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Linguistics 696b, Section 2Seminar in Phonetics:Examplar models of speech perception and productionSpring 2004Professor: Natasha WarnerClass meets:1-3:30 Wednesday115C Social Sciences (SBSRI conference room)Office hours: to be announced, Douglass 320Phone: 626-5591Email: [email protected] (best way to reach me outside office hours)Books/materials:A selection of articles on exemplar models and speech, extending a little more broadlyinto language.Here are some I know we'll read:Johnson, Keith and Beckman, Mary. 1997 Production and perception of individualspeaking styles. Working Papers in Linguistics v. 50, pp. 115-125.Pierrehumbert, Janet. 2002. Word-specific phonetics. In LabPhon7, pp. 101-139.A paper on exemplars and syntaxA paper critical of exemplar modelsSmits, Roel, Sereno, Joan, and Jongman, Allard. Categorization of sounds.Articles on exemplar models selected by you (see below).General organization of the course:Mostly, we will read articles, discuss them, and talk about how various languagesituations would be handled by exemplar vs. other models, whether these situations comeup in the articles or not. We will also try to come up with a variety of experiments thatwould test an exemplar model against other models. We probably won't be actuallydoing these experiments, but we'll just be trying to think of some as a group.You will be responsible for presenting two articles to the class during the semester. Youwill also do a term paper project, which will involve collecting original data. The topicdoes not need to be explicitly on exemplar models, but you should at least think abouthow exemplar models might apply to your topic and data, even if that's a side point. Youwill also present your work to the class near the end of the semester. Furthermore, therewill be one small homework assignment, immediately: to come back next week with anarticle on exemplars that you would like to add to the class reading list. You will also berequired to turn in some sort of short progress report on your term paper work at somepoint, to make sure everybody is making good progress on their work. We will alsodiscuss everyone's term paper topics, progress, etc., at various points in class, so youshould always be prepared to talk about what you're doing for your project.Prerequisites:Ling. 515 or my permission.Requirements/grading:Homework assignment: 10%Progress report: 10%Article presentations (2): 10% eachTerm paper presentation: 10%Term paper: 40%Participation: 10%Very tentative schedule: (final filled in reading list appears below)DateTopicReadings/requirementsJan. 14Intro., review of Johnsonarticle from 515Jan. 21More intro., look at whatarticles have come in andmake schedule,categorizationHW due: bring in anarticleJan. 28dialectsJohnson and Beckmandialects articleFeb. 4an L2 article?Feb. 11Smits et al. categorizationarticleFeb. 18choose term paper topicby hereFeb. 25Mar. 3Pierrehumbert articleMar. 10Mar. 24Mar. 31written progress reportdueApr. 7criticism of exemplarscritical paperApr. 14Apr. 21syntax and exemplars,general wrap-upsyntax and exemplars paperApr. 28term paper presentationsMay 5no class?term paper due (this maybe negotiable as a class, butnot individually withoutextreme disasters asjustification)Final reading list as chosen by the class:Feb. 4Nosofsky '02 (presented by Erin)--psychologySmith & Minda (presented by Ben)Feb. 11Smits et al.Stroms et al. (Erin has PDF)--tests of prototype vs. exemplar models"Prototype and Exemplar-Based Information in Natural Languagecategories" Stroms. J. of Memory and Language, 42, 2000Feb. 18Ellis--L1"Frequency Effects in Language Processing" Nick Ellis. SSLA, 24, 2002Bybee--L2 (Erin has PDF's)"Phonological Evidence for Exemplar Storage of Multiword squences" Joan Bybee.SSLA 24, 2002Feb. 25Pierrehumbert--L1Pierrehumbert, Janet B. (2003). Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning,and Acquistion of Phonology. Language and Speech, 46, 2-3, 115-154.Houston (?)--babiesMar. 3Kingston—L2 perceptionKingston, John. (2003). Learning Foreign Vowels, Language and Speech, 46,2-3, 295-349.Johnson & Beckman--dialectsMar. 10Bybee—historicalBybee, Joan. (2002). Word frequency and context of use in the lexicaldiffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change. Language Variation andChange, 14, 261-290.Kirchner--phonologizationMar. 24Goldinger day! choose articles laterMar. 31Frieda et al.Frieda, Walley, Flege, and Sloane (2000)--Journal of Speech, Language, and HearingResearch, vol. 43. "Adults' Perception and Production of the English Vowel /i/"Sussman & Gekas—prototypesSussman, Joan E, and Brian Gekas. (1997). Phonetic category structure of [I]:Extent, best exemplars, and organization. Journal of Speech, Language, andHearing Research, 40, 1406-1424.Apr. 7Myers--OTMcLennan & LuceApr. 14Hawkins (possibly replace if we find a better article)—neurologicalRoles and representations of systematic fine phonetic detail in speech understanding.Journal of Phonetics, 31, 373-405.syntax article—citation forthcomingApr.


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