Last updated by kkazmierski on 2021-04-15. Originally submitted by kkazmierski on 2021-04-13.
The Phon&Phon reading group of the Department of Contemporary English Language (DoCELu) and the City of Poznań invite everyone to an open lecture.
Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron (Northwestern University)
A new approach to connected speech: using phonological concepts and speech planning models to advance one another
Abstract:
Remarkable progress has been made in understanding the sound patterns in human speech, yet there is a significant amount of variation that remains to be explained. I propose that new insights can be gained by adopting an approach that simultaneously investigates phonological and psycholinguistic hypotheses. By clearly establishing both sets of assumptions (which are often implicitly made, anyways) at the beginning of a study, the results can be interpreted and understood through both lenses. This talk presents my recent work which takes this approach to analyze variable pronunciations of /t/ in North American English. In two speech production experiments, we investigated the link between phonetic variation and the scope of advance planning at the word form encoding stage. We examined cases where a word has, in addition to the pronunciation of the word in isolation, a context-specific pronunciation variant that appears only when the following word includes specific sounds. To the extent that the speaker uses the variant specific to the following context, we can infer that the phonological content of the upcoming word is included in the current planning scope. More broadly, this study shows that phonology can provide novel avenues for psycholinguistic investigation, and that adopting psycholinguistic frameworks can provide a more principled way of distinguishing phonological knowledge from speech production effects.
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 18:30
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Submitted by K Kaźmierski
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