce a one-day workshop on Neural Systems for
Speech Communication to be held at the Department of Theoretical and
Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK, on 26 June 2012. The
focus of the workshop is on representations and neural mechanisms for
segmentation, abstraction, and categorisation in speech processing.
Key papers:
- Hierarchical abstraction in speech perception: evidence from degraded speech
(Matt Davis, Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK)
- Features and segments in phonological representation
(Aditi Lahiri, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford, UK)
- The processing of intonational phrase boundaries and memory: evidence from EEG
(Kai Alter, Newcastle University, Newcastle Auditory Group, UK)
A preliminary draft of the workshop programme can be downloaded from here:
http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/cgworkshop/Information.html
The
workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion between
researchers who approach the neurocognitive processing of suprasegmental
and segmental information in speech from different intellectual
contexts (notably linguistics, audition, language psychology, and
cognitive neuroscience), and with different methodologies.
Workshop Format:
A
number of key papers will explore the theme of the workshop from
different angles, complemented by poster presentations that add breadth
or depth to the discussion. The presentations will be followed by a
panel discussion with the invited speakers and the audience towards the
end of the day. The discussion will explore commonalities and
differences in theoretical and methodological approaches and their
findings, trying to work towards a synthesis.
Online registration:
On-line registration is open from 21 May (Mon) to 5pm 18 June (Mon).
http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/cgworkshop/Registration.html
Organisers:
Brechtje Post, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Francis Nolan, Bettina Beinhoff, Hae-Sung Jeon, Toby Hudson
This
workshop is funded by the ESRC grant ‘Categories and Gradience in
Intonation: Evidence from Linguistics and Neurobiology’
(RES-061-25-0347; PI Post, CI Stamatakis).
This workshop is an Experimental Phonetics & Phonology Research Cluster event (Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge).
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Hae-Sung Jeon
Phonetics Laboratory | Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Cambridge | Sidgwick Avenue | Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK