{"id":2487,"date":"2011-03-28T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:03:26","slug":"phonology-circle-329-sverre-stausland-johnsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/03\/28\/phonology-circle-329-sverre-stausland-johnsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 3\/29 - Sverre Stausland Johnsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker: Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard University)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Tuesday 3\/29, 5-6pm, 32-D831<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nIntuitively, a-b is a better rhyme than a-c when a and b are more<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091similar\u0092 to each other than a and c are. But how do we measure this<br clear='none'\/>\nsimilarity? I show in this talk that the perceptual similarity between<br clear='none'\/>\nsegments as calculated from confusion matrices is a much better<br clear='none'\/>\npredictor of people\u0092s judgments of rhymes than are similarity measures<br clear='none'\/>\nbased on articulatory or acoustic feature systems.<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Upcoming talks:<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nApr 5:\tAnne-Michelle Tessier<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nApr 12:\tRicardo Bermudez-Otero<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nApr 13, 3-5pm:\tWCCFL Practice Talks ***Note Special Day and Time<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nApr 26:\tJongho Jun<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nMay 3:\tNina Topintzi<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nMay 10:\tRUMMIT practice talks<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>You can view the current, up-to-date version of the schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=g9h3t4vvah4ldicf80ko26l6hs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America\/New_York \n\">here<\/a>  (click &#8216;agenda&#8217; to see the schedule as a list), or subscribe via iCal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/g9h3t4vvah4ldicf80ko26l6hs%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\n\">here<\/a>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard University) Title: Rhyme acceptability determined by perceived similarity Time: Tuesday 3\/29, 5-6pm, 32-D831 Intuitively, a-b is a better rhyme than a-c when a and b are more \u0091similar\u0092 to each other than a and c are. But how do we measure this similarity? I show in this talk that the [&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-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}