{"id":1157,"date":"2009-11-30T05:02:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-11-30T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T12:07:39","slug":"special-phonology-circle-friday-124-michael-tanenhaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/11\/30\/special-phonology-circle-friday-124-michael-tanenhaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernumerary Phonology Circle - Friday 12\/4 - Michael Tanenhaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Michael Tanenhaus, visiting MIT to give a colloquium talk, will talk about speech at a special meeting of the Phonology Circle December 4th, 1:30pm-2:30pm. Please stay tuned for an announcement about the exact location.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Fine-grained phonetic detail in spoken word recognition<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Friday 12\/4, 1:30-2:30 pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: TBA<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, it is widely assumed<br clear='none'\/>\nthat some classes of<br clear='none'\/>\nspeech sounds are perceived categorically in a way that exemplars from<br clear='none'\/>\nother types of<br clear='none'\/>\nnon-speech categories are not. Yet, the articulation of many sounds, including<br clear='none'\/>\nconsonants, varies systematically with position in a prosodic domain.<br clear='none'\/>\nA system that<br clear='none'\/>\ndiscarded sub-phonetic detail would thus be ignoring potentially useful<br clear='none'\/>\ninformation. I&#8217;ll<br clear='none'\/>\nreview recent data from eye-tracking studies demonstrating that spoken<br clear='none'\/>\nword recognition<br clear='none'\/>\ndoes, in fact, exploit fine-grained sub-phonetic detail to make<br clear='none'\/>\nprobabilistic hypothesis<br clear='none'\/>\nabout lexical candidates, including within-category variation for stop<br clear='none'\/>\nconsonants&#8212;the<br clear='none'\/>\nposter child for categorical perception.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tanenhaus, visiting MIT to give a colloquium talk, will talk about speech at a special meeting of the Phonology Circle December 4th, 1:30pm-2:30pm. Please stay tuned for an announcement about the exact location. Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Title: Fine-grained phonetic detail in spoken word recognition Time: Friday 12\/4, 1:30-2:30 pm Location: TBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}