{"id":2165,"date":"2011-02-07T05:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2011-02-06T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T18:35:40","slug":"phonology-circle-28-youngah-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/07\/phonology-circle-28-youngah-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 2\/8 - Youngah Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Youngah Do

\nTitle: Interaction of the top most and the bottom most: pragmatic bias and perceptual confusability

\nTime: Tuesday 2\/8, 5-6pm, 32-D831<\/P><\/p>\n


\nIt is well known that multiple linguistic levels interact in language processing (e.g. lexical knowledge to phoneme perception, Ganong 1980; pragmatic contexts to syntactic parsing, Crain & Steedman 1985). This study explores a very challenging case; the interaction of the top most level, pragmatics, and the bottom most level, phonetics.<\/P><\/p>\n

I conduct an experiment in which listeners were presented with nouns containing acoustically ambiguous phonemes, the interpretation of which was potentially biased by (a) the pragmatic context (implicit causality: IC) and (b) the phonological context (velar softening before a high and back vowels).<\/P><\/p>\n

I expected IC verbs to bias listeners\u0092 expectation for which participant cause the event as in (1).<\/P><\/p>\n


    \n
    1. Subject-biased context

      \n Ko apologizes Cho because ?

      \n Expectation for ?: Ko over Cho
      \n<\/LI><\/p>\n

    2. Object-biased context

      \n Ko admires Cho because ?

      \n Expectation for ?: Cho over Ko<\/LI>
      \n<\/LI>
      \n<\/OL> <\/p>\n

      I also expect that perceptually more confusable nouns such as Ki and Chi override pragmatic inference more.<\/P><\/p>\n

      Results show that pragmatic contexts do bias the perception: listeners perceive confusable nouns more as a subject in subject-biased context. At the same time, acoustic confusability also affects the interpretation of the nouns: [k~ch] before a front vowel [i] context affects pragmatic bias toward or against pragmatically expected noun more than back vowel context.
      \n<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      Upcoming talks:

      \nFeb 11 3:30-5pm:\tJonah Katz (Note special day and time!)

      \nFeb 15 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nMar 1 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nMar 8 5-6pm:\tMichael Kenstowicz and Filomena Sandalo

      \nMar 15 5-6pm:\tIgor Yanovich

      \nMar 29 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nApr 5 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nApr 12 5-6pm:\tWCCFL practice talks

      \nApr 26 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nMay 3 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE

      \nMay 10 5-6pm:\tAVAILABLE<\/P><\/p>\n

      You can view the current, up-to-date version of the schedule here<\/a> (click ‘agenda’ to see the schedule as a list), or subscribe via iCal here<\/a>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Speaker: Youngah Do Title: Interaction of the top most and the bottom most: pragmatic bias and perceptual confusability Time: Tuesday 2\/8, 5-6pm, 32-D831 It is well known that multiple linguistic levels interact in language processing (e.g. lexical knowledge to phoneme perception, Ganong 1980; pragmatic contexts to syntactic parsing, Crain & Steedman 1985). This study explores […]<\/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-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}