Today, Steven successfully defended his dissertation “The Role of L2 Experience in L1 Phonotactic Restructuring in Sequential Bilinguals.” Congratulations Dr. Alcorn!
Sandie attended the ASA school and then we discussed semantic context and clear speech effect on intelligibility of temporally compressed sentences.
To celebrate the end of a great semester, we ate delicious food, played some ping-pong, and celebrated my favorite graduating seniors! Without y’all this lab would not do so well or be my great joy!
Irene received the Alla Ray Morris Scholarship in Liberal Arts (awarded by the College of Liberal Arts) and a Student Development Scholarship (awarded by the Academic Counselors Association). Luis received the Engaged Scholar Initiative Fellowship. Well deserved!! Congratulations to both!
UT Sound Lab students in action at various research events last week.
A great line up of talks (and some roasts) this Friday and Saturday in honor of Randy Diehl, a wonderful researcher and dean! Lots of out-of-town and a few UT presenters. Hope to see you there.
| FRIDAY, APRIL 20 | |
| 8:30 am | COFFEE, PASTRIES, & SIGN IN |
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Announcements |
| 9:15 am | President Gregory L. Fenves |
| 9:30 am | Bharath Chandrasekaran (UT Austin)
Neural Systems in Auditory and Speech Categorization |
| 10:00 am | Amanda Rysling (UC Santa Cruz) & John Kingston (UMass Amherst)
Order Matters |
| 10:30 am | TOAST / ROAST / STORIES |
| 10:45 am | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 am | Lori L. Holt (Carnegie Mellon University)
Cues Worth Weighting For |
| 11:15 am | Melissa A. Redford (University of Oregon)
Measuring Production with Perception |
| 11:45 am | Andrew Lotto (University of Florida)
The Scientific Virtues of Randy Diehl and the Decline of Theoretical Speech Science |
| 12:00 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:45 pm | Patrick Wong (City University of Hong Kong)
Variability in Speech Learning |
| 2:15 pm | Wilson Geisler (UT Austin)
Decision-Variable Correlation: How correlated are your decisions with Randy’s? |
| 2:30 pm | TOAST / ROAST / STORIES |
| 3:00 pm | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:30 pm | David W. Gow Jr. (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School/Salem State University)
Phonetic contrast and lexical similarity |
| 4:00 pm | Christian Stilp (University of Louisville)
Contrast as the fundamental premise underlying speech perception |
| 4:30 pm | Jessica F. Hay (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
(Perceptual) Learning Begets (Language) Learning |
| 5:00 pm | TOAST / ROAST / STORIES AND CLOSING REMARKS |
| 6:00 pm | RECEPTION, RANDY’S RESPONSES, AND GROUP PHOTO |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 21 | |
| 9:00 am | COFFEE AND PASTRIES |
| 9:30 am | Tyler K. Perrachione (Boston University)
Social Consequences of Phonetic Expertise |
| 10:00 am | Michelle Molis (NCRAR, Oregon Health & Science University)
How Phonology Can Inform Psychoacoustics and Hearing Science |
| 10:30 am | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 am | Francisco Lacerda (Stockholm University)
Peripheral Auditory-Nerve Adaptation and the Discrimination of Speech Sounds – Revisiting 30 Years Later |
| 11:30 am | Keith R. Kluender (Purdue University)
Virtues of (Co)variance for Perceptual Learning |
| 11:45 am | TOAST / ROAST / STORIES |
| 12:15 pm | LUNCH |
| 2:00 pm | Adrian Garcia-Sierra (University of Connecticut)
The Context Establishes the Boundary |
| 2:30 pm | Megan Crowhurst (UT Austin)
Rhythm and Cues: Creak, Duration, and Extensions of the Iambic-Trochaic Law |
| 3:00 pm | Beverly A. Wright (Northwestern University)
Induction and Prevention of Speech Learning |
| 3:30 pm | COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:30 pm | Laurel H. Carney & Joyce M. McDonough (University of Rochester)
Nonlinear Auditory Models Yield New Insights into Representations of Vowels |
| 5:00 pm | Bob McMurray, K.E. Schreiber, J. Klein, & M.E. Galle (University of Iowa)
Who Knows Where Time Went? |
| 4:30 pm | Rajka Smiljanic (UT Austin)
Intelligibility Variation: Talkers, Listeners, and Signals |
| 5:00 pm | CLOSING REMARKS |
| 7:00 pm | SPEAKERS’ DINNER |
Come see what UTsoundLab students have been up to! There are several events at which Sarah, Luis, Kevin, Irene, and Jai will talk about their projects examining the effects of clarity and context on English speech perception by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and clear speech enhancement strategies by beginning and advanced learners of Korean.
