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:6722-27517d7a25a535d920d221f7cb04ccd1@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T204601Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T131500 SUMMARY:Does Linguistic Environment Matter? Exploring the Effects of Speech Comm unity Diffuseness in Perceptual Learning DESCRIPTION:\nCGS Brown Bag Lecture Series\n\nAlexander McAllister\, Pen n State\n\nIn an increasingly interconnected world\, contact with dialec ts other than our own is widespread. In recognizing these dialects\, per ceivers are highly sensitive to variation in sound categories. The proce ss in which a perceiver adapts to a novel production of a sound category is typically described as perceptual learning (Norris et al.\, 2003)\, a process in which atypical sounds in the speech of an unfamiliar talker are &ldquo\;mapped&rdquo\; onto familiar ones. Generalizing this learni ng from one speaker to another has been found to be elusive. Perceivers are quite capable of adapting to idiosyncratic speech\, but less so at l earning to correlate such variation to groups of speakers.\n\nIn this ta lk\, McAllister asks whether the dialectal makeup of a speech community affects the generalization process in perceptual learning. He hypothesiz es that experience with greater dialect diversity will lead listeners to consider the possibility that unfamiliar sound features produced by spe akers belong to a previously unencountered dialect variety. He will pres ent preliminary findings from a perceptual learning paradigm task in whi ch participants were exposed to two speakers producing a nonce Spanish d ialect\, being trained in one voice and tested in the other. Participant s come from Spanish speaking populations from two US institutions (Penn State and UC Riverside). At Penn State\, Spanish speakers regularly enco unter dialects of Spanish other than their own\, whereas those from UC R iverside do not. These two speech groups thus represent relatively heter ogeneous and homogeneous dialectal speech communities\, and are hypothes ized to differ in how they treat variation. \;\n\nIf the dialectal m akeup of the speech community impacts how atypical sounds are processed\ , the undergraduate participants from Penn State should extend their ada ptation to the first talker when they begin hearing the second talker. A t Riverside\, I predict that participants will be less likely to expect that the second talker will share the same novel phonetic features with the first talker\, but rather treat them as a new\, unfamiliar talker.\n \nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/does_linguistic_envi ronment_matter_exploring_the_effects_of_speech_community_diffuseness_in_ perceptual_learning/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

CGS Brown Ba g Lecture Series

Alexander McAllister, Penn State

In an increasingly interconnected world, contact with dialects other th an our own is widespread. In recognizing these dialects, perceivers are highly sensitive to variation in sound categories. The process in which a perceiver adapts to a novel production of a sound category is typicall y described as perceptual learning (Norris et al., 2003), a process in w hich atypical sounds in the speech of an unfamiliar talker are “ma pped” onto familiar ones. Generalizing this learning from one spea ker to another has been found to be elusive. Perceivers are quite capabl e of adapting to idiosyncratic speech, but less so at learning to correl ate such variation to groups of speakers.

In this talk, McAllister asks whether the dialectal makeup of a speech community affects the gen eralization process in perceptual learning. He hypothesizes that experie nce with greater dialect diversity will lead listeners to consider the p ossibility that unfamiliar sound features produced by speakers belong to a previously unencountered dialect variety. He will present preliminary findings from a perceptual learning paradigm task in which participants were exposed to two speakers producing a nonce Spanish dialect, being t rained in one voice and tested in the other. Participants come from Span ish speaking populations from two US institutions (Penn State and UC Riv erside). At Penn State, Spanish speakers regularly encounter dialects of Spanish other than their own, whereas those from UC Riverside do not. T hese two speech groups thus represent relatively heterogeneous and homog eneous dialectal speech communities, and are hypothesized to differ in h ow they treat variation.

If the dialectal makeup of the spee ch community impacts how atypical sounds are processed, the undergraduat e participants from Penn State should extend their adaptation to the fir st talker when they begin hearing the second talker. At Riverside, I pre dict that participants will be less likely to expect that the second tal ker will share the same novel phonetic features with the first talker, b ut rather treat them as a new, unfamiliar talker.

For more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/does_linguistic_environment _matter_exploring_the_effects_of_speech_community_diffuseness_in_percept ual_learning/

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