John Kingston writes:
Phonetics Lab Meetings will be held this semester, every other Monday, starting next Monday, 10 September 2012, from 4-5:30 PM. The meetings are held in the Phonetics Lab, Bartlett 6. Everyone interested in attending and participating is welcome. If you know someone who might be interested but who isn't on this list, please feel free to forward this message to them. Snacks are provided. The topic for each lab meeting will be announced shortly beforehand. Here they are for the first two meetings.
10 September 2012:
A brief review of experiments in progress.
Deciding on the snack menu for the rest of the semester.
Separating lexical from auditory effects on speech perception. A
presentation by Kevin Mullin of the results of a recent phoneme monitoring experiment designed to separate in time the effects of word recognition from the auditory effects of a sound's neighboring sounds on its recognition.
24 September 2012:
Phonotactic biases are fast. A presentation by K. Mullin of a phoneme
identification experiment that pits phonotactic biases against
auditory biases and finds that phonotactic biases are present for
earlier responses but are weakened or absent in later responses.
