Ling 341, 345/E, 342, 344
Speech Perception
Wintersemester
2008 / 2009
Universität Konstanz
Vorlesung: Di, 10-13 Uhr
New classroom: This time, for
sure! D431 (we can start at 10:15 as usual).
Dozent: Barış Kabak (F521a)
Course Description:
We will explore the perceptual
processing of speech signals insofar as perception relates to the way listeners
represent and organize speech sounds, the way it leads to sound change, and the
way it may explain cross-linguistic tendencies in the distribution of speech
sounds. Topics include but are not restricted to: categorical speech
perception, speech perception and linguistic experience, auditory illusions,
the role of perception in phonology, and the instrumentation and methodology
for the study of speech perception.
Schein
requirements:
Oral Presentation: 40%
Paper: 40%
Attendance
and Participation : 10%
Schedule:
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Topics |
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1 |
21.10.08 |
Speech Perception: An
introduction |
Goldinger, Pisoni & Luce
(1996) |
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2 |
28.10.08 |
The Motor Theory of Speech
Perception, Categorical Speech Perception, and Early Cross-linguistic and
Infant Speech Perception Studies (1960s-1970s) |
Strange (1995) |
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3 |
04.11.08 |
Speech Perception Studies
(1980s and 1990s), |
Strange (1995) |
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4 |
12.11.08 |
Perceptual Magnet Effect |
Kuhl & Iverson (1995) |
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5 |
18.11.08 |
Crosslinguistic Speech
Perception-I |
Target Article: Flege & MacKay (2004). This
article is available in our Semesterapparat as a hardcopy (not available
electronically). Presenter: Annina Giger Background reading: Best (1995) Flege (1995) |
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6 |
25.11.08 |
Crosslinguistic Speech
Perception-II Special theme: Perceptual learning and training |
Target Article: Bradlow, Pisoni, Akahane-Yamada & Tohkura (1997) Presenter: Julia Zimmermann Background reading: Bradlow (2008) The
Bradlow articles may
be downloaded from Ann Bradlow’s personal webpage. Hardcopies can also
be found in the Semesterapparat. |
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7 |
02.12.08 |
The influence of first
language phonological patterns on speech perception: TONE |
Target Articles: Wang, Jongman &
Sereno (2003) Wang, Jongman &
Sereno (2006) Presenters: Tobias Galts Wen-Hsuan Chiao The
Wang et al. (2003) article can be downloaded from “Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek” of the
University |
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8 |
09.12.08 |
The influence of first
language phonological patterns on speech perception: PHONOTACTICS |
Target Articles: Berent et al. (2007) Peperkamp
(2007) (commentary) Presenter: Dominik Rzepha downloadable
from “Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek”; also
available in our Semesterapparat. |
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9 |
16.12.08 |
The influence of first
language phonological patterns on speech perception: STRESS |
Target Articles: Dupoux et al.
(2008) Dupoux et al.
(2001) Presenter: Michael Appich downloadable
from “Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek”; also available
in our Semesterapparat. |
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10 |
23.12.08 |
Christmas break |
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11 |
30.12.08 |
Christmas break |
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12 |
06.01.09 |
Christmas break |
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13 |
13.01.09 |
Foreign Accent/ L2 Speech-I:
Preliminaries |
Major (2000); Chapters 1-2 Presenters: Nadja Boeck Isabella Deininger |
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14 |
20.01.09 |
Foreign Accent/ L2
Speech-II: Variation and The Ontogeny-Phylogeny
Model |
Major (2000); Chapters 3-4 Presenters: Jasmin Polzer Katrin Zandoma Stephanie Neubauer |
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15 |
27.01.09 |
Foreign Accent/ L2 Speech-III:
Suprasegmentals |
Target Article: Trofimovich &
Baker (2006) Presenters: Erika Pfefferkorn Lisa Resinger A
hardcopy of this article is available in our Semesterapparat. |
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16 |
03.01.09 |
Infant Speech Perception |
Target Article: Polka & Rvachew
(2005) Presenter: Anne Gwinner Background reading: Jusczyk (1996) Polka, Jusczyk, Rvachew (1995) Werker (1995) Polka
& Rvachew (2005) is downloadable from “Elektronische-Zeitschriftenbibliothek” (Fachgebiet: Psychologie); also available in our Semesterapparat. |
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17 |
10.02.09 |
Conclusions |
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Reading List:
Berent, I., D. Steriade, T. Lennertz, & V. Vaknin. 2007. What we know about what we
have never heard: Evidence from perceptual illusions. Cognition 104, 591-630.
Best, Catherine T. 1995. A direct realist view of cross-language speech
perception. In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech
Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research,
pp. 171-204.
Bradlow, Ann R., David B. Pisoni, Reiko Akahane-Yamada & Yoh’ichi
Tohkura. 1997. Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/:
Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
Bradlow, Ann. R. 2008. Training non-native language sound patterns: Lessons
from training Japanese adults on the English /r/-/l/ contrast. In: In Hansen Edwards, J. G.
and Zampini, M. L. (Eds.), Phonology and
Second Language Acquisition, pp.287-308.
John Benjamins. Click here
to visit Ann Bradlow’s webpage.
Dupoux, E., N. Sebastián-Gallés, E. Navarrete &
S. Peperkamp. 2008. Persistent stress ‘deafness’: the case of French learners
of Spanish. Cognition 106, 682-706.
Dupoux, E., S.
Peperkamp & N.
Sebastián-Gallés. 2001. A robust method to study stress ‘deafness’. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of
Flege, James E. 1995. Second language speech learning: Theory, findings,
and problems. In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech
Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research,
pp. 233-277.
Flege, James E. &
Goldinger, Stephen D., David B. Pisoni, & Paul A. Luce. 1996. Speech
perception and spoken word recognition: Research and theory. In: Norman J. Lass
(Ed.). Principles of Experimental Phonetics, pp. 277-327.
Jusczyk, Peter W., Elizabeth A. Hohne, & Denise R. Mandel. 1995.
Picking up regularities in the sound structure of the native language. In:
Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception
and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research, pp. 91-119.
Jusczyk, Peter W. 1996. Developmental speech perception. In: Norman J.
Lass (Ed.). Principles of Experimental Phonetics, pp. 328-361.
Kuhl, Patricia K. & Paul Iverson. 1995. Linguistic experience and
the “perceptual magnet effect”. In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience:
Issues in Cross-Language Research, pp. 121-154.
Peperkamp, S. 2007. Do we have innate knowledge about phonological
markedness? Comments on Berent, Steriade, Lennertz, and Vaknin. Cognition 104, 631-637.
Polka, Linda, Peter W.
Jusczyk & Susan Rvachew. 1995. Methods for studying speech perception in
infants and children. In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language
Research, pp. 49-89.
Polka, Linda & Susan
Rvachew. 2005. The impact of otitis media with effusion on infant phonetic
perception. Infancy,
8 101-117.
Strange, Winifred. 1995. Cross-language studies of speech perception.
In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech
Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research,
pp. 3-45.
Trofimovich, Pavel & Wendy Baker. 2006. Learning second language
suprasegmentals: Effect of L2 experience on prosody and fluency characteristics
of L2 speech. Studies in Second Language
Acquisition, 28: 1-30.
Wang, Y., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J.A. 2003.
Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone productions before and
after perceptual training. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of
Wang, Y., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J. 2006. Second
language acquisition and processing of Mandarin tone. In Li, P., Tan, L.H.,
Bates, E., and Tzeng, O.J.L. (Eds.), Handbook of East Asian
Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese).
Werker, Janet F. 1995. Age-related changes in cross-linguistic speech perception:
Standing at the crossroads. In: Winifred Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language
Research, pp. 154-169.