BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16763-7de5b0bc51a0529dc3ed3a2de643a126@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T080111Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T103000 SUMMARY:Catherine Pham DESCRIPTION:“Exploring Linguistic Release from Masking in Interactive La nguage Production”\n\nCatherine Pham\n\nGraduate Student\, Penn State\n\ nDepartment of Psychology\n\nNaturalistic language use often occurs in t he presence of background noise with interacting individuals shifting be tween the roles of speaker and listener. However\, the majority of psych olinguistic research has largely focused on examining comprehension and production under optimal\, relatively silent conditions. Investigations of the impact of noisy environments have focused on listener challenges associated with maintaining focus on the target speech while ignoring co mpeting auditory input (i.e.\, the masker)\, usually in the context of m onologue. Studies that have examined interactive situations have primari ly focused on speakers’ acoustic-phonetic adjustments. While it is clear that speakers do alter the acoustic properties of their speech in such challenging conditions\, whether they alter the syntactic complexity of their speech remains an open question. Importantly\, while prior work ha s examined the impact of background speech on speech recognition\, langu age comprehension\, and (to some extent) production\, these bodies of re search have predominantly proceeded independently.\n\nIn this talk\, Cat herine will discuss preliminary findings from her dissertation project\, which applies insights from studies of speech recognition and language comprehension in adverse conditions to the study of production. More spe cifically\, the current study manipulates the linguistic similarity betw een the target and the masker languages and the speaker’s knowledge of t he masker to explore how speakers modify the syntactic complexity of the ir production as they grapple with the challenges of speaking in adverse conditions.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cather ine-pham-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Exploring Linguistic Release from Masking in Intera ctive Language Production”

Catherine Pham
Graduate Student, Penn State
Depa rtment of Psychology

Naturalistic language use often occurs in the presence of background noise with interacting individuals shifting betw een the roles of speaker and listener. However, the majority of psycholi nguistic research has largely focused on examining comprehension and pro duction under optimal, relatively silent conditions. Investigations of t he impact of noisy environments have focused on listener challenges asso ciated with maintaining focus on the target speech while ignoring compet ing auditory input (i.e., the masker), usually in the context of monolog ue. Studies that have examined interactive situations have primarily foc used on speakers’ acoustic-phonetic adjustments. While it is clear that speakers do alter the acoustic properties of their speech in such challe nging conditions, whether they alter the syntactic complexity of their s peech remains an open question. Importantly, while prior work has examin ed the impact of background speech on speech recognition, language compr ehension, and (to some extent) production, these bodies of research have predominantly proceeded independently.

In this talk, Catherine wi ll discuss preliminary findings from her dissertation project, which app lies insights from studies of speech recognition and language comprehens ion in adverse conditions to the study of production. More specifically, the current study manipulates the linguistic similarity between the tar get and the masker languages and the speaker’s knowledge of the masker t o explore how speakers modify the syntactic complexity of their producti on as they grapple with the challenges of speaking in adverse conditions .

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/catherine-pham-2/

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